Apr
30
HGTV Dream Home 2011 Location Clue Eight
You think you’re so clever. You’ve convinced yourselves that you’ve cracked the clues and know exactly where we will build HGTV Dream Home 2011. Ready for your curve ball? Try today’s clue: a big, bad and venomous snake. Throws a monkey wrench in your big clover theory, no?
Have fun and don’t get frustrated. We’ll be announcing the location pretty soon.
Thanks for the clue before 2000, but now I am going to have nightmares!
it's has to be Vermont!!! cow, clovers, maple syrup, the snakes!!!
Army Family…you are too funny!
I hate snakes…. just the look of them, nothing personal!!
I think its somewhere around Clarkesville, VA maybe?
Okay- a sincere thank you for the clue…great fear of snakes here…which means that I really don't want to research snakes…it does look like the picture of Vermont's timber rattle snake…I'm off ot go do as much research as I can tolerate.
I'm not sure I wanna touch this one. SSS SSSS SSSS
There is a Rattlesnake Cafe in Bennington, Vermont.
I'm giving it a few initial glances and then I am out of here…not the clue I wanted!
This website says we can narrow it down to about 30 States, if it is a Timber Rattle snake. http://herpcenter.ipfw.edu/outreach/accounts/rept…
This website says we can narrow it down to about 30 States, if it is a Timber Rattle snake. http://herpcenter.ipfw.edu/outreach/accounts/rept…
No wonder Mary stopped dead in her tracks, she hadn't finished the story.
The timber rattlesnake is the only listed poisonous snake in Vermont.
It must be a direct cousin of Lake Champlains sea monster Champ.
I really really want to thank you for giving us another clue. Certainly looks like a snake has slithered into the mix. Now we can enjoy the Derby! Is that a diamond back rattlesnake? Diamond also connects to Cartier. Is it Las Vegas?
Okay- the picture actually looks like an Eastern Diamondback…okay- am I really researching snakes?!?
This website says we can narrow it down to about 30 States, if it is a Timber Rattle snake.http://herpcenter.ipfw.edu/outreach/accounts/rept…
The website also said the colors can be variable.
She may have thrown a wrench if that is an Eastern Diamondback:
Of all the rattlesnakes the eastern diamondback is the largest. This heavy-bodied snake can reach adult lengths of nearly 8 feet (244 cm) long! It is native to a large area of the southeastern United States. It is the only member of its species (no subspecies).
Sheesh, I've killed them in my own yard !!!
Cows and snakes what a mix. When I spent most of my growing up years in Tucson, I stepped over a few of those babies, but they were under rocks, and they were a much slimmer version. More on the gray side if I can remember, Eastern Diamonback is what I think it is. Good research Army.
I think eastern diamondback
I will leave it to C&E to find the exact photo-haha- I tried to compare photos and sorry- I can't.
This Dream Home doesn't seem quite as attractive any more
If it is an Eastern Diamondback, the locations are:
•Range – Southeastern U.S. from North Carolina to Florida; west into Mississippi and Louisiana
•Habitat – Pine forests, mixed woodlands, swamp forests
Found one in my yard here in Sumter, SC.
Oh my goodness, I owned a summer home for ten years where these guys were constant visitors—–but it didn't take long before the neighbors clued us in that the majority of these rattlesnake looking snakes were really harmless bull snakes. Did that make me feel any better—–NO. They also requested that we bring any unwanted bull snakes to their property—as they claim they keep rattlesnakes away–never proven. Bull snakes eat rodents and small snakes but I didn't really care to research any of their habits as I simply wanted them all to move on. Boots—lots of boots—I owned! Did I ever calm down on our peaceful, tranquil range land property——ohhhh kinda.
I think if that is a picture of a truly local snake, its not in SC. I am VERY familiar with rattlesnakes of the SC region, they are medium brown and black. That one seems a bit too dark, but I could be off since my memories of rattlesnakes are usually paired with memories of running and screaming for my dad. LOL
Oh Mary, you old snake in the grass, you did it to us again. I guess you couldn't take much more of our power blogging, you didn't ask for 2500 comments.
Doesn't the word timber kinda mean that it lives in a tree, so It could drop down on you at any moment.
don't know if they live in trees but snakes do get up in trees and can fall on a person. They also swim.
The timber rattlesnake normally has a red tongue…
The photos I've seen of the timber rattlers sho black tongues.
The photos I've seen of the timber rattlers sho black tongues.
What about the Arizona DiamondBacks baseball team (curve ball)??
True! Awake or in your dreams. True!
It certainly looks like an Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake. I am taking back my Vegas guess because that would be a Western Diamondback and they don't have the yellow part showing like the one in the picture. I think the lady that won the 2010 Dream House convinced HGTV to build in New Orleans or somewhere Katrina hit. Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnakes can live in Louisana. All my guesses about the Big Island were not based on having a snake in the mix. Mary said location disclosed soon. Define soon please.
same type and if so…where?
don't give her any ideas- that's how we got into the 2000 mess anyway!
From Wikipedia, "Crotalus is a genus of venomous pitvipers found only in the Americas from southern Canada to northern Argentina." Crotalus is the genus the vast majority of rattlesnakes falls under.
Once again, the letter "C".
Is "C" really the clue /shrug,, who knows, but it is consistently attached to all of the clues.
(also, that isn't an Eastern Diamondback, they have a distinct "diamond" on their markings. This is a picture of the Timber Rattlesnake)
Thank you Mary!
This is my first time commenting but I think I might be right (sure that's what everyone says) Is it Sweet Home Alabama???
This is a timber rattler. It can be found in TN (and other Appalachian states) and also WI.
My husband is a self educated herpetologist. I will ask him the specifics when he gets home.
Yes, there is a Rattlesnake Cafe here in Bennington,,,but I have lived here all my life and never seen that snake and I don't want to..
Okay- I like the baseball angle that Soccer27 took…I'm not convinced on Arizona though. They do have several minor league teams under them…
Reno Aces in Reno, Nevada
Mobile Bay Bears in Mobile, Alabama
Visalia Rawhide in Visalia, California
Yakima Bears in Yakima, Washington
Missoula Osprey in Missoula, Montana
DSL Diamondbacks in the Dominican Republic.
Anyone able to do anything with this?
The only spot mentioned before was Montana-?-
Our Army Family, I have studied the pics of these Timber Snakes and I think you hit it right. This is a Timber Snake.
lol…clever response!
just curious- I really don't care to scope snakes more than I have to…are you sure that it is a Timber Rattlesnake?
it is
Vermont timber rattle snake. Found in 7 states. not very common in New Hampshire. Vermont has a nature conservancy rattle snake removal program. So the snakes are removed to a safe habitat. The service is free. The snakes are on the endangered list
I think it is a timber rattlesnake. It doesn't have the diamonds on the back.
They are a threatened species. I hope whom ever wins the Dream Home doesn't kill any that may be on their property. We had one on our farm once. It left us alone
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i agree, i hope nobody kills them either…
Joining the tongue discussion…timber has red tongue- diamondback has black…just looked it up
I hope. I already looked a bit at Flickr.
Maybe the home will be a timber-frame construction.
West Virginia has the Timber Rattler as it's States reptile.
I think the only rattlesnake species in Montana is the prarie rattlesnake, and it is lighter colored
While i haven't followed the clues to Washington state, others have and there is a Rattlesnake Ridge in Washington state.
This clue is making me miss Western Washington…the only place in the United States where there are no poisonous snakes.
Maybe St. Patrick lived there & drove them out! giggle giggle
Side note, my daughter is finishing her masters degree from CWU. She loves Washington a lot and wants to stay there. Not Ellensburg but somewhere along the coast.
There is an area in the southwestern Vermont area that has more of those snakes.
Okay there are a lot of stinking snakes in Virginia.