About a week and a half ago I was walking Plushie when I saw this.
TYG confirmed that’s a copperhead, slithering through the dead leaves between our house and the neighbors. Since then we’ve kept the dogs well away from that stretch. But then Sunday TYG returned home and saw the “danger noodle” again, on our front steps.
As venomous reptiles go, copperheads are not omega level threats — even small dogs like ours would probably survive a bite. Still, the thought of Trixie or Plushie getting bitten isn’t acceptable, so we’ve been checking the steps every time we go out. We did call a snake removal service but they don’t work Sunday, don’t do rapid response and so the odds of the snake being in one place until they get here are slim. Plus they’d probably kill him and TYG would rather not.
This was a chaotic week. We had dog annual exams on Wednesday, I had lunch with a friend on Thursday, we went out Thursday night and TYG had to run errands Wednesday evening. Up until Tuesday morning I thought I had my annual physical but I checked at the last minute and that’s next week. Despite which it was productive. I had a final story on Carrboro’s town budget (they passed it) and one on a local disability-justice group. Regrettably that sucked up more time for my own stuff than I wanted, but it’s a paying gig.
At Atomic Junk Shop I blogged Captain America and Black Canary becoming bikers, and another “relevant” story — only the tale of Iron Man vs. the radical leftist Firebrand is good.
Good enough I blogged about it here, too. Art by Don Heck.
For my own work, I concentrated on rewriting the early chapters of Jekyll and Hyde. This went slower than I’d planned: the chapter on Victorian stage plays was one I wrote very early, before I’d figured out the structure I wanted. It needs much more work. I’m partway through — good thing I budgeted plenty of time for rewriting this month.
And there we have it. Enjoy your weekend — I certainly will.
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