In the description to my blog I promised stories of Seven Southern Sisters, And I said some situations might include snakes, stinging scorpions, and today I will tell a story the has to do with my grandpa Brown and a copper head snake (I don't know if I've told yet but my grandma, grandpa, and 7 aunts and uncles moved back from NY) in probably 2004 my grandpa I forget why but he was getting a pan out of the cupboard, I was standing right behind him so I saw the whole thing, he opened the cupboard and slammed it shut for what he saw was nothing other than a copper head ready to strike. Springing into action he turned around and said "Give me two pares of tongs quick! And everybody stay back! ” Then he turned to the back to the cupboard and cautiously opened it and grabbed the snake! Ran out side with it and chopped its head off with a shovel. But it did not die for a really long time so the adults let us hold the body by the tale. The head on the other hand was snapping trying to bight us and it still would have killed us if it could bight us so we weren't aloud to hold it, not that anybody wanted to!

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I did not actually take the picture

I made this picture on a little kid program called paint brush and it is what I named my blog after. I am going to make it my blogger Id picture but first I have to put it on the internet. Deanna's has a book on it because everyone knows Deanna loves books. In mine you will see a halo over my head because I'm perfect:). In Lydia's she is all dirty because when we lived in Ohio she would go outside for 20 min and come in and say "Look Mom I'm Grubbeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!". In Megan's she is really dark and an indian because she really was like that. In Natalie's there is a rose because her middle name is rose. There isn't much to Becca's but she's cute and short. There is a lamb in Rachael's because her name means ewe (that is hebrew for lamb)

To tell this story I will have to tell 2 stories. In the first I will explain about some roosters. Well, my Dad's boss Mr. Turley gave us 7 roosters to butcher and we were tying string around their legs. We haven't had much experience with roosters so we were a little bit scared of them and we weren't sure how smart they were so we had got 2 tied up we were about to do the next cage. We took the piece of plywood off the top of the cage. One jumped out "Close the cage Deanna!" I yelled as I chased him but before she did another one got out. So she ran after it and as if two weren't bad enough 4 y/o Rebecca opened a little door on the side and let the other three out! So from 11:00 AM- 8:30 PM Saturday we chased roosters through the very thick woods and we only caught two of five that were lose! Monday (butchering day) each one got away at least once. Here is when the skunk comes in. Before all of them were caught I found a feather and a idea. "Lady" I called to our dog and I gave her the feather "Go get it" she ran off in the direction were the woods got even thicker. I followed and I followed her. Every once in while she would stop to take a sniff or to let me catch up. After a while we got to a field she ran over to a pile of brush and started to jump up and down excitedly and run around it as to try and block the "chicken" from getting out. So I walked over to it and saw a skunk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I ran as fast as I could about twenty feet away and started yelling for Lady to get away from that skunk! She didn't come. Running faster than ever before I went through the thick thick woods and up to the house yelling "Skunk! Skunk! Lady is going to get sprayed by a skunk!" I told mom the whole story and she warned me against letting Lady in if she comes running up as fast as she can from where I saw the skunk because it probably would mean she got sprayed. Later Lady came up but the skunk had not sprayed her thank GOD.

Note to readers:
I did not take this picture