[Eoscstudents] Menu for Mon. May 22

[Rhoda Watkins]

Hi folks,

I hope you all had a great weekend.  I took Friday off which gave me a 
little bit longer to enjoy mine.  It all went pretty well except for the 
close encounter I had with a snake mere feet from my front door.  I 
noticed one of my cats staring intently at something on the ground just 
inside the rock border of the flower bed right in front of the house.  
My first thought was that it was about to pounce on some little 
unsuspecting mouse or something, so I went over to check it out and see 
what was so interesting.  At first, all I saw was what looked a small 
area of gray fur, so I waved my hand at the cat, and it jumped like it 
had been shocked, spun in midair and was gone.  I thought that it was 
overreacting pretty much from just being shooed away from a mouse.  It 
did cause me to look a little closer though, and then I noticed that 
what I had taken in the fading light to be gray fur was actually gray 
scales, and it wasn't just a little patch either.  Of course my husband 
wasn't at home at the time and he had taken most of the yard tools that 
would've done any good with him for a cemetery cleanup project, and had 
left the cell phone at the house, so I called his mother's cell and got 
no answer.  I did leave a message that I had a project for him when he 
got home and that I hoped he was hurrying.   Of course he didn't.  I 
went inside and when I checked later, it looked like the snake had taken 
off somewhere, since I couldn't see it anywhere.  Then my husband called 
and while I was talking to him I walked outside to look for the snake 
again and our little dogs ran out with me.  Of course they found the 
snake!  And I immediately started screaming at them to get back in the 
house.  I certainly didn't want them getting snake bit, and on a weekend 
when it's hard to find a vet anywhere.  I managed to throw a plastic cat 
litter pan over the snake and set something on top of that to hold it 
down.  Of course, by the time Gary got home, the snake had managed to 
wriggle out from under all that and head for parts unknown, and I hope 
far away.  I still don't know what kind it was.  I couldn't get a good 
look at it's head, it didn't rattle at me, and I couldn't find my field 
guide anywhere.  It might not have been the kind that will hurt you, but 
it very definitely was the kind that almost made me hurt myself!

Our menu for today includes:

            Smoked pork chops
            Mashed potatoes and gravy
            Okra
            Rice
            Corn
            Mixed vegetables
             Baked potato bar

And our fast food is:

             Chicken fajitas
             Refried beans
             Spanish rice

And for dessert you can't beat a yummy piece of Chocolate Cake.

See you at lunch,

Rhoda  8-)
                      
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