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    Quote Originally Posted by donttread View Post
    4 AM? Maybe it was there as a sign that you should go back to bed!
    LOL

    I get up early and while the Keurig is making my first cup of coffee I take the the dogs out to potty. There's a light on the ceiling over the patio, but I keep it dimmed so it didn't throw a whole lot of light on the snake. Still, I could see the shape and I had my phone in the pocket of my bathrobe so I snapped a pic.

    The next night, my husband got a good look at the snake that came into the courtyard and he said it had round eye pupils, while a cottonmouth would have vertical slit pupils, like a pit viper. Then last night he tells me a sign to watch for is a snake that floats on the surface of the water--rather than just having a head poking up--and I said, wait--I have one of those photos, too. And I did.

    So, now I'm going to keep the dogs away from the pond until we figure out what's going on.
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    Quote Originally Posted by FindersKeepers View Post
    LOL

    I get up early and while the Keurig is making my first cup of coffee I take the the dogs out to potty. There's a light on the ceiling over the patio, but I keep it dimmed so it didn't throw a whole lot of light on the snake. Still, I could see the shape and I had my phone in the pocket of my bathrobe so I snapped a pic.

    The next night, my husband got a good look at the snake that came into the courtyard and he said it had round eye pupils, while a cottonmouth would have vertical slit pupils, like a pit viper. Then last night he tells me a sign to watch for is a snake that floats on the surface of the water--rather than just having a head poking up--and I said, wait--I have one of those photos, too. And I did.

    So, now I'm going to keep the dogs away from the pond until we figure out what's going on.
    Just kill it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by FindersKeepers View Post
    LOL

    I get up early and while the Keurig is making my first cup of coffee I take the the dogs out to potty. There's a light on the ceiling over the patio, but I keep it dimmed so it didn't throw a whole lot of light on the snake. Still, I could see the shape and I had my phone in the pocket of my bathrobe so I snapped a pic.

    The next night, my husband got a good look at the snake that came into the courtyard and he said it had round eye pupils, while a cottonmouth would have vertical slit pupils, like a pit viper. Then last night he tells me a sign to watch for is a snake that floats on the surface of the water--rather than just having a head poking up--and I said, wait--I have one of those photos, too. And I did.

    So, now I'm going to keep the dogs away from the pond until we figure out what's going on.
    You could always shoot it if you get the chance?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dr. Who View Post
    Most spiders, snakes and rodents are harmless. Rats in the wild are harmless. We are taught our fear of these creatures as children, watching how adults react to them.
    Nurture...

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    Quote Originally Posted by jigglepete View Post
    Nurture...
    Or racial memory

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    Slug go works. This stuff has basically eliminated them
    Now for powdery mildew tomato rust, too much shade and drained out soil solutions! LOL
    Worst year ever, all downhill since 2019 after a ridiculously good year.
    May take 2023 basically off and work on the tree and building new soil

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    Quote Originally Posted by donttread View Post
    Slug go works. This stuff has basically eliminated them
    Now for powdery mildew tomato rust, too much shade and drained out soil solutions! LOL
    Worst year ever, all downhill since 2019 after a ridiculously good year.
    May take 2023 basically off and work on the tree and building new soil
    @donttread

    May I make a recommendation? No? Tough cookies (LOL)

    https://doctorzymes.com/pesticide-free-insecticide.php

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    Quote Originally Posted by jigglepete View Post
    @donttread

    May I make a recommendation? No? Tough cookies (LOL)

    https://doctorzymes.com/pesticide-free-insecticide.php
    Hey Jiggle.

    Anything that won't list the ingredients (even when 'proprietary') won't be used in my garden that has food crops. I'm even a bit iffy for flowers, since pollinators do their thang with the flowers.
    "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." -- James Madison

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    Quote Originally Posted by jigglepete View Post
    @donttread

    May I make a recommendation? No? Tough cookies (LOL)

    https://doctorzymes.com/pesticide-free-insecticide.php
    I might try it next year, or the next time I have a garden ( I might take a year off). But the damage is done this year.

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