What a day. Snake alert

[Steve Clardy]

Well the day has almost ended with a bang, er a heart attack

Had a less than desirable day in the shop with some finishing problems, found a dead squirrel in the horse's water tank, and manageg to burn off the wood handle on the grill cooking up some burgers.
Finally gave up and went in and cleaned up.
Back out to the shop to close it up, check my email once more.

And here was the surprise, wrapped around my printer

Laid in out on a countertop I built today. Countertop is 57" long.
No a huge blacksnake, but big enough to scare the heck outa me.

[Steve Clardy]

Three more pics

[Michael Cody]

And folks wonder why we put with winter and such ... no problems like that ever in my 47 years as a Michigander... closest is a couple of small garter snakes in the basement where part of the house had a crawl space open to the basement. Yeah we got mosquitoes big enough to take on jet fuel at the airport, an occasional black fly .. but nothing like the issues you guys have with snakes! I can tell you I will never retire south just to avoid 12 months of mosquitos and snakes. The south is a nice place to visit but I don't want to live there -- give me some cold weather to keep the pests down!

[Don Baer]

EWWWWWWWW

I Hate Snakes.

[Ken Fitzgerald]

No rodent problem huh..........Steve!

[Dennis Peacock]

LOL......He was just trying to read the fine print on one of your printed contracts.

Nice sized snake there Steve.....Now you can sue that baby for a new measuring stick..!!!

[Vaughn McMillan]

I realize they're beneficial and kill rodents and such, but there's a good chance my printer would have a series of bullet holes if I'd walked in on that. Or at least that would be my first impulse...then I'd realize they're good critters (and that my printer is too young to die), and go get LOML from the house to get the snake out of my shop. (I don't do reptiles, she doesn't do bugs. Works out well.)

- Vaughn

[Michael Stafford]

I don't mind snakes all that much. I used to keep a few when I was a kid. That said I don't like being surprised by one. And finding one crawling out of your printer would definitely constitute a surprise. I am glad you didn't kill the poor thing Steve. That species is very beneficial to us all.

Most surprised I have ever been was when I was in the scouts,oh so long ago, when we were hiking in the mountains and stepped over a fallen log directly onto a copperhead. Fortunately I was standing on his head when I realized what I had just stepped on and did not immediately step off. I gathered my wits and jumped off of the snake. Pretty sure I set the world record for the standing long jump that day....

[Joe Pelonio]

He's obviously one of those ink-loving snake varieties. Keep a half empty ink cartridge outside and he'll stop coming in.

[tod evans]

black snakes in the barn are okay by me, in the house or shop they die..

[Ken Fitzgerald]

Steve.........One of those cured my sister's security problems! She's a nurse practicioner (sp?). She moved to a place in the Appalachian Mountains. Her husbund remained in the mid-west. She'd had her home burglaried once and people on 4 wheeled vehicles were stopping and "raising" Cain and were trying to scare her. Well what they didn't know was that she packs a 357 revolver and she can use it and does stay proficient with it. Well.......one day as she came out of the trailer she rents from the hospital (it's in the country) there was a snake of some kind stretched out on top the brick along the wall of the trailer. She pulls out her 357 revolver and calls the hospital maintenance crew. They come to rescue the snake and "Sis" is standing there with her weapon ready to dispense some cure-all medicine. The maintenance people got rid of the snake and the word got out to the community about my sister's N0-NONSENSE attitude and armament situation. She's not been harrassed since! Good thing! She's all business! So.....harmless snakes can do some good!

[Bruce Shiverdecker]

Gonna have to change you "Handle" to "Snake" Charmer!

Bruce

[Kirk (KC) Constable]

It wouldn't have been 57" long by the time I got around to taking a picture of it. At least not all at once.

No good snake but a dead snake. Cats eats mice, too.

KC

[Steve Clardy]

After I snapped the snake-at-the-printer pics, I went in and retreived the wife to snap a pic of me holding the snake. [Which I really didn't want to do, but had to get it off the printer ]. Then took the varmint to the weed patch outside and turned it loose.

Pictures taken, I downloaded and posted them here.
Then into the finish room to do a little work on a cabinet.
So I preceeded to shut the shop down. Got to the front overhead door, and guess who was back.
That bugger was laying at the shop entrance, almost back in the shop . So I shooed em off and shut the door.
Haven't seen him the morning

[Jim Becker]

That bugger was laying at the shop entrance, almost back in the shop . So I shooed em off and shut the door.

Maybe he/she is trying to tell you something...like you need his/her services?