Under the floorboards in that dark area where the spiders and unknown hide!

Yesterday, I noticed standing water on the ground at the water faucet next to the house. I could see it was turned off so, I figured there was a problem below ground and began digging up the pipe. I followed the water line under the porch and still didn't find the leak. It seemed to be coming from under the house. After crawling under I discovered the ground was saturated and I could hear that dreadful sound of water spraying. There below where my kitchen I found the problem and knew my work was cut out for me. Immediately I retreated out from the dark crawl space and after a quick shower to rid myself of the mud, I turned the water off to the house. Today the only place open to buy the necessary supplies for repairs is an hour's drive away. I'm not looking forward to laying on my back in mud and water later, but it has to be done. You are welcome to come help.

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PoetryNEmotion · F

I never go under my home. The crawl space is nasty. Wet. And I know mice live there. And I shudder at the thought of spiders in the dark. I can pay someone if I need to. Get it done, Cole. Then no more worries about it.

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@PoetryNEmotion if spiders oops mice live there so can snakes, they follow their scent trails. That little boy that went to the bathroom in Texas and had a rattlesnake stick its head up in the toilet…he tried flushing it down twice and didn’t work. He went and told his mother, she saw it and closed the bathroom door and called the sheriff I think. Anyway they got a guy who was snake wrangler come and get it. He told her he would look around the property for more rattlesnakes. Found a bunch under the crawl space and captured them (Yikes!) and more in the cellar. They lived out in a rural area. I’d be paranoid living there. It was bad enough having copperheads when I was a teenager living in a rural area.

Coletracer · M

@cherokeepatti I saw a speckled king come out from under a couple of days ago so it should be good as far as the bad snakes go. Most of the bad ones hang out at the ponds out in the pasture. Haven't seen any rattlers, usually see a good share of moccasins, water snakes, garters, rat snakes and an occasional copperhead.

Coletracer · M

@PoetryNEmotion I don't care for the crawling but it's a need to.

PoetryNEmotion · F

@cherokeepatti Never had snakes in Texas in my yard or home. Saw baby rattlers in the park on the trails. Never saw scorpions either. Really large hornets and butterflies and insects. Everything is bigger in Texas! I was warned to play a radio loudly in thr flower beds to keep scorpions away.

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@PoetryNEmotion I live in central Oklahoma and have seen and smelled snakes here in the edge of the city. A baby rattlesnake one time next to the house when I lifted a piece of plastic up. . Copperheads and Pygmy rattlesnakes are thick east of the city and Pygmy rattlesnakes hang around bodies of water cause they eat frogs. They can stray into cities too. A lady walked out her house in another city and stepped on a Pygmy rattlesnake and a man in another town got bit by a copperhead in his front yard. I carry a bright flashlight when I I have to outside at night. My sister got bit by a copperhead when we lived out in the country. They were thick out there. Thank God hawks have increased in population since they banned DDT. I see a lot of them now and didn’t seen very many growing up

PoetryNEmotion · F

@cherokeepatti I hear you. I would imagine many people just outright kill any snakes, venomous or not. I watched a W5 documentary a few days ago that reported feral pigs are most numerous in Florida. In Texas they have been a problem for decades. And pythons and other snakes are turned loose by people who grow tired of them as pets and they are adapting to the wild and breeding with natural species creating mixtures of snakes that grow far larger than ever known. I haven't seen many snakes locally when hiking. I think they stay far from people. As a child and a teen, snakes were more common. Of course, we lived near large forests and on a farm near forests and in the bend of the river too.