No, no, no ~ there are TWO kinds of snakes... Those with rattles and those that don't have rattles are the cobras... LOL
they freak me out every single time...
Got it!
LouC
no there is only one a snake is a snake is a snake when they surprise me...attack and ask questions later if I am surprised by them...I know no the best way of doing things and I'm sorry but bad experience as a child has "scarred" me for life
I've heard if you smell cucumbers there are copperheads close by, but never experienced it myself, and didn't when I was watching a copperhead nest.
One summer on the farm (southern MO) it was a bumper year for blackberries and dewberries. Down by the ditch you could lift the vine or bush up and grab handfuls of them, huge and juicy and incredibly sweet. I'd gathered several buckets of them, lifted up a bush, and a 2 foot striped snake just raised its head. We looked at each other for a few seconds, and I gently laid that bush back down. There were plenty of berries for the both of us. I wish I'd known the red-and-yellow rhyme at the time; it definitely had red, yellow, and black stripes. So that's my could-have-been-a-disaster story, turned out well.
LOL, another old wife's tale bites the dust. I didn't smell cucumbers either in my one experience with a copperhead.
Years ago I wanted to plant berry vines along my fence in the back yard. My grandmother who knew what she was talking about, forbade it. Said they were a guaranteed snake magnet. At the time our home sat out in the middle of an undeveloped area and snakes were a given.
Christi
We live in the middle of a pasture near lots of water, our stock tanks, our neighbors stock tanks and the Colorado River at the end of the pasture. So we have lots of water moccasins. I'm afraid to plant anything that grows close to the ground.
Veronica