I called the pest company I use first thing this morning and they said they could have someone out at 2:30 to walk around the yard with me and talk to me about a snake plan - I said sounds good to me.
The snake guy shows up, we talk in the driveway and I show him where the garter snake went into hiding in the strip of grass by the driveway and off to the back yard we go. I also told him about the neighbor lady and me chasing a snake across the street into Legion Park. He looks down at me and chuckles. We're walking along the side of the house and I start to step up to the back patio area and see a garter snake out of the corner of my eye and let out a shiek. Snake guy goes after it - says, "you want it dead don't you?" YES. So he stomps on it with his heavy duty boots - three or four times. It gave a good fight but finally died - and is now laying in the grass next to the sidewalk by the side of my house going into the back yard.
Snake guy talks to me about their basic plan and says he'll talk to the boss about seeing if they can't add a snake repellent option to the four times a year deal they already do for me for termites and other pests. But snake guy is actually thinking that will be too expensive but he'd find out. After calling in to the office and talking to the boss we decided the regular snake repellent plan was best for me - it has a 60 day warranty. If I see snakes during 60 days they will come back and spray again. If I see snakes after 60 days we may have to do it again.
Snake guy looks at me and says I look familiar - and he actually looks familiar to me too but we realize we don't know each other. He says in passing about attending different churches which started us talking about religion. He lives in Newton and has started a youth group that meets at the skate park (for now). It started with five kids (3 being his own :) and has grown to 30. They have been studying the book of John and he will be baptizing some of them. He told me how he got a call from one of the parents and they wanted to know if they could be baptized too!
I told him about blogging and saying how God placed enmity between woman and the snake and how enmity was definitely at work on this property. Snake guy laughed. When he wondered about the date when completing my paperwork we talked about last Saturday supposedly being the Rapture - then end times. I talked about how my small group Bible study is reading Daniel and a couple of books I was reading. He showed me a book someone just gave him today about end times.
I told him I'd periodically pray for his youth group and if he'd want to get my email from my record at the pest company office he could send me updates on how the group is doing. He told me he'd give me his email which is a gmail account. I'm in the midst of having to decide if I want to stay with MSN or go to Qwest where I bundle tv/phone/internet and Traci (oldest kid) had mentioned getting a gmail account instead. I asked Snake Guy how easy it was to transfer email files, etc., and he said it was no problem.
So......when I just thought I'd have a snake guy stop by to talk about a snake plan for my yard - I also got to talk about beliefs, end times, and get some advice on my email - awesome!
