Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Planning Another Chore Weekend

I saw this article in one of the local newspapers, Caution Rattlesnakes  Guess who's waking up?  The temperatures last week were in the 50's.  This week they are in the 80's.  That means the rattlesnakes are waking up and looking for love.  I've been trying to work on clearing the weeds out of the front yard (or is it now my back yard?).  The yard I am speaking of is the old yard in front of the sliding glass door where I had the snake issue before.

                        

Here is the view from the sliding door.  The weeds under the tree are especially worrisome since I can't tell if there are snakes hiding in there.  You can see the pool from this view and my extra water tank that really needs to go next to one of the buildings, although, it would be helpful if the building had gutters first.

Hopefully, the cat that visits my back room is also keeping an eye out for mice and rats under the mobile home which attract snakes.  The dogs love running out in to the old yard in the morning and evening but I'm going to have to stop that practice unless I am out there with them.  And I really need to work on finishing the 1/2" hardware cloth barrier around the chain link fence in the new front yard.  I'll be working on it this Saturday (as well as putting away the pool) since my nephew is going on a choir trip and I need to pick him up from school at midnight on Saturday.  On Sunday, we will go in to town for church, youth group, laundry and grocery shopping.  Oh, and probably a shower at the house to conserve water out at the mobile home.  Another busy weekend and they are all going to be like this until school is out in May.  I'm looking forward to summer.  Not the heat part of summer but at least I will have more free time.

5 comments:

Dave said...

Do your pets like snakes? When I was growing up, we had a small, wooded area next to my parents' house. Our family cats often chased (and sometimes caught) the birds and squirrels which inhabited them. But one time, the cats found a snake and were toying with it, as cats like to do. We learned that it wasn't a poisonous snake but when the cats got tired of playing with it, it slithered away somewhere, never to be seen again.

Daizy said...

They would bark at a snake and they might get too close. The two dogs who were bitten before are not living here anymore. I hope my four dogs would stay far enough away but probably not.

Abigail @ipickuppennies said...

Yikes, snakes! Tim was paranoid about scorpions if we got too far out of the city. But we were warned (about a year after we moved in) that rattlesnakes like to hang out under the bridge in the park. So... about 100 feet from our front door. Also worrying is that it's also where the homeless like to hunker down to get out of the sun/sleep at night.

Daizy said...

I haven't had much of a scorpion problem. I've seen 2 indoors in 10 years. I think it is because the mobile home is off the ground. I have a friend who has a big scorpion problem every year, probably because her house is ground level and her kids leave the door open. I bet the homeless see a lot of snakes. I can't imagine sleeping outside. I'm not much of a camper.

Daizy said...

I haven't had much of a scorpion problem. I've seen 2 indoors in 10 years. I think it is because the mobile home is off the ground. I have a friend who has a big scorpion problem every year, probably because her house is ground level and her kids leave the door open. I bet the homeless see a lot of snakes. I can't imagine sleeping outside. I'm not much of a camper.