Oh crap, not again! This thing had ruined my peaceful time alone not even a week ago. Something had to be done to rid the world of this evil creature and I had just the thing. I started backing up slowly as I was not sure whether it had seen me or not, I had to keep looking over my shoulder so as not to back into any trees or trip on any limbs that were on the ground. It was moving steady, I didn't think I had been spotted at that point so I decided to turn and run.
My house was just down a dirt lane and I was running fast and hard by the time I got to it! I burst in the front door yelling "Boy's get your guns!" The excitement was palatable as I was prone to not letting them have them out at all, ever. "Load 'em and go to the lake across the lane! There
is an eight-foot snake coming across straight at us! If it's a cottonmouth you shoot it but you have to be sure that's what it is! I don't want you to shoot if it's that indigo because they are protected big time!" I had visions of some uppity wild life officer bringing snake corpse to my door and telling me who had seen my boys killing an endangered species.
I didn't run back with them I knew they'd kill it no matter what it was and if I wasn't there, all the better. I had to chuckle to myself as I closed the door behind me. I was a city girl born and raised but had become accustomed to guns and snakes and boys killing things. But I laughed because recently my husband had asked: "Who are you?" When I grabbed a rat snake and rescued a baby wren from it's mouth. I just smiled but I thought "The girl you moved to the boonies dumb ass!" Kiddingly of course!