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I’ve been here on our little farm in the Swamp for over thirty years…..

And I’ve lived in Florida since the early 1970’s…..

But I’ve never seen a rat snake this big…..

This Guy was Huge!…..

Doctor Brigid and I regularly get together for coffee klatsch’ing…..

Actually there’s no coffee involved…just a lot of klatch’ing…..

…..and wine coolers with cheap burgundy & Mt. Dew…(hey, don’t knock it ’til you’ve tried it)…..

…..or maybe Jim Beam & coke…and sometimes gin & tonic…plus assorted carbs………….it usually depends on the weather…..

In the course of our most recent klatsch’ing…we did Not solve any unanswered questions of the Universe…..

…..or what happened Before the Big Bang…and we couldn’t help out with Douglas Adams’ meaning of the number 42…..

But Doctor Brigid brought some really good homemade chocolate chip cookies and goat cheese…and we chatted about fun irrelevant minutiae and we had a nice relaxing visit…..

Afterwards…when we were walking across the front yard to her car…we almost stepped on a really really really long enormous rat snake…..

He was booking it…trying to exit stage-right…trying hard not to be noticed…..

…..We Noticed Him…We Really Noticed Him…..

…..What To Do?…What To Do!…..

Like I’ve said before…where snakes are concerned…I’ll step up when necessary…If I Have To…BUT…I Really Don’t Want To…..

And…what was really nice about this recent encounter with Mr. Gargantuan Rat Snake?…..

I didn’t have to…..

…..because I was standing next to a veterinarian…..

She calmly turned to me and asked me if I wanted to keep Mr. Gargantuan on our farm…..

…..(all the while I was thinking about how many eggs and/or recently acquired baby chicks he would inevitably devour)…..

So I didn’t hesitate when I said………….”No, You Take Him”…..

And then Doctor Brigid calmly circled Mr. G….and with a slight flail of her left hand (to distract him)…she deftly grabbed his head & neck with her right hand…..

…..and I noticed she didn’t choke him out either (like I would have)…..

Then she started calmly walking towards her car…with Mister Snake wrapped up her arm…..

My guess was…she was going to drive home that way…unencumbered by a snake firmly wrapped around her forearm…..

Without any hesitation…I went to the garage…and got an inappropriately small container for Mister Snake…and we carefully curled him into it…..

…..and off Doctor Brigid drove with her new friend…down the road to her farm…where he was going to become the new resident rat snake in her barn…..

…..And All Was Good…..

It was a Win/Win situation…..

Mr. Gargantuan Rat Snake didn’t die…he has a new home with new rats to chase…and he didn’t get a chance to eat any of my fifty-one chicks…..

It was a Good Day…with maybe the exception that Mr. Snake indelibly musked both of us…(or honestly…maybe it was me)…..

And another day on our oasis’s (oasi?) in the Swamp comes to a close…..