July 13, 2023 • 9 mins
This week in my yard, the wildlife has been abundant! But gross. I talk about my unfortunate incident last year with the lawnmower and a snake AND a mouse. And how that may have saved the bifg fat butt of another mouse this year. I also saw a big fat snake.
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(00:02):
Hello, Good morning this morning.For me, at least when I'm doing
this, it's Steve Burrell sitting downfor another episode of Steve's podcast. Second
of the week. I felt likeI've really had a rolled right here where
it's easy enough if I'm just kindof talking about my day, and my
day so far was this morning.I did what's in my can? And
I wanted to explain the reason thatI had a snake in my can this
(00:22):
morning. That's because I had aninteraction with the snake in my yard.
I had. It was the biggestgarter snake I've ever seen in my life,
which which I know isn't saying alot in the world of snakes,
like the biggest garter snake I've everseen is still probably smaller than the smallest
bull snake I've ever seen, forexample, but shocking. Nonetheless, the
wildlife has been nuts. I don'tknow if you guys have had the same
(00:45):
experience in your yards or your neckof the woods, but I feel like,
especially honestly, especially since the rainstopped and it's warm and dry and
everything's out and around, I'm seeingstuff everywhere. That was just the second
time this week that I found someanimal in my yard. And this all
actually works better if I back upand I talk about about a year ago.
(01:07):
It was last summer. I wasout in the yard. I was
on the yard with the kids andthe dog. My dog is rolling in
something. He's rolling around on theground and usually when that happens, it's
something smelly that's his jam. Andso I went over to stop him from
rolling whatever it was he was rollingin. As I get him off,
(01:30):
it's a snake. He's rolling ina dead snake, a little one,
but a dead snake, nonetheless,And so I chase him out of there.
I get rid of the snake,who, obviously, in my mind
my CSI investigation into it, haddied because of the lawnmower. Little snake.
He had kind of a hack acrossthe side. He wasn't completely in
(01:51):
two. But that's my investigation,death by lawnmower, which I have been
aware of before, because I've seenother critters in the yard when I when
I'm rolling around, especially in thatarea that that part of the yard.
So next time I'm mowing the lawn, I am ultra aware, ultra aware
(02:13):
of anything that might be in frontof me. I am eyes open,
especially when I get to that partof the yard, and so I am
aware, I am going slowly,I am watching for anything that might be
pop it out running away from me. I get to the almost exact same
spot where we found that dead snake. Bang something, I hit something,
(02:38):
and I'm thinking in my mind,this is not a baby steak. That's
a big steak. So I immediatelystopped the lawn mower and I roll it
forward to see why it might beunder there, and sure enough, there's
some blood and guts and some feet, which is surprising because I wasn't expecting
to see that snake famously do nothave feet or fur, which is what
(03:00):
was I was looking at on theground right there. Push it forward just
a little bit more and there's therest of it. It's a mouse.
It's a mouse, and he'd beencleanly cut into. He didn't just get
nicked like the snake. He wasin two parts, which is again unusual
for a mouse to be in twoparts, and obviously not healthy at all.
(03:21):
The back parts just sitting there.Front part does not quite know what
happened, just yet, front partsstill trying to get away, this little
fat mouse and he's just running tryingto He's not going anywhere, but it's
front feet are just moving. Andso in my mind, damn it first,
because not only did I just runover this mouse and that's gross,
(03:42):
but he's not dead yet, andso I'm doing my part too. Well,
let's let's finish this off as quickas I can. I'm not going
to use the lawnmower anymore in myhands, and so I run back to
the garage, not exactly sure whatI'm looking for, like, CLA,
what am I going to do?I got a knife, chain, saw,
no hammer, I guess. SoI grab the hammer and I run
(04:05):
back out to this mouse to finishthem off properly, and thankfully for both
of us, the mouse is nowdead. I do not have to finish
the job. I just have toclean up the mess, which is also
not cool. Okay, fast forwardto this year. This week, is
(04:25):
a matter of fact, I'm mowingthe line again, front yard, different
part of the yard entirely now,mind you, this first interaction was so
traumatizing that to this day I amon my toes when I am mowing the
lawne especially when I get to thatsame part of the yard. I am
that that line. Mower doesn't evensit flat on the ground. I'm like
(04:46):
banging it around. I maybe doa walk through first, just to see
if anything runs away. Nothing had, But it's still no matter where I
am paying attention to what I'm doing, So frontyard, different part of the
yard, entirely. As I'm movingline or along, I see something I
was paying attention. I see somethingrun not far though, just like a
half a foot six inches, liketo try to get out of the way
(05:09):
the lawn moore. It's a mouse. It's another mouse, a big fat
mouse. And what he's trying todo, he's trying to hide in the
grass. That's not going to work. His butt is sticking above the grass.
And so I scooch the lawn moreforward, just a little bit,
you know, just him coming.You better move, I'm coming and he's
not moving. You know. Iget the wheel. I got the wheel
(05:30):
right next to him, give alittle nudge, hoping. You know,
I didn't think about this till later. But assuming he's not going to run
back into the lawnmower, which hedoesn't, but what he does is just
run hide of it forward and thento hide again. Dude, you're not
going to hide from the lawnmower.If I am, if I was not
paying attention to you, that'd bemouse number two. That this lawnmower is
(05:53):
claimed. It wants it, Icould tell. So what I do instead
is I stop the lawnmower entirely.I don't know how this mouse has survived
to this point with these survival skills, and so what I do is to
stop the line more entirely. Givea little nudge. Scooch is just a
little bit. Put my foot nearhim, give him a little stomach right
next to him where he's trying tohide its poorly again, big fat mouse
(06:16):
butt, just sitting. I finallyhave to touch him with my foot and
give him like a little and heruns away into the bush near the yard.
He's still looking at me. Hedidn't go very far, but far
enough out of the way. I'mlike, you're welcome, You're welcome anyway,
finished mowing the line. Don't knowwhat that mouse is up to these
days, but as long as hestays out of the house, I don't
(06:39):
really care. So um, that'smy first animal story of the week.
In the second, as you mightguess, involves the snake. It's it's
less exciting because all I happened forthat one was I walked out of my
back door. I was gonna getsomething out from under the deck. We
have the we have the kind ofdeck where the fashion can open up and
you can store stuff underneath it.Why in that way the biggest garter snake
(07:04):
I have ever seen, which,again, in the world of snakes,
still pretty small when it comes toa snake. But but when you see
a garter snake and he's got afat body, it's a little shocking,
and especially for me, who wellknown I do not like snakes, like
do anything against snakes. Go doyour own thing. I'm not gonna hunt
you down, but if I seeyou, I'm gonna be creeped out.
(07:26):
And so this one's right there outthe back deck, I'm gonna put up
a picture. I'll post a pictureon threads. I wish I would have
taken a longer video. It tookjust a video, a little bit of
the snake, but maybe my tryingto move it because I didn't want it
to sit there. My hope wasif I gave this snake like a little
goose, it would go running throughthe yard, like into my neighbors snakes
(07:47):
don't work that way. Instead,I gave it a little goose, and
it quickly turned right back towards meand then went under the deck like it
went on to these railroad ties thatI have around the bottom of my deck,
and it sucked right in there.And so I'm assuming that's where it
is. I'm assuming that's where itis. I've kept an eye out for
(08:09):
it. I'm hoping that if Isee it out again some time, I
could do something to block him outof the hole. I don't know,
because here's what's in my mind now, is that maybe that big fat snake
wasn't fat. Maybe I'm haven't aboutto have one big snake and a whole
bunch of little snakes running around,which I anyway, I'm in the end
(08:33):
of Jones that way, man.I I guess what I'm hoping is,
but I'm hoping it will happen naturally. Is that snake will go from where
I saw it to the other sideof the house, and maybe that fat
snake will find the fat mouse andthey just go thunderdome on each other.
(08:54):
Two men in or one man leaves, that's what I want, and hopefully
catch it all in my ring doorbell. That would be the best way for
this to end. So I'm manifestingthat right now, putting that out into
the universe. Wish me luck.If I come across any other critters in
my yard, I may or maynot ship. Thanks.
Hello, Good morning this morning.For me, at least when I'm doing
this, it's Steve Burrell sitting downfor another episode of Steve's podcast. Second
of the week. I felt likeI've really had a rolled right here where
it's easy enough if I'm just kindof talking about my day, and my
day so far was this morning.I did what's in my can? And
I wanted to explain the reason thatI had a snake in my can this
(00:22):
morning. That's because I had aninteraction with the snake in my yard.
I had. It was the biggestgarter snake I've ever seen in my life,
which which I know isn't saying alot in the world of snakes,
like the biggest garter snake I've everseen is still probably smaller than the smallest
bull snake I've ever seen, forexample, but shocking. Nonetheless, the
wildlife has been nuts. I don'tknow if you guys have had the same
(00:45):
experience in your yards or your neckof the woods, but I feel like,
especially honestly, especially since the rainstopped and it's warm and dry and
everything's out and around, I'm seeingstuff everywhere. That was just the second
time this week that I found someanimal in my yard. And this all
actually works better if I back upand I talk about about a year ago.
(01:07):
It was last summer. I wasout in the yard. I was
on the yard with the kids andthe dog. My dog is rolling in
something. He's rolling around on theground and usually when that happens, it's
something smelly that's his jam. Andso I went over to stop him from
rolling whatever it was he was rollingin. As I get him off,
(01:30):
it's a snake. He's rolling ina dead snake, a little one,
but a dead snake, nonetheless,And so I chase him out of there.
I get rid of the snake,who, obviously, in my mind
my CSI investigation into it, haddied because of the lawnmower. Little snake.
He had kind of a hack acrossthe side. He wasn't completely in
(01:51):
two. But that's my investigation,death by lawnmower, which I have been
aware of before, because I've seenother critters in the yard when I when
I'm rolling around, especially in thatarea that that part of the yard.
So next time I'm mowing the lawn, I am ultra aware, ultra aware
(02:13):
of anything that might be in frontof me. I am eyes open,
especially when I get to that partof the yard, and so I am
aware, I am going slowly,I am watching for anything that might be
pop it out running away from me. I get to the almost exact same
spot where we found that dead snake. Bang something, I hit something,
(02:38):
and I'm thinking in my mind,this is not a baby steak. That's
a big steak. So I immediatelystopped the lawn mower and I roll it
forward to see why it might beunder there, and sure enough, there's
some blood and guts and some feet, which is surprising because I wasn't expecting
to see that snake famously do nothave feet or fur, which is what
(03:00):
was I was looking at on theground right there. Push it forward just
a little bit more and there's therest of it. It's a mouse.
It's a mouse, and he'd beencleanly cut into. He didn't just get
nicked like the snake. He wasin two parts, which is again unusual
for a mouse to be in twoparts, and obviously not healthy at all.
(03:21):
The back parts just sitting there.Front part does not quite know what
happened, just yet, front partsstill trying to get away, this little
fat mouse and he's just running tryingto He's not going anywhere, but it's
front feet are just moving. Andso in my mind, damn it first,
because not only did I just runover this mouse and that's gross,
(03:42):
but he's not dead yet, andso I'm doing my part too. Well,
let's let's finish this off as quickas I can. I'm not going
to use the lawnmower anymore in myhands, and so I run back to
the garage, not exactly sure whatI'm looking for, like, CLA,
what am I going to do?I got a knife, chain, saw,
no hammer, I guess. SoI grab the hammer and I run
(04:05):
back out to this mouse to finishthem off properly, and thankfully for both
of us, the mouse is nowdead. I do not have to finish
the job. I just have toclean up the mess, which is also
not cool. Okay, fast forwardto this year. This week, is
(04:25):
a matter of fact, I'm mowingthe line again, front yard, different
part of the yard entirely now,mind you, this first interaction was so
traumatizing that to this day I amon my toes when I am mowing the
lawne especially when I get to thatsame part of the yard. I am
that that line. Mower doesn't evensit flat on the ground. I'm like
(04:46):
banging it around. I maybe doa walk through first, just to see
if anything runs away. Nothing had, But it's still no matter where I
am paying attention to what I'm doing, So frontyard, different part of the
yard, entirely. As I'm movingline or along, I see something I
was paying attention. I see somethingrun not far though, just like a
half a foot six inches, liketo try to get out of the way
(05:09):
the lawn moore. It's a mouse. It's another mouse, a big fat
mouse. And what he's trying todo, he's trying to hide in the
grass. That's not going to work. His butt is sticking above the grass.
And so I scooch the lawn moreforward, just a little bit,
you know, just him coming.You better move, I'm coming and he's
not moving. You know. Iget the wheel. I got the wheel
(05:30):
right next to him, give alittle nudge, hoping. You know,
I didn't think about this till later. But assuming he's not going to run
back into the lawnmower, which hedoesn't, but what he does is just
run hide of it forward and thento hide again. Dude, you're not
going to hide from the lawnmower.If I am, if I was not
paying attention to you, that'd bemouse number two. That this lawnmower is
(05:53):
claimed. It wants it, Icould tell. So what I do instead
is I stop the lawnmower entirely.I don't know how this mouse has survived
to this point with these survival skills, and so what I do is to
stop the line more entirely. Givea little nudge. Scooch is just a
little bit. Put my foot nearhim, give him a little stomach right
next to him where he's trying tohide its poorly again, big fat mouse
(06:16):
butt, just sitting. I finallyhave to touch him with my foot and
give him like a little and heruns away into the bush near the yard.
He's still looking at me. Hedidn't go very far, but far
enough out of the way. I'mlike, you're welcome, You're welcome anyway,
finished mowing the line. Don't knowwhat that mouse is up to these
days, but as long as hestays out of the house, I don't
(06:39):
really care. So um, that'smy first animal story of the week.
In the second, as you mightguess, involves the snake. It's it's
less exciting because all I happened forthat one was I walked out of my
back door. I was gonna getsomething out from under the deck. We
have the we have the kind ofdeck where the fashion can open up and
you can store stuff underneath it.Why in that way the biggest garter snake
(07:04):
I have ever seen, which,again, in the world of snakes,
still pretty small when it comes toa snake. But but when you see
a garter snake and he's got afat body, it's a little shocking,
and especially for me, who wellknown I do not like snakes, like
do anything against snakes. Go doyour own thing. I'm not gonna hunt
you down, but if I seeyou, I'm gonna be creeped out.
(07:26):
And so this one's right there outthe back deck, I'm gonna put up
a picture. I'll post a pictureon threads. I wish I would have
taken a longer video. It tookjust a video, a little bit of
the snake, but maybe my tryingto move it because I didn't want it
to sit there. My hope wasif I gave this snake like a little
goose, it would go running throughthe yard, like into my neighbors snakes
(07:47):
don't work that way. Instead,I gave it a little goose, and
it quickly turned right back towards meand then went under the deck like it
went on to these railroad ties thatI have around the bottom of my deck,
and it sucked right in there.And so I'm assuming that's where it
is. I'm assuming that's where itis. I've kept an eye out for
(08:09):
it. I'm hoping that if Isee it out again some time, I
could do something to block him outof the hole. I don't know,
because here's what's in my mind now, is that maybe that big fat snake
wasn't fat. Maybe I'm haven't aboutto have one big snake and a whole
bunch of little snakes running around,which I anyway, I'm in the end
(08:33):
of Jones that way, man.I I guess what I'm hoping is,
but I'm hoping it will happen naturally. Is that snake will go from where
I saw it to the other sideof the house, and maybe that fat
snake will find the fat mouse andthey just go thunderdome on each other.
(08:54):
Two men in or one man leaves, that's what I want, and hopefully
catch it all in my ring doorbell. That would be the best way for
this to end. So I'm manifestingthat right now, putting that out into
the universe. Wish me luck.If I come across any other critters in
my yard, I may or maynot ship. Thanks.
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