Kicker: It’s raining snakes and hawks

NICK EICHER, HOST: You probably heard this one. The lady who was out mowing the lawn when a snake fell from the sky. It landed on her, coiled around her arm really tightly. And to make matters worse, the hawk who dropped the snake came to reclaim!

MARY REICHARD, HOST: I heard that story!

EICHER: Right. Peggy Jones is her name. People were kind of laughing about it … of course they weren’t in a battle with a snake and a hawk … but this was serious and Jones was philosophical.

JONES: In the blink of an eye and the snap of a finger, your life can change.

No argument there.

Her husband ran out when he heard screaming. He raced her to the hospital and she wasn’t bitten. But there was venom on her eyeglasses. That’s how close.

She’s just thankful to be alive.

JONES: I just love everybody and everything more, even when I eat a piece of chocolate it tastes so much better now you know (laughs) than it did.

REICHARD: Attitude of gratitude!

EICHER: It’s The World and Everything in It.

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