An empty quiet house.. except for..

A visiting hound dog, full of ticks, sitting at my front door. Welcome home. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...

A bumble bee walking casually across the seat of my chair... buzzzzzzzzz...

AND..

As I was sitting in the kitchen giving a report about the conference to a friend.. I asked them to ``hold on'' a minute because I heard a crashing noise upstairs.. and no one else was home at the time... so I thought.

I assumed one of the family.. over the weekend... had left the window, the one with no screen, open again... and a bird may have flown in? (It happened last year and a bird flew into my statues and knocked them over.. causing the same sort of ``crashing'' noise.)

Anyhow.. after I got off the phone.. some of the precious family arrived home... and after
chatting a few minutes... I remembered the noise I heard and decided to go see if a bird
had come inside.

I checked my room.. with a quick glance.. and saw nothing. I went to the office.. scooted in past all the stacked up boxes and papers... rounded the corner.. saw nothing and turned to leave. NOT that I would have seen anything anyway with that much junk still unfiled and unsorted that was sitting around.

As I walked back out, I glanced back towards the corner of my desk.. which is against the wall.. and a HUGE snake was sitting there... half way coiled up.... with half it's body
crawling up the wall!!!!

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!

I stopped and stared and was trying to figure out what the heck was going on... and it turned towards me....

And it HISSED at me!!!!

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!

I live in a freaking ZOO!

My families response... as they captured the beast and took him outside to let him go..

``Well, it's ONLY a BLACK snake.''

(As if ONLY being a BLACK snake matters!)

``It won't hurt anyone and it WILL eat the mice.''

(Which I DO complain about.. but which doesn't ease my mind terribly either!)

``That proves that your office is the warmest place in the house. They like warm places.''

(As if THAT is a good excuse for the cold winter we just went through!)

``Well... at least he wasn't in your water bed.''

(And just exactly HOW LONG did YOU plan on living?)

You know.. I am not afraid of snakes. I just don't like them roaming around in my
office.. OR my waterbed... and hissing at me.

Is that too much for a girl to ask?

By the way.. As they carried it .. coiled up around their arm.. down the stairs past me to
the great outdoors.. I asked how big it was.

They said it was ONLY about 2 1/2 feet.. because that was what they thought would make me feel better.

I estimated it was 600 feet long.. but after
calming down.. it was probably ONLY about 4 foot long.

Now.. what about the snake babies? Hmmmmmmmmmm......

I think I am going to move TO a zoo.. where there will be less wild creepy creatures!!! Including members of my family!

Are you going to stay longer this time?? Please, pretty please?? I have no one to argue with and pick on!!! It's SOOO depressing!

Snakes, huh? I have a collection of snake stories, having grown up in Texas! How about a 5ft water moccassin on your patio?...that you STEPPED right over?

Now that was a good story of mine! [actually, I stepped over him twice....had to in order to get back into the house!]

So what else is new??

Hello Tincup,
Missed you on the board.

Man thats scary! I don't know snakes so I would had a good firght and goose bumps.
good thing it wasn't harmful.

And no... all you Freudians, it wasn't one of "those" dreams *grin*. Dancing with snakes is an offshoot of American Bellydance styles. I like the big slow ones, but not the creepy zippy garden ones. And I would have left a goodly puddle on the floor if I saw a 2 to 4 to 600 foot snake in my office!

Glad you made it back safe and sound. Good to see you back on here.

I can relate to your snake story. I found a "baby" black snake in my house one day while vacuuming. I screamed and my husband came running. Of course, he thought I was overreacting.

I was nice meeting you at the conference.