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sparkleflit 76F
5212 posts
7/11/2017 9:07 pm
SNAKE AND CAT
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sparkleflit 76F
10271 posts
7/11/2017 9:20 pm

 Remember Rosie Rosie's blogs?......I really admired her skill and knowledge and creativity in setting them up so beautifully. The frames and strategic photo placement, her colour choices.I try, but I quickly lose patience for this medium.
I re-posted this simple little blog several times, the photos didn't post the first time, etc........It takes me a lot of trial and error to do the fancy stuff......


sparkleflit 76F
10271 posts
7/11/2017 9:23 pm

 I liked Rosie's words too.....always cheerful without being sappy or saccharine........


shuel2002 65F
5537 posts
7/12/2017 12:17 am

 Great pics but I am wondering how you picked up a mouse or looked at a snake in your house without screaming. I would be yelling at the top of my lungs for help if I didn't faint first.
Elaine Shuel


Rocketship 79F
18557 posts
7/12/2017 5:33 am

 Love your story... and a super photo of the iittle snake.


sparkleflit 76F
10271 posts
7/12/2017 8:01 am
    Quoting Rocketship:
    Love your story... and a super photo of the iittle snake.
Glad you enjoyed it......


sparkleflit 76F
10271 posts
7/12/2017 8:12 am
    Quoting shuel2002:
    Great pics but I am wondering how you picked up a mouse or looked at a snake in your house without screaming. I would be yelling at the top of my lungs for help if I didn't faint first.
It wasn't a real mouse, it was the cat's toy mouse......a catnip mouse. I didn't pick up the snake either, grandson did, though I have picked up several snakes the cat brought in using kitchen tong.....It was a garter snake,there are no poisonous snakes here.


Nileyears 71F
4208 posts
7/12/2017 8:20 am

 What a cute little garter snake, garden snake, gardener snake, they go by several names, but it's still the same snake, wish we had more of those here.

Nice pics of the cat and your new little friend, cute story.


shuel2002 65F
5537 posts
7/12/2017 12:11 pm
    Quoting sparkleflit:
    It wasn't a real mouse, it was the cat's toy mouse......a catnip mouse. I didn't pick up the snake either, grandson did, though I have picked up several snakes the cat brought in using kitchen tong.....It was a garter snake,there are no poisonous snakes here.
Oh I see, regarding the toy mouse. As far as a snake, poisonous or not, I would scream and run and not pick it up. I don't discriminate.
Elaine Shuel


shuel2002 65F
5537 posts
7/12/2017 12:11 pm
    Quoting Nileyears:
    What a cute little garter snake, garden snake, gardener snake, they go by several names, but it's still the same snake, wish we had more of those here.

    Nice pics of the cat and your new little friend, cute story.
You wish you had more snakes there?
Elaine Shuel


Nileyears 71F
4208 posts
7/12/2017 1:03 pm
    Quoting shuel2002:
    You wish you had more snakes there?
This kind of snake? Yes, I do!! Much better than the rattle snake, water moccasin, coral snake, and copperhead that live and thrive here in Texas. I have to be careful every time I go out and clear brush off the property. I've already had a few close calls with rattle snakes and copperheads, way to close!!


shuel2002 65F
5537 posts
7/12/2017 1:30 pm
    Quoting Nileyears:
    This kind of snake? Yes, I do!! Much better than the rattle snake, water moccasin, coral snake, and copperhead that live and thrive here in Texas. I have to be careful every time I go out and clear brush off the property. I've already had a few close calls with rattle snakes and copperheads, way to close!!
That's different. You meant you prefer a garter snake over other types of snakes. I thought you want more snakes.
Elaine Shuel


sparkleflit 76F
10271 posts
7/12/2017 2:55 pm
    Quoting shuel2002:
    That's different. You meant you prefer a garter snake over other types of snakes. I thought you want more snakes.
We cultivate garter snakes in our gardens because they eat many pests that harm the plants, like pill bugs, slugs and cabbage-moth larva........


Nileyears 71F
4208 posts
7/12/2017 3:42 pm
    Quoting shuel2002:
    That's different. You meant you prefer a garter snake over other types of snakes. I thought you want more snakes.
No Elaine, I am actually saying I would like to have more snakes like the garter snake. The Rat, or Chicken snake, as it is sometimes called, same snake, kills my baby chicks and eats the eggs, they aren't bad, or poisonous, great for eating rodents, bad if you raise chickens, we have more than enough of those, but the garter snake is a good snake, especially if you have gardens and grow vegetables.

Oh, I have no fear of snakes, only the venomous kind, I had pet snakes as a kid.


Rocketship 79F
18557 posts
7/12/2017 4:48 pm

 Some people are afraid of little snakes!

Some people are afraid of big snakes!

Some people are afraid of sticks that look like snakes!


sparkleflit 76F
10271 posts
7/12/2017 10:14 pm
    Quoting Rocketship:
    Some people are afraid of little snakes!

    Some people are afraid of big snakes!

    Some people are afraid of sticks that look like snakes!
I might be too if I lived in a place that had poisonous snakes. I had a friend who grew up in Madison, went to College there, then moved to the wilderness of Arkansas, I think it was. Somewhere that had 7 different kinds of poisonous snakes and some of then looked a lot like harmless snakes......I remember that one kind was a Water Moccasin.....He had young children and was terrified to allow them to play in the creek or the meadow, or anywhere, really......They lasted 6 months before moving back to the city.


Rocketship 79F
18557 posts
7/13/2017 5:26 am

 Sparkleflit: I agree completely!!

It's great that we in north/western Ontario have no poisonous snakes!!


shuel2002 65F
5537 posts
7/14/2017 12:30 am

 Niles and Sparkle, I give up. Snakes seem to be a good thing. I am happy not to have a good thing here. Seriously though, it seems to suit a purpose for some so I am glad you have snakes if you need them.
Elaine Shuel




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