Both enjoyed this post ... never had that experience except once with a garden snake. It was kind of big but nothing worrying. I noticed it looking out back patio doors, and our cat noticed it and got excited. Damn thing turned on me and bit me on the calf. The cat not the snake. I was wearing shorts it being summer in So.Ca.
Question. Why had you left any food out on that table?
Have you seen it again? Hey, if that thing is going to have offspring, you may have a colony soon.