The same day we got Spot, Caleb spotted a green garden snake on the ground in the calf pen. I asked if they wanted me to catch it and they did, so I picked him up and gave him to Caleb and Clay to play with. (Levi missed out on the excitement since he had spent the night at Byron's house.)
The boys wanted to keep him, so we looked around for something to put him in. He was pretty long, so the boxes we tried were too small to hold him in. We also tried a watering can and an ice chest, but he was pretty good at escaping. The boys finally decided to try and put him in the stock tank (see earlier "Who needs a pool" post). It had long since drained all the water from swimming.
Unfortunately for the snake, it was a really warm day and the black stock tank turned out not to be the best home for him. The boys came in the house sad, because the snake had died in the stock tank after about 5 minutes. We had him a total of maybe 30 minutes, but I'm sure for the snake it seemed like a whole lot longer !
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