The beans look like they're doing well. A week or so, and they'll be ready to pick! The first bean harvest is always so delicious.
Awww, poor snake. He's just eating bugs and rodents for you! He might also disuade those pesky opossums from visiting, too :-)
It's been years since I've seen a snake in the open. We used to have Garter snakes growing up that were fun to play with, though my sister still has a scar from one! The times they bit me, it felt like sandpaper. Eventually, fox snakes (fake rattlesnakes) displaced them. They're not poisonous, but they have big fangs, and catching them is unwise.
You got bit by snakes! Ah! I'm afraid to get anywhere near ours and I'm sure it's nonpoisonous. The good thing about ours is they are known to eat copperhead babies and those are the nasty kind of snake. Our cats have done wonders wiping out mice. I'm surprised to actually have a snake here because the cats kill tons of mice at the start of every summer.