Once we moved into our new house, one of the things we had done was to have a large brick BBQ torn down. The landscape guy told us the bricks were valuable, as “aged bricks” are more popular. So I asked him to stack them up along side the house. I asked around, nobody I knew wanted them, and a couple attempts to sell them fell flat, so I put them on Craigslist as “FREE” and got numerous responses. The guy that ended up coming to get them first was half way through loading them into his truck when he came back and related that we likely had a rattle snake living in the pile. He’d found a shed snake skin amongst the bricks.
He seemed to be very knowledgeable and had been exposed to this situation before. It seems that brick piles provide a nice cool “condominium” environment. The remainder of the removal of the bricks was cautiously completed, and we fortunately did not encounter the former owner of the skin, although it remains possible that he’s somewhere in the vicinity. I’ll be making a serious effort this week to clear out the side yard and ensure there’s nothing that’ll be inviting for them in the future.
It’s ironic that we one of the drawbacks of living in the Folsom area was the predominance of rattler’s due to all the heat and construction. So what do we find when we finally move back and find our “dream house”. Rattlers. Go figure.
