Our little friend.

My neighbor Rachel alerted me a couple of weeks ago to a friendly little snake we had living in our yards.  I have been trying to spot the thing ever since then.  I’m not afraid of snakes really, but didn’t want to accidentally step on it or anything.

My mother in law is HORRIFIED of snakes.  You really can’t even say the word “snake” in her presence.  My mother in law is also here at my house once a week tending my kids.  So of course she is the one to find the snake.  It was in the window well, and she swears that it tried to jump out. 

The day after she found it she called me at 8:20 in the morning asking if we had done anything about the snake.  We were all still lounging in bed and since we hadn’t gone on a midnight snake hunt I had to tell her that it was still happily residing in our neighborhood.  She called later that day to ask again, “How is our little friend?”

Clearly if I ever wanted my in laws to come back to my house I had to get rid of the snake. 



Court is so strong and brave and jumped into the window well.  Ew, spiders galore down there I’m sure.  We should have kept the snake to keep the spiders and little crawly things at bay.

    

Now our snake lives in Big Cottonwood Canyon.  Hope he doesn’t find his way back.