Just went for a walk in the woods to photo the bountiful fauna, came
back to the back room entrance and went in. Out of the corner of my eye
I was something that was not in place and took a better look at it.

On the side of a small pile of wood for the fireplace I saw this long
skinny black thing. I looked at it a bit closer and it has scales on
it! Damn! Was a damn snake and in the same room the ferrets are to roam
loose in !!!!

I have NO idea how this snake could have got inside that room. Is on
the second floor and only entrance is cement steps to a sliding glass
door that is always closed, a habit I am into where even if there are
no ferrets in that room it pays to be in the habit of securing the
room. The only other openings are a window but that is on the second
floor and a brick wall under it for the basement and then the sliding
glass door to the kitchen.

That snake certainly did not get in thru the two doors or the window.
Yet I have no idea how this thing got in here. Even if he were in the
wood pile when I brought the wood in, I would have found it where the
wood is put in a wheel barrow first then carried by armfuls to the pile
in the room.

I killed the snake leaving no memories to haunt that room or the
ferrets. It struggled hard wrapping itself around my leg several winds
in a struggle to put fear into me, didn't work. To kill it I found a
week wacker thing, is like a golf club but where the club would be
there is a blade to cut weeds as you swing it. I used that to sever the
head off and threw the whole thing in a 5 gallon can and took it all to
the woods to dump in a pile.

Phew! Guess one cannot be careful enough I have NO idea how that snake
could have gained entry to that room. Is a very scary feeling to know
that happened, but I am so very thankful I was able to discover it and
dispatch it to the life hereafter before Pester or Peekaboo became
lunch!

I have seen huge black snakes around here before but never inside the
house. They smell the ferret 'tootsie' rolls I throw into the lawn so
that must attract them. Will have to keep a better eye on that room
from now on. Shudder !!!!

Rev. J Gordon Bengtson
Aarrow-Ranch Aviation
Mechanicsville, Virginia  23111

[Posted in FML 6310]