Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes?
Indiana Jones
Look who Mistletoe and Mocha found hanging out getting a bit of sun in the flowerbed in front of The Nerdery!
Yep…that’s a rat snake which is a very common and welcome visitor to the flower beds round here though the ones we’ve seen here in the past have been much smaller juveniles who were usually happy enough to curl themselves round the spikes of a rake when they’d be offered better accommodation in the woods behind the house..
This rat snake was right about 1m in length and you really couldn’t miss it being draped over the stones.
I tried to get a picture of it curling up in the classic snake pose but our friend from Slytherin House had other ideas and showed just how fast a rat snake can be when it wants to be.
The colouration reminded me of a 2m long indigo snake that Dad and I saw slithering from the front flower bed and through the garage into his house in Port Orange.
The last we ever saw of that snake was it’s tail heading into my bedroom and under the waterbed and an unsuccessful search under the bed (we pulled all of the drawers and everything and no joy!) certainly made sleeping in that room far more interesting than the odd palmetto bug falling off the ceiling it was walking upon.
Trust me, nothing wakes you faster than a palmetto bug falling on your face!
I can only imagine that the indigo snake eventually slithered it’s way out of the house because when I was clearing out that bedroom thirty-years later after Dad had passed away, I didn’t see any obvious skeletal remains that I would have expected if the snake had never escaped from under the waterbed.
