Some friends were over last night, and later on when it had dwindled to just two of us, all the sudden a baby snake slithered right by us between our feet as we were sitting on my patio! We had very dim lighting out there, so at first I thought it was a really large earthworm. But my friend (a guy who is actually fairly outdoorsy) lifted his feet in his chair and said, "OMG baby snake!" We about shit ourselves.

What's ironic is, earlier in the evening my friend said he had just seen a snake in his yard (he lives 1 mile from me). I commented that I had just read an article in the local paper this week that said snakes are popping up in unusual places in the STL area due to all the flooding we've had this past month. I live in the city! It's no concrete jungle, there is plenty of green, but hell, I wasn't expecting city snakes!!

Now I'm on high alert out there on the patio for a bit. That baby snake has a momma and siblings out there somewhere.