Snake sightings and a sad story
For the first time I saw a very venomous snake while I was out and about a week or so ago. It was a green mamba, vibrant green sunning itself and stretched across the dirt path like a bad omen. I gasped aloud and froze. Thankfully it sensed my presence and made a startlingly rapid retreat into the nearby brush. It seems with our surrounding neighbors burning off brush during the dry season it is causing snakes to take refuge at RFIS and our property. Makes sense but a bit unnerving. A long snake skin had been found not far from my sighting. A cobra was seen near the chicken coop where my daughter, among others, cares for the chickens being raised for the agriculture science class. Then just days later one of our beloved guard dogs Puma disappeared. Denise had been looking all over our property and next door at the school, to no avail. Hours later the girls studying in our living room heard a pitiful wailing of a dog nearby. Steve and I checked it out and Steve found Puma un