You are never going to believe what happened at my house the other day. I was looking in our pond at all of the little tadpoles that are swimming around (literally hundreds!) when I decided to look at my plant to see if those little guys were eating my leaves....sure enough they are....well I was looking at one particular branch and I thought to myself "my goodness, they are all over that one!" so I turned my head to get another angle and they were still all over it so I leaned a little to the right and "OH" there was a snake head! Totally startled me. I called the kids out to look at it and then I called Papa to see if he would come and get rid of it. Matt is extremely afraid of snakes so I knew that I wasn't going to be able to rely on him to do it. Papa came over and tried to get it but it swam to the bottom of the pound.
Now just to give you a little back ground Matt will go 10 miles out of his way to avoid a snake. He is extremely afraid of them. Me on the other hand, I am not afraid of snakes but I do not like them to startle me and I certainly am not going to touch one. I prefer for them to be in a cage but when I am in nature I am ok with them as long as they stay on there side and I on mine.
Now to continue on with my story. Kaylee and I had to go to GS so we left papa and Aaron to deal with the snake and off we went. I called Matt and told him to stop at Lowes and get some snake remover of some sort and that his dad was taking care of a snake in our pond. (I am sure he gasped at that statement) A few hours later Kaylee and I walked in the door of our house and I yelled "did you get the snake?" to which I got a reply of "no" I was a little nervous after that because I really don't like things out of place. Can you imagine all of the little tadpoles that snake was feasting on.....murdering all of those babies. I would just have to keep an eye out for it. The dogs wanted to go so I cautiously turned the outside light on and looked on the side walk....no snake in sight so i let the dogs go out. They wanted back in after a few minutes so I turned the light on again, looked all around and again there was no snake in sight so I let them in. For some reason Angel was bugging me to go back out so I looked and then opened the door. Out went Angel and in slithered a little brown snake! I screamed. I must have screamed the word snake while I was screaming because the next thing I knew Kaylee was on the coffee table, Aaron (the kid who supposedly likes snakes) left the room and went to my bedroom and Matt just stood by the front door. I wasn't quite sure what to do about this little thing that had slithered into my house but I knew it wasn't going to be able to be ignored. This was one thing I couldn't put a cup over to have Matt get rid of the next day. Something had to happen now. While I screamed Matt said "I have to get a shovel" he went to the garage to get one while I kept my eye on the prize. That little slithery creature. Matt came back in and somehow he managed to get it to slither back outside. He lifted the shovel above his head and started whacking that little guy. He didn't know what hit him. If he hadn't have slithered into my house then I would have felt sorry for him but he passed over that threshold so therefore he had to die. He will no longer be coming into my yard to frighten me or anyone else.
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