... someone is telling you to stay indoors and go back to bed.
"OSM", for those unaware, means "Oh Shit Moment". I learned this in one of the Sookie Stackhouse books.
This morning, when I was leaving the gym, I happened to look over at the bushes, that are literally 5 feet from the gym door, and I see a three foot black racer snake heading into the mulch area. I side stepped left, hustled to my car and didn't think anything of it.
I'm so used to seeing teeny tiny racer snakes around, so when the bigger ones come out, it's like "uh oh...". They're not harmful, just annoyingly scary to see. We once got a little baby in our house unexpectedly and it took forever to catch it because these suckers are fast. I once saw one at the front door, hanging out between the door and the bricks and I almost stepped on it had I not seen movement under my feet. I'm so glad I didn't let it in the house as this was one of the larger ones.
But this morning, I didn't think much of it when I left the clubhouse parking lot until this evening when I went to go look outside. The "backyard" has been loaded lately with bunnies, so little, you could just cup them in your hands and love on them. They're so effing cute. So I wanted to see if they were having dinner in the grass and unfortunately, no one was around.
Yet, what is one thing I see?
A snake.
Again.
I went to my room and grabbed my Canon T7i (with the stock lens) and took some photos. I did a really poor job at sharpening and doing basic editing in Photoshop, mainly because I was fighting a window screen, window pane, full zoom as well as wanting to be able to capture the reptile against the mulch before it decided to leave.
Which, I think in the last picture, he starts to go away, so I miss part of his head. He "went that way" (points left) against the house, so probably to finish whatever adventure he's on, only with whatever neighbors he wants to give a fright to.
I had sent a photo to my friends Cat and Shawn and Cat says "aww it's little", even though I explained this is the bigger version I've seen with this kind, she likes these types of things. Shawn had said "Oh wow" and when I told him it was the second time today, he said "they're invading lol". I had said that "I don't know if they're invasive [as] the ones we normally see are much smaller".
When I worked for the hotels, we used to see these quite frequently out by the sand, and I don't recall seeing them at the community I worked for. Even though I once four wheeled a large iguana (the plop plops) by sheer accident.
If this is a sign of something to come, I think it's time to get out of dodge while the getting is good. I don't want to be around to see what is going to pop off. This definitely has me thinking now, given the heat dome up north and the constant humidity down here... "something wicked this way comes" and it won't be fun...
Cheers;
