So I'm walking from the garage to the back yard gate and lying between me and the gate is a 4-ft. (at least) snake. Yikes! Backtrack to the car and zoom down the road to fetch Eugenio (who also hates snakes) to remove it from the vicinity. We decide it's a gopher snake, not the look-alike rattler, so not off with it's head. Instead, Eugenio throws pebbles at it until it moves off. But wait, it turns around and comes back. Eeek. Eugenio, more afraid of my panic than he is of the snake, grabs a long length of pvc pipe and scoops up the snake, moving it rapidly out of the area. I hate snakes.
That was yesterday. Today it's raining and cold; no self-respecting snake would be out and about on such a day.
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