ARCHIVING AND SNAKES
When I fed the birds this morning it sprinkled on me. Last night we went to bed with thunder and lightning but the rain didn't get to Halsell Hill. And it didn't rain today, but the low ceiling made Mark and me cancel our trip to the air show in Abilene.
Dawn Letson came this morning with stacks of boxes and started boxing Lou's files and books to be moved by a moving company to the Lou Rodenberger Women's Collection at TWU Library.
Mark and Mary Kathryn came. While Kathy and MK worked on going through Lou's clothes and shoes and jewelry for distribution Mark and I fed the deer. In the afternoon Mark used the box blade to level the septic lateral line dirt mound.
This morning Dottie the dog was up on the top porch and MK decided to go out the door and discovered a snake between the screen door and door. We first thought it was a rattler because of the markings but when Mark and I got him out on the porch and he tried to climb the wall we saw that he wasn't a rattlesnake. I had a broom and got him out on the porch. Mark had a hoe and finally got him on it and tried to drop him off the balcony. He wrapped his tail around the hoe and made almost a knot in his tail that would not let him loose. Mark finally used the broom to unwind the tail and drop him to the ground. We looked him up in the snake book and decided he was a rat snake. Mark finally had to carry him out to the woods. I was surprised that he didn't immediately take off on his own.
The other animal story was the sighting of a red-breasted grosbeak that was going through. They don't normally come by here.
Ike and Sue came tonight to enjoy MK's snacks of the turkey breast she baked with avocados and other goodies. Of course I was happy because they brought me some dark chocolate from Trader Joe's that they found in Tuscon.
When I fed the birds this morning it sprinkled on me. Last night we went to bed with thunder and lightning but the rain didn't get to Halsell Hill. And it didn't rain today, but the low ceiling made Mark and me cancel our trip to the air show in Abilene.
Dawn Letson came this morning with stacks of boxes and started boxing Lou's files and books to be moved by a moving company to the Lou Rodenberger Women's Collection at TWU Library.
Mark and Mary Kathryn came. While Kathy and MK worked on going through Lou's clothes and shoes and jewelry for distribution Mark and I fed the deer. In the afternoon Mark used the box blade to level the septic lateral line dirt mound.
This morning Dottie the dog was up on the top porch and MK decided to go out the door and discovered a snake between the screen door and door. We first thought it was a rattler because of the markings but when Mark and I got him out on the porch and he tried to climb the wall we saw that he wasn't a rattlesnake. I had a broom and got him out on the porch. Mark had a hoe and finally got him on it and tried to drop him off the balcony. He wrapped his tail around the hoe and made almost a knot in his tail that would not let him loose. Mark finally used the broom to unwind the tail and drop him to the ground. We looked him up in the snake book and decided he was a rat snake. Mark finally had to carry him out to the woods. I was surprised that he didn't immediately take off on his own.
The other animal story was the sighting of a red-breasted grosbeak that was going through. They don't normally come by here.
Ike and Sue came tonight to enjoy MK's snacks of the turkey breast she baked with avocados and other goodies. Of course I was happy because they brought me some dark chocolate from Trader Joe's that they found in Tuscon.
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