First day of finals week and I arrive home to find a welcoming committee: a big black rat snake stretched out across my front porch. It stayed there a while, first dawdling among the miscellaneous junk and then moving just below the threshold to block my way--but I didn't mind. Rat snakes earn my respect by their willingness to eat mice, thus reducing the numbers of mice that might end up inside my house. I can happily cohabit with a rat snake as long as it knows its place--outside the house.
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