The Snake

Last Sunday, I received these before and after pictures from David depicting the demise of this poor snake who either ventured or lived in our wooded area. It hissed and rattled its tail at him as he walked towards the barn to check on our feathered kids. he did attempt to find out if it was indeed a poisonous snake, but when that failed, as you can see the pick axe found its way dead center into it's head, and buried it almost half a foot into the ground. I sent the pictures to my friend Kent, who has now decided he will NEVER visit, between ticks and snakes, the city seems to be a safer place according to him. When our neighbors John and Kelly got David's message, David grabbed the snake and walked towards them, which resulted in Kelly screaming and running to their house, and continuing to scream from her balcony! John told us that it was a garden snake, and although it can bite it's not poisonous. The next day we watched Elizabeth our big chicken, dig up its head and eat it......those eggs are going to be yummy. Maybe she thought...mmmm taste like chicken ?!?!?! Toby our wiener dog, decided to eat the snake, slurping it up like a spaghetti noodle. However about a half hour later he regretted that decision, as he started foaming at the mouth, frantically rubbing his gums with his paw and then throwing up huge amounts of snake nuggets. He then ate a bunch of grass, and threw that up too.

Yesterday, we saw another one crawling around, we tried flipping it around with 2 sticks (according to Kent the proper way in handling a snake) to see if it's belly was white identifying it as a garden snake, but it was too quick for us and slithered it's way into the barn......great! Now we can't go in there.......

On a different note, we are getting a new fire truck and held a "name the new truck" competition at the local school.........the winning name is "squirt"