Comments on Restonian: News blog from Reston, Virginia, the mauve-colored New Town (tm): Snakes Not on a Plane II: This Time It's Personal ...

What jackasses ! Really exterminate copperheads, t...

2009-10-02T17:39:46.481-04:00

What jackasses ! Really exterminate copperheads, truly we've reached a low...first copperheads generally don't bite unless REALLY provoked i.e. stepped on. They are relatively movers, but can strike reasonable quickly, second, few (if any) people had died from copperhead bites, painful yes, deadly generally not unless you have an allergic reaction...

Basic safety should more than protect, don't stick your hands under logs, dud, brown recluse spiders also live there and give a nasty bite, don't poke at a snake if you find it, leave it alone, watch where your walking...there you're good.

Perhaps the ones that have been bitten deserve it...nature's way of trying to prune the evolutionary tree... :)

Okay I spoke too soon... the snake/mouse duo at 2:...

2009-10-01T21:45:23.919-04:00

Okay I spoke too soon... the snake/mouse duo at 2:30 made me yelp and say "GAHH!!"

I'm terrified of snakes and I was actually abl...

2009-10-01T21:07:46.765-04:00

I'm terrified of snakes and I was actually able to watch this all the way through without shivering in disgust. What DID make me shiver, though, was the diagonal underdeck latticework at 0:46. Why isn't it DRB-approved color-of-the-week Russet-Brown??

But, don't you DARE do it yourself! It's ...

2009-10-01T20:30:52.961-04:00

But, don't you DARE do it yourself! It's funny though -- after Hurricane Isabel came through and 35% (made up number) or so houses in the South Side had trees on them, RA was very generous with permission to cut trees down. We got rid of a nasty Holly that way. To be fair, it HAD been damaged during the storm because an oak fell on it ... but if we had wanted to, we probably could have saved it. We didn't want to. So, this time, I'm posting anonymously!

"I can do crazy things [like] chop down one o...

2009-10-01T19:42:45.415-04:00

"I can do crazy things [like] chop down one of my trees without consulting anyone...."

So can the Reston Association, they just call it watershed management.

Thanks for an entertaining and informative blog. ...

2009-10-01T17:40:38.840-04:00

Thanks for an entertaining and informative blog. I live in South-South Reston (Oakton), but your blog makes me almost feel like a Restonian :) Oh wait, I can do crazy things chop down one of my trees without consulting anyone....