Ok, now that my nerves are back in my body, I can share a story. A few days ago, I decided that since my trees are dormant, its a good time to up size a few suffering in their pot. All of these trees were in Super Root pots. For those of you who don't understand how these pots work, they are basically a thick sheet of plastic with riveted holes all around. When not in use they lay flat like a sheet of paper. When you want to use them, you simply just get a round base and wrap the plastic around it and secure the pot shut with either zip ties or this large plastic screw that comes with the pot. Me, I use zip ties. They are more secure. Well on about my 9th or 10th pot, I cut the top zip tie, unrolled the pot then cut the second one. When I did that this fast moving blackish creature came flying out landing in my wheel barrel. I dropped the pot and froze....looking around to see what it was! I did not see exactly where it went! Man I was scared! Startled more than anything!
Not sure what it was, I kept still and just kept looking around the wheel barrel (with my eyes) and then on to my garage floor. Just then, my wife came around the corner with the dog and I yelled to her, "get back in the house because some just run out of my pots and it might be a snake!" She took off back around the corner! After, checking my pants and calming down, I went over to my work bench and grabbed my 24" machete. I slowly and quietly walked over to the wheel barrel and moved the pot. The creature jumped out of the wheel barrel and on to the floor and took off running! I took one chop with the machete and cut it in half! The wife poked her head out of the door and yelled' "did you get it?" I said, "yes but it's not dead!" She slammed the door shut. I bent down to take a closer look at this thing to see what it was and guess what it was? A big LIZARD! Man I laughed so hard, again...checking my pants!
Man that dude scared the crap out of me!