A Follow-Up on Our Visitor

I've had several people ask me about the venemosity (yes, I know I just made up a word!) of our little visitor last night. I did some research comparing pictures and as far as I can tell, our snake was a Black Rat Snake, common in this area (hopefully not too common). Not poisonous thank goodness! Of course my husband tried to convince me that Black Rat Snakes mate for life and have lots of babies, but since I haven't seen him doing any research, I'm only keeping one eye open for our guest's life partner and all of their offspring.