Here in Oklahoma I see snakes on the trail all the time. Usually if my husband is with me he is stopping to try to catch it. He loves snakes.

My snake story has nothing to do with my bike. Last summer I came home from work and opened the garage door to go into the house. Stretched out in my dining room facing me is a 5 foot long black snake. It doesn't flinch or move a muscle. At first I thought "haha funny". I thought my husband had left a fake snake on the floor to scare me. Then I decided I was too scared to find out if it was fake. I backed myself right back out of the house into the garage. By this time my house alarm is going off and the alarm company is calling. Luckily I have a phone in my garage so I answered and told the lady what was happening. In the meantime my husband is calling me on my cell phone which is in my hand and it starts to vibrate so needless to say I screamed in the poor lady's ear. Freaked me out! My husband sent over a friend and my brother-in-law to get the snake for me. By the time the guys got to my house it had hidden itself under my stove. The guys kept saying "where did you say it was?". I thought I was going to have to go to a hotel until it was caught. LOL Blacksnakes are harmless but I don't want ANY snake in my house.

I still think about it about 50% of the time when I'm the first one home and go walking through that door. We have no idea how a snake 5 feet long and about 1.5 inches diam. got into our house.