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a few nights ago, and I thought I was going to wake up the whole neighborhood! Ihad just finished watering our little community garden, and was going back to my apartment. As stepped up on the cement to get to my door, l looked down to see a snake moving into the roses by my door. Not one of the little green ones, well over two feet, nearly an inch in diameter, sort of mottled brown. I was so startled I screamed. It came back out of the roses and slithered across my threshhold. All I could think was, thank Goddess the door was closed! When I finally got inside, I texted our landlord, who tried to assure me it was a harmless garter snake. In the time I have lived here, I had not seen any kind of snake, let alone something I considered big. The next day, another friend texted me a link to different garters in our area. I had no idea there were so many different ones!

I will definitely be checkng the roses carefully before I work on them from now on!

Side note: Everybody in our litttle complex was home. Nobody heard me scream. I know my voice is quiet, didn't know my scream was, too!