Well I live with snakes and lizards
and other things that go bump in the night
cos to me every day is halloween…

I can’t help but think of that Ministry song today. Benito (the cat) has become quite the lizard hunter and gatherer, we have rats in the attic (they’re everywhere in this neighborhood) and now, this:

yes, that’s a snake. A Gopher Snake, and here’s a better look:

That’s in our garage…our attached garage. Christopher stepped on it a little as he went from the kitchen, through the door, into the garage. About 4 foot o’ snake which C calls “not that big.”

I don’t mind snakes, as a general rule, but not in my damn house, thankyouverymuch.

Anyway, we got him in a pillowcase, and Christopher drove him to a nearby canyon to be released. When he got back he said he ran into an exterminator releasing three snakes of his own.

Remind me never to go hiking in Tecolote Canyon…