Hot Rods UNINVITED OVERNIGHT VISITOR IN THE SHOP

She has been dead since 2008 sadly. I have her ashes and a lock of her hair though.

 

A couple critters trapped and relocated, the copperhead didn’t qualify for the relocation program.

 

Same happened to me in the middle of the winter. It had been really crispy cold. I went out to the garage to get something. Pulled a few sheets of plywood away from the wall that had been leaning there. A great big possum that was huddling there looked up at me, hissing and showing his teeth. Startled me. I involuntarily let go of the plywood and it fell back against the wall. For both of our sakes, I decided to leave him be and come back and get what I wanted later.

 

I fed my cat in my detached garage and I gave him access to it 24/7. Well that access got shared with coons and possums! So I would just grab the critters and put them in my cat carrier and take them to work with me , stopping a few miles from my house letting them out! I had some real nice looking critters, eating all Scooter’s cat food! Lol.






Bones

 

Snakes!! I HATE fucking snakes!!!

 

PorknBeaner and I were standing in the opening of the garage door to my shop one day. Out of the tall grass came this big old black snake right between us. He stopped even with us and just stuck his tongue out to check his surroundings for eats. I told him he couldn't be in there. He just looked at me. It took several attempts with a garage broom to convince him to leave. He's been back many times to say hi and chat.
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We live on a farm out in the country, and have had our fair share of critters come visit. Looked out the kitchen window the other evening, and counted 10 whitetail deer in the backyard. Have had to trap raccoons and possums out of the barns. Had two runaway llamas turn up in the pasture one day. They decided to wander off a farm about 10 miles away, and ended up at my place. Don’t mind most of the visitors, but we have had coyotes on the front porch, and found bear poop closer to the house than I liked.

 

The deer are no problem here, but the coyote and Bobcat thingy's can be, and the damn skunk hangs out by the garage all the time.

 

Want a thrill? Try getting a badger out of a shop. Was mechanic at a blasting company only guy in the the shop most of the day. Take a left at the middle of no where Wyoming go 10 more miles and your at the shop. Warm sunny summer day so had the 2 over head doors open, out in the prairie I spot a badger ambling along so thought Id see if I could call him in. Whistled and made some clicking sounds with my tongue and here he comes. You cant believe how fast a badger can move when he thinks hes got something to eat close, or maybe a lady badger looking for some lovin. He comes right in the shop. Big doors are at one end of the shop walk in and small over head doors at the other end one is open too. I head out get in my car and wait to see what he does. Im in my car for about 30 min dont see him come out, boss pulls up wondering what the hell Im doing so I tell him about the badger, he starts laughing gets a 357 mag out of his glove compartment and we head in the shop, me following. We make all kinds of racket yelling and banging on the walls. The badger holed up in the parts room and wont come out, its hissin and snarlin wanting to kill us. Boss looks at me then the badger pulls up the 357 boom badger goes to sleep. He says thats how you get a badger out of your shop.

 

Copper jacketed sleeping pill...

 

I keep all my doors shut, ALL the time, unless I’m moving a car in or out.
Too many critters wandering around.
We have everything up here, from squirrels to deer, bobcats, turkeys, coons, possums, skunks, snakes, and even mountain lion and black bear.
I had to rewire a lot of my old, original shop because of squirrel damage, so they’re on my perpetual seek and destroy list. It was a fire waiting to happen.

 

"You cant believe how fast a badger can move" Yes-yes I can. A bunch of us went camping in early June a few years back, way up in the Sierras, in pursuit of "golden trout". I brought my dirt bike, a 250YZ, which was fairly rapid, and off I went. Saw a badger- and Dumbass, why not chase it around? It took off uphill, with Dumbass in pursuit, and it didn't take long before it had enough of that schidt, turned around, up on its hind paws and launched back at me. Luckily Dumbass got turned around on the hill without dumping it and was able to outrun it, but not by much.
My friends recently bought a couple income cabins in Tahoe Vista, which has become infested with bears- lots of them. Neighbors told them, you need to get your "bear wires"- which go across every door, decks, stairs etc., with electric fence chargers, or the bears will regularly break in. Trick is, when you get there, look around for bears, if clear hit the garage door opener and drive in. One has to be really careful walking around, those critters feel quite at home in your yard or on your deck

 

These four were uninvited, but it's been fun getting them ready for adoption.

 

Four legs or no legs I can deal with, part of nature. it's them two legged varmints that piss me off.

 

That's what I was thinking. The first and last time I worked with the overhead door open some dingle walked in and started pointing out what he saw wrong with my car.

 

Had a neighbor in North Charleston who did that. Didn't matter WHAT kind of car it was (I have had all kinds of vehicles around) he had to tell me about it. I'd rather wrestle a boar raccoon over a bag of marshmallows than listen to that again.

 

A few years back a neighbor called around two in the morning. I had three horses in my front yard. There were a few cop cars trying to round them up. I went out with a handful of carrots to tempt them. No luck. the owners finally arrived & we found out that the horses understood Spanish.

 

I live in a woods so I have animal intrusions all the time. But there are two that standout.
I came home one afternoon to find one of the overhead door windows in the shop was broken. I barely got the man door open and something big swooped at me. I quickly backed out and shut the door. What the hell was that? I peeked in the window and couldn't see anything. So, I opened the door again slowly and looked around. There sitting on top of my cabinets is a huge red tailed hawk. The buddy with me wanted to shoot it. I wasn't having any of that. I opened the OH doors. That hawk would fly at the door but he would go above the now horizontal OH door and run into the wall. He would recover and fly back to his perch on my cabinets. He did that 4 or 5 times. Finally he made it through the door but he was wobbly as hell.
The second was a raccoon that was making a nuisance of himself. I caught him in a live trap and took him 5 miles down the road. He had a big scar on his back. I swear that 'coon beat me back to the house. I saw him again a day or two later at the house. Big scar and all.

 

working late at night there's a owl that will sometimes sit on the light pole and screech a while. Black snakes , king snakes are welcome but make me jump if I'm surprised by them . Anything that will eat mice is welcome.

 

He liked cruising with you.... just wanted to go for another ride... "That was cool, but this time, burn rubber!"