snake poop in a wet box... joy!

so many of you already heard about the snake that decided to shed a skin my trawler after i moved in but before my cats were here yet. anywho, all those wet boxes from the other day, got unpacked, dried out, and mostly repacked last week. didn't think anything about reaching down in the wet boxes and pulling stuff out packed in newspaper and such until i reached down in a box and found snake poop. then all of a sudden, i took great caution with unpacking the rest. lucky for me i didn't find any snakes in a box. i've seen several out around the driveway and found another, much bigger, snake skin when i was weed whacking behind the trawler.

when i was growing up in southern indiana out on kerr creek & gettys creek roads, we often found ourselves stepping over copperheads in the yard. they were always little guys but of course, they are also quite poisonous. we also had cottonmouths, another poisonous but water snake, down there. well, there are copperheads round these parts as well, but where i am living black snakes seem to take up the slack. just a few weeks ago, up the road at my friend's place, a huge black snake decided to lounge on the back of the couch and she spotted him when he started climbing up the window. he was successfully evicted. the fellow who helped evict mr. snake, just told me this crazy story about getting bit by a copperhead and his leg swelling up the size of a telephone pole. yikes.

anywho, no real fear of snakes here, but a healthy dose of respect for them, particularly the poisonous ones. since the cats are indoors, i don't have to worry about snakes inside any longer, nor mice, just the occasional wasp or wolf spider.