This whole time I thought those snakes were called gardiner snakes. Because these snakes are a gardiner's friend.
Garter snake is a worse name than gardiner snake. I think on this one I'd rather stay being wrong. For the rest of my life.
It'll just have to be another of those things where I am right and the whole rest of the world is wrong and there I am in my rightness stuck in Reverseland.
Yes, that works, the snake is a gardiner snake and there everyone goes again calling it garter snake as if that were normal. See how silly everyone is being?
Hey there why are you guys calling this garter snake?
"Because its bands look like lt's wearing a garter HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA"
"Because garters hold up stocking and that what the snake looks like HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA"
"Because when you get married you toss the garter into the crowd of attendees and when you catch a snake you toss it far as you can into the weeds HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA"
"Because you can snap a garter like a slingshot and you can do the same thing with these snakes HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA"
"Because a garter stretches to thinness and shrinks to crinkles and so do these snakes HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA"
"Because a garter wraps around your leg and so do these snakes HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA"
"Because they were named after a guy named Garter HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA"
Thank you Mr. Etymology Person and Mrs. Herpetology Person, now I understand. Did you hear about that young serpent who went to his father and said "Dad, am I a garden serpent or am I a viper?" And the dad thought a moment and and said, "I don't know, Son, go asp your mother."
Ugly as sin? Which involves another bend, toward or away, as well as coiling inward and striking out.
Didja know a garter snake can have as many as 80 babies born live at one time with the record being 98?
The mating process is a wonder as well: Female garter snakes produce a sex-specific pheromone that attracts male snakes in droves, sometimes leading to intense male to male competition and the formation of mating balls of up to 25 males per female. After copulation, a female leaves the den/mating area to find food and a place to give birth. Female garter snakes are able to store the male's sperm for years before fertilization.
Isn't nature fun? Mating balls along with the ability to store sperm for years! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA . Humans haven't quite caught up with the snakes yet, but seem to be evolving to compensate for some of those lost abilities and behaviors.
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What a pretty snake. So pretty.
What a beautiful snake!! I am now trying to convert the colors and scales into a knitting pattern.
California, apparently.
This whole time I thought those snakes were called gardiner snakes. Because these snakes are a gardiner's friend.
Garter snake is a worse name than gardiner snake. I think on this one I'd rather stay being wrong. For the rest of my life.
It'll just have to be another of those things where I am right and the whole rest of the world is wrong and there I am in my rightness stuck in Reverseland.
Yes, that works, the snake is a gardiner snake and there everyone goes again calling it garter snake as if that were normal. See how silly everyone is being?
Hey there why are you guys calling this garter snake?
"Because its bands look like lt's wearing a garter HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA"
"Because garters hold up stocking and that what the snake looks like HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA"
"Because when you get married you toss the garter into the crowd of attendees and when you catch a snake you toss it far as you can into the weeds HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA"
"Because you can snap a garter like a slingshot and you can do the same thing with these snakes HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA"
"Because a garter stretches to thinness and shrinks to crinkles and so do these snakes HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA"
"Because a garter wraps around your leg and so do these snakes HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA"
"Because they were named after a guy named Garter HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA"
Thank you Mr. Etymology Person and Mrs. Herpetology Person, now I understand. Did you hear about that young serpent who went to his father and said "Dad, am I a garden serpent or am I a viper?" And the dad thought a moment and and said, "I don't know, Son, go asp your mother."
What a pretty snake. So pretty.
Ugly as sin? Which involves another bend, toward or away, as well as coiling inward and striking out.
Didja know a garter snake can have as many as 80 babies born live at one time with the record being 98?
The mating process is a wonder as well: Female garter snakes produce a sex-specific pheromone that attracts male snakes in droves, sometimes leading to intense male to male competition and the formation of mating balls of up to 25 males per female. After copulation, a female leaves the den/mating area to find food and a place to give birth. Female garter snakes are able to store the male's sperm for years before fertilization.
Isn't nature fun? Mating balls along with the ability to store sperm for years! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA . Humans haven't quite caught up with the snakes yet, but seem to be evolving to compensate for some of those lost abilities and behaviors.
Garter stitch is the basic stitch in knitting. The first one that the beginning knitter learns. Basically knitting (not pearling) every row.
That's why the snake's skin and coloring reminded me of that base stitch
Garter Stitch
Although the snake reminds me even more of two color brioche stitches.
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