too funny!!! my dh is the one that jumps and runs and then comes back to finish the job

Janie, I can just picture this and it almost made me fall off my chair laughing.

Truth IS funnier than fiction!!
LOL
J.D.

Correction:

Fact is STRANGER than fiction. DW corrected me (funnier too) ; - )
J.D.

Your a lot braver than I am.....I would have left DH to finish the job, while I was locked up inside the house....BAH HAHAHA
Now I don't mine little garden snake I know those don't hurt me but I wouldn't know a chicken snake from a bull snake.
I know the old saying, red and yellow kill a fellow, red and black a friend of Jack.

I am picturing you high-stepping in your night gown! ROFL! Good thing though since it turned out to be venomous! Tell Bob that he could have taken that snake for a drive in the country or far away from your house to release it instead of killing it. hee-hee!

Oh, Denise, I know you are right, but that would have been an invitation to find the snake hidden in a secret terrarium somewhere, sometime in the future. He would keep the snake, hide it somewhere, and I would come across it one of these days when I was going through the shop looking for a tool or a piece of wood.

I know this for a fact.

He once kept a rattler in a jar on the floorboard of his truck for weeks. Said he had no where else to keep it, and besides, he wanted to be able to look at it. LOL

I found it when I used his truck to get gas for the lawnmower. Not good, not good at all.

Janie

You Both are braver than I. It is a funny story to read about but I wouldn't have wanted to be in either of your shoes. I have ran across the occasional snake in a pot in the nurseries I have worked at and we took a garbage can (with lid:) and tipped them into it and took them out of harms way and let them go. One was even a rattler. To think not too many years ago I wouldn't have let myself get within 10 feet of any snake (two bad experiences as a kid):. I have more respect for them now and a little less fear but I still get the tingles up the back of my neck when I have to deal with one that needs to be moved.
May none of us have to do what y'all had to do but all the same thanks for sharing a wonderfully entertaining story for all of us that weren't there and wouldn't want to be!!:)
Happy Growing David

Snake dancing, eh? Vurrry interesting.

My DH used to go on rattlesnake roundups and one year he put a bunch of them in a trash can in the garage and locked the lid on it. He wanted to skin them later for belts.

I had an antique toy business and a lot of my old toys were on shelves in boxes in the garage. One of my clients lives in New York and he called me wanting to know what tin space toys I have. I went to the section of space toys in the garage and there on the floor was the trash can full of rattlers. I told the man to listen as I shook the can. They all rattled at one time and I told him what it was. He said "I guess having rattlesnakes in the garage is fairly common down there".

That could happen here, just have Bob and Jane trade places! Hubby (big man, 6'3") is terrified of snakes-any and ALL snakes. He can squeal and run faster than humanly possible. Thanks for sharing! CJ

Janie
I love the way your write! I was right there with you!

great smiles of appreciation,
cynthia

That's funny. You probably wouldn't mind if he kept them as pets, if he didn't keep the poison ones. (Yikes!!)I'm glad that this one is gone.

Make sure to send him out for further patrol duty!!!

Janie, you really need to make this a regular column on GW.

You've had some funny adventures through the years.

Remember the dance your DH did a while back and the possums that moved in.

How funny! See Jane, see Jane run...and where was Spot during this time? Oh, that"s right, on your shoe.

Janie,

I was reading your post and laughing so hard that I was crying. I know exactly what you mean about being afraid of snakes. I know my snakes, but I don't care! I hate snakes, the good and the bad. We have so many snakes down here and with all of the development taking place, we are seeing more and more.

My neighbor killed a copperhead Saturday, and my other neighbor saw a rattler up near her house. Last year I killed two coral snakes up close to my front door. I don't bother snakes unless they come into my yard and house. Yes, I have had ribbon snakes get into my house on 3 separate occasions, and one time a garter snake got in and the cats found it and took care of it. Scary!

Finally my DH got me a little pump 4-10 with snake shot. Well he was the first one to use it to kill, what he thought was a water moccasin, out on the pier. He killed the snake and left a few marks on the pier from the pellets.

And yes Janie, keep us informed on your future antics!

My laugh for the day! Though I was chased in a lake once by a Water Mocassin - ewww, they scare me! That reminds me of the time we had a big Texas rat snake in our backyard. It took my DH and I about an hour to catch it in a plastic trash can. We even knew what kind it was (nonvenomous), but we were both exhausted and sweating profusely by the time we got it. By the time we walked back home (a block from the greenbelt) after releasing it, we joked that it was probably already back in our yard! Ha Ha!!

It's a good thing Bob wasn't between you and the escape path when your 'flight' urge kicked in! What a fabulous story Janie!

Pam

The High-step snake dance. I hear it's all the rage in nightclubs these days.
Thanks for a great laugh. Everyone at works thinks I'm nuts, but they already thought that.

Did the snake LIVE in the jar in his truck? Just curious, sounds like something I would do. My spider is still going strong on the back deck. She seems happy & worked so hard on that web. The plants will just have to wait.
Tally HO!! ROFL

The snake DID live in the jar. It was a big 5 gallon water jar, and it was fall and cooler temps. I never paid any attention to that jar, until the day I found it. I about wrecked the truck. I turned a corner a little fast, and the jar turned over and there was the snake!

I did make him get rid of it.

Janie