At least the caps are on!
Rainy day here in Sparta with a temperature of 66. Replaced ivory colored light switches with white ones. We went for a walk between rains this afternoon and got a chance to meet one of the local residents up close. He just appeared to be the strong quiet type. A real man of few words!
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What they call a pine snake here in Tennessee, in Illinois we called them bull snakes. Completely harmless and eat rodents like most snakes. So, actually very beneficial. I stopped to show my wife how to tell a sassafras tree by the different lobes on the leaves on a couple of small saplings growing alongside the ditch. I saw the snake just before she did. Of course, as soon as my wife saw it, she took off like a rocket. Luckily, there weren't any cars coming! First snake I've seen this year. In Tennessee, there are several species of rattlesnakes, copperheads and water moccasins. I don't know for sure if she knows that! She does know that there are two types of scorpions, but that doesn't seem to bother her. But let her see one little snake that is just as afraid of her as she is of it, and she takes off in a dead run!