It Had to be Snakes

I pulled weeds out of a small strip of the front garden this morning. I saw two or three spiders but didn't cringe too much since I was wearing my new gardening gloves. Then I pulled this long piece of plastic out of the weeds. Once I had it fully exposed I noticed that it had a distinct scale pattern. Not plastic, a snake skin. Looks like I'm sharing my bits of nature with multiple potentially frightening flatmates.