And now for something completely different (to borrow a phrase from Monty Python’s Flying Circus), something not so light-hearted.

Life in the country isn’t all roses and thorns. (I’m sure you are shocked to hear that.) Sometimes it’s rabbits and snakes.

I came out of the house with our oldest dog late Saturday afternoon and discovered a rabbit and a rattlesnake just outside our dining room window. I managed to get our dog back in the house without her seeing either the rabbit or the snake. Long story short (you really don’t need the details about how I panicked), neither the rabbit nor the rattlesnake survived. Rattlesnake measured about 57 inches long and had about 10 segments on its rattle. I felt sorry for both the rabbit and the rattlesnake.

Rabbit, rattlesnake and hubby.