Snakes 0 - Jeanette 3

Did not sleep well last night knowing that someone might be running around outside, but no news about it this morning. Had to water the tomato plants only. We had breakfast and began working outside. Kyle was not motivated to work at all, so he brushed the pool wall again to remove the spots he missed the first time. Beth began staining the rest of the tiki bar wood and I began moving the last 2 pallets of bricks. Kyle said he did not want to move anymore. I moved about 2/3 of the first one and noticed something under the pallet. I thought it might be a chimp muck as I just saw one playing in the yard, but knew Kyle found a snake skin yesterday by the bricks. And sure enough it was a snake. It was hard to tell how long it was at first. I moved the remaining bricks from the pallet and knew the snake was under the last one. So the hunt for it began. I tried to flush it out the back of the pallet with the hose but to no success. There were a couple of bags of rock base on top of the bricks and when I pulled one off the snake was laying under it to avoid the water. That is when I got a good look at how big it really was. OK big might not be the best term. It was about 18 inches long and about 1/2 around. And mad that it had been messed with. So I began moving the brick stack by stack so that I could get a clean shot at killing it. It had every chance to crawl out the back and into the woods, but no it was not going. Finally with Beth's help, which we all know she HATES snakes, I was finally able to move enough bricks to kill it. We finished moving the rest of the bricks and the bags of other stuff laying around to behind the shed. The driveway is now brick free and ready for additional parking. I finally had to kill the not one but 2 snakes living in the window well. One of them had babies cause I saw a couple of little ones about 2 inches long but was unable to kill them. So that is how the Snakes 0 and Jeantte 3 title rolled around. DJ picked up Kyle after she got off work and we finished cleaning up around 4pm. We went out to dinner since we both were tired from being outside all day. Today's picture is of a really cool sunset at Beth's parent condo in Marco Island Flordia.