Oh, and BTW, I finally caught a really big black snake last night in my chicken house. I'd been raising up 3 chicks a friend gave me, and had lost two of them -- one while they were still in their cage (I honestly think the little thing got scared to death), and the other a week later after I thought they were big enough to be safe, but evidently not, because I came in one morning and she was gone. So I've been looking, and last night I found the lovely reptile curled up in the eave. I put a trash can on the floor under her, and in one swift move used a hoe to yank her off the ledge and into the can. Whew! I don't know whose heart was racing faster, her's or mine. Anyway, she went to live about 2 miles down the road, across a river and a creek. Hopefully that was far enough! My gosh she was mad when I dumped her out of the trash can. She laid there coiled up with her mouth open so far I could see down to her tail. Quite the show.