5000?

I am almost to 5,000 visitors.  That's crazy.  Either Mom is checking the blog waaaay too many times a day, or maybe there really are other people reading it from time to time!

--------------------------------

Farm life.  Playing with snakes.  Yay.

I was lounging on Mom and Dad's patio, watching the monsters, when this slithering little buddy caught my eye.  He snuck underneath one of Mom's big flowering plants, so of course the boys and I got sticks and scared him out so I could catch him.

Wilberforce is not a snake guy.

Mom gave us a plastic drink dispenser jug - it was the only thing she could find that was clear, but not glass.  Monsters and glass jars don't mix well.

We put pea rock, sticks, a teeny bit of water and some grass in the jug...our little snake terrarium.

Then, of course, we had to write our names on the side of the jug and draw snakes and butterflies.  It wouldn't be a snake home without all that crap, right?

Braed named the snake "Leo".  I liked it.  Gus didn't - he wanted something along the lines of "Cutey Pie Snakey Poo".  He's so weird with his names.

The snake escaped from his lair the first night.  Not surprised.  I was, however, very surprised that when I was lounging on the patio once again, I saw the same snake in the same spot crawling into the same plant.  I though snakes were so intelligent?  Anyways, we poked around in the plant with sticks again, and this time Gus reached in and grabbed the little sucker.

Back to the snake terrarium for Leo.

The next morning I discovered something neat - Leo had shed his skin over night!  Biology lesson for the Bad Boys!  Of course, when I explained that snakes shed their skin so they can grow bigger, the boys became convinced Leo was growing into a giant snake that would be so big he could "eat a whole deer!".

Boys.