Good story Charlene!
We have those huge rat snakes in the trees. The birds go crazy when they're around. One day DD came by and we were sitting at the table in the breakfast room chatting. I was facing the windows and she had her back to them. All of a sudden I saw a very fat, long snake fall past the window! There's no ledge out there, no tree, just a 2 story wall. I jumped up and said, "I just saw a snake fall out of the sky!" My DD frowned at me and told me to stop trying to scare her. DH was home and I went running to tell him. He rolled his eyes and said it wasn't possible. After I insisted he go and look, while DD and I stayed in the house by the windows, he finally got to the side, leaned over the flower bed with his hands on the wall, and said, "There's nothing here, no snake..." and then he jumped back...because he saw this huge black snake in the flower bed hiding! Forgive me PETA, but told him to get rid of it, and also to tell me how he fell out of the sky. We finally figured out that the snake had slithered along the top of the fence, then tried to continue along up the side of the house on the TV cable wire. He was too big for it to support him, and he "fell out of the sky." DH hit snake with shovel a few times and pronounced him dead... I went out about 4 hours later and...no he wasn't dead...and he was bigger than I thought . I went tearing around the side of the house screaming about the snake. So DH gives me his "eye roll" again and I run inside while he goes to re-kill snake. When he finally came in, I asked him if he killed it, and what did he do with it. He said it was dead and he threw it over the fence into the greenbelt. That wasn't what I wanted to hear, so I said, "You just threw him over the fence? How do you know he won't come back?" And with his droll sense of humor he said, "Because I threw both pieces of him over the fence."
