AAAhhhhhh, oh wait it is just a baby snake...

So I'm sweeping the back porch, because of the mountain of leaves that had piled up!  I have a bunch of boxes from the move that need to go to the trash, however I'm lazy and haven't drug them up front.  I'm sweeping beside one, when I discover a little baby snake!  I immediately scream and race for the door.  I call Clay!  He says to at first leave it be, but then to sweep it off.  Well, I of course, had to look it up to see what it was.  I did take the kids out to see it really quick, and Gabby, running for the door, immediately tells me to just put it in her hands so she could touch it!!!  Ha ha!!  Well, after that I call Mom!  She says to sweep it off as well.  So I get out there, and lo and behold, the poor thing was stuck to the boxing tape.  It was sad.  You could see where it had been pulling itself and having no luck at escaping.  Mind you, we haven't been out there in weeks, so I had no clue how long it had been there.  My Mom said to poor veg oil on it, and then to get it moving so that it could loosen itself.  It was funny watching this little thing rearing up trying to attack the broom.  Well, it didn't work getting him off of it right away, so Mom and Dad said to cut the tape off the box, and hopefully it would be able to get itself off after the oil started to work.  I did that and then put it in the grass.  I couldn't stop thinking about the poor thing, so I called Mom back and asked what else could be done.  She said to maybe poor water on it, and that should help the tape loose it's stickiness.  I get out there and go to pick him up out of the grass, and he has flipped himself over, with the tape side up.  I couldn't get the tape to come out of the grass, and thought maybe it had stuck to some of the leaves.  Well, I look up a few inches, and here is his little head popped up out of this patch of grass looking at me.  He had managed to free most of his body already, so I covered his little head up with the rag I had, and while he pulled away, I got the rest of the tape off of him.  Thankfully he had only lost some of his little scales on the tape, no innards, which I was scared he had done.  Grabbing a tree branch, I ran him to the woods, telling him not to come back!  =0  It was just a little rat snake thankfully!!!

I have pictures, but I'm having problems with my lovely Picasa account.  Hope to have it cleared up tomorrow!