A Tractor Tale

This morning I went out to get on my tractor and mow. As I got on a mouse came out from under the hood. It jumped off onto the other tractor and ran away. I started mowing and I mowed down the driveway and around the pond and had been working for about an hour. As I was driving under the apple tree in the yard, something stuck its head out by the fuel tank. At first I thought I was seeing things! But it kept coming farther. So, I threw my tractor out of gear and jumped off. By this time it was probably two feet out on the hood. I left the tractor running and the 4 foot chicken snake crawled across the hood and fell off. It slithered away through the grass. I let it live to hunt another day. I got back on the tractor with my heart beating really fast and came to tell Delilah the story.
The moral of the story is, if you see a mouse come out from under your hood, check to see if a snake is trying to catch it!

There were no pictures of this actual event, but these pictures show how big the snake was and where it came out!