Re: A record 63 billion-dollar weather disasters hit Earth in 2023 - Masters/Henson
Posted by Chris in Tampa on 1/29/2024, 8:56 pm
I walk into spider webs around here more often that I like, like at all, and thankfully we just don't seem to have the poisonous kind that I've seen. The one in Tennessee I had seen was either a black widow or a brown recluse. I forget. It was a long time ago and my grandfather had told me what it was. It was just strolling across the garage floor if I recall. There were various webs in various parts of the garage.

I never remember which color patterns are bad. Then there's so many varieties, and you don't know what someone may have brought in as a pet and then released. You could find something that defies convention on the color patterns from somewhere else in the world and is poisonous. I don't know. That's why I stick to my rule, run, lol. Though if I do find a snake that could be poisonous, I would have to try to kill it if I look it up and it was or I wasn't quite sure. Catching it would be really hard unless maybe it was small and slow moving.

The possible coral snake was just in our house. We actually caught it in a bucket and took it to a pet store to identify it. I don't think they knew for sure. They said we could dump it in the back into the woods behind the store and I think that's what we did.

I found an image of it from after we caught in a bucket:



That was back in 2004. We had my dog Snowball at the time and we were glad he hadn't messed with the snake.

But I haven't looked at that picture anytime recently. That's not a coral snake, I think that's a black snake:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_racer

Not too many years ago a neighbor found a snake and it looked kind of like that and we looked it up. These black snakes don't start out all black, they start out like that.

Just after I posted the last message I saw a black snake in my yard again. It had been many months since I had seen one. They won't let someone get close usually. Once one did surprisingly and I filmed him up close. And then once I kind of accidentally stepped on one's tale. But otherwise, I haven't been up close to any.

I do love cute animals, and some of them I absolutely would try to pet. I guess the only snake one was a slender blind snake that is the size of a worm. I found a couple of those in my house once and took them outside.

Once my dad had seen a poisonous snake crossing the road. It was the rattling kind, so no mistake on that one. Maybe a neighbor or even a worker at someone's house killed it. Or maybe my dad borrowed a tool from one of them and killed it. I forget. But with so many kids playing around, and really not having any woods around, he wanted to make sure it didn't get away.

I like watching the black snake around the yard. He'll just stick his head up and chill out. I guess he likes being in the sun like the lizards. He'll just stretch himself out sometimes in a bed of mulch. But if you get too close, they dart off so fast into the bushes.
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A record 63 billion-dollar weather disasters hit Earth in 2023 - Masters/Henson - Chris in Tampa, 1/18/2024, 8:23 pm
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