I'm so proud of MrsWD. She left the hot tub went into the house while I closed up. She came back out and calmly said, "There is a snake in the middle of the floor." Sure enough, there was a 12" long milk snake in the middle of the room. I grabbed a piece of 1x8 that was in the garage and held it down. She whacked it with a shovel and tossed it over the cliff behind the house. In retrospect, I should have just picked it up and tossed it over the cliff, but the shock of finding a snake - any snake - in
my house made me want to kill it with fire. She was so calm, cool, and collected. A lot of people would have totally freaked out.
She walked into this room and there was a 12" snake right in the middle of the floor.