My family and I are going on vacation for around a week, and I don’t know how much access I’ll have to a computer. Hopefully I’ll be able to get on HW at least a little bit to keep from missing y’all and the forum too much.

Prayers would be appreciated since my health issues can make it difficult to travel, and they are acting up far worse than usual.

Will miss you Jon But have fun on your hols!

I will be praying for you.

God bless.

Have fun!

I'll definitely be praying.

Thank you, Elanor and Princess Abby.

Yes, have fun, Jonathan, and I will pray for your health. See you.

Thank you, Aemi.

I'm popping in for a few moments on some wi-fi.

*watches Jonathan pop* Have a good time

eru

Thank you, eruheran.

*tears in just in time to wave* Is this like a super-sized version of chat misses? I arrive home and you leave?

Hope you have a wonderful, wonderful time, Jonathan! Thou shall be missed.

Thank you, BushMaid.

Yes, I thought about the miss. Though as you can see, I'm still popping in occasionally while gone.

*looks forward to said pop-ups*

I'm back. Thank you to everyone who prayed. I'm exhausted, but I had a good time.

So good to have you back! And I'm so happy you had a great time.

I'm glad to be back. Incidentally, I had a run in with a snake... of the non-venomous variety. I caught a big rat snake with the help of a broom handle.

Awesome!! Didja take it home? Did you see it eat any rats?

I let it go. I didn't see it eat any rats, though that would have been cool to see.

It would have been. I saw a picture in a forwarded email once of an anaconda eating a deer. That was pretty cool.

A rat snake would be like a miniature version of that.

Spiders and Snakes? What next! Dear oh dear! *shudders*

Glad to have you back Jon!

Yay; you're back! I'm so glad you were able to enjoy yourself. How big was that snake? Did it try to bite you?

Thanks, Aemi and Lady Elanor.

No spiders, Lady Elanor. Just a snake.

The snake was around three or so feet long. It may have wanted to bite me, but I had it too firmly pinned for it to do anything when I caught it. It did, however, try to constrict my arm by wrapping around it and squeezing.

That would have been awesome!

It was.

I've seen a snake eat a rat.

Welcome back, Jonathan.

Lucky!

Thanks, Airianna.

It was interesting...

I don't suppose you care to expand on that?

I don't have a problem expounding, but some members might, so I won't subject unsuspecting members to the description. PM me if you really have to hear the story.

*laughs* No that's ok, Airi. I have a pretty good picture what it would've been like.

*chuckles * Yeah, doesn't take much imagination. It is fascinating though, in a sadistic kind of way.

*marvels at the amazingly horrible things us authors find fascinating*

Um... yeah, very true...

If anyone is interested, here's a picture of the rat snake.

*feels mildly sorry for the snake and wishes she could hold it*

Glad to have you back, Jonathan!

Thanks, Shawn.

Why do you feel sorry for the snake? I let it go after the picture was taken.

I don't know. *wrinkles brow* It looked... hungry?

Shawn, you just made me laugh!!

Cool photo! Wow, is it trying to constrict your hand?

It's trying to with its tail. When I held it with one hand, it wrapped itself around my arm several times and squeezed.

That would have been awesome! It's only little, hey?

Yeah, it wasn't very strong. Here's the picture of it squeezing my hand and part of my arm.

That's amazing really, isn't it? How they can do that. It must have felt funny!

Yep, it did. It was neat, though.

*is not fond of constricting snakes *

Thanks for sharing, Jonathan.