Today was a moment with Spring.....snakes..snakes...and snakes.

Alrighty, owning a home I have learned each spring to accept the acts of nature and carry on about my day..

Today, it has been a struggle. I am writing this still in shock.

This morning starts out great, because at 8:30a it was FIFTY, that means a warm day is coming and after a long winter, nothing can make you want to be inside, except for snakes.

Last year on our trail I got to the point where I would see snakes slithering away and didn't do my very girly something like this scream, " AHHUUGHHHHSHHHH.... SHIT!"

For the sake of my daughter I try to stay calm... now its just a " UGHHHH" whooo...


So we are outside just enjoying the day and in some of the brush in our yard my husband says Oh theres a snake." He seems a bit freaked out and I feel more confident because I can see snakes now and just give a little jump... (they really liked my vegetable garden last year! ) Well we go over to see it, " He is telling Riley how its a long one, and then I see another one scurrying the other way.
Inside Im a bit freaked out. Thinking how all this week I will be outside with the girls....and the snakes. We go over to our small pond and admire how big the frogs are this year and how much we like them. Riley is counting them and we are enjoying the waterfall the fish and the frogs in the pond.

So we go inside grab a snack and talk about snakes and spiders. My husband is more scared of snakes I am more scared of spiders...... Ah yeah not quite so much anymore... ,
We go outside I have the baby and Riley and we go over to the pond. I SCREAM , "OH SHIT OH SHIT OH SHIT!" I really do not swear either.
Wanna know what I saw.

A SNAKE in the water, long, disgusting, slithering in the water with it's head sticking up with two big old frog legs hanging out of its mouth. It is swimming away from me over to the waterfall. Im freakin way out. IN SHOCK by what I am seeing watching the frog legs STILL MOVING......Then I watch it slither up the rocks under the waterfall... I think to myself I knew snakes lived in there I knew it. It hides and down goes the frog.
I start to feel emotional for the frog. Feeling so bad. I tell all the other frogs to hide...

Riley is saying, "Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh" The frog legs the frog legs. But she was not too shaken by the whole thing. Which worries me because my next greatest fear ( besides a snake in the pond) is her coming up to me with a snake in her hands.

My husband is up on the rocks asking " You want me to get rid of it?"
I've seen him with the shovel on other what shall we call them, "pests" I suppose... Im cringing. The whole scene is too much. The baby is still passed out and Riley wants to watch Daddy.
We didn't stick around for what we told Riley. "The snake and Daddy need to have a talk. He is not allowed to come and eat our frogs anymore."

Nature......oh nature.....
Needless to say, I will have nightmares tonight.