It was a snake and so therefore it was huge! All snakes are huge! Some are just more huge than others. It was slimy. All snakes are slimy (even though I didn’t actually touch it). The snake was where it was not supposed to be, which was on our farm!
A friend gave us some old hand line (farm term for a big sprinkler system), which we picked up….all thirty and forty feet of it. What we didn’t know was that we picked up a medium/huge snake as well inside one of the lines. Of course it decided to come out and sun itself when I was nearby, which started a ‘small’ commotion, which is not exactly what My Loving Spouse called my ‘small’ bit of hollering, but hey, I don’t do snakes and it was creepy and my hair was standing up on the back of my neck. My Loving Spouse stopped to take a picture of it, as I was still experiencing my ‘commotion’ and not able or wanting to get near enough to the slimy thing to take its picture.
The picture was sent to the out to lunch group, who immediately rushed home to check out the medium/huge snake as well. Number One Son was a dashing figure in Bermuda shorts, fire fighter boots and a shovel as he combed the grass near the pipes to find it, which he did. It was declared a ‘good’ snake (oxymoron) as it eats mice and is not venomous, so it was left to slither away.
My Loving Spouse then said something snake people always say… ‘Don’t worry it is more afraid of you than you are of it.”
Hmmmmm…… I don’t really think so!
No, even though I, too, am creeped out by snakes, not all snakes are huge. But that snake, baby, that snake was HUGE! I’m surprised that, in addition to hollering, you didn’t run screaming in any direction as fast as you could.
Huge and slimy…all snakes are slimy…even thought I do not actually touch them… they look slimy, so therefore they are!
Ew!!!! I’m right there with you, Ellen. I don’t do snakes. Or even big lizards that look like they could be a snake if they didn’t have those tiny little legs that make them scurry around so dang fast I don’t know which way to jump!
That was a pretty big snake, and I would have been completely undone to suddenly come across it….I think you are absolutely normal in your reaction!
I so glad that this story had a happy conclusion and the snake was not killed :))