Surprise in the garden

Many of the plants in the garden have given us their best efforts which we have gladly harvested. Because all good things must come to an end, we have been busy pulling up the old to plant one last round of things that will grow and produce before the first frost.  While cleaning out one of the raised beds this evening Lisa got the surprise of her life; a nest of snakes. She was digging around with her HANDS, when she saw what she thought was a large worm coming up from the dirt. On second thought, that was no worm.

She ran to get me and we quickly deduced that yep, that's a snake. And as Lisa is fond of saying, "where there's one, there's likely to be more" She was right.

Five in fact. a whole nest full of newly hatched wiggly snakes complete with leathery egg shells. Needless to say, they were quickly chopped up with the shovel and tossed in the woods. Even in death, the little buggers were feisty, attempting to bite anything that came close.  Thanks to our friend Google, we discovered that the snakes were most likely grey rat snakes.  Harmless, but snakes none the less. Needles to say, Lisa was pretty wigged out and concluded that we were done in the garden for the day.