This is a 5-1/2 foot snake skin! How sick is that? My husband found this skin on Thursday less than 4 feet from our front door! We know it’s not from a Rattlesnake or a King snake, we’re thinking it came from a 6 foot long gopher snake. ::shudder:: Seeing this skin makes me wonder if it had friends or family members living nearby. I guess we must have a lot of field mice and gophers to grow this snake that big. Now when I’m walking around outside, I keep my eyes on the ground. Can you imagine not paying attention and stepping on this sucker?

The kid holding the snake skin (I blurred out the face for obvious reasons) is my (very tall) 10 year old red headed daughter. I don’t think that I’ve mentioned that I had a red head before. I didn’t even have to talk her into hold the skin she was game!

Last Friday morning, I was going out to the barn to feed our steer, of course after finding the snake skin, I had my eyes on the ground. Well I found my horse tangled up in a barbed wire fence that we used as a gate and like dummies had laying on the ground - it’d been there about 3 years. She was so tangled up she was laying in the barbed wire mess. I called husband on my cell phone, he was in the house and by the time he got out to the barn the horse was freed up. We tried calling her over to us and she wouldn’t come, we eventually lured her over with some feed. My husband put her halter on her and we could see that she was cut above her hoof and was bleeding. Thankfully it wasn’t too bad. I was scared of getting hit with a huge vet bill. My husband went and bought some horse medicine to treat the wound and another to keep flies out of it. She let us treat her and was an excellent patient. She’s on the mend and we’ve learned our lesson. We rolled up the barbed wire fence and it’s no longer out there so she should be safe. I’m just luck my llama didn’t get tangled up, we’d be covered in llama spit trying to treat him.