Anyway, the kids were playing downstairs in the basement and I was eating breakfast and checking email when Tallulah came up and told me she found a really lizard in the basement. She then produced a green rubber lizard, you know, the kind you get out of those little toy/candy machines at the grocery store.
A few minutes later Max calls up the stairs and says there is something long and skinny that looks like a snake and it is moving. I, of course, ignored him (he did not sound alarmed and I was certain he was playing along with Tallulah) and kept eating and emailing. Next think you know Micah is down the stairs saying "mom, you better come quick, its going away." Now they'd caught my attention. I walked over to the stairs and...
"Ack! That's I snake!"
(I took these with my zoom lens, careful not to get too close!) I totally freaked out, there was a snake in the basement- slithering around on the floor where just a few hours before my children were sleeping! I tried calling my parents, but they were already at church and did not answer their phone. I called Phil, who of course could not really help me since he is 200 miles away and finally after typing "There is a snake in my basement" into google decided to call animal control. They were here in less then 20 minutes and the guys just picked the snake up and carried it out the door! Turns out it was just a garter snake, harmless... but still a little freaky IN your house!
that would have freaked out too!!! especially if the kids had been sleeping there.
ReplyDeleteare you sleeping in the basement tonight? i hope it was just a single incident!! i hope _I_ can sleep tonight and that there isn't a "PART 2" post tomorrow!
ReplyDeleteAmy, I walked out of our main floor bathroom one day to see a 3-4 foot long black snake slithering along the hall floor. I was frozen in shock for a moment, and I'm not particularly afraid of snakes. But to see one that big in my house...yikes. Glad yours was a tiny croc-size :)
ReplyDeleteI probably wouldn't have touched it either. But after while might have put on 10 layers of clothing and gotten some BBQ tongs to try to get it if I was waiting too long. Crazy!
ReplyDeleteI don't know if I would have had the calmness to think about who to call. I think I would have screamed and left the house...and then freaked out because the snake was gone and could be hiding. :-)
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