Snake in a Box

Peek-a-boo!

No, "Snake in a Box" isn't a Saturday Night Live song by Justin Timberlake.  This is what Bill encountered while we were in Ashville, North Carolina in May during our annual vacation trek to my father's roots in the mountains of western North Carolina.

I was at the church cemetery in Asheville where my great-great grandmother Martha "Patty" Bailey Tipton Cooper was buried.  I was there to take a photo of her headstone as well as fulfilling other Find a Grave.com requests.  While I'm taking photos of gravestones, Bill usually wanders around the cemetery, looking at headstones and patiently waiting for me to finish taking my photos.  By the way, do you know of anybody else who would be that patient with me?  Me neither.

Bill found a bluebird house, much like the ones we have in our backyard.  He took a peek in the bluebird house and was surprised to find a big black snake looking right back at him!  So the myths about snakes eating bluebird eggs (or even live baby bluebirds, God forbid) is probably true.

Bill made it his mission to get that snake out of the bluebird box.  Scary stuff.  I took a short video which I posted in an earlier blog which you may or may not have seen.  I missed taking the video when Bill flung the snake out of the box.  Did I ever!  That was some BIG SNAKE!  And it happened so fast.  So I missed the video.  However, I thought I had taken some photos also.  This morning while searching my photo files I came across these photos of Bill's encounter with THE SNAKE.  Scary stuff huh?

And just for the record, Bill didn't kill the snake.  He just got it out of the box.  It slithered (fast) on the ground near the bird box to the woods nearby.  I never saw a snake move so fast.

Mission accomplished Bill!

Bill gets the snake out

Snake In The Bluebird House

During our recent Cemetery Tour of the South, Bill encountered a snake in a bluebird house.  The location was the Berea Baptist Church Cemetery in Asheville, North Carolina where my great-great grandmother Martha "Patty" Bailey Tipton Cooper is buried.

Bill peeked in this bluebird house, much like the bluebird houses that we have in our backyard at home in Delaware and was very surprised when a big black snake stuck its head and forked tongue out at him.

Red bellied black snake, much like the one Bill found in the bluebird house

Bill got the snake out of the bluebird house but unfortunately I didn't capture The Moment on my iPhone video because I was at the other end of the cemetery taking photos!  I saw it with mine own eyes though and that was one BIG BLACK SNAKE.

Baby bluebird

This is one of the many short videos that I took during our trip south.  I will be posting more videos in future blog postings and less blog postings of me complaining about something, which I seem to be doing a lot of lately.

I'll try to concentrate on posting happy and light postings in the future.

View from our van headed south to Georgia on I-81 during our recent trip south.

P.S.

Bill didn't kill the snake.  He just got it out of the bluebird box.  Once he got it out (and it was a biggie), the snake wiggled it's way into the nearby woods, obviously full of baby bluebirds.