Sheila Nyomo

We used to have more snakes around here until a lot of people developed the land around us. I think one of our neighbors burned a snake den durring the winter. We get the occasional snake around now and then, mostly garter but sometimes we get a rattler. Our cats usually catch the snakes and leave them on our porch. We also keep the grass short around our house and pathway, we also take out any knapweed along the road because they hide beneath it.

When we got our dog they said she didn't bark often, didn't jump, and wouldn't chase animals. Well when we brought here home she howled, jumped and chases our cats and our neighbor's livestock. She is doing better now though...except she follows us down to the highway.

I must say thank you everyone for your replies. I think I might not make it under the house but I might make one and then put a greenhouse over it, or over the entrance anyway, so I can get to it in winter witout worrying about the snow or ice over the door.

My grandfather and I go out along our road and dig it out and/or cut the roots. We have it pretty much under controle.

I think I will talk to my nieghbors about how they did theirs. I wouldn't be going very far under the house, just enough to have a rootceller.

Has anyone here tried to add a small basement or rootceller under their home? If so how did you do it, what was easy about it and what was hard?