I knew that patio door in the bathroom would be no good...

So remember that awkward patio door in our bathroom? Well it has always made me a bit uncomfortable. If Gabe is ever in there with me, he likes to play with the vertical blinds. The bathroom is also kind of narrow, so getting out of the shower and drying off, it is very easy to bump in to the blinds.So I always hope that our next door neighbor is not in her room that has a window looking straight in to our bathroom door. I fixed this by hanging some thing curtains behind the vertical blinds. So if Gabe does swing the blinds open or I bump in to them, at least there are curtains behind.
But also, in the bottom corner of the door, I noticed about a 1 square centimeter open space. We had been having lots of bugs getting in the house, and I think this was a major contributor. So I stuffed it with some cotton balls, and it definitely seemed to help.
Well apparently there was another open space on the corner of the door....
This morning I was in the bathroom and out of the corner of my eye I thought I saw something in the blinds. But when I looked, nothing was there. So I figured maybe some birds or something was outside and I was just seeing their shadow once in a while. Totally dismissed it.
But then this afternoon I was going to the bathroom. Gabe was playing on the floor in the bathroom. Laying down, rolling over, all over the floor. Inches from the blinds. And all the sudden I look up and there is this little snake head poking out of the blinds. I totally freaked out, grabbed Gabe and we got out of there. I called Adam at work in a panic and told him I hoped he was coming home really soon, because we have a snake in our bathroom. I didn't know what kind. It was pretty small - didn't think it was a rattle snake, probably a garter snake, but I'm no expert and who cares what kind or how small it is, there's a snake in our bathroom. So he asked me what I was going to do, how I was going to contain it if I wasn't going to get it out. So I said I'd close the doors and tuck towels in tight at the bases of the doors. So he got on his way home and I went and grabbed some towels. I got one door taken care of, then was going through our bedroom to go get the other door and then I saw another snake coming out of our closet. And I saw the 1st snake in the bathroom. So now there's 2 snakes. So I freaked out some more. Closed the bedroom door and tucked a towel in the base. And then I decided I couldn't stay in the house while I waited, so we took a walk to get the mail and then over to the park. Didn't come back until I knew Adam was back. He got those 2 out. But as Gabe and I were coming in the front door, I noticed a third one in the frame of the door. ACK! More freaking out. So Adam took that one out too.
He filled the other gap in the patio door with cotton balls - to be replaced with steel wool as soon as we have a chance to get some. And he so kindly searched the rest of our closet and bedroom to make sure there were no others. So hopefully it was just those three. And hoepfully they are long gone.....
Our landlord is going to come over to add some better weather stripping to our front door where the last one was.  And he's going to see if he can do anything else about the patio door.

So yeah, not really the greatest day for me. The morning already started out not so great - trying to deal with the county and figuring out how to get appropriate services/therapies for Gabe. And then we get snakes in the house. Gross! I think I may have nightmares...
Adam is going to add some pictures. I don't really want to look at them, so I'm going to let him take care of that...

The terrifying garter snakes (or "racers" as everyone out here calls them). - Adam