bakechef
Executive Chef
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My snake skin. I broke it from hauling it from under the hosta. I'm mailing it to Bakechef.
Well, I think it's cool!
Meanie!
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View attachment 21436
My snake skin. I broke it from hauling it from under the hosta. I'm mailing it to Bakechef.
Well, I think it's cool!
Meanie!
Sent from my IdeaTabA2109A using Discuss Cooking mobile app
I sympathize with anyone who has a gopher problem in their yard/garden. I'm a self-declared expert about how to deal with gophers, having had property in Gopher Heaven. (The soil had nary a pebble in it, sandy loam--- perfect for growing things and perfect for gophers. )
But although I'm the 'expert' ----- the gophers won, paws down! We tried everything (except lion dung) and they just kept on keeping on. Sorta funny (not really) to see your beautiful plants start to shake and disappear underground in just a couple of minutes.
It got so I would plant about 1/2 again as many veggie plants as I wanted so the gophers could take their share! But of course, that would be the year that they decided not to eat that type of veggie but all the others! $&@%#
So I would have bushels and bushels of peppers and almost no green beans. $@%@W
Booked him Dano!
He was back as expected right down to the time.I was ready.
Noticed that he filled in his hole again.Looked around and saw a freshly opened 2"hole.Waited quietly.2minutes later he stuck his head out.Saw me and ducked back in.That was fine.I had him.Got the hose stuck it in deep into the opened hole and turned the hose on full blast.
It was incredible to see that 6 small areas well away from the original location were filling up with flooding water.It looked like a huge maze.Underground tunneling system.2 of them I was standing right beside at the time.Sure enough he popped out of the last one drenched already half drowned.I WAPPED him good a few times with the hose.
My husband gave me a high five! He's in shock that I actually did that
Sons asked me if I wanted to go to an arcade and play whack a mole.
I told them no.Playing whack a gopher at home was free and more sporting.
Hopefully that's the only one.
Munky.
LOL!!!We know someone who needs you to kill a snake or two that is climbing up into their car.
Lol! That's too bad, BC. Snakes are so cool and very beneficial. Of course, I can't kill spiders either, they're cool too. Hope you haven't burned your car yet.
I sorted through the suitcase that's held together with duct tape and contains our snorkeling gear and travel equipment. Guess it's time to retire it. US baggage handlers are really hard on luggage, I think they purposely drag it over sandpaper and have the Samsonite gorilla stomp on it. When there's more duct tape than suitcase, it's time to go. I have a new one that I'm sure they'll put through the belt sander and gorilla for our next trip.
Send it to me, that is the kind of luggage I prefer!
I can spot my old beat up bags on the conveyor without any confusion and I'm reasonably sure that no thief would give them a second look!
Lol! That's too bad, BC. Snakes are so cool and very beneficial. Of course, I can't kill spiders either, they're cool too. Hope you haven't burned your car yet.
I sorted through the suitcase that's held together with duct tape and contains our snorkeling gear and travel equipment. Guess it's time to retire it. US baggage handlers are really hard on luggage, I think they purposely drag it over sandpaper and have the Samsonite gorilla stomp on it. When there's more duct tape than suitcase, it's time to go. I have a new one that I'm sure they'll put through the belt sander and gorilla for our next trip.
I wish that I had a second set of luggage to fly with, my good stuff looks more ragged every trip.
I wouldn't mind snakes, but some of them could kill you... I'm not saying that I'd like them, but they would freak me out less. We also have spiders that are venomous, umm no! My coworker came to work limping a couple weeks ago, he went to urgent care before coming to work because his foot was very swollen, he got bitten by a brown recluse spider. I grew up in a part of the country without venomous creatures
LOL!!!
I read that and was going to chime in. Didn't have the heart to freak Bake Chef out.I like Bake chef. Were best buds and stuff.
Curiosity is getting the best of me though. Have wondered how his new seat belt scarf is working out..Terrible I know...See why I didn't?
B/C don't pull over to txt. They always look for a warm spot.
Just get home fast!
bakechef, you're going to want to close your eyes on this one.
My friend's husband works at a gold mine out here in the desert, and there are a lot of rattlers out there. A couple of weeks ago, a co-worker of his got in his SUV, did the cursory snake check, and drove home. His wife got in the SUV, did several errands, got home, and went to take the groceries out of the back and there was a rattlesnake in the back of the SUV.
Much as snakes give me the heebie jeebies, I agree with others that they are useful critters - they sure do help to keep the rodent population down, and to me rodents are worse than snakes. Ewww...
Wait, I thought you grew up in Maine? Aren't their mosquitoes the size of a B-52 bomber?...I grew up in a part of the country without venomous creatures