No, they are rough but their skin is pocked like it has thousand of very 
tiny holes.  Some snakes are smoother than these, as I said, and these were 
in no way slimy feeling.  The longer and larger snake was about 3 inches 
around and as I said, their skin, for both of them, was dry.  A fish just 
caught is slimier but if it were dry, a snake's skin is sort of scaly but 
they don't have scales.

Phil.
Living His Name



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Vicki" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2013 3:46 PM
Subject: Re: Unique Birthday Party For Our Grandson


> 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
>
>>
>>
>> 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
>> >
>