What did they feel like? A broom? Shivers!
Vicki
----- Original Message -----
From: Phil Scovell <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Wednesday, September 11, 2013 3:07 pm
Subject: Re: Unique Birthday Party For Our Grandson
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> Vicki,
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> These two different snakes were dry skinned so they didn't feel anything
> like I figured.
>
> Phil.
> Living His Name
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Vicki" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 9:15 PM
> Subject: Re: Unique Birthday Party For Our Grandson
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> > What a special party. Sounds like you all had show and tell and lots of
> > fun. Uh those snakes. Ew! Would have touch everything else but those
> > slitheries.
> >
> > Vicki
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Phil Scovell <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Date: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 4:22 pm
> > Subject: Unique Birthday Party For Our Grandson
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> Saturday, just past, we had a very unusual birthday party for Elijah, one
> >> of our grandsons that is adopted by my youngest 31 year old Son, Everett.
> >> I call him Lee, that is, my grandson, some call him Eli, while others use
> >> his full name of Elijah. He is 10 years old now. Lee is part American
> >> Indian, part Black, and part Mexican. He has a Mo hawk hair cut and when
> >> he started at his new public school, he was the only Mo Hawk in the
> >> school. Within weeks, more than a half a dozen boys got the same hair
> >> cut. My wife and I paid for a pet store to bring about 10 animals to the
> >> house to be held and petted and we had a houseful of people at my son's
> >> home in back of our house on Saturday. Besides all the kids, we had
> >> other relatives and friends. The man from the pet store, and his
> >> partner, came and set up the holding boxes and put on quite a show for
> >> over an hour. He taught us about each animal, where it was from, what
> >> they ate, and how they protected themselves in the wild. We felt, saw,
> >> and held each animal. Some are quite exotic, too. Well, I'd say they
> >> all were exotic. A couple were North American, some were South American,
> >> some were from Australia and one was from Asia. I can't remember the
> >> names of each specie but he started out with two different sizes of
> >> snakes; one small and one large. The MC, Master of Ceremonies, had Lee
> >> stand in front of everybody, eyes closed, and he would put each animal in
> >> his hands before he could open his eyes again. The first little stake
> >> the MC put into Lee's short sleeved shirt and the little guy crawled
> >> around until he came out the bottom of his shirt as the man told us about
> >> him. No, none of the creatures would bite unless you tried to hurt them.
> >> Some of you may have heard of Sugar Gliders. They are about the size and
> >> color, to some degree, of a chipmunk but when they stretch out their arms
> >> and back legs, webbing comes out and they literally glide through the
> >> air. They live in trees, I forget where, and eat much of what parrots
> >> and other wild birds eat. From the top of a tall tree, they have been
> >> recorded to glide up to 900 feet or three football fields in length. You
> >> can buy them here in stores as pets but they recommend buying two because
> >> they are so gregarious, they will die from loneliness so they don't
> >> recommend them for people not at home most of the time. Another one of
> >> the unusual animals were two different lizards. One walked on his hind
> >> feet but the other on 4 legs. We held a scorpion in the palms of our
> >> hands and also a tarantula. There was a critter of the monitor family
> >> which lives in the jungle and is larger than our little dogs; much
> >> larger. When they get older, they eat animals brought down by lions
> >> during their hunts with their super sharp teeth. If a lion gives them
> >> any trouble, they have a whip like tail which they use to slap a lion
> >> across the eyes and face and it is so painful, most lions leave their
> >> pray to this animal. It is related to the Komodo Dragon from the orient.
> >> The man said that his friend has one that isn't so friendly and one of
> >> his buddies came over and got too close to the thing and the animal
> >> whipped his friend with it's tail and even wearing jeans, his friend had
> >> to get 14 stitches. His body felt lizard like to me when the guy let
> >> Sandy and I feel him. Then there was the huge frog like animal. He
> >> doesn't hop but he was huge. They eat both insects and small animals;
> >> even rabbits, rats, and mice. His belly was damp and felt like large
> >> balls of jello while his back felt rough. When it gets hot and dry, they
> >> dig a round hole and sit in it. There back spreads out and he is
> >> completely hidden from pray. This is when the fat belly he has
> >> discharges moisture so he doesn't over heat. They feet by just staying
> >> in the little whole and they then use only their very long tongue to grab
> >> food walking too close. He was heavy, too, at least 10 pounds but they
> >> grow much larger. All in all, it was quite the birthday party.
> >>
> >> Phil.
> >> Living His Name
> >>
> >> Saturday, just past, we had a very unusual birthday party for Elijah, one
> >> of our grandsons that is adopted by my youngest 31 year old Son, Everett.
> >> I call him Lee, that is, my grandson, some call him Eli, while others use
> >> his full name of Elijah. He is 10 years old now. Lee is part American
> >> Indian, part Black, and part Mexican. He has a Mo hawk hair cut and when
> >> he started at his new public school, he was the only Mo Hawk in the
> >> school. Within weeks, more than a half a dozen boys got the same hair
> >> cut. My wife and I paid for a pet store to bring about 10 animals to the
> >> house to be held and petted and we had a houseful of people at my son's
> >> home in back of our house on Saturday. Besides all the kids, we had
> >> other relatives and friends. The man from the pet store, and his
> >> partner, came and set up the holding boxes and put on quite a show for
> >> over an hour. He taught us about each animal, where it was from, what
> >> they ate, and how they protected themselves in the wild. We felt, saw,
> >> and held each animal. Some are quite exotic, too. Well, I'd say they
> >> all were exotic. A couple were North American, some were South American,
> >> some were from Australia and one was from Asia. I can't remember the
> >> names of each specie but he started out with two different sizes of
> >> snakes; one small and one large. The MC, Master of Ceremonies, had Lee
> >> stand in front of everybody, eyes closed, and he would put each animal in
> >> his hands before he could open his eyes again. The first little stake
> >> the MC put into Lee's short sleeved shirt and the little guy crawled
> >> around until he came out the bottom of his shirt as the man told us about
> >> him. No, none of the creatures would bite unless you tried to hurt them.
> >> Some of you may have heard of Sugar Gliders. They are about the size and
> >> color, to some degree, of a chipmunk but when they stretch out their arms
> >> and back legs, webbing comes out and they literally glide through the
> >> air. They live in trees, I forget where, and eat much of what parrots
> >> and other wild birds eat. From the top of a tall tree, they have been
> >> recorded to glide up to 900 feet or three football fields in length. You
> >> can buy them here in stores as pets but they recommend buying two because
> >> they are so gregarious, they will die from loneliness so they don't
> >> recommend them for people not at home most of the time. Another one of
> >> the unusual animals were two different lizards. One walked on his hind
> >> feet but the other on 4 legs. We held a scorpion in the palms of our
> >> hands and also a tarantula. There was a critter of the monitor family
> >> which lives in the jungle and is larger than our little dogs; much
> >> larger. When they get older, they eat animals brought down by lions
> >> during their hunts with their super sharp teeth. If a lion gives them
> >> any trouble, they have a whip like tail which they use to slap a lion
> >> across the eyes and face and it is so painful, most lions leave their
> >> pray to this animal. It is related to the Komodo Dragon from the orient.
> >> The man said that his friend has one that isn't so friendly and one of
> >> his buddies came over and got too close to the thing and the animal
> >> whipped his friend with it's tail and even wearing jeans, his friend had
> >> to get 14 stitches. His body felt lizard like to me when the guy let
> >> Sandy and I feel him. Then there was the huge frog like animal. He
> >> doesn't hop but he was huge. They eat both insects and small animals;
> >> even rabbits, rats, and mice. His belly was damp and felt like large
> >> balls of jello while his back felt rough. When it gets hot and dry, they
> >> dig a round hole and sit in it. There back spreads out and he is
> >> completely hidden from pray. This is when the fat belly he has
> >> discharges moisture so he doesn't over heat. They feet by just staying
> >> in the little whole and they then use only their very long tongue to grab
> >> food walking too close. He was heavy, too, at least 10 pounds but they
> >> grow much larger. All in all, it was quite the birthday party.
> >>
> >> Phil.
> >> Living His Name
> >
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