Not a hobby, and certainly not a pleasant learning experience and it's taken a few anti-anxiety pills to be calm enough to share... but you should always use caution when opening exterior doors in south east Georgia. Now it's not for reasons you may imagine like cultist baptists ready to attack, intruders, flying steroid taking cockroaches (aka palmetto bugs). It's not that you need to be especially weary of black widows or brown recluses believe me they're already in your home attics and walls and spinning their little webs under your beds.... and it's not even down where I always thought it was that you had to watch for in dealing with snakes...

For the past couple of nights I have let my cat in, and something has hit me each time, something cold and clammy just like the many many geekos and frogs around here, so I largely ignored it after the initial jump of something hitting me. Until this morning, when I finally looked to see what it was, I mean really how many times must a frog land in my hair before it learns... 2 times less than the pigmy rattlesnake I found curled up by my bare toes!!!! Thinking the snake must have already been there and forgetting about looking for the "frog" I grabbed our special kitty who had followed me on to the porch to let his brother in and firmly shut the door spending the next 2 hours huddled on the couch waiting for the DH to wake up.

He got up, went on to the porch, looked around and it was gone... all's fine I'm just over reacting as usual to the presence of a snake, he doesn't see it anywhere, he looked out the screen didn't see it on the walkway but knows I won't be satisfied until he "checks" so he opens the screen door and the thing smacks him on the back of the wrist before falling to the ground. Poor special kitty was scruffed once more non-too-gently by the DH and thrown inside again... while in horror I was stuttering out to the DH "why was it up?! How did it... why? Why? Why up?" His response was they can do that and with that answer I lost my mind for a bit... I know there's snakes that can climb trees, I do... but that pigmy's had a thing for parkour I NEVER would have dreamed.

Just one ore thing I dislike about this state... rain falls sideways never down, roaches fly, the perpetual sauna....etc... and now the parkouring pigmies, like the snakes around here haven't already found enough ways to torment me.