good evening everybody,<br /><br />Ed - so sorry to hear you are feeling so poorly, as my Mother would say...<br /><br />can&#39;t imagine had hard it must be for you and Roe going through her treatments.  Praying for both of you.<br /><br />your story about your BIL reaching for what he thought was a coiled rope and it turned out to be a snake reminded me of the time I all but grabbed onto a snake one night...<br />I went out about dark-thirty to turn off the water at the side of the house and under the spiget is where all the extra hose is coiled up.   Well it is almost dark, dusk and I am just reaching in by feel to get to the spigot to turn it off <b>and all of a sudden that hose starts rising up to meet my hand&#33;</b><br />I start screaming and running back into the house and tell hubby there is a snake out by the water hose and what does he tell me to do...?  he tells me to go back out there and find it so it won&#39;t get away while he goes and gets a shovel&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;  and guess what??? I actually did it&#33;&#33;&#33;  I guess I was in shock...after I found the snake again, showed it to him and he killed it, I realized just what the HECK had happened I kinda got perturbed with him&#33; LOL  BTW, we do live in the woods...so snakes do happen... <img src="http://www.cruisecrazies.com/community/images/forum/tr-emoticons/wacko.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":wacko:" border="0" alt="wacko.gif" /> <br /><br />HI to everybody and have a good evening.<br /><br />