Tonight I wasn't going to blog. I was going to sit on the porch swing and contemplate. I was going to do that in the dark.
I started out the front door. Looking down I saw something moving under my feet between the storm door and the house door. I turned on the light. It was a little baby bird. Nathaniel helped it fly away while I continued my trek to the swing with the light now on. Nathaniel turned toward me and said in a terrifying voice, "MAMA! MAMA! That is why the bird was behind the door." He was pointing behind my head. There on the fern, where the birds nest, right above the swing, was a huge snake with several little bumps in his belly...those poor little birds.
We ran in the house to observe the deadly viper from the window. At first glance we decided he was at least 10 feet long and definitely poisonous. The boys each went for a weapon of choice and I went for my dh who was sleeping. The boys arrived at the door with shovels, rakes, knives and shotgun. The snake was probably named Quasimodo or Frankenstein (pronounced Frahnkensteen). My husband arrived in time to tell us the deadly viper wasn't deadly...just a rat snake. I voted to let him live...the snake that is, because I hate mice and rat snakes love mice...if you know what I mean. But then again the viper had several baby birds in his belly so he had to die. Plus it would have been impossible to keep the hunters from the hunted. They live for such moments and they had watched Braveheart a couple of days ago.
One boy grabbed the snake with the rake while the other boy was supposed to chop off his head with the shovel. Chopping boy said, "I don't like chopping off their heads. I want to shoot him." My dh said he could shoot him after he chopped off his head. Chopping boy still didn't like his job. So dh did the chopping. That man is soooo scriptural. He bruised that varmints head. Then the boys ran out and blasted the creature into hyperspace.
After that I carefully explained to Emily and Benjamin that they could sleep in peace. There would not be a big snake under their bed or on their ceiling or under their covers. They could walk to the bathroom in the middle of the night free from fear :) They refused to be comforted ??? Do you think it has a mate?
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