Into the Archives 67-Little League Baseball Game

Baseball has been the family sport I've grown up with. Though I've never played it myself, my dad and a couple of my brothers have. I have attended many more Royals games than any other professional sporting event. Back in the day, the whole family and our fellow baseball friends would hang out at our brothers/sons games together. I don't think I really watched many of them but I was there to support while EJ and I planned our next adventure.

Into the Archives 66-Bury the Baby

Oh you know, just some quality time burying the baby in the Red Chair. The Red Chair was one of our favorite toys that provided may hours of entertainment. We would pretend it was a rocket blasting off as we spun around in it as fast as possible.

Into the Archives 65-Baby Snakes

I have an opinion that many people disagree with quite strongly and that is that snakes are really cool. Holding a calm snake makes me calm and happy. Over the years, I've caught several small snakes that were easy to keep for several weeks or months.

In the summer of 2008 we caught this Northern Red Bellied snake, a small species of snake that only grows to be about a foot long that can coil up in the palm of your hand. We names this one Lash. We kept her in a large Rubbermaid tub with dirt, rocks and bark to hid in along with worms and other bugs for her to eat. We kept the tub in the gazebo out of the elements and away from mischievous, hungry critters. We would've kept it inside the house but our mom thought that was less than a good idea.

 One morning I went out to check on the snake when what I thought was a worm caught my eye. I looked closer and did a double take. It was a small snake not much longer than an adult mans finger. Then I saw another. And another. About a half dozen total. Did our snake have babies?

I did some research and, although I never found anything on Red Bellied births in particular, I did find that there are some species of snake that don't lay eggs and do in fact have live births. 

So I deduced, either our snake did have babies or the dirt had eggs in it when we put the dirt in the bin. Because I was worried that the adult snake would mistake the babies as food, I put them in a separate tub and soon released them because I had no idea how to feed them. It was a fun summer with so many snakes!

Into the Archives 64-Chalk Board

The first time my parents updated the house, they hung a big chalk board on the wall in the back hall. It has provided many hours of entertainment since then.