I bequeath today, Snake day.

Yeah, I know, you think snakes are creepy, but whatever.  Today is now snake day.  Deal.

So In zoology today, our teacher brought in another animal.  He was stressing how awesome it was the he found one of these because he has never seen one before.  So, yeah, he caught a Blue Racer out behind the school.  Looked a little something like this.  He looked really awesome in person though, because he was shedding his skin, and we got to watch him.  It was cool, and when it was all done, there was this awesome snake skin.  ANd the snake was glistening and it was really smooth.  Totally cool. But it was pretty big, but not full grown.  It could grow to be another 3 feet long, which is crazy, because that is like a 6 foot long snake right outside the school.

So then we got to take a nature walk, and look for more snakes.  If you ever want to catch a snake in your backyard, just put a piece of plywood lying down in the grass, but prop it up a little bit, and in an hour or so you will have a snake, or two, under the plywood.  Good stuff.  Anyways, the nature walk was cool.  I got this awesome net, but I didnt catch anything with it.  I almost caught a Meadow Hawk.  It is a dragonfly, but doesn’t the name sound awesome.  So then, some guy comes running down the trail yelling about how he caught this snake.  It was in his net, and he was swinging it around alot.  I felt really bad for the snake, so I decide to take him out.  Now before you say how stupid I am, it was a garter (not garDNer) snake, and it was quite small.  So I take it out of the net, and he is really agrivated at first.  I finally got him to calm down though, and then he was quite pleasant.  I named him Fred, but he didn’t really like that name, so I re-named him Axel, after-which he was quite pleased.  Then some guy came over and freaked him out, and so he tried to bite me.  Yeah, that was creepy.  I am not afraid of snakes, I just dont like to get bitten.  So eventually I had to let Axel go.  He was an amazing little critter.  Ohh, he was a Eastern Garter Snake, which is really awesome, because his scales are red/orange underneath, and when he breathed, you caught a glimpse of the awesome coloration.  This is kind of what Axel looked like.  Isn’t he a darling.  I got someone to hold him that had never even touched a snake before.  Quite an accomplished day.

SO then in Cross Country, we had a game day.  We played tag, but if you got tagged you just joined to group.  The game was over when everyone was tagged, or when the coach called time.  I never got caught, one of the five.  Then we played…..snake in the grass.  That is where you have some person rolling around in the grass trying to tag the other people.  When you got tagged you had to join them, until everyone was tagged.  I never won that one, but it is quite possibly the best game in the whole world.

And that is why today is snake day.