Undesirable!

Last night I had to drive down to the neighbours for a load of manure and encountered a rattlesnake that was sunning himself on the side of the road.


He was huge! I estimate he was about 8 feet long and probably had a 3 inch diameter.

When I drove back he was already gone but while I was shovelling off the manure in the backyard the horses at the back fence got spooked. I walked back and watched what was going on and figured the snake must of been heading back to the valley for the night when the horses came across him. I watched the horses as they slowly followed his progress, munching grass as they went, he was maybe only 20 feet from our back fence!

If you check my earlier posts you'll see pictures from last summer when Harv & I and the kids encountered one in the valley; Harv almost stepped on that one!