Last night I dreamed I found a large boulder in the woods with a big crack filled with water and there was an aquatic snake living in it. I had Rhonda climb up on the rock with me and we looked at the snake a long while. It was banded and compressed -- ribbony -- coiling about itself, with two "horns," and looked up at us as if curious. We didn't try to touch it as it was some species I didn't recognize and wasn't sure if it might be poisonous, though I doubted it was; still, why pester it. It was a very calming dream.
Last night I dreamed I was weeding my vegetable garden in the Drive-in theater, while people wandered back and forth from snack bar to their cars.
While pulling weeds, I saw a banana slug and was about to squish it when I realized it had legs. It was an eight foot monitor lizard! I chased it around the grounds and finally caught it and put it in the car. Then I went back to my garden to see if that huge tiger salamander was still there. It was!
I decided to go home with the monitor and the salamander when I realized, oh no, my little dog Daigoro was in the car! I got all frightened the monitor ate him, but he was perfectly all right. The rest of the dream was trying to drive home with Daigoro under one arm so the monitor wouldn't get him.
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