Jon & Snakes

Ever see those TV shows where they interview a family that bought a new house unknowingly full of snakes in the walls, attic, crawl space? Like literally 100,000 snakes.
Jon may find out in a couple of days.
 
rschneider said:
Ever see those TV shows where they interview a family that bought a new house unknowingly full of snakes in the walls, attic, crawl space? Like literally 100,000 snakes.
Jon may find out in a couple of days.
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tksirius said:
That'd be like moving to Kansas. yuck
Wifey and I are thinking about getting property near Buena Vista before the big boom happens there, not that it hasn't already started I guess.
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I think the boom has started almost everywhere west of the front range. I travel for work across the state, frequently, and will be in B.V. tomorrow, actually. The lumber yards are selling 4-5 homes a year as second homes to Texans and others pretty often. Good for business for me. But hard for real estate.
We like the rural that northeast Colorado offers. More farm land, feels like home for us.
 
Denverhawk1 said:
I think the boom has started almost everywhere west of the front range. I travel for work across the state, frequently, and will be in B.V. tomorrow, actually. The lumber yards are selling 4-5 homes a year as second homes to Texans and others pretty often. Good for business for me. But hard for real estate.
We like the rural that northeast Colorado offers. More farm land, feels like home for us.
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Understood, just be careful if you're near that wildlife sanctuary. Snakes don't match up to lions and such...

We were thinking more of getting something to rent out as a vacation rental. As the I-70 mtn corridor gets more and more packed, I think the whole range/valley between Salida & BV will explode.
 
I found a 5ft bullsnake in my yard, about 1.5 miles from Kinnick. If one showed up IN my house, I'd seriously consider burning the whole place down.

The story was hard to listen to, Jon. How nightmarish.
 
True story. When younger fishing with my buddy behind his house on the Cedar River I wanted to get over to this spot down the bank but was a bit tricky to get to. I'd have to straddle about 1 foot wide of dirt/clay right at the water's edge with some trees/brush to the right, right next to the water.

Anyway, I was shuffling sideways down the bank avoiding getting me feet wet while holding my pole in one hand and fishing box in the other, belly right next to and brushing against the huge brush pile I was facing opposite the water. So, I'm down the bank doing this about 8 ft from where I started and staring at the brush pile in front of me. What do I see face-to-face about 2 ft from my head laying about 5 ft up in the brush pile, a 5-7 ft black snake staring me eye-to-eye. All I could do was yell snake and in about 2 jumps was back on the peninsula where I started, feet completely dry, will besides the urine that was running down my leg. So fast I was back before my buddy could register what just happened.

From reading after Jon's ordeal and others who have found these huge black snakes in trees, I gather it was also a black rat snake.

Luckily for me I think the thing just ate a meal and prob had no interest in me or striking at me. Right behind his head his neck was about the size of a volleyball. It was ingesting something. Never forget that.
 
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HawkeyeChick9 said:
I found a 5ft bullsnake in my yard, about 1.5 miles from Kinnick. If one showed up IN my house, I'd seriously consider burning the whole place down.

The story was hard to listen to, Jon. How nightmarish.
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When a kid I was biking up my driveway by the house and ran right over the middle of one which was prob 4-5 ft long. It then moseyed over to the foundation of our house.
 
a few years back my wife and I were looking at houses and we put an offer on one we really like, but we thought it was weird that the owner (single male, middle aged) had like 5 cats. Anyway we got outbid by another couple and during their inspection the lady freaked out because she saw a mouse in the house. Upon further inspection the house was plagued with mice...like everywhere. They pulled their offer and came back to us to see if our offer still stood and we passed.

Obviously we found out what all the cats were for.
 
Get the hell out of that state. Not only the snakes, but good luck to your kids trying to get into college anywhere outside Oklahoma or Arkansas after going through that school system.
 
MelroseHawkins said:
No crap. It's one thing if they just stay on the ground but if they are crawling up walls, that's a whole other thang! That means they can crawl up and join you in bed. F that!

Jon - Don't tell me it's a limestone house or foundation. My sister's family lived in a very old limestone home on an acreage prior to building their new home. She found snakes in her house on occasion. The snakes like to crawl up in the limestone and lay in there where it's cool and such. Also, the abundant mice in the house was no reason to leave either.
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No limestone foundation....post tension slab....colonial brick...it's not a shack, just had not been lived in for 9 mos, and yard not taken care of the way I would do it...but I am on the job down
 
eveningnewsteam said:
Get the hell out of that state. Not only the snakes, but good luck to your kids trying to get into college anywhere outside Oklahoma or Arkansas after going through that school system.
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we combo homeschool/online college prep the old one...younger one is going to start into public school this next year....I feel good about the smaller town school she will be going to (Collinsville, OK)...the younger one is highly intelligent, and we'll help to push her. I've never felt like it's just the school that is to educate the kids.

Frankly, as long as my kids keep loving to read, unafraid to talk and engage in logical debate (which they are both wicked at for their ages), they will never go hungry.
 
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