SNAKE!!!!!
On Sunday, Glen decided that we needed to clean out the gutters. He asked if I could drive the ride on mower with the trailer attached, so that he could drop the leaves and gunk straight into the trailer. Glen knows that I am not good with heights, so he didn’t even bother asking if I wanted to get on the roof.
I haven’t driven the ride on mower much, but after a quick lesson, I was right to go. When Glen got onto the roof, he discovered that we only have one gutter. We have a flat roof and it slopes to the back of the house. Seeing that there has been a verandah attached after the house was built, Glen couldn’t dump the leaves straight into the trailer. So I parked on the side of the house and Glen did trips with the leaves. I was collecting stray leaves and gunk that missed the trailer when Kaos (my cat – approx 7 years old) came and visited.
After a few pats and smooges, Kaos had had enough. She walked down towards the back when something caught her eye. She turned when she got about 2 metres away from me and started stalking something to her left. I was scared it was going to be a blue tongue lizard, so I threw a bit of gunk from the gutter at her. It didn’t interrupt her concentration. I was watching her to see what she was chasing.
She pounced at the garden bed and out slithered a SNAKE!!!! I was back on the ride on. It was the quickest I’d moved all day (it was really hot in the sun too). The only other snake that I have seen while we have been in this house was a DEAD green tree snake. Well, this one was a brown snake. It was probably the same size as a 10 cent piece in diameter. I was peaking. I was scared that Kaos was going to get bitten and there was no way I was going anywhere near the snake. I grew up on a farm and I have had too many run ins with snakes. I do not like them at all!!
I yelled out to Glen to tell him about the snake. Glen wasn’t too worried, the cat is a hunter and she is very quick. I was considering actually getting on the roof to get away from the snake.
The snake rared up a couple of times and Kaos just swatted it away. It wasn’t too long before kitty had killed the snake.
Now I have a whacking stick that I take with me when I walk out the back…