| | LOL... It looks like there is nothing like posting a few pictures of a snake to get people's attention!
Unfortunately (or fortunately... I'm not sure which) the snake saga
continues. The snake (now named Ferdinand after the peace-loving
bull in one of the kid's favorite books) seems to have made
himself at home here and I never know when we are going to stumble upon
him.
Day before yesterday we found him out in the little pasture, curled up
next to the kid's play structure. Emma (our golden retriever) was
outside with us when we spotted him, so we decided to see what she
would think of him. We tried to point him out to her,
but she got so excited... trying to figure out what we were trying to
show her... that she didn't see him. (Emma is a beautiful dog, with a
very big heart...but got seriously short changed when God was handing out
brains!) She happily jumped around, while we tried to point the snake
out to her until finally she
got so excited that she couldn't hold it in a minute longer....
she took off running around the play structure and on her way back
around to us, she
ran right over the top of Ferdinand. Talk about an angry snake! She
came at him from behind (he was busy watching us....) and took him by
surprise... but he still managed to spring at her and we got a very
good demonstration of what a large bull snake looks like when it's
hissing and trying to strike! 
Emma didn't even notice that she'd run over anything, and was still
bouncing around....but finally calmed down enough to notice the
snake. She is such a trusting, (uhh... stupid?) dog.... that she walked
right over to this hissing angry snake to give him a sniff. As soon as
she got close enough he sprang at her. Her reaction was
instantaneous and amazing! All 90+ pounds of her went right straight up
into the
air. All four paws were off the ground, and she was trying to scramble
backwards before her feet even hit the ground. It ended as a stand off,
with Ferdinand hissing at her, and Emma... standing safely behind me...
barking back. 
(Emma's actually a great watch dog and very brave and protective of
us... but apparently she just doesn't like snakes!)
Yesterday's surgery went well for dh, and he seemed to be in better
spirits than the day before. He has an epidural again, so his pain
level is back down and he's feeling much better as a result. He's still
spending a couple of hours every day in the hyperbaric chamber and it
looks
like the next surgery is scheduled for Tuesday...
We had some good news yesterday from the hospital that does
our lab work for us. The supervisor of the lab called to let me know
that she had talked to the head of the department and they agreed that they would like to offer to
start sending a courier out to our house for pick ups. Until now, I've
been drawing the kids blood, and then driving it to the nearest
hospital to be picked up by a courier and driven to the hospital for
children that's about an hour away. Now, I'll just have to call the
courier company and they will
come to the house, pick up the specimen and drop it off at the
children's hospital.
This is an incredibly nice thing for them to do for us... and a good
reminder to me of all the really good people that M's illness has
brought into our lives.
I'd better get moving... lots to do today.
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