{"id":1373,"date":"2009-08-05T09:31:45","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T13:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/?p=1373"},"modified":"2009-08-05T09:31:45","modified_gmt":"2009-08-05T13:31:45","slug":"serpent-hunters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/2009\/08\/05\/serpent-hunters\/","title":{"rendered":"Serpent Hunters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let me give you a little back story before I get into my silly story today.\u00a0 Our Mum is deathly afraid of
\nS-N-A-K-E-S, yes I’m spelling it<\/em>.\u00a0 When I was little I wasn’t allowed to say that word because she soooo didn’t like them.\u00a0 Even now, my boys have to hide their rubber fake one’s before she comes over.\u00a0 Well, I’m not a big fan of them either, but as long as they don’t sneak up on me, I don’t really mind them.\u00a0 This year we seem to have more snakes than ever!\u00a0 On Saturday I was surprised by 4 of them on 4 different occasions.\u00a0 This caused me to scream like someone being chased by a maniac in a horror movie.\u00a0 Damn stupid snakes!\u00a0 Yesterday when we got home I went outside to walk the dog….well, as soon as I stepped off of the steps there was a huge one just sitting there!\u00a0 Maybe not full size Anaconda, but maybe a baby one.\u00a0 I immediately started to try to get him or her away from the house, that’s all I need under our porch.\u00a0 Of course it went back under there.\u00a0 Great!\u00a0 Now every time I walk outside I will think it’s going to bite my ankle, bring me down to the ground and attack me.\u00a0 Seeing how it’s a Garter snake, that probably won’t happen, but still it’s yucky<\/strong>!\u00a0 Later on it came back out and the boys were outside with me.\u00a0 They were super excited that they could try to help kill,<\/span> get rid of the snake.\u00a0 My youngest grabbed a flip flop and threw it at it.\u00a0 He had good aim, but I don’t know what he thought was going to happen to it by hitting it with a foam flip flop.\u00a0 I grabbed an aluminum bat thinking I could hit it on the head and kill it.\u00a0 My oldest yelled, “Mom I’ll be your back up”<\/em>, I turn to see him wielding his light saber.\u00a0 “What are you going to do with that?”,<\/strong>\u00a0I said.\u00a0 “I’m going to be your back up”<\/em>.\u00a0 O K A Y, maybe if it was a real <\/strong>light saber and not a plastic one it would be helpful.\u00a0 By this time my youngest had grabbed a whiffle ball bat.\u00a0 So, there we all stood, whiffle ball bat, aluminum bat, and light saber.\u00a0 We chased the snake into a corner…..which let me tell you they don’t<\/em>like at all!\u00a0 It was very angry and started jumping at us.\u00a0 I don’t know how the hell it could jump without legs, but it was jumping!\u00a0\u00a0 If you ever corner a snake, you’ll know what I mean, but again, I don’t suggest it.\u00a0\u00a0Truthfully I could of hit it with the aluminum bat and killed it, but the thought was really icky and I wasn’t sure how much of it’s guts would spray on us.\u00a0 Of course because my girly-ness made me hesitate, the snake got back under the porch.\u00a0<\/p>\n

When my husband got home we told him about our Serpent Hunting.\u00a0 Our youngest asked, “what are you going to do about the snake Dad?”<\/em>\u00a0 And he said, “nothing”<\/em>.\u00a0 What????<\/strong>\u00a0 You have to kill it or get rid of it.\u00a0 He did say that he would pick it up and throw it into the woods.\u00a0 Yep, pick it up, with his hands.\u00a0 Yuck!\u00a0 I’m so glad I’m not a guy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let me give you a little back story before I get into my silly story today.\u00a0 Our Mum is deathly afraid of S-N-A-K-E-S, yes I’m spelling it.\u00a0 When I was little I wasn’t allowed to say that word because she soooo didn’t like them.\u00a0 Even…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[933,976,1521,1863],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3ISGQ-m9","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}