Speaking of visitors...
 

Went to get some tools out of a dark corner of the garage and found this...

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Measured out about 5'3"" so he's a pretty good sized feller. I'm no herpetologist but I'm guessing a rat snake; I've had a few of them around the place. I'd just as soon he's moved on; I hate to be a wimp, and I know they do some beneficial things, but I'm not really a snake guy, and if he's still in there I know he's just waiting to scare the bejezus out of me some time. If he is I doubt I have any mice though!

Last year I saw part of shed skin of a Mamba in a hay shed in South Africa. The blacks working there didn't seem to pay any attention but I sure did.

We find a shed skin in our garage once a year. Might be a rat snake or a big garter snake but the mice are few and far between.

This rat snake bit me so I bit it back. Every time I see a snake in the yard I wonder why it left the house.