Just now, I saw 6 raccoons on my steps (on the night cam). One is a big one, I call him Big Poppa. I hear him eating and sniffing around. He sounds like a bear lol.
Snakes seemed to navigate to my mother and she wasn't partial to them. She was always having snake encounters in her house or in her yard. She married a guy who used snake skins for his projects. Every time she'd run into a snake inside or out in the yard, she'd holler at him and he'd come deal with it. Their house and yard would have been run amok with snakes if he didn't. She emptied charcoal into her grill one time and out landed a snake. She said, "I thought that was awfully heavy." She accidentally stepped on a coiled up copperhead in her kitchen, and many many other stories. It's a wonder she never got bit.
Anyway, sometimes she'd invite me over for supper. I'd have a cuppa coffee. She kept chocolate covered graham cracker cookies in her upright freezer. I'd usually have one with my cuppa coffee for a treat. The freezer was also where her husband kept the snakes for his projects. So, I'd be reaching into the freezer with a bunch of coiled up frozen snakes to get my cookie. It was just an interesting sight. Cookies and snakes 🐍
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