SNAKE!

I love the slower pace of living in the country.  I love never hearing a car alarm and never feeling the need to set one.  It’s so peacefully quiet here, we seldom listen to music and never watch TV.  We like the sound of silence (accompanied by birds or crickets or frogs).  We also love no traffic jams, long lines at the store and knowing our delivery drivers’ names.  It’s really a laid-back existence….

UNTIL LAST EVENING…..

Dinner was simmering on the stove (Smothered Cabbage and Sausage) and I was sitting at my desk reading some Facebook posts when I heard ‘splat’.  It wasn’t loud but unfamiliar.  I thought about it for a minute then turned to see what may have made the noise.  I discovered a 3 foot long dark-colored snake in the doorway leading to the master bedroom/bath.  I grabbed the first thing near (the white plastic tote lid) and threw it.  Not effective!  The second thing I grabbed was my cellphone (so I could take a photo – pardon the quality!), all the time hollering for DH to come.  These days, he’s rarely inside but he happened to come in for a cup of coffee and to check when dinner would be ready.  He came quickly.

We instantly forgot about dinner.  DH handed me a new mop he had purchased earlier and he ran outside for a hoe.  As DH tried swishing the snake out the back door, it had other ideas and crawled toward the left behind my sewing boxes and up the wall behind books on shelves there.

DH is the kind of guy when he decides to do something, NOTHING stands in his way.  Using the hoe, he proceeded to pull all the books and knick-knacks off the shelves.  Stuff was flying in all directions!  Then he flung my quilt frame, rug frame, rug supplies, sewing supplies, computer supplies, etc., etc., etc.  After totally wrecking my room, he was able to drop the snake into a giant empty plastic tote and relocate him WAY out back.  When that was done, DH politely dished up his dinner and enjoyed a peaceful evening.  I was stuck cleaning up the total disaster he left behind.  Nope, I wasn’t completely happy and was exhausted by bedtime.

We have no idea how the snake found his way inside but this isn’t the first time it has happened.  This one is the biggest one yet and may have been inside for months!  We figured he was behind the books and decided to move across the top of the door frame toward the utility closet (or vice versa).  The splat I heard was him falling from the door frame onto the tile floor.  For his length, he was really skinny so might have been changing locations in hopes of better hunting.  I wish him well in the woods behind our property.

Shirl