Snake!

Remember my post about the ants? That I had taken to potted plants out of the kitchen because they were covered with ants? Below is one of the plants that I removed to outside. Can you see the hole in the dirt? I noticed this when I sat it down outside but didn't really pay much attention to it.

The plant sat outside for a couple of days till a storm front came in. At that time I got my pruners and started trimming up plants and bringing them in before the storm hit. There was possiblity of high winds. When I got around to pruning the leaves on the plant above I found the snakeskin below among the leaves.

Could my plant have had a snake in it in the house?! Now I've even had a pet snake before, but it just kind of creeped me out not knowing if there had been or possibly still was a snake in the bottom of my planter. So, the plant was placed in what I hoped to be a safe place on the porch to wait out the storm. What do you think? Could there have been a snake in my plant?

ANTS!!!

We've been having a problem for the last couple of months with ants. Not a whole lot of ants, just one here or there, fast, little things. I sprayed around the house and put out poisin stakes. Last time I had an ant problem, years ago, the ants made a trail and it usually had a string of ants going up and down it. I got some liquid ant poisin and put it on the trail and shortly afterward the ants were all gone. This time there was never a trail, I couldn't figure out where they were coming from.

Tonight I was watering the plants and I watered my clover and the ants came pouring out! I grabbed the pot and headed outside with it. The plant beside it was covered with ants also, so out it went too. I'm not sure where all the ants that escaped the plant have gone. By nighttime, there's no trace of them. Maybe, hopefully, they're taken care of. It will be nice to have them gone.

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