There are snakes, on the floor!

[yendi]

Didn't get to sleep until way too late (thanks to playing with the PS2 and watching the "Theme Park" episode of Monster House). So would have liked to sleep in, but at 9:30, Elayna burst into the room to tell us that there was a snake in her room.

I shot out of bed quicker than Samuel L. Jackson could shout "Motherfucker," and checked it out. Sure enough, a snake, right by her bed. About six inches long, and just lying there, but a snake, nonetheless. No, I didn't look closely at its markings. It was probably a garter snake, but could have been a small ratsnake or something else. While shadesong opened the door, I grabbed a towel (because I had no idea if it really wasn't just a tiny poisonous sucker, although it clearly wasn't a rattler, copperhead, or water mocassin, which are the big ones to worry about around here), grabbed the sucker, who was not happy, and ran with it to the door to throw it into the driveway.

And now, I'm wide fucking awake. And in need of coffee. But our house is snake-free (hopefully).

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[vampry.livejournal.com]

I found a snake in my living room once. Only way I noticed it was that one of the cats was intently interested on something that I, with my limited eyesight at that distance, thought was just a piece of string. When I got up and noticed that it wasn't, I shrieked. Thank goodness the SO was there to kill it.

And yes, he should have let it go outside but my goodness...a snake!!! Kept me up with the adrenaline it provided.