You would think at some point I would get used to seeing snakes in my yard, but that hasn't happened yet. I bought this house 2 years ago and have encountered them in my yard no less than 15 times (including today). These are just Black Rat snakes so they are about as lethal as earthworms, but no less terrifying for me. I'm more scared of a pansy 3' snake than I was jumping out of an airplane that took off from a remote "airport" with a grass runway.