I bet you miss the trees. Well, when we moved in I declared that we would have a no mow landscaping design. Well, that worked great at first until the grass decided different. Now we have tall weeds, grass, and dead wildflowers from the spring that need to be cut really bad. All kinds of places for ankle biters. My husband has been dragging his feet on buying me a rolling weed whipper and now it is a safety issue. "safety first" is always one of my favorite ways to win an argument! lol I think because of all our dogs(7) and our two cats have really helped out. My huband is the one who found the snake and I am glad he did because as I am doing my chores in the morning I am not very awake yet and might have missed it. He came running inside very fast. Scared me. I did not know what he was going to say running in like that. So, I was actually very relieved to have only been a snake even though he ate my babies.