Suzy
07-14-2008, 06:00 AM
Husband was briefly back in the hospital, I too have been suffering with some sort of awful virus that makes you ache all over and lingers forever (kind of like mono) and our lives have been topsy turvey to say the least for the last couple of weeks...
One night I had just left the hospital and they called me back and as I hurried to get back down there, our local police stopped me for going 45 in a 35 zone, and I couldn't find my proof of insurance (had every card except the current one!) and I was about pushed to the limit....but the young little officer let me go and wished me well without a ticket....(probably walking away shaking his head at the little old gray haired woman in the fancy little red pick up....)
Everyone knows that I have been held at gunpoint and knife point and in all sorts of dangerous situations in the past and I can HANDLE all of them, cool and calm, BUT put a snake anywhere in my vicinity and I go nuts....
About two weeks ago I had to kill an awful black snake in my dog's pen....
Then Friday night i went down to put all the animals to bed (shut the chickens in, turn off fans in bunny barn, etc). and when I went to the door of the bunny barn there was a HUGE rat or chicken snake (at least six feet and waaaay big around, on the 2 x 4 over the other door!!!! I called son on my cell phone and stood there and stared at snake until son could come and kill it...
Don't ANY of you say I should have let it live because it had evidently been eating my baby chicks AND eggs.....
so now I am going today to get fresh moth balls and moth crystals to put all in the bunny barn....
we haven't seen a snake for more than two years since we have the huge Muscovey ducks wandering everywhere and have all the goats....and all the free range chickens....now I am PARANOID to say the least....
BUT the little farm keeps me going....
On Friday morning one of my Muskovey ducks hatched 11 eggs and has 11 of the cutest ducklings you've ever seen! They are in the front goat pasture and she waddles around with those little ones following her all in a row!!!! There are nine black and two yellow??????
So life goes on at Old Field Farm....
One night I had just left the hospital and they called me back and as I hurried to get back down there, our local police stopped me for going 45 in a 35 zone, and I couldn't find my proof of insurance (had every card except the current one!) and I was about pushed to the limit....but the young little officer let me go and wished me well without a ticket....(probably walking away shaking his head at the little old gray haired woman in the fancy little red pick up....)
Everyone knows that I have been held at gunpoint and knife point and in all sorts of dangerous situations in the past and I can HANDLE all of them, cool and calm, BUT put a snake anywhere in my vicinity and I go nuts....
About two weeks ago I had to kill an awful black snake in my dog's pen....
Then Friday night i went down to put all the animals to bed (shut the chickens in, turn off fans in bunny barn, etc). and when I went to the door of the bunny barn there was a HUGE rat or chicken snake (at least six feet and waaaay big around, on the 2 x 4 over the other door!!!! I called son on my cell phone and stood there and stared at snake until son could come and kill it...
Don't ANY of you say I should have let it live because it had evidently been eating my baby chicks AND eggs.....
so now I am going today to get fresh moth balls and moth crystals to put all in the bunny barn....
we haven't seen a snake for more than two years since we have the huge Muscovey ducks wandering everywhere and have all the goats....and all the free range chickens....now I am PARANOID to say the least....
BUT the little farm keeps me going....
On Friday morning one of my Muskovey ducks hatched 11 eggs and has 11 of the cutest ducklings you've ever seen! They are in the front goat pasture and she waddles around with those little ones following her all in a row!!!! There are nine black and two yellow??????
So life goes on at Old Field Farm....