I Have a Snake

Well, I don't really have a snake.  He lives in a little blue spruce bush by my patio.  This bush is between the patio and the walk, so I see him every time I walk down that path.  He is a pretty big garter snake- the biggest I have ever seen.  Yesterday he would not move.  I stood and watched him for a while, I walked by many times as I worked in the garden.  Then he changed position and I could see his entire body.  A wide spot in his middle revealed that he had recently eaten a small creature.... probably a mouse.  YAHOO.    He may stay in the garden. He has proven his usefulness.  Now, I wonder if he could eat that little rabbit that keeps hopping through the garden and chewing off all the flower heads.