"Yes, we see the snake!"
And the grandkids hop and run, exhilarated.
This is more to the original story. Actually, this is more to the other story AND more story, part two.
Just let me go get a cup of coffee first, then I'll relay it to you.
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Several days before this day, Miss Lilly had spied a snake, a dirty snake and proceeded to wash it - with little 2 y.o. brother looking on.
When she came over this time on Sunday, and she began playing with our black snake, it reminded John of part of the story I'd forgotten to tell. To him, it was the funniest part, AND the most important part, 'cause the item was his.
I'd went in the bathroom to see what she and Jacob were up to. Miss Lilly was sitting Indian style on the floor with that reptile curled up in her lap. And, in her little soft hand, she had one of John's toiletries, she was going to clean that creature with his electric toothbrush.
"No-o-o-o!"
So, on Sunday, the 2 kids behaving quite well, they always do, we decided to play a game of Euchre. Clint, the grandkid's dad, and I were winning 6 to 2, spades were trump, his back was to the family room, I was facing the family room. I could see the stair's side wall, couldn't see the stairs as they face the other way, but...I could see the edge of Lilly's clothes, Jaocb's little hands as he went up a step, the toys being pushed to the edge and sometimes over just to hear the clunk and check the aftermath, you know how it goes with boys. And then out of the corner of my eye something long and black flails through the air and swings back. I toss an ace on the trick pile. Shaking the visual like an etch-a-sketch, and gathering the cards, I catch another glimpse. Just like a water snake that black thing flew across the room!
I shivered, oh, my lands!
The pièce de résistance of the evening?
Miss Lilly asked for her ribbon.
"Remind me, what ribbon?" I asked.
"The big blue ribbon," she said.
I'd let her play with a first place ribbon on that other Snake Day.
She jumps up and down in little girl excitement, including Jacob in her enthusiasm, as she finishes up in a higher pitched girly voice with complete confidence.
"We're gonna have a snake race!"
Victory V, arms up, big grin and ... a jump of exhilaration!
"And whoever kills the snake first, WINS!"
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