Apparently there is a glitch in the food chain around here. There was a spider in my kitchen earlier. Aren’t snakes supposed to eat spiders? I don’t know what eats snakes, except for bigger snakes. I showed my Mother the picture tonight to see what kind of snake she thought it was and she simply COULD NOT believe that she had raised a child that did not instantly kill the snake. In Louisiana, they will kill anything that isn’t human and even that doesn’t necessarily guarantee your safety. A few hours later I get this email: “dad says that snake looks like a copperhead–you need to kill snakes”. She is never going to let that go. According to her, the tiny little snake is going to live out the rest of his life in the drainage duct that we kindly put him in and grow into a 20 foot snake and come knocking on my door and kill me.