... Always have a can of wasp spray within easy reach when you're walking outside on your property. Not only does the wasp spray kill bees (sorry about that, I know they're necessary) and wasps and fire ants, but the spray also does wonders for small garden snakes that are hanging over a picket fence near your garage door.
I had just come out of the garage after feeding the two outside cats (who become garage cats when it's raining) and my eye caught sight of something on that picket fence... and there it was, a green and black-striped garden snake. I know they're harmless, and I know they're probably more afraid of me than I am of them (maybe, possibly) but I didn't want that snake on the fence so close to the side door of that garage. I had visions of the snake making his way up over the door and the next time I went to open that door I'd have a snake dropping on my head. (Let's not put that thought out into the universe. As it is, I don't go through any door without looking first to see what's up on the door frame.)
So how to get that snake off of the fence and away from the door..... all of the brooms and rakes were in the garage, and I didn't want to walk past the snake again to get something I could use to make him move away from that door. However... there was a can of wasp spray in the basket on the porch. I always leave a can out there, just in case bees (sorry again) and wasps get too close to the back door, which they always do.
I got the wasp spray, went back down the porch steps and took aim. Well, the snake was not at all happy. But I didn't stick around to watch his reactions... back up the porch steps I went and into the house... and when I came out a few hours later, the snake was gone. I've looked all over that particular flower bed every time I go out there, but I haven't seen the snake again, nor did I find his dead body.
I absolutely, positively hate hate hate hate with a passion all of the creatures, critters, insects, reptiles and everything else that flies, crawls, stalks or slithers on this property.
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