Chooj helped me clean out an unkempt planting bed near the road and we found worms for our turkey and its four guinea companions so Hayes stepped in to help. I turned over a rock and exclaimed,"Hey! A cricket! Hey ... a snake!" It was a pretty corn snake and Alex picked it up so the kids could pet it. Chooj kissed it.
This is what Chooj has kissed so far this month: me, Alex, Hayes, a dead turkey chick, a live turkey chick, baby guineas and a corn snake.
While Chooj and I napped, Alex mowed the mares' pasture with the push mower. The bushhog on the tractor is down so you gotta do what you gotta do. He had one small section left when I woke so he asked me to do it. A few turns of the mower and I yelled,"Snake!!" It was a good-sized rat snake, maybe four feet long. Again, Alex pretended to be the Croc Hunter and caught it. It promptly bit our dog Shadow on the nose and Shadow pouted under the truck for the rest of the afternoon. "I wanna go back to the apartment."
Hayes and I found a new butterfly - a mourning cloak. It seems lots and lots of butterflies were flitting about today. We'll have to learn all our butterflies.
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