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<\/a><\/p>\nDinner was simmering on the stove (Smothered Cabbage and Sausage) and I was sitting at my desk reading some Facebook posts when I heard ‘splat’.\u00a0 It wasn’t loud but unfamiliar.\u00a0 I thought about it for a minute then turned to see what may have made the noise.\u00a0 I discovered a 3 foot long dark-colored snake in the doorway leading to the master bedroom\/bath.\u00a0 I grabbed the first thing near (the white plastic tote lid) and threw it.\u00a0 Not effective!\u00a0 The second thing I grabbed was my cellphone (so I could take a photo – pardon the quality!), all the time hollering for DH to come.\u00a0 These days, he’s rarely inside but he happened to come in for a cup of coffee and to check when dinner would be ready.\u00a0 He came quickly.<\/p>\n
We instantly forgot about dinner.\u00a0 DH handed me a new mop he had purchased earlier and he ran outside for a hoe.\u00a0 As DH tried swishing the snake out the back door, it had other ideas and crawled toward the left behind my sewing boxes and up the wall behind books on shelves there.<\/p>\n
DH is the kind of guy when he decides to do something, NOTHING<\/span> stands in his way.\u00a0 Using the hoe, he proceeded to pull all the books and knick-knacks off the shelves.\u00a0 Stuff was flying in all directions!\u00a0 Then he flung my quilt frame, rug frame, rug supplies, sewing supplies, computer supplies, etc., etc., etc.\u00a0 After totally wrecking my room, he was able to drop the snake into a giant empty plastic tote and relocate him WAY out back.\u00a0 When that was done, DH politely dished up his dinner and enjoyed a peaceful evening.\u00a0 I was stuck cleaning up the total disaster he left behind.\u00a0 Nope, I wasn’t completely happy and was exhausted by bedtime.<\/p>\n We have no idea how the snake found his way inside but this isn’t the first time it has happened.\u00a0 This one is the biggest one yet and may have been inside for months!\u00a0 We figured he was behind the books and decided to move across the top of the door frame toward the utility closet (or vice versa).\u00a0 The splat I heard was him falling from the door frame onto the tile floor.\u00a0 For his length, he was really skinny so might have been changing locations in hopes of better hunting.\u00a0 I wish him well in the woods behind our property.<\/p>\n Shirl<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I love the slower pace of living in the country.\u00a0 I love never hearing a car alarm and never feeling the need to set one.\u00a0 It’s so peacefully quiet here, we seldom listen to music and never watch TV.\u00a0 We like the sound of silence (accompanied by birds or crickets or frogs).\u00a0 We also love (continue reading…) <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3107"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3107"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3119,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3107\/revisions\/3119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}