I grew up in California, where I had my early experiences with snakes.

Long ago, when I was in the first grade, I wrote a story (all of about two or three sentances long ), about Snakey Lakey, to go with a picture I had colored. Shortly thereafter, I named my first snake Snakey Lakey. S/he was a garter or ribbon snake caught (by my mother with my butterfly net) in the early 1960's near Big Sur, California; kept for about one year then released back in the Big Sur area (back then we didn't know any better).

I decided that Snakey Lakey, in honour of my first snake, would be a good name to use on snake forums.

I now live in the high desert of Oregon, east of the Cascade mountains.
I currently have 2 WC local snakes (and too many cute rats.) I am unemployed, and live with my widowed mother who has a white cat named Snowball.