An encounter with an evil rattlesnake…. that didn’t end well for the snake.

So far this summer, we have encountered a few snakes near our chicken house. Thankfully, I never had to kill one personally. (Shoutout to mom and dad for killing the two snakes) 

Well, that changed when Cate and I were mowing the headquarters recently. While I was on the John Deere mower, my path was suddenly halted by the slithering of a vicious snake at the base of a tree. After this encounter, I hurried over to tell Cate to watch her step! Being the “brave” soul that I am I immediately hovered nearby the snake and pulled out my phone to call a cowboy to come kill it. In case you are wondering, the snake was too close to the tree for me to run over it with the lawnmower!  Neither cowboy I called answered the phone.  After striking out twice, I decided to take matters into my own hands….so I screamed… just kidding, I asked Cate to run and get a shovel.

Once she came back, I grabbed the shovel and desperately attempted to chop the snake at its head. I missed!  I hammered his tail instead. Not wanting to turn loose of the snake, I held the snake down and asked Cate to get a second shovel. She rushed back and began attacking the snake at its head. Soon with Cate’s adrenaline and energy the snake died.

After all of the excitement, we sat down and wished that the cowboys would come by to realize that we conquered the sinister and slithery rattlesnake. After a bit, a couple of cowboys did come by and made sure that we knew the snake was poisonous. Thankfully, they disposed of it.  This ends the encounter of an evil rattlesnake.