MerlinsPop
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The wife's extended family rents a cabin near North River Mills, West Virginia (go ahead and look it up - I'll wait...). I got there a bit early and started to dig out the fire pit (clearly hadn't been dug out since I did it last year) and I saw a little wiggler, a northern wormsnake. I was amazed at how tiny its wee little head was.
http://www.marshall.edu/herp/Snakes/Wormsnake.htm (that's not the actual one of course, because the one-handed cell phone camera pics all came out terribly. But mine looked exactly like this one and was about 7 inches long.)
I scooped the little thing up and brought it in to show grandma, who strangly wasn't nearly as excited as I was. Then it musked on the stove and grandma lost any enthusiasm she might have been faking to be nice to her favorite son in law.
I took it out and let it go next to a tree nearby. I'm just glad I got it, because that night's fire would have killed it. Twas the highlight of the weekend.
http://www.marshall.edu/herp/Snakes/Wormsnake.htm (that's not the actual one of course, because the one-handed cell phone camera pics all came out terribly. But mine looked exactly like this one and was about 7 inches long.)
I scooped the little thing up and brought it in to show grandma, who strangly wasn't nearly as excited as I was. Then it musked on the stove and grandma lost any enthusiasm she might have been faking to be nice to her favorite son in law.
I took it out and let it go next to a tree nearby. I'm just glad I got it, because that night's fire would have killed it. Twas the highlight of the weekend.
