July 17, 2007
The Snake
This thing was awful! Nick usually takes the snakes that wander into Mom's yard, or in the road by the tail and puts them over the fence back towards the river. He rarely kills one, but once in a while a scary one comes and tries to show us who's boss. They don't live long if they have that attitude and this one was chock full of i'monna-bite-ya
At first we thought it was just a black snake - it was right beside Mom's house, close to where Maegan had been playing... if Maegan had gone about 8 more feet that way, it would have bitten her - Nick called out for me to bring my camera, he was gonna pick it up and take it to the fence.. but just as I got over there, he bent down to pick it up, and it got mad.
When we saw it start to strike, I told Nick to get away, it wasn't acting like a black snake and it had brown markings on it.. I'm not sure what it was.. a copperhead is well.. copper colored.. but sometimes you hear that Copperheads are mating with Blacksnakes, so maybe that's what it was.. ever what it was though, it wasn't taking no human bullcrap. When Nick moved away from it, I told him to get a hoe, we needed to kill it so it didn't come back around and bite one of the kids. I think it has been living under Mom's shed.. so Nick went to find his gun instead. Meanwhile, the snake crawled spang UP the tree! I never saw a snake do that before.. it had no problem at all scaling that tree!
Look, it's hard to spot up there on that limb. I wonder how many snakes have watched down while we walk right under them. UGH!!
Anyone know what kind of snake this is? Lisa said it looks like a Cottonmouth to her, but I don't know. A snake is a snake is a snake to me, and I can't like any of 'em! They killed it, and I was glad. I just cringe all over thinking how close the kids were to that thing! It was roughly 4 feet long! UGHHHH!!
Posted by juel at July 17, 2007 11:34 PM