Monday, October 13, 2008

Anyone lost a Copperhead??




If you did, we found it--but you might not want it back since he is a little "torn up" about things.
While I was picking Brett up from work Friday night, Gene had the joy of mowing the lawn. Mowing through the backyard, he saw something moving quickly toward our old garden area. Just as he suspected--a snake!! It was getting pretty dark by then, so he could not identify it until Saturday morning--a Copperhead!! He looks pretty small in these pictures, but we learned that babies are worse than the adult because they don't know how to use their venom yet, so they use too much! A man at our church was bitten by a copperhead a few weeks ago and was rushed to the hospital and it doing fine now-PTL!
Just thought all of you out there in blogworld might want to check out the little guy...

3 comments:

beth spray said...

eeeeeeewwwwwwww!!! that is so creepy!!!!

Paula Roberts said...

Yikes-I could have gone forever without seeing you post if I could have avoided those pictures! Nightmares - thanks a lot! JK-Glad no one was bitten. But when you see a baby does that mean a mama is close by? Please be careful!

Katie said...

I can't believe you even took the time to take picture of that creepy creature!!