Not for the Faint of Heart!

On Sunday when I was at work I got a call from John....he says, "babe! there is a giant snake in the garage! I just wanted to let you know to be careful. I'm not going to get it out or anything." What the heck?!!! My husband is Cuh-razy. Isn't that like one of his jobs as a man? lol. At LEAST call animal control. Luckily, by the time I had time to call him back the situation had already been resolved. John told me that he casually mentioned it to my brother Adam, who is staying with us for a little while. He was also "letting him know" to be "careful!" Is there really a way to be careful when there is a SNAKE in the garage with you?! Well, my brother the snake handler....or something....decided to rid our garage of this pest himself. I also think he is friggin cuh-razy!
(ps this is the second snake situation he has handled at our home. the first one was about two years ago and it was a little garden snake. I still don't like the idea of ANY snakes in my yard. sure sure, I know there are "good" snakes. I just don't want to know they are in or around my home!
Adam...my crazy brother. Thanks Adam!

Julia said, "mommy, we had a gigantic snake in the garage and uncle Adam hit it and hit it in the head and killed it!" Yikes. Adam said he didn't plan on killing it (why not? do we really want it to come back?) that he was just trying to get it to leave the garage. However, when it began to dart at him and toward the back of the garage he said he changed his plans. Scary.

Snake

Haha, no it wasn't THIS snake....thank you VERY much. This snake is some insane killer snake with huge venom pockets that will kill you before you can kill them. We saw it at the Ft worth zoo, behind thick glass just a few days ago.

Bryce and the African Pit Viper

Julia and the African Pit viper

No, no , it wasn't this snake either. wheew. this is actually closer than we ever wanted to be to this venomous snake too. (and the hundreds of other venomous snakes at the ft worth zoo.) we do not like snakes.
After putting the snake out of it's misery (being chased etc) they attempted to identify the snake. Adam said he already knew it wasn't poisonous....really? I mean you have to get pretty close to make sure. I DO NOT recommend attempting to rid your own garage of a snake. I for one would have called animal control.
This IS the snake. I figured I'd spare you of the close ups. They were somewhat brutal. Plus, to me the head does look triangular, but my bother said it wasn't triangular before the "trauma." eek rat snake? I'm not sure if I'm sad he killed the snake. I mean the snake must have found something to eat around here, right? Either bunnies or rats, ugh! please not rats, or bunnies for that matter. maybe it was just looking for a cool shelter...yeah that's it.



We have a 7 acre tract of land behind our house that was previously open space that is now being built on. GRRR....another story! So far in the past 2 months we have had bunnies in our yard, birds in the dryer vent and now a snake in the garage. Personally, I am DONE. A result of us forcing innocent animals out of their natural habitat. I didn't want them to build on the land behind my house either. yeah, I know my home forced them off my land....I'm sorry, but please please don't come back.