Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Watch out for the Snake! (skin)

Well my mom made a frightening but cool discovery when she was picking up pool toys around the yard. After picking up a beach ball she saw what she thought was a snake but turned out it was the skin of a snake in perfect condition. Andrew is all in to bugs, reptiles, nature, space, you name it, so it was sooooo cool! Here are some pictures of Andrew holding it and up close pics. Pretty cool, even cooler that it was just the skin and it was probably just a black/king snake.Andrew's new pet snake skin, mom still kept at a distance!
I think he would like a real pet snake! Actually I(april) like snakes(the non venomous kind) of course, but Mark said they were only good to wear. (in the 80's)!!
Snake eye holes. Perfectly in tact. I am sure my dad would not have his finger in his mouth like that if it was real. He wouldn't even be that close! Andrew loved it!
We measured it at about almost 6 feet long!!!!!
Looked like a copper head to me, but of course mom and dad did some web surfing and they said it was a black snake. It was a pretty cool discovery and good teaching moment for Andrew. On God's creatures and a little bit of snake awareness/safety.


1 comment:

Adrianelea said...

Oh My! The hair on my arm is standing on its end. My mom found on in her back yard--I have vowed to not go in her back yard!!

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