Did you all hear an unusual scream out of no where last Thursday oh around noon eastern time? Well if you did it was me, LOL.
My daughter went out to her car to leave and I followed her quickly out the door to catch the mailman with some packages. When I cam back in there in my entry was a small snake slithering around. It was IN my house! Now you all must know by now I am TERRIFIED of snakes! Yet there I stood with one INIDE my house and me alone with the girls for the rest of the day! Alone and as usual having to rescue the Pugs and myself...well MYSELF. Ha Ha Ha
I don't know where Persie was but Dora seemed to have kept it corralled in the entry since she was hopping back and forth preventing it from slithering more than a foot in either direction. When I came in she looked up at me and seemed to say look Mom a friend! It wants to play! I was NO DORA no play with the snake, thank you for keeping it in the entry but please baby back off and let Mommy take care of it. Dora backed up a few steps to the dining room door but wouldn't leave this fascinating new friend that had come visiting.
I myself hopped over the snake but was too terrified to take my eyes off of it to go get a broom since it might slither off somewhere in the house only to pounce on me later. Do snakes pounce? Leap? Umm strike! I think they strike anyway. All it takes for them to scare the living daylights out of me is to BE THERE no additional activity required LOL. So the only thing other than my hands and feet available in the entry to help me encourage it to go back out the door it came in was a weighted walking stick my husband uses for exercise walking. I grab it and try to encourage the snake to go OUT but the dumb thing kept getting almost out then curling around and coming back in. Dora was like look Mom it likes it here it wants to stay ...can I keep it? I not only had to keep my eye on the snake I had to keep my eye on Dora for fear she might dash out the front door since I had it wide open trying to give the snake the biggest opening I could to leave through.
After much squealing and shoving at it with the walking stick I finally got it to leave... WHEW! I closed the door told Dora she was a very brave girl for staying and helping Mommy then went and had a nervous breakdown on the sofa. Ha ha ha I spent the rest of the week too terrified to go out my own front door so went through the garage instead. When I do use the door I now tap the bottom of it with my foot BEFORE I open it in hopes that if anything is out there it will feel the vibrations and leave! The last one must have been sleeping up against the metal footplate warming itself in the sun and then simply slipped in under the door as it swung open.... how do you type a shudder? eeehwwwwww. I also spent the whole week jumping at any little unknown thing in the shadows around the house after all if 1 could get it maybe it brought friends and they went and hid before I came back! I seriously considered doing tail-ectomies on all of the girls little crocheted Mousie stuffies...Sorry Helen! since those long tails in the shadow look like snakes! Instead I picked them all up and told the girls the mousies had a mouse convention to go to for the week but not to worry they would be back in a week (or so).
That was my exciting week... how did yours go?
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