[driftless2]

No chiggers up here in Wisconsin. But I stepped out in the garage last week, and a bull snake slithered away under a refrigerator we have in the garage. We had gone on two weeks vacation, and when I got back, the grass was fairly high. That was probably an invite to the snake as a good place to hide out.

How he got into the garage is sort of a mystery. But he was probably fairly close and sneaked in when I had the garage door open. I have some glue traps set for him, but no luck so far. Good thing there aren't prairie rattlesnakes around here.

P.S. I haven't told the wife yet. I told her I saw something, but I wasn't sure what it was. She's deathly afraid of all snakes. If the traps don't get him, I hope the coming sub-freezing weather will do him in.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

I haven’t seen any snakes for ages around here. I’m kind of surprised too, since I live fairly close to a wetland. I don’t know whether I would tell my wife or not if I saw any. She’s afraid too, but it would probably be better for her to be alert to the possible presence of snakes rather than just come upon one,