Snakes

Opened the sliding glass door and spotted one. Screamed and then ran up the stairs, of course forgetting to close the glass door. Stephen came down and killed it with bamboo. Every since the cobra was on our doorstep I have become, admittedly, completely irrational about snakes. Then heard only a week ago that a cobra was in Keohi's teacher's house and she had to get a neighbor to kill it. Then several months ago, that our neighbor spotted a python on our path near our house. Stephen said a little snake was in our house and went out a few weeks ago. Snakes!

Hawaii has no snakes. Yet another reason why I will prefer this tropical locale to other tropical locales. Growing up in Iowa, there weren't a lot of snakes around--everyone said to avoid water moccasins, but I never saw one. Before coming to Mui Wo, my most recent snake story was the one I heard of a rattlesnake encounter in Arizona.

At age 3, my father was a doctor at a camp for kids one summer and there I held a boa constrictor, but since that brief amphibian-lovin' summer I have had little fondness for them.