I knew the day would come. I knew it even before the neighbor informed us – within the first 5 minutes of meeting us, by the way – that “the property you just bought will always have a lot more snakes than some of the others” (because we are next to state land) thankyouverymuch. It’s just a way of life. You are supposed to watch where you walk and you “just don’t touch them” (from the lady at Goldfield Ghost Town Desert creature exhibit) “and they won’t bother you”. Yeeeaaahhh, riiiight. After Kevin was forced to tell me about this one (he had to because the bigmouths small villagers were the witnesses in the car with him) he then let it out that this was actually his 2nd rattlesnake sighting. The first being happening at the end of our driveway the week before. Awesome! Not!
Like other parents would sit with their babies and look at ABC flashcards, we put this picture up on the 27″ iMac screen with the baby on our lap, saying, “NOOOOO, DANNNNNNGER, BAAAAAAD, OUCHIEEEE, RUN AWAYYYY”. The whole time she is imitating us, but trying to get closer and touch the screen. She made need a few more lessons.
On the other hand, soon after seeing slithery dude above, we were able to see these cute little critters. There were four or five little babies having an evening snack of fallen flowers so they didn’t mind me getting too close to snap their cuteness.
