all creatures great and small (part i)

so, somehow in august i neglected to mention that this happened…

that’s os holding up a three foot plus snakeskin. a leftover from the days i dabbled in herpetology? nope. was found here…

and fortunately the rather panicky text i received with those two images also included this one…

why? because it shows me the head and tail shapes, which let me know it wasn’t a rattle snake nor a cottonmouth. still could be a coral snake as no pattern was visible in the shed, but more than likely not due to head shape. a bit later that evening i raised the lid on the washing machine (knowing that it was probably nocturnal) and could see part of it, but not enough to grab it (when i got two fingers around it the thing just slithered away from me and further into the bowels of the washing machine). it prompted me to leave a note for my fam that said, “good news/bad news: good – i saw enough of the snake to verify it is NOT poisonous…bad – it is still alive and well in the washing machine as of me writing this”

which was surprising because between the pics and my note os DID do laundry.

a day or so later i took the washing machine apart and inspected all it’s innards completely and…no snake. there was no thoughts of it transitioning from the washer to the dryer like a scaly load of laundry because of the heat factor, so we just chalked it up to “guess it got out the way it came in”.

and two months later, we know it did…

little fucker hides in plain sight pretty well, don’t it? it’s not that little though…thin, but long…

i’m just trying to figure out how it got in because we have a cold snap coming next week and that dryer might look REALLY tempting to that little fucker if that’s the case…

1 comment… add one
  • Kramer Oct 16, 2022 @ 16:43

    The vague pattern, black and yellowish? Non-scaled scales, and head shape, sometimes called a Texas Rat Snake, just eat bugs and critters. Not poisonous, and relatively benign.

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