Snake in the blueberry net (again!)

For the second year in a row Jim has had to spend a 1/2 hour or so extricating snakes from the blueberry netting we keep in the shed!  I felt terrible - he worked all day, mowed the lawn and then had to free this poor little guy (5 feet and a bit skinny) from the netting.

No sooner did he cut away a good part of the net than the snake slither its way back in.  I was a patient witness and felt like there was nothing I could do, when finally we decided Jim would have to hold the snake's head and tail and I would cut away the netting along it's length.

It worked!  I am sure he was even happier to be free than we were to see him go!

Yikes! Snakes

Ok - the other day Jim went into our age-challenged shed to get some pots and noticed what looked to be a relatively large black snake up on a shelf and wrapped around our little smokey joe.  Not too worried, we left it alone, thinking it would pass on by.....

Tuesday, we got into the shed for blackberry netting and found that there was not one, but two snakes!  Black snakes are not poisonous, but the do bite! FYI per DNREC there are no poisonous snakes in Delaware.  I am not sure what they eat, but I hope it is big spiders and small moles.... Flies and mosquitos would be nice, too!  Here is a video of Jim cutting the poor things loose.  You will never guess where they went when they got loose - yup! the shed!  Oh well, I guess I will just be more careful when I go into the shed....