BECUER!!!!!!! or in English.....SNAKE!!!!!!

The other night, Mary gets a phone call from the guys up on the farm....they have a boa in their house.  Edwin is terrified of snakes and because Alejandro wasn't doing a good job at removing it, Edwin called for me.  So, I went up there and helped them out.  This boa had managed to wrap itself around the braces of the ceiling of their kitchen...wedged between the 2x4 and sheet metal roof.  And it was too high for me to reach without a ladder...which, they didn't have, of course.  I had to get creative...
     First, I climbed on the kitchen sink and poked it...I was trying to annoy it enough so that it would just unwrap itself and fall outside to the ground where I could then run around and catch it.  When that plan wasn't working...
     Plan B:  find a fake ladder
 I searched the area for something I could use as a ladder....I finally decided on an old cage.  It would work if I turned it on its end, stood very carefully on the good wood (as opposed to standing on the termite infested parts) and have Edwin hold it steady so I didn't fall backward into the ravine.
   Plan B worked....it took a lot of patience though.  I had managed to get the boa's head..which he wasn't very happy about I might add..and part of the body.  Now, I just had to keep pulling until the snake decided it was time to let go of the rafters.  Finally, it let go...but, I didn't.  Had fun taking some pics of the "little" guy and then put him in a sack so that it could be taken and released far away.  I say little because, if you remember my first boa encounter, you will remember that one was very large.  Edwin was grateful, Alejandro was just pissed off that a girl showed him up.  (Suck it Alejandro, girls can do anything that a guy can do.  Quit being so damn machisimo!)

After getting this beauty out of the rafters.  He was wrapped around the one sticking out up and to the right of me.  

Almost a 5 footer......that puts him in 3rd place for length out of the 4 becquers I have seen here.  The second one was one that I caught in the trees by the turtle pond last week...sorry, no photos of that one.

Edwin told me you had to be strong to capture this snake.  That is him all nicely coiled around my hand.... I showed him who was stronger....