That is so cool. I want to live at your house. What an interesting place to take up residence. The garter count in my neighborhood has gone down considerably over the last couple of years. Of course people come to me with their tales of spotting snakes in places around here...but it is always after the fact. Our neighbor found a garter swimming in her pool and posted a pic on facebook to ask me what kind of snake it was...but she took it out of the yard before I could go see it. And, there was apparently a snake sighting at one of the baseball games the other night...but of course, I wasn't there! It was apparently a large snake...wish I could have seen what it was...