Thread: Show us your snake.

My little patch of heaven is no more ...



About 5:00 p.m. today as my wife was getting ready to go to market on her putt-putt, our dog Yako chased a snake up a tree. My wife yelled for me to come quickly, there was a big snake.

I shrieked like a schoolgirl, jumped up on a chair and wet my pants. After a few deep breaths, and a trip to the toolshed for a long-handled spade, I chased the fcuker out of a tree. It slithered into a drainage pipe directly under where my neighbor is standing in the photo.

I told my wife to watch for it to come out one end as I rattled a length of bamboo in the other. She wanted no part of that and ran for the neighbor for help. We finally scared it enough that it did a runner (is that possible?) out the neighbor's end and he clubbed it good.

He said it wasn't poisonous and if I didn't want it, he could trade it for a bottle of lao khao. I certainly didn't want it and wonder if I'll ever walk barefoot through my lawn again.