Featured Finds Thread

Hi SBSVC,
Sorry to hear of your "snake shaking". I have had plenty of those but not afraid of them. Once when i was little, I found a small very fat garter snake. Put him in my
pocket and forgot him. I went home and changed my clothes which were wet. My Gram picked up my clothes to wash them. She emptied my pockets and fainted dead away, I heard her scream first. I went in to the wash room and she was lying on the floor surrounded by 8 to 10 tiny snakes and a skinny momma snake.Seems that he was not a him but a her. When she recovered I had to strip naked outside before I came into the house and empty my pockets. This went on for several weeks.
greg

 

Omy....
WAIT!!! 2"???

 

Oh, Greg... I'm with your Gram on this one!

When my son (now 25) was little, he wanted a SNAKE in the worst way... There was not a chance in you-know-where that I would allow a snake in my house!

I got him a KITTEN instead. The little buff-colored dude was named Wuggie Norple. It was love at first sight, thank goodness. After that, there was never talk of a snake again!

Today, DS is a very "hipster" cat-lover. The "hipster" part I could do without, but the "cat lover" part is enduring - AND endearing!

 

Geckos are great! Good to keep around the house in Hawaii.
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Not to mention the insurance discount...

 

I'm sorry to burst the bubble for all of you but just to clarify, no tables were actually broken. It was only a discussion..

 

Oh, King, if you could have seen it!

DH was off at work. I was in his most delightful Quonset hut (holy you know-what! Who designed those things???)

I went to take a shower, had just lathered up my hair... I turned around, opened my eyes... and found myself face-to-face with a gecko! (reptiles, right???) They do indeed have eyes at the back of their heads!

I admit it. I screamed. And, really, I am so not a screamer...)

I actually got out of the shower, dripping shampoo, and went to get my camera. I took a picture of that dam*%^ gecko on the tile.(Somewhere in my hoard of old photos, there's a shot of a lone gecko on a yellow-tan wall...)

Yes, indeed, geckos are "good" (and I've always been a sucker for the Geico Gecko) but taking a shower with one is decidedly WEIRD!

 

Wasn't sure just what you wanted me to see at first...
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I used to watch them by the porch light.
There would be a moth.....then there wasn't.
They are like lightning.

 

I once took a shower with a soup tureen and that's probably not even the weirdest thing that's been to my shower. There's always a good reason though.

 

I must be weird. I like snakes, at least the non-poisonous ones. Lizards too - I'd probably have had a conversation with that gecko. The one time a critter made me squeak was here in front of a computer. It was late at night, and I was getting ready to quit and head for bed. Felt something funny, looked down, and was face to face with a mouse sitting in my lap. I squeaked. Mouse squeaked and jumped six feet across the room. He met his doom in the trap I set for him about 18 hours later.(LOL)

 

how does one trap a......wait for it........ lap top mouse !!!

 

Oh no....

 

The neighbor guy was telling me about an incident one night. He was sitting on the front steps after dark and saw something moving across his sidewalk. He got a flashlight and saw a five foot, three color snake. Said it looked like a dreamsickle(sp). He grabbed a broom and whacked it. Scooped it up by the handle and deposited it in the street. Figured it was a milk snake. I had never heard of them. googled a pic. Never seen one.

Two weeks later there's a news story of the local police responding to an unusual snake. I showed Bruce the story. He says "that's my snake". It was 25 blocks south of here in two weeks.

He figured it hitched a ride in his vehicle from Sturgis.

 

Meet my new friend: a cute, shabby-looking, stuffed small bird. He was so cute I couldn't resist buying him. What's the species?
Name suggestions?

 

Species.....dead bird
name.......Wally

 

It might be an European Robin -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_robin

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=european+robin

 

Yup. Poor wee thing. I love them: tame as anything.

 

That milk snake is pretty. The bird looks like my cat got at it, poor thing.

 

Salt and pepper shakers by Royal Selangor for 6,5$, retail prices for their salt & pepper shakers are around 130-160$ per pair. These ones I couldn't find new anywhere online but used ones seem to have 40-100$ asking prices.

 

I hope I haven't actually seen these.....