Recipe for looking like an all out weirdo to your non-biologist boyfriend...a thread.

Start by a worldwide pandemic forcing you to take the job that you love to do in person and force you to work remotely from your home, which you hate. Make sure boyfriend is still going to his essential workplace

Because you don't have co-workers to chat with, you have taken to wandering the 0.3 acre yard when you need a quick break. Birds keep you occupied for first few weeks.

Then discover a friendly garter snake while doing yard work one weekend

Then start seeing lots of snakes and realize you have a little snake den hole in one corner of the yard that often has friends peeking out of. Adorbs

Then realize that you have cleared the brush away from their den and hear the neighbors exclaim that they have a snake in their yard. Get mad and worried that the snakes are going to desert your yard so you start adding cover back

Realize the dog might move those sticks so move an old fire pit over the brush. Now it looks like you almost have a aquarium except for you are outside and the snakes are free to leave

Check on the snakes roughly 10 times a day... Frequently enough that you witness what I believe is their mating ball(?!) and become even more obsessed

Now you take breaks to go outside and do glamour shots with the snakes (from a reasonable distance)... snakes seem happy to oblige

Want to text photos to everyone you know and quickly realized not everyone finds this as cool as you do and some are legit terrified of snakes. Decide to make a Twitter thread instead :)

Shoot, realize it was kind of warm today and the snakes might want some water so leave them a happy little saucer.