Another, not so nice, present

Last Saturday, Mother's Day weekend, Sean's parents were able to spend the weekend with us.  Jacob is playing baseball, maybe someday I will take a picture or two of him.  When we got home from his game Belle, our Chocolate Lab, was out back and would not stop barking.  I yelled out the window for her to stop but that did not work.  The kids went out back to play on the swing set, which always makes her happy, but she was still barking.  I went over to the window to see what she was barking at.  Belle was standing at the top of the stairs that lead to our basement barking.  I figured there must be something down.  I headed to the basement, from the inside, and this is what she was barking at.......

Let me just tell you that I DO NOT do snakes.  In fact, I can feel my heart racing and am very jumpy as I am typing and can see the snake in the picture.  I have always joked with Sean and told him if he wanted me to move out to just bring a snake home and I would be gone in less than 5 minutes.  I called him at work and asked him if it was a hint.  :-)  Luckily, he told me "no".  I looked online and I believe it is a "ribbon snake".

Sean's dad was here and I was very grateful for that.  He would not kill the snake like I wanted him to but he did remove it from our backyard and put it in the bushes way out back.  The snake was not happy with him and was doing all it could to let Sean's dad know he did not like being moved with a snow shovel and rake.  Hopefully this snake will never be seen again in our yard.