While sitting on my front porch last night talking to my son that was sitting at our picnic table. I felt a hard thump on the back of my chair. I looked at my son and asked what was that, he said I don't know. After a few seconds I looked down and saw a snake crawling under my front door into my house. As my son ran to the shed for a machete to kill it with, I tried to watch to see where it was going in my house. My son said Mom go get in my truck. I said why it's not coming toward me..lol I was more concerned about his baby boy inside the house than myself. After searching for a good 5 minutes he found it under our entertainment center, he killed it by chopping off it's head. He brought the snake to me so I could see if it was a chicken snake, which I thought it was at first. Nope, it was a 4 ft long cooperhead. The head was still moving and I said Robert do something about that head, he said it's just it's nerves Mom. I said I don't care kill it!!!!!! He said it's dead, I said not dead enough. Holding the body of the snake in front of me, blood dripping, I was talking to my husband on the phone who was at work. He said tell him to burn the head, whew he burned the whole thing, thank the Lord. I know God protected me, it could have fell on my head or bitten me. I am thinking I want to move out of the country.........LOL
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
Put some moth balls out around your porch and yard in the flowerbeds etc...
Yep, doing that today. This is not my first encounter with copperheads. It's about my fourth, this one was just much too close.
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
Just takin another opportunity to bash the lost star state!
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
I'm so glad you were able to escape the nasty critter, Cindy!!!!!
I HATE snakes. They are in close proximity to us due to country living and nearby water, and every time I encounter one I become more terrified of them!!!!
Jeff killed a cotton mouth in our garage awhile back, it had crawled up a broom right next to the door from the laundry room to the garage, and was hanging out at about his waist height. NORMALLY, the kids go out that way, but that day they ALL went out another door. THAT was just the LORD!!!!!
Jeff hollered, "OH, MY God, HOLY MACARONI", and I thought, "Mouse? No, that was too much scream to be a mouse." LOL!!!!! He slaughtered it with two shovels and a hoe. It was about 3'. Or 4'. Or maybe 10. I don't recall.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
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