The snake

  I woke up early this morning and putzing while I waited for the coffee to brew, I noticed the resident frog jump across the room and the all to well known zig-zag movement of a snake.
A snake !
This is the time and i had been expecting something .
It slithered under a couch and I knew that I would never be able to relax as long as I knew there was a snake in the house, however well hidden.
I hate them,
As far as I am concerned there are only bad snakes , snakes who spend their miserable lives scaring good people like me.
So there it was and there I was.  Stalemate.
But then I rushed into action and armed with my trusty snake-killing meat cleaver I started to frantically move the furniture until I had the snake cornered, but this wily critter managed to slither rapidly across the room and hide under another piece of furniture and from that to the final one, a big wooden case with very little space underneath. And heavy
I pushed and shoved and lifted and shored this piece of furniture up so I could prod under it with a long handled broom--a very long handled broom--and finally after what seemed like hours but was in fact no more than 45 minutes, the snake, all five feet of it made its way out of the door I had conveniently left open, wide open, for that same purpose. And I saw it zig and zag its way over the bricks on my terrace and disappear into the jungle where it, I am sure, is searching for a mate to share its miserable life and make many more snakes to come and pursue me. I do not like snakes.
And during this whole ordeal the mutts were absent. Something made them stay way the heck away from this mad chase of a snake in the house.
Now they are back to form, barking and being their usual disagreeable selves.
But we got rid of the snake. Good riddance.
The upside--if there is an upside--is that i got to clean behind furniture that I don't move about all that often, in fact never. Sweep and mop so now I can feel really righteous for  One, not having killed the hideous, slithering and disgusting critter and Two, for cleaning behind the furniture.
Cleanliness is next to holiness.