Snake alive!

My late afternoon visit to the garden cage was to be routine: check the plants need for water. With an ambient temperature index close to 100 degrees that was prudent to do. Something more pressing intervened: at ground level a snake had become entangled in the bird netting that is draped around the entire perimeter. It keeps the rabbits and

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Always nose your snakes

Ernie and I got a late start on our evening walk to the way back. On our return under a dusky sky his nose stopped and backed off something in a tuft of weeds: a snake. Without hesitation I picked up my pal and put him inside the shack. There was no need risking his getting a mortal bite. Immediately

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