Yikes - Snakes!

We have had a great weekend! Andy had to work on Saturday morning, so Alex and I stayed home and got some laundry finished. When Daddy got home - we all took naps and then spent the rest of the afternoon playing.

Today we went to church and then out for brunch. We went out to the Country Neighbor - and Alex ate more than I think I have ever seen him eat! On Sundays, they have only three meal choices available, and today it was Chicken Fried Chicken, Roast Pork, and Roast Beef. Andy ordered the beef and Alex got the pork, I stayed with chicken. :) It came with mashed potatoes and gravy, corn, spiced Jello (where you make it with cinnamon applesauce - very yummy - although Andy didn't care for it), and kolaches for dessert. Alex's plate was CLEAN by the time he was finished! Granted, quite a bit of it ended up on his shorts, but a lot made it into his mouth. Then it was back home to watch the race (yay Carl!) and Alex took an outstanding nap!

While he was sleeping, I took a nap, too. :) Andy was out in the garage and came across this little visitor........

Yeah, it's in a Gladware container, so you can see that it's just a baby. Andy only had it in that container until Alex woke up so they could go outside and release it together. We actually have quite a few snakes around here, and as long as they are outside, I am fine with them. They eat the bugs that I really don't care to have in my house.

Here's one of the others that we have in our window well (this was NOT the one in the container)

As Andy was mowing this afternoon, I think he came across 6 snakes around our house. They are mostly on the side of the house (like in the pictures on here) and in the backyard by our sprinkler system panel. One of them is HUGE - even for a garter snake. We always have to be careful when we're outside - even though they are harmless, it's still scary when they catch you off guard!

Here are Alex and I watching the snake in the window well.

Alex pointing to where we put the little snake.....

Every time we come home now, Alex has to walk around the house and look for the snakes. He can't go right inside, even if he has said that he wants a drink of water, juice, milk, etc. It's hard to get that boy to come inside!

As Andy was going through the fridge tonight, he pulled out a different Gladware container that had some lunchmeat in it. As soon as Alex saw it, he said, "Snake?" Such a funny, observant boy!! :)