8-20-11 Weekend. Garden dried up but never a dull moment with the local wildlife!!

   

  Been pretty quiet in the garden this summer as almost everything has dried up. The summers are harsh here. We were soaking everything down deep twice a day and the plants but in spite of our efforts they were barely hanging on even under the shade screen. 

After a couple $40. water bills and no produce we finally had to let most of it die off.

 About mid July we finally decided to cut off watering the plants that were barely hanging on let alone producing anything. So we let everything dry up except the 

tomato,pepper, carrot and cucumber plants,  and the herbs.

  A about mid September  there isn't much of a garden

to say anything about so as you might have noticed I have just been posting about the 

critters we find in the yard... (Or critters the pets find!).

   Well THIS has been an eventful week! Have some excitement to share. Scarey excitement!

  It all started last week when I let the dogs inside at 1am last Thursday morning

and noticed that Dozer's muzzle was twice the size it should be. 

 I thought he might have been bitten by a snake so I woke Robert. I didn't have any benadryl so I also woke a friend who had some. I felt bad calling in the middle of the night but I knew whatever got him  that benadryl would help.. 

  

He didn't act as though he was in 

pain but was uncomfortable...

   Thought it might have been from a snake but was told it could have been

a scorpion or wasp as well.  

Didn't know for sure until this morning when I was working on the new enclosure for my Ball Python.

   I have been working on it all weekend... 

       I was standing behind the cabinet unplugging one of the power tools from the extension cord and out of the corner of my eye I noticed a familiar pattern between the wall studs of the back patio...

Just 2 saw horses from where I was standing , right next to the house! ...

My first thought was that Robert had took one of our

dead rattle snakes out of the freezer and set it there to scare me.

(We do that kind of stuff to each other)

Nope, this one still had it's head attached !!...

 I called for my husband until he came out of the house.
He thought I had injured myself with one of the power tools!
 But could have been worse than that! ....

                                                           It was a Mojave Green!...

 

That is a 9x12 baking dish to the right ...

 PS Dozer is fine now. Was uncomfortable for a couple days. Gave him benadryl 3 times a day and the swelling was completely gone by the end of the second day.

We let Dozer out to  look at it after it was "made safe" and he didn't want to go near it. -

 Confirmed that was what bit him.   Ok where's the Tums!

Second thought,

 Never mind the tums,

 I'll have a Rum and Coke, light on the ice.  Lol.