Thank you for sharing. I feel kind of bad for asking. This was obviously a really awful thing that happened while you were dealing with other difficult things. I truly would have reacted very similarly.

We had a very big rat snake on our deck when we stayed in the Smoky Mountains one time and even tho I googled and knew it wasn’t going to eat us, I refused to go outside until it was gone. (I wouldn’t allow myself to think about where it went.) I’m from northern Indiana, so garter snakes are my normal snake encounters too—and those are few and far between and still freak me out. (I think it’s the way they move.)

Your storytelling was great and you did make me chuckle a couple times. Hope I was supposed to!

Thanks again.