Closing and Marty the Guard Snake

So I am now officially a home owner. :) Closing went really well. The sellers were nice, and they told me about a hiking path just down the street from my new house, where I can hike to the lake and rent canoes and kayaks. How awesome is that? I didn't even know about the canoes.

Or the lake for that matter.

I didn't have to pay any fees and I actually got 2000 back which is awesome. After closing I've been using the time I took off work running around like a crazy person and spending all the gifts cards you guys got for me.

I got all the locks changed on my house, and since I was going anyway, I took a couple of bins that I had packed. I was hefting them to the front door when I noticed a runaway vine strand curling off one of the bushes in the front yard. "Huh" I thought, "I'll have to trim that back. Its growing right across the front steps."

And then it reared, and flicked its little tongue at me, which vines aren't generally known for doing. I backed away from the snake, and found a stick so that I could encourage him off the steps. I tried to get him to go to my neighbor's yard, since he was halfway there already, but instead he flipped around and slithered back into my bushes.

"All right, but no free loading. You better eat a lot of insects." And then I named him Marty.