Wednesday, June 5, 2013

My flowers - and the main reason why I hate to garden!

Life has been busy lately and I haven't had much free time to blog!

So, where have I been?  Just around my yard!

Here are a few photos of the flowers blooming around here...








...and then this appeared out of nowhere:


and that, simply, is the reason I hate to garden!

He hissed at me, while flapping his little toungue - so now there are mothballs all around the landscaping - and I haven't seen him, so the mothballs are working!

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Patti @ Pandoras Box
Patti @ Pandoras Box

I live in central NY and I am a retired family and consumer science teacher. I enjoy all types of crafting, decorating and cooking

11 comments:

  1. Oh. My. Word. I can't believe you got a photo!!

    Your flowers are beautiful, though!

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  2. OH NO! You would not catch me in THAT garden!!! UGH- I don't do snakes- xo Diana

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  3. Oh my gosh, Patti! I have to say that all our years on Long Island I never came across a snake {thank God!}. Last Fall, doing a little clean up near the hydrangeas I planted, a mouse ran through. I almost lost it! Headed straight to Ace down the road to get some bait before they decided to make their way inside the condo for the cold weather.

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  4. Patti, you know I love to garden, but wouldn't want to share my space with a snake. Our neighborhood has had an influx of rat snakes this spring. They are actually good snakes because they eat rodents, but they are huge. I'm not comfortable around snakes either. '-)

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  5. Your garden looks great! Glad the moth balls are working!

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  6. Beautiful flowers, but yuck to the snake, I hate them!

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  7. Your garden is lovely It is good to know that mothballs repel snakes! Where I now live snakes are plentiful, although I haven't seen any as yet--and hope never to!

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  8. Thank goodness for moth balls.... would definitely throw me for a loop! But your flowers are gorgeous....

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  9. When I saw the snake I had to look to see where you were from. I didn't know about mothballs and snakes. We don't have snakes here. Maybe it's because we have hawks. They hang out at the golf course.

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  10. Your garden must be a lovely place to go, the flowers are beautiful. The snake not so much1!! I probably would have a hard time returning the the sceen of the crime.
    Ann

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  11. Your flowers are gorgeous, but I would have a tough time "getting back on that horse" after seeing the snake. We saw plenty when I was a child living in Louisiana. When we moved to Arizona almost thirty years ago, I truly expected to see rattlesnakes at every turn, but I've only seen one in the wild in all that time. I'm still super-cautious, however!

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