What kind of snake is this?
Blondie alerted us to it.
Honeybun walked by it without noticing.
I wasn’t willing to get any closer for a better picture.
-jsq
What kind of snake is this?
Blondie alerted us to it.
Honeybun walked by it without noticing.
I wasn’t willing to get any closer for a better picture.
-jsq
Arrow is making a speedy recovery.
She has ehrlichia, which is a tick-borne disease. Supposedly if you catch it in the acute stage, which it appears we did, antibiotics will cure it.
Your dogs don’t want ehrlichia, so check them for ticks.
It came on very quickly. Continue reading
Trapped one possum.
There are more under the house.
Now to set the trap again.
And maybe the dogs can catch some.
The ones we trap, we take far enough away they won’t come back.
We can bring you some, if you like.
Fair warning: they eat insulation from electrical wires and cause shorts.
-jsq
A few scenes from during and after Hurricane Idalia.
We had many deadfalls, but no property or personal damage. So we were much luckier than many others.
Deadfalls, power lines, cooking, rainfall
This still just looks like heavy rain, but the video shows the wind was blowing. Idalia’s eye went a few miles east of us, but those were probably still 60 mph winds from the north. Continue reading
Why are you lying in the driveway, snake?
Don’t you know there are dogs here?
Didn’t matter: the dogs never noticed.
-jsq
Calling herpetologists.
It’s definitely not a rattlesnake. Doesn’t seem to be any sort of venemous serpent. Probably just a rat snake. Continue reading
What kind of snake is this?
Probably not a moccasin, because it doesn’t have any stripes, and I’ve never seen one leave its tail sticking out like that. Usually a cottonmouth will face you and hiss.
The dogs found another snake earlier that probably was a moccasin, so we made them come along.
We also saw an anhinga on the surface. Usually we see them perched in a tree or flying. It did eventually fly off and perch.
Arrow, Blondie, Honeybun, Gretchen
Arrow won’t admit she can swim
-jsq
We came home after a day on the river and had to dig out the dog.
Honeybun, Blondie, and Arrow stuck under a storage shed
You can hardly see the little pooch, but you can sure hear her complaining about being stuck under a storage shed.
I got a shovel and dug the opening out more.
She’s fine.
No dogs were harmed in the making of this video.
How she got under there is still a mystery.
-jsq
Turns out dogs like water.
Arrow, Honeybun, Blondie, at water spigot 2023-06-18
Especially Arrow.
Here is a YouTube video playlist:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLk2OxkA4UvwDyXxn-2JbD8yV5vrShmCK
Facebook video version:
https://www.facebook.com/OkraParadiseFarms/posts/pfbid0LsEEoXSKQfFEztWjQcorn3g7d1nUPhGgiHmYBifQZhXmRMdQ52SNX5jzkEhVXHg5l
And some still pictures. Continue reading