some of you may remember this post from a few weeks ago about our mouse hunt. well last sunday, robyn and i were headed out the door to church (on time mind you...that's a little victory in and of itself...) and what do we find to greet us on the sidewalk? a SNAKE. is this a joke??? now there are some things that i just can't handle, namely spiders, but snakes i'm usually ok with. seeing this though, led us into a discussion of our options for this little creeper. i'm not normally a "all snakes must die" kind of girl. i mean if its outside and not bothering us, whatevs, just let it be. right now i'm talking as though i've been around snakes my whole life and just pick them up bare handed...let's be honest, this is not the case. city girl, right here. so back to the discussion. leaving it there wasn't an option because everything like that just gets into our house. robyn and i didn't love the idea of sharing our home with this. then i thought, maybe i'll scoop it into a dustpan and carry it to the field at the end of the street. this idea was quickly vetoed as robyn reminded me that snakes crawl and i was in church clothes. a dustpan didn't provide much distance between the creeper and my hand... and church shoes didn't provide much speed to get that snake to the field in a hurry. this lead us to choose option 3. killing the snake. now we had to sike ourselves up for this one. as we began looking around the garage, we realized that our options of tools to take care of the mouse were limited. in the end, we choose a paintcan. i mean pickings really were slim looking at all we had to work with. so i walked up to mr. slithers and just dropped the can on him. at this point we were really late to church so we just left the paint can in the drive and went on our way. when we came back, we lifted the can and SUCCESS! the snake was dead. boo-yeah.
now google told us that this snake was probably just a brown snake, so really he would have been harmless. if you look closely at the picture though, you will see that his head was kind of diamond shaped. this made me think that he could have been poisonous. once upon a time, in my kanakuk days, my friend becca and i used to orient the counselors during staff training to nature class. now this in and of itself is really a joke. i mean the girl who couldn't be in the room with a live spider teaching nature? puh-leese. but it happened. any-who, digging into my vast snake knowlege all i could even remember was red and black, friend of jack. red and yellow, kill a fellow. good. so i can absolutely tell you that this snake is not a coral snake. so glad all that nature knowledge has stuck with me through the years.
so there you have it. i killed a snake. who even knew i had it in me.
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