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,
> 
> 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
> >