chicken snake

chicken snake
Originally uploaded by milkmaid1979

Snake in the window
Originally uploaded by milkmaid1979

So, on Friday night, I was in the bed, me and the mutts, it was almost dusk and I was gazing out my new matchstick blinds that I really have grown to love cuz I can see outside. WHY OH WHY did I spend so many years shut up in that dark stuffy old bedroom??? Anyway, so I'm kinda drifting in and out of sleep, watching TV, enjoying the fan and watching out my windows at the sun setting. Totally lost in thought and relaxing.

Then.

All of a sudden.

I see a shadow on my patio window that is directly across from my bed. Yanno, I can lay in the bed and look out the patio window. Well, we have a ton of trees and the breeze has many many MANY times looked like various critters, people, and perverts lurking. So I kinda just blew it off and returned to my daydream state.

And then.

I see it again, moving at the top of the glass. THE. TOP. OF. THE. GLASS. PEOPLE. And then I recognize it as a snake, big lizard or some kind of crocodile.

Jumped out the bed, hesitated, thinking what if this bastard is on the INSIDE of this window?????? I focus my eyeballs the best I could and then realized it was indeed on the outside. RELIEF.

For a second anyway.

I get my glasses, my flashlight, my camera and MilkMan. Altho..I don't know why I needed MilkMan! ;)

Went out the patio door in the living room and sure as hell, a black snake, about a foot and a a half long, slithering along a lions head clay pot that hangs on the wall next to the patio door and then around the wood frame of the window and then his head, hanging down like some cartoon, looking into the window.

After I snapped a few pictures and identified it as a non poisonous chicken snake, I went and got my trusty, extended-handle webster duster I use for my fans. It is like ten feet long. Extended the handle and knocked him off of the wall and then turned him to go into the flower beds.

MilkMan wanted to kill it but I told him, my internet pal Gran will be pissed if we do. LOL, she fusses when we kill anything, spiders and snakes included.