{"id":8681,"date":"2020-04-11T06:19:31","date_gmt":"2020-04-11T10:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=8681"},"modified":"2020-04-28T09:03:20","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T13:03:20","slug":"irrigation-shock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/11\/irrigation-shock\/","title":{"rendered":"Irrigation shock"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Snake in the irrigation control box<\/p><\/div>\n

Our RV site is irrigated, meaning that our lovely bushes and shrubs are supposed to get a daily dose of water.\u00a0 But I have seen the system work exactly once in the two years we have been in residence – I heard the sprinklers activate once at about 2am.\u00a0 Somewhere way down on my To Do list is “call the irrigation company.”\u00a0 But it never rises very high because the flora does fine without any assistance.\u00a0 Everything is always green and lush.<\/p>\n

Until this month.\u00a0 March was pretty much rain-free in Fort Myers.\u00a0 The grass is turning brown and I have been hand-watering our two new bushes.\u00a0 But before I called the irrigation company I thought I should take a look in the control box – buried behind our huge palm shrubs.<\/p>\n

Surprise! A snake was curled up in there.\u00a0 It didn’t move when I lifted the lid and for a second I thought it was dead.\u00a0 My second thought was “it might be poisonous” so I carefully replaced the lid.\u00a0 It started to move as I did so.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t huge – maybe 18″ and the thickness of my pinkie.\u00a0 But small venomous snakes can be deadly.\u00a0 So I wanted to identify it.\u00a0 After 10 minutes on the laptop I got the answer: eastern corn snake.\u00a0 Non-venomous.<\/p>\n

But I think I will let the irrigation company take it from here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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