Punchers & Snakes

Friday night, we decided to check out a Puncher football game. It was fun to watch and the kids actually were interested in what was going on. I'm not sure how much they absorbed, but they asked a lot of questions about why people were yelling and what happened and how many points they got and whether things were bad or good. I was glad they were so interested! Mason won 39-6 against Cristoval, so that made it fun to watch, too.

Here's where the team ran onto the field... they sure have gotten fancy since I was in high school! They deflated it superfast and then had it up again after half-time.

Here's a pic of the mascot, Puncher Pete.

Colten caught one of the footballs the cheerleaders were throwing to the crowd and had to pose for me.

In other news, we recently had a cat that we assumed had been bitten by a rattlesnake since her head became about twice as big as it should be and had fang marks on top. We left her alone and it healed fine, but it made us a bit more cautious around the house. The other night, John & I were in the living room watching TV after the kids had gone to bed and thought we heard water running. That was weird since there shouldn't have been water on anywhere. We went out the front door and discovered it wasn't water, it was a rattlesnake rattling! YIKES! He went and grabbed a flash light and there it was, curled up right next to the steps on the sidewalk with another one of our cats staring it down and trying to play with it. It was ready to strike, so we scared the cat away and of course it came back to play (curiosity killed the cat, anyone?). We scared it away again and I ran around and grabbed it so John could shoot the snake and not the cat. Then the other cats got curious and tried to see what was going on, so I put out a bunch of cat food to distract them (that was easy) and John finished the job. Here's the icky thing - it was about 4 ft long:

John chunked it outside of the yard since it was still moving, hoping the animals would leave it alone. However, it was not there the next morning. We didn't see it until we went out the side door and saw the cats snacking on it.... ewww!