Vicki,

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


> 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
>