That Sneaky Serpent

Just before lunch today, while working in my office I began to hear a buzzing kind of noise. I got up and listened to my computers to determine if one of the fans were humming a bit loud...nope. Then came the dreadful feeling that I was going to have to venture outside. As I walked around the side of my office I heard the buzzing sound got louder. I glanced under my office and saw the cat sitting there which is not too unusual. The cat and the buzzing sound meant one of two things: 1) he caught some sort of cricket that was vainly trying to get out of his mouth; or 2) he found a snake (a rattlesnake of course!).

In this part of Texas, there was no need to take any chances. I immediately ran into the house and grabbed the shotgun. With no verbal communication, Alesha knew what that meant. She put the kids inside on a mat and had them stay there. My office is raised between 4"-8" off the ground so generally I can see under it, but the rattling sound was coming from behind some grass weeds such that I could not see it. We poked and prodded the hiding snake from one end of the office to the other. ... To make a long, 45 min episode a bit shorter, we corralled the snake, with much effort, near an outside corner of the office. Then using a long PVC pipe I pushed it out into the open and pinned it down with my pipe. Meanwhile, my father-in-law shot at it with his revolver (since the snake was only 2 ft from my office and 12 ft from the propane tank, we did not want to use the shotgun). After wounding him, I took a hoe and chopped his head off. The battle was over.

As usual, during and after a fight with a rattlesnake I must think of my real enemy, Satan. See my other post. This time though was the first time that the head was preserved enough to watch it continue to bite at the air, or dust, or anything else that the snake thought it could inflict harm upon. Though Satan has lost the war, and Jesus is proved vicorious over sin and death and hell, that evil Serpent continues to slither his way into our lives just to cause us a bit more pain and suffering. Or perhaps we see the wiggling decapitated body and choose to stay away from it, but forget to consider that it can do no more harm, but rather the head, still biting in the wind, will strike at any unsupsecting victim.

Well, that was my adventure and those are my thoughts!
Enjoy!