June 15-18, 2008

June 15-18, 2008
Originally uploaded by sheila.addison

We've spent three of the past four days with our cousins. They were gone only five minutes when Louis said, "I'm bored." We had a great time at their cottage on Father's Day. Then they stayed at our house for a couple days. Despite being unseasonably cool, they insisted on swimming in Lake Michigan and doing the Slip-N-Slide.

The big news from Monday was an encounter with an Eastern Hog nosed snake at our back door. It puffed its neck out at Louis, so I decided to trap it and figure out what it was before letting it loose in the yard with young kids. The capture was hilarious. The whole time Emmett cried, Teddy screamed and Louis was shouting directions. Turns out the snake is harmless and its defense mechanism to scare people off (the puffing neck/hissing sounds) have served in their decline as people mistakenly believe they are dangerous and kill them. I have to say that was snakes fate until I figured out otherwise.

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I loved your description of the boys. I can just see Louis giving you directions. Kids seem to be resilient to the cool weather... like the other night in Lake MI with small group.

[Nicole]

OH, Sheila, the snake story had me laughing out loud. You, my friend, are better than I.....I would probably NOT have taken the time to identify but rather demanded that Matt kill it immediately!

We drove by your house a couple of weeks ago on our last-day of school trip to North Beach. We were tempted to stop but were trying to beat the storm home. We'll have to give you a call next time we're over that way.

Blessings,
Nicole

[Debbie]

Dare I say we also had an encounter with the above mentioned snake 2 summers ago.....it met it's Maker with the help of Dave and the end of a shovel head. Don't turn me in to the DNR!