For my Nature Kids, today couldn't have gotten much better. Well, okay, maybe their very own pony in the backyard, but other than that today was tops in the nature department.
It started with Therese yelling from the back deck [this is similar to the Chubby-Matthew post, but...it's not]: "He's out! He's out, Mommy!" - it just snowballed from there. To me this meant that the caterpillar she caught about 3wks ago -who immediately wrapped himself up- emerged from his cocoon.
Wanna know why Therese was heading to the tank/cage on the back deck in the first place? Because of this:
"He's a smart one. I was chasing him all over the backyard." Yes, our Nature Girl.
Sorry for the not-so-good photos here.
So - we had to let little butterfly go immediately. Just in case Mr. Green Guy had Butterfly on his menu [yes, that's what Therese named him!]. The girls found a couple grasshoppers - on the too large size - and a cute little bug and put them in the tank. Along with some shredded carrots. We'll see.Then as I was giving the boys a bath in my bathtub, Kayla - armed with a flyswatter - and Dani entered my room. "Come here. You've got to see this." - "Ummm... I don't want to see any bugs." - "It's not a bug." [yeah, right. so why does Kayla have a flyswatter! I'm no dummy!] So they lead me out to the garage and they pointed to this while saying, "Isn't it cool!!?":
Oh, yeah. That....that is just adorable.
For clarification purposes: I did not take these pictures. Dani did. Kayla poked and prodded. I stood in the doorway. [oh, yeah, I did yank John Paul from the tub, wrap a towel around him and escort him to the garage. But by then the snake had coiled up in a crevice and it was hard to see].
No, I don't know what kind of snake it is. I don't know where it went. I don't know where it is right now. Hopefully it's just gone.
I'll let the girls research the snake tomorrow.
So - that was our critter coverage for today. And just think - it all happened between 6-8pm! I hope I don't have any update tomorrow about a snake in my house or how I passed out from stepping on said snake. Yuck! Whats more - dh is OOT. Just a bit unsettling.
Pray for me! *wink*
4 comments:
Well...the butterfly was quite beautiful, wasn't it? Even the lizard was kinda cute, as long as it's somebody ELSE holding it. But the snake in the garage! And dh isn't there? Oh you poor thing! At least you have nature-y kids that might take care of it for you! But - a snake! I am hard pressed to decide which I'm more more phobic about - large spiders or snakes. Aarrggghhh!! I will definitely pray for you that the snake has left your garage!
Was that snake as big as it looked? I'm a nature lover, but with snakes I prefer to keep my distance. It is cool to look at it in the photos - and the lizard and butterfly too!
The snake was probably close to 18in. I told my dh that it looks much bigger in the pix. My dd told me today that she saw the snake leave last night. Thank God! I have NEVER had a snake in the house before [garage is part of the house in my book!]. At our old house i only saw one or two and they were just little garder snakes. Dh thinks this one was a rat snake.
I think what you have there is a juvenile rat snake, which will probably grow into a big black rat snake! And just so you know; unless it's really cold outside, we will no longer be visiting your house!
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