This evening I discovered a snake on our front step when I
stepped out to take our dog for a walk.
I don’t do snakes. But
since I’ve been talking to my son about being brave, I decided I would be a
mature adult and handle the situation accordingly. I pulled myself together and promptly ran to the
bathroom to get Eric and have him kill it. I showed him where the snake was and then bravely ran
inside, closed the door, and hugged my dog while he whacked it with a
shovel. Then I bravely brought him
a plastic bag and bravely waited inside while he disposed of the dead snake.
Then being the brave person that I am I took my dog for a
walk anyway. As we were walking by
a mailbox surrounded by some small shrubs, one the shrubs started to
shake. Either there was a critter
or Miley Cyrus was twerking in there.
(Look, I didn’t write a Miley post like most bloggers so I had to get a
joke in some how.) Anyway, I
didn’t wait around to find out.
As I was thinking about how nature wasn’t all that great
tonight, a kamikaze lightning bug flew into my eyeball. I watched it's glow fly through the air and then it got closer...and closer...until it hit me in the left eye. I imagine that it was a bit like
following the light in a near death experience except instead of heaven some
little fucker hits you in the cornea.
Incidentally, I believe that ‘Heaven is a Lightning Bug to the Eyeball”
is the sequel to the bestseller “Heaven is for Real.”
So I’ve decided that I am done with summer. Bring on the fall. Bring on indoor activities because
Nature, I am done with you.
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I didn't stick around to take a picture, but it pretty much looked exactly like this. Source |
When I lived in the country I had a copperhead bite the sandals I was wearing. A bit too close for comfort! Almost stepped on another but my husband (boyfriend at the time) stopped me.
ReplyDeleteI'm okay with non-venomous snakes because they often keep the venomous ones away.