'Nake triumphant!

[alfreda89]

I was emptying leaves out of the Kraken today (a Polaris pool cleaner, and highly recommended) and as I walked back past the steps in the shallow end, I saw a greenish snake just over a foot English long, with a white stripe on his sides and a yellow on his top -- over yellow and black checks/scales -- wiggling his little heart out trying to find the place out of the pool. Well, he had no rattles, and I was very brazen -- I just scooped up his tail and zipped him out to the concrete. He wiggled once, thought about it, and then zipped over to the dry leaves by the stone flower bed, where he slithered along and is undoubtedly under the deck staking out new territory.

I am a snake wrangler! Did not even shake!

(It looked like kin of the one in the garage...)

Comments

[bevhale.livejournal.com]

you are very brave and i hereby put you in charge of any snakes we happen upon. i hate snakes. really, really, really, hate snakes. you also get all t he spiders

[tia-tarina.livejournal.com]

It was a checkered garter snake.

Snakes with long stripes are totally, perfectly safe. The most they'll do is pee and musk on you if you hold them too tightly.

On behalf of the snakes, thanks for the save!

[cabin77.livejournal.com]

Go you! I'm sure that the snake says the same thing!