Our house is set up with a washing machine and a clothesline. The clothesline is on a hill therefore I really have to stretch to reach some of the lines in order to hang out the wash. This is not a problem unless I am taking the wash off of the line after dark and as I'm stretching to reach the clothespin with my mouth open, I notice something running across the line directly above my face. It was only a lizard, but before I realized that, I quickly let go of the line and it flung the poor lizard right off. I'm just happy it didn't fall into my mouth! Our neighbor just informed me that he has a Carpet Snake (Python) living under his house. They average six and a half feet in length but can grow to 10 feet with no dramas. He said it was huge! I would not mind it living under our house and eating rodents and other snakes as long as I didn't step on it on a dark night while retrieving the laundry from the line. I understand that pythons of that length and especially carpet snakes as common as grass snakes. One website said that there was only one report that a carpet snake tried to eat a seven year old boy. I think with all of the bush turkeys around here that all of carpet snakes stay well fed! I have noticed that cats are not popular around here or small dogs.
I'll post pictures of our house on the next blog.
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