Snakes

Today, Luke handed me a little book about snakes to read. I explained that he and Sarah already know how to speak snake, so we didn't need to read that one.

Then they recanted, and said that they were wrong, and that they don't know how to speak snake.

So we read the book. Once we saw the snakes forked tongue, and I added in the parts the book skipped about their Jacobson's organ and smelling with their tongue, they suddenly lit up and started making hissing noises and saying that this was how snakes speak.

So I just thought I should right that little bit of potential confusion: Snakes do not sound like some sort of barber quartet song, they actually hiss, just like everyone thought all along.

(Also, they apparently saw a snake today. It was a dead snake. They are very excited to show it to me tomorrow. While on the topic, I saw a dead one myself about a week back on the road, covered in flies. It was tiny though, and had a white belly, and was on it's back. I couldn't get it to flip over, and there were to many flies to make a concerted effort. At some point I mentioned here  that my dad had pet snakes and that we once had one when I was little and I am now the snake expert. Who knew?)

P.S. Katie, this is a short post just for you. It was really hard, but I limited myself. :-)