Flat Creek and Snakes

[snagged in outlet 3]

1 hour ago, vernon said:

Picture me with my eyes tightly closed, index fingers firmly in my ears sitting alone in the dark chanting, "puppies and bunny rabbits, puppies and bunny rabbits," over and over endlessly into the night and you'll have an image of the havoc you have reeked upon my very existence!

Infidels!   

It's midterms, you can go the local college and they usually have relaxation rooms with puppies. 

[vernon]

7 minutes ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

It's midterms, you can go the local college and they usually have relaxation rooms with puppies. 

Nope.

I ain't leavin' the house again till it gets too cold for Jake!

Them critters with no shoulders are probably outside my door just waitin' to pounce!

Hope y'all are happy.

You done turned me into Howard Hughes without the money!

Now, back to my Silly Putty.......

[tjm]

The big fat rattle snakes around here don't always rattle and you can walk right over them a time or two without them moving -sometimes. My brother saw one in a path he had just gone back and forth in three times and he waited for it to move on but it just remained watching him. He is sure that it was there all the time. I've been very close to at least two of the dang things for several minutes before noticing them - they are nearly invisible- and I have never heard one rattle. The little pygmies do buzz sometimes. Kinda like an insect.   Doubt I could distinguish it from my tinnitus now. 

Just because you haven't seen one doesn't mean they weren't there.

[bobby b.]

These snakehead creatures have been captured in Georgia and have moved as for as to the waters of northeast Kansas.  They can travel in water or on land. - WOW, scary.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/10/us/georgia-invasive-snakehead-trnd/index.html

[Flysmallie]

Vernon I’m really not trying to torment you but I had to share this. 

My buddy texted me this pic a few minutes ago. Little visitor when he was headed into his house. 

 

 

[bobby b.]

9 hours ago, Flysmallie said:

Vernon I’m really not trying to torment you but I had to share this. 

My buddy texted me this pic a few minutes ago. Little visitor when he was headed into his house. 

 

 

Sorry, I can't make that out - what kind of snake?

[Gumboot]

Rat snake?

[vernon]

OH.  MY.  GOD. 

🙈

I.  WOULD.  DIE.

[MrGiggles]

1 hour ago, bobby b. said:

Sorry, I can't make that out - what kind of snake?

Almost surely a black rat snake. Common around here, I see more of those than anything else.

On 10/10/2019 at 1:09 AM, tjm said:

The big fat rattle snakes around here don't always rattle and you can walk right over them a time or two without them moving -sometimes. My brother saw one in a path he had just gone back and forth in three times and he waited for it to move on but it just remained watching him. He is sure that it was there all the time. I've been very close to at least two of the dang things for several minutes before noticing them - they are nearly invisible- and I have never heard one rattle. The little pygmies do buzz sometimes. Kinda like an insect.   Doubt I could distinguish it from my tinnitus now. 

Just because you haven't seen one doesn't mean they weren't there.

I read somewhere that they are evolving to not rattle when threatened, since it gives away their location and they're usually killed. The silent ones get passed on and reproduce. Scary.

[MOPanfisher]

Yep black snake, they love little birdies that like to nest over doors etc.  They have no interest even in people or even Jayhawk fans.