Snake!

Kathleen called and told my wife she killed a snake on her back porch. She thinks it might have been a water moccasin. The snake was blackish, of a large circumference and about two feet long. Sounds water moccasinish. Florida, a body of water within 40 meters of the house … Anything not definitely identifiable as a grass snake or a rat snake – Off with its head! K said she put on her combat boots, her Kevlar trousers (??) and Kevlar shirt (??) and did battle of hoe vs. snake. “It was hard to kill,” she said. The first blow did not do the job, so “I stood on it and chopped off its head.” My wife suggested she sharpen the hoe. K said she would get a machete. I gave her a 20-guage coach gun before she went to Florida, but I suppose a blast of 20-guage buckshot into a concrete porch beneath the snake would not be a good idea.

Kathleen posted a picture of the snake on Facebook. The snake looked like a moccasin.