We had an adventure here recently. My daughter and love and I were rolling my luggage out through the

garage to load it into her car. She was driving me to the airport for my flight. And as we were leaving

the garage, I saw that the catchmaster sticky board, you know those things that catch critters,

it was upside down, and there was a tail flipping back and forth from underneath the

sticky board. Uh-oh, time for some courage steps.

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Well, I made an executive decision that morning. I decided to leave it there until I returned from my trip a few days later. That way, it would be done thrashing, or at least that's what I thought. When I returned from the conference, I noticed that the board was moved a bit from where I first saw it.

I knew that the creature had moved it, but I still couldn't tell what was under there.

The tail sort of looked like a gecko tail or maybe a skink,

but I suspected from the patterns that, unfortunately, it was more likely to be a snake.

Oh, no.

In a nutshell, here's how I handled this situation by taking courage steps. Step one was to wait and let it die before disposing of it, or at least I thought

it would either be dead or lose some vigor. Step number two was to put on some garden gloves and crank up my

courage and flip over the card. I picked up the card with a garden tool and when I flipped it over,

I was shocked to see an over two-foot snake attached to the card. It had folded itself along and the more

it moved it, the more stuck it got.

So it tried to slither off, but it was firmly stuck. And how's this for creepy? It was still breathing.

It was like moving up and down. Oh! And step three in my courage steps was to get this card with the snake on it into a plastic

bag, which would then allow me to drop it into the trash. Now, don't judge me and don't write to me

telling me I should have tried to set it free. Ha, I don't know enough about snakes to be

taken chances like that. Step four was to quickly replace that sticky trap. This experience reminded me of how

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