She just laughed... I'm sure snakes can't crawl up into the kayaks stored on the trailer. But we should clean all the grime and dust off. Too muddy down there now with all this rain, but we'll get them up here and do that early this week. I took the dog for her evening UTV ride, and Tina went down to feed. Fiona and I got back and Miss T met us at the back door holding a pitchfork.
"Guess what I found in your kayak?"
Yup, she had pulled the covers off both yaks, just to peek, in the dim light of the barn rather than pulling the trailer up to the house with the UTV, into the bright sunlight, as I had planned. When she pulled off the rag I had draped over the seat on my kayak to keep the grime off, a five foot rattler was coiled in the seat.
Luckily he was lethargic and she was able to flip him off the kayak and into the dirt floor with the pitchfork and pin him. We don't "Mind" the non-poisonous snakes around the 20+ acres. They keep the vermin population down. The venomous variety around the barn or the house areas, nope. I towed the kayak trailer up to the house in the sun, and we stripped the kayaks down to the hull, and cleaned them out, washed them down and cleaned up all the gear. Her kayak, with the tight fitting cover was fine. We didn't have a cover to fit might and seal it off from intrusion. She'll make one this week. No more snakes in residence.
I found a rattler in the hose rack in the garage where we stored the ropes coiled up. Not stored there any longer.
As Indy said, "Why does it have to be snakes?"
