And we don't have a yard full of garter snakes spending the winter right under our house, so shuddup!

Hadn't seen a garter snake one, anywhere near my house in years. The other day I was walking to the store, and two blocks from my house I found a very small northwestern. Flattened on the road, and baked to a crisp. That's as close to a garter snake in my neighborhood I'm going to find.