The Snake Charmer

Earlier today, Nick happened to look out our kitchen window and see a large (4-5 feet long) snake in a tree. Our back yard has many trees and backs up to the woods and a pond. Even though I KNOW there are snakes back there, I have never seen one in the four years that we have lived in the house. Let's just say, I was happier that way. This snake was in a tree that was just over our fence. We got the binoculars out and watched the snake for a little while, but I was not too scared because the tree was behind our fence.

After dinner, as I was cleaning up, Nick took another look out the window to see f the snake was still visible. He yelled for me to come over. As I got the window, I saw that the snake had managed to slither over to a tree in our yard and was just a few inches from the ground. I had the creeps earlier, but now my skin was really crawling thinking about it being anywhere near our house.

Nick saved the day! He got a long rod and went out to protect the family (me) from the scary snake. Nick gently picked snakey up and placed him over our fence. He gave him a few nudges in the right direction and called it a day for snake wrangling.

The snake is making his way down the middle tree

Nick helping the snake find a MUCH better home

My hero!!!