| Sunday: I did our "first mow" for the year. I'd gotten tired of asking the teenager to do it, we have a new puppy, and I was afraid she might get lost in the high clover (the puppy, that is). Spent about 4 hours and 3 tanks of gas on the job, but the results looked stellar.
Fast forward to today; I'm rattling away on the keyboard at work when I get a call from my wife. She was walking the puppy in the back yard, and guess what the puppy found?
Answer: A cut-off tail of a snake.
Now, I will admit to a certain skepticism regarding my wife's cut-off-snake-tail-appraising abilities, insofar as she is about as "city" as a subway; however, this was not her sole opinion. She carried it over to the next door neighbor's and asked him (a 50-something country boy with his own personal subtlety of expression) if he could tell her what this "thing" was. According to her, the conversation went something like:
Her: "Can you look at this?"
Him: "Where the h4 did you get this?"
Her: "What is it?"
Him: "It's the g7 tail off'n of a g7 m13 water moccasin, that's what the f4 it is."
The conversation terminated shortly afterward.
In any case, the bottom line appears to be that (a) I trimmed a few inches off a water moccasin with a push mower, and (b) the rest of Stumpy is still MIA - and, since no carcass was found, still at large.
Surprise!!! |
