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[vanillafluffy]

Got home from Mb's this afternoon and found A SNAKE in the middle of my kitchen floor. Yellow, about a foot and a half long. I used a sponge mop to pin it down, and picked it up with a pair of tongs (which I'll never be able to use for food serving again!) and flung it out the front door. What next, a bear in the bathtub

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[starhawk2005]

Ah well, at least shopping in your sleep is cheap!

I'm not freaked out by snakes....but then again, you really only find garter snakes naturally where I live, so I'm sure that's a factor...

[vanillafluffy]

When I told her about it, Mb Googled yellow snakes and we decided it was a yellow rat snake. Which isn't bad, since Florida *does* have venomous snakes, and I've already had a spider bite to deal with---don't need any snakebites, no thanks!

Cheap but ephemeral---nothing new has appeared in my closet. Thank goodness for GK's CARE packages!

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[starhawk2005]

Yikes! I can see why snakes would freak you out, then....

[vanillafluffy]

Don't know how efficient it was---I was so rattled, I forgot I stick something in the fridge. Fortunately, it survived!

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[karaokegal]

I still miss my Western King Snake a bit, but I would certainly freak out if I had a random encounter with an unidentified reptile, especially in your semi-tropical neck of the woods.

[vanillafluffy]

Yeah, if it had been something immediately recognizable like a python, it wouldn't have freaked me out as much, but the mystery fauna is definitely a Florida drawback!

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