Jewells of Thought

When Mom mentioned what she had seen the other night a brief flashback of images ran through my mind. It has been over a decade, but this scared me out of my wits. Unfortunately it’s not something that can be promised to never ever happen again.

This unique story of mine still freaks me out so I don’t want to freak anyone else out with images of “S’s”. There is a photo from the ark of one that I have used before, but I will simply use other artwork that doesn’t add fear-mongering. They aren’t exactly a reptile to be trifled with necessarily.

In order to write about this I have had to mentally prepare and take one step at a time. Plus I can’t think about this at night right before going to bed. I need to really make time to do this early in the day when I don’t feel the vast difference in the time of the day.

Going into my dark room I saw what I believed to be a belt on the floor of my little hallway into my room. I was actually reaching for it when all of a sudden…

Okay have you ever seen a belt move of its own volition?

So of course instantly I regretted getting that close to what I discovered was in fact a snake. I hate saying the word so I choose to say the “s” word instead. I screamed Grandma stayed in the living room, but mom came into the room as the thing began to back up going back into my room to hide among some bags on the floor.

Fortunately, Dad was within minutes of the house on his way home. We could no longer see it when he got into the room, but was able to eventually make contact with it by the tail and take it outside.

This thing, the “s” word was nearly 6 feet long. Being so close to touching it thinking it was a belt scared the daylights out of me. Still all these years later it unnerves me how close I was and that dad didn’t have gloves on himself.

My Uncle said it was called a Milk “S”. The coloring was black and brown I was just glad dad was able to get it out of my room.

I really wish I could say this was the end of the story, but I can’t… there is so much more for next week!