We always have lots of snakes, usually black racers and corn snakes, occassionally i with find a ring neck snake when i lift up a planter.

Down here, May is black snake mating season so they're very much more in evidence starting about now than they are the rest of the year.

hmm, where are my snakes?

When my son was small we were out in the yard. From the other side of the yard I hear him saying loudly: "kake, kake!" I suddenly realized he was saying Snake! I ran over and sure enough he was face to face with a curled up (ready to strike) snake. I can't remember what kind it was only that it was not poisonous.

Rita, I haven't run into any face-to-face, yet, but I found a shedded skin hanging in the tree last weekend - so they're around.

Too funny, Laura. When my nephew was young, he called them 'nakes'. To this day, when I see one, I still say to myself, 'There goes a nake'.

I still say skoo-bus and make pewter (work on the computer), too.

I love how those things stick in your head.

Carol in Jacksonville