With my pottery, I ran into problems when I used the local sand as temper. So I'm now grinding up old clay flower pots to make grog. That is very hard work and maybe good exercise for me, but I doubt that it is good for my little corn grinder. Anyway, today when I poored collected old sherds on my metate for pre-crushing, a little snake slithered away. My sherd collection had been sitting quietly since I last used some for plant-potting, so it may even have wintered in there, who knows. Slender (like a pencil, at about a foot long) and cryptically patterned with two larger dark aereas behind its head - the first Night Snake (Hypsiglena torquata) that I've found on our property. It slipped quickly away, so the photo is not my own. It's snake sp. number 13 for oour place! King, Longnose, Patchnose, 4 Rattlers, Thread, Racer, Sonor. Whip, Gopher. Only the 4 rattler spp are significantly venomous to humans.
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