I like snakes and don't have any fear of them. Then again, the only poisonous snakes in my neck of the woods are timber rattlers. I've never seen one, but a number of years ago, when Meldrim Thomson was governor, he made a comment that New Hampshire had no rattle snakes. A fellow from the next town over from me who lives on the aptly named Rattlesnake Mountain, paid the governor a visit and dumped out a bagful of rattlers on the governor's desk.

A couple years ago when I was moving a stack of lawn chairs from the ground to the deck, I discovered that the stack had been converted into a condo for garden snakes which vacated the premises in all directions when I started moving the chairs.

Linn