Mission Accomplished....Kind of.

Yeah so. Few weeks ago. I was reading for most of the day [got like 10 books from the library. -happy dance-] then I finally came out for something or another, and everyone else is gathered around the patio slider door, while dad's playing with something under the rebounder. [Mini trampoline used for exercise.] Was it a worm or a snake...the great debate.
Anyhow, fast forward a bit, it turned out to be a tiny baby snake. Black, yellow stomach, yellow ring around neck. He [/she/it] was dangling by a spider web under the rebounder, when Charlie [spastic little Rat Terrier. AKA the Snake Hunter] found it.
So everyone went inside, and dad and I stayed out trying to untangle said snake dude. Once he was off of the rebounder, we took him to a different part of the patio and laid him out. I held the flashlight on him, and dad took a pair of tweezers to the spiderweb, which was wrapped around him so ridiculously that his tail was hooked around and tied to his middle. Trust me, you aren't getting away from anything like that. Fairly cooperative little guy though. Only opened his mouth about 4 times. And considering we were out there for 40 minutes, that wasn't too bad.So yeah. We did eventually wind up freeing his tail, but the spiderweb was still there. Dang stuff is like iron.
After the snake incident, we left him in a cup and went to search the patio for the spider who started the whole thing.
Long story short, we found him under the exercise machine, covered with spider webs and dad smoked him out. Literally. The whole thing was very Arachnophobia [as in the movie, not the actually phobia] as he shoved his cigarette onto said spider. Cruel? Possibly, but so is tangling up a defenseless baby snake in a web of evil. So you know. Now they're even.
Anyhow, if you're looking for a happy ending, you aren't getting one here. Dad filled up a big bucket with dirt, leaves and the snake. We went inside, and all that jazz was over. Little did I know, daddy dearest left the little thing out there. For two days. So he died. How sad.
Mission Accomplished,
Mission Futile.
Big surprise.