Here ya go Becky.. Here my dragon fly story.
Finally it has warme d up enough for me to come out of half dozen sweater and with a couple days off time to try and make headway with the leaves and weeds. I spnt sven hours just raking a small section of the yard yesterday so maybe I can fidn my driveway again. Love my oaks for the shade, but sure hate the leaves . I never gonna get em all done.
While out raking, I got out my first scream of the season. Moved a section of leave s and found some wigglers there. me and worms don't get along and seeign them fat things jump and suigle had me wigglign and squiggling too. I didn't want them to get bagge d up so I tried usign my rake to move them out of the way when one started doing a more of a slither than a wiggle. tried to bring it closer with the rake and of course it went right through the tines, but not before I seen it moving at a fast pace doign the "s" move . This was not no worm, it was a baby snake. That did it, no more rakign in that area for the rest of the day. Kept lookign aroudn every two seconds wonderign where the brothers and sisters and especially Momma is since it wasn't any bigger than the fat red crawling worms.
Don't baby snakes stay near there Moms? Darn thign moved to fast for me to try and se which type it was. I wasn't able to catch or kil it , so I just know it out there waitign, hiding , ready to spring out at me again when I not looking.
No way was a gonan cntinue rakign so I decided to try and clean up soem junk aroudn the hoop house. While doign that, I heard this like buzzing, but no buzzing. I follwed the sound into the hoop house and thought great sound s like a rattler and maybe I just foudn momma. Too scare d to walk around onthe ground cuz pots all ove the place between the beches. I decided to get the brillant idea of walkign on top of the pallets. I trying to walk on them and listen for the sound with my eyes glued to the floor just anticipating a 6foot slitherign thing comign after me for disturbign her baby.
Just about the time I think I got the sound cornred this monster , and I mean monster flew by my face. Already so parenoid about the snake I freaked, I lost my balance, fell off the edge of the pallet and fell down into a bunch of pots , ha d the pallet flip on me and by this time I rally screaming cuz I figure I gonna be lunch for a snake. Visions of Anaconda are runnign through my hea d by now. I could strangle my son for ever makign me watch that movie. I am thrashign around on the floor tryig to get up, steppign in and on pots tryign to get back up off the ground.
I finally get back up on a pallet and am clinging for dea life now to the center pole and the nois e is gettign closer and worse. I heard the noise right behind me and as I turned I see this thing. It now at the top of the hoop house and buzzign like crazy. it had this long tail that was over 6" long and over a half inch wide. The body iself was long too and the head oh my it was so gross to look at it. At first I thought it was soem sort of mutant fly becaus e of the eyes . The eyes alone were bigger than a canna seed. We have a lot of them huge hors e flie s that bite the snaff out of yay here and thought maybe oen of them had mutated into this monsetr creature.
With the tail whippign aroudn like crazy all I could think about was maybe it gonan sting me like a scorpion. I backed away from it and took sevral deep breaths and obsrve d it for a bit. I thought then it might have ben a dragon fly. I brought some hoem one year from a pond when I brought hoe plants and have had them here ever since. They are nice to see flyign about, but they are small. This guy looke d liek he had been eating steriods for several years . it had the prettiest greenish/blueish bands all down the tail.
I got me a long stick and after about 20 minutes of chasign it aroudn and around, finally got it on the end of the stick. It was breathign as hard as me by the time I got it. I turned it lose outside and it flew off.
Do dragonflies ever get that big or was it somethign other than a dragon fly? Is this creature gonna hang around or is it gonan move on to other pastures?
