On 26 August 2018, Jack found a Ringneck Snake in the garage, while working on his bike. Here is a photo of that snake, held by me. After making photos of this snake, and then releasing him, we were basking in the afterglow of our excellent find (we have a population of Ringneck Snakes in our yard, but we’d never seen one in our garage, so this was a good find for us), when Jack came back in the house, improbably claiming that there was another snake in the garage. We thought he was kidding, of course, but he persisted. So, just to humor him, we went out with him into the garage and were surprised (stunned) to find this snake, held by Jack. The cycle—photograph, release, bask in celebratory afterglow—repeated, and I then went upstairs and showered, shortly after which—as you have no doubt guessed—Jack came back in the house breathlessly shouting that there was yet another snake in the garage. Here is a photo of that snake, snake number three, held by me (notice my clammy, wrinkled, post-shower, fingers). We found the fourth snake so shortly thereafter that we had not yet released the third snake, so here is a photo of the third and fourth snake, together, held by Jack. . . We’re now so far in, dear reader, that the drama of yet more snakes will be lost in the telling, so I’ll just show you photos of snake number five and snake number six, and let you gasp incredulously (cause what else can you do?).

I know what you’re wondering: perhaps we caught the same one or two snakes over and over again? But we did not: we released each snake, in its turn, away from the garage (we live on twelve acres). Also, the size and coloration of the snakes was different. This remains the only time we’ve found snakes in our garage as well as the only time we’ve seen more than one Ringneck Snake anywhere on our property.