Long black slithery

A few days ago, I picked up Tub and ran down the stairs to watch Two- A- Days. When I got to the bottom of stairs I stop dead in my tracks as I saw a "long black slithery" thing against the wall. It took a few minutes for it to register in my brain that it was a snake! I calmly turned back around and went to tell Patrick. He was totally mortified. To make a long story short, Patrick kept an eye on the snake while I went to get our neighbors. Our awesome neighbors, Jess and Will, caught the snake in a pillow case and then proceeded to chop it's head off outside. We will be getting a plethera of moth balls to put downstairs. I'm guessing it came in from our storm door in the basement (the Cahaba is only about 100 yards away). But please don't be frightened to come over. No more have been seen. Just wanted to share the experience with you all. It was a crazy night...