So I actually CAUGHT the snake that I ran into. Actually both of them. For those of you who don’t know me, I work for Custom Dish Satellite in Seneca. I install satellite systems for homeowners and businesses and my job puts me in a lot of precarious situations….with both people and wildlife! So my latest trip to Salem (off Hwy. 11) led me up a steep muddy hill lined with rooster pens and pig pens and other assorted farm life. When I arrived at the top of the hill there was a double-wide trailer….which is usually a quick and easy installation. Well it’s been raining like crazy in Oconee County, so I had a lot of mud to deal with at this particular job. As I was dismantling the directv dish from the customer’s front/back (wasn’t sure which one it was) porch, there came a wigglin’ snake out of the leaves/mud. It was about 10 inches long and pretty skinny, and I couldn’t really identify what kind it was. Well only after catching it and letting it wrap around my hand did the homeowner kindly let me know it was a copperhead. She said it was probably about 2 years old. I’m thinking….”awesome. This snake is wrapped around my left hand. I need my left hand. This friggin’ snake better not bite me or I’m going to go ballistic!” So I managed to loose the snake without any flesh wounds.
I keep working, and along comes a tiny little snake that’s all black. I thought…”Sweet, I’ll catch it and keep it and have a pet snake again. Cuz this one’s all black and it won’t hurt me!” But it got away.
Ze End. (pictures to come tomorrow)
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