This is the second snake Daniel has killed in our back yard. Right next to our back door, actually. The first one was a 4 foot rattle snake. This one was a 5.5 foot rat snake. It decided to eat our pet rat, blue, who had been living outside in his little home. It crawled in through a slot in the door, ate him (hence the lump in the middle of the snake. poor blue!!), and couldn't get out because he was too fat. I'm too lazy to type out the whole snake-killing story, but the craziest part was when Daniel had the snake by the head with the weed clippers.... he wasn't dead, and he was wiggling all around and he actually wrapped himself around the weed clippers and up daniels arms! You should have seen it... it was crazy!! I was inside freaking out, and of course the camera battery was dead. What a shame! Anyhoo, so he starts yelling "go get an ax!!" which we don't have, so I grab Ezekiel and run next door, casually asking the neighbor if I could borrow his ax. Run back home, leave Ezekiel inside, go outside, Daniel has the snake by the neck, I wack at him with the ax to no avail, so Daniel and I switch places and I hold him while Daniel tries to chop his head off. Still no luck so he gets a knife and cuts off the head. Oh man, it was horrible. After he was dead I think I started having a panic attack because I could barely breathe and I was sobbing and shaking. It was scary! We had no idea if it was poisonous or not at the time, ya know? We now know that he wasn't poisonous, and honestly I feel a little bad for him. I mean he was just looking for food and happened to get stuck in our yard. But still, he was right by the back door!
This was our first lilly to bloom this year. Many more to come! Today there are about 6.
Last week, my mom and my grandpa came to visit. We had a whole lot of fun! This is the first time Ezekiel got to meet his great grandpa!
Our church farming project is finally taking off- our baby chickens arrive tomorrow or tuesday! We ordered 125. In three weeks they will be big enough to go out on pasture and then we will really be rolling. How exciting! Speaking of this sort of thing, there is a new documentary out that is really exciting... I will just let you watch the trailer... I don't want to spoil it!
Edit: I like my text to be left-alligned but my pictures to be centered. I can't get my pictures to be centered when i upload them directly from picassa. Anyone know how to fix that??
2 comments:
Ahhhh!!! I HATE snakes! Ug! You're much braver than I would've been! I would have gladly gotten the ax/knife/whatever it took to kill the thing, but no way would I have held it!
And on another note, Ezekiel is getting so big!!
Yikes. that sucker is long.
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