Snakes on a

On my walk tonight, I thought of another application of the Blueberry Principle: stars. 

The more you look the more you see, you see. 

Sometimes you focus in and realize that a big star is actually a cluster of a bunch of small ones. So yes alright okay maybe I was walking at the park in the dark. 

Awareness. 

Chyeah.

Earlier today, I was in the garage loading up plastics, paperboard, and other materials to recycle.

This is a move where I would cross fold, and the plastic, paperboard, and other materials would fold behind me and follow me around.

That is a square dance joke in case you were wondering.

I moved the bin with glass and magazines in it, and there was a long worm-looking thing under it. I thought, 'Hey, this is a worm. Molly likes worms. I'll put this in a jar and take it to her so she can slurp it up.'

I got close with one of the glass jars, but it moved all weird and then stuck out its black tongue at me as if to say, "I am not worm. I am Snek."

See, 'snek' is the word for a baby snake. Also goes by snäk. If that gets a red squiggle in your word processor, you might want to go ahead and add that to your dictionary.

I told Mike about it, and he got the broom and I promptly ushered it out of the garage and down a hole it slithered, which means it was a center in a line and slid past the other center nose-to-nose.

That was another square dance joke. Try to keep up.

So while Mike and I hauled the recyclables down to jailhouse alley, we deliberated about Snek. Why was a baby snake in our garage? How could it benefit by being there? What do baby snakes even eat?

Mike suggested mice. But to fit into a worm-sized snek, they would have to be some really small mice.

Reeeeeeeally small.

Almost mice-roscopic.

Then he thought a little bit and said, "I got it. They eat dust!"

Because, like, of the whole Genesis 3:14 thing.

But then he went on to say that they are Nature's Maids - subsisting on whilst cleaning up the dust of the earth.

And after that all I could think about was

Snek
Photo credit: alorix

Also Snek
Photo Credit: @spicedpopsicle

So apparently this is not a new idea. No, not a new idea at all.

I just really hope that wasn't a baby rattlesnake in my garage because then, well,

*clears throat, then speaks in a hoarse whisper*

where's the mom!?!?!!

Baby rattlesnake is so cute because the rattle is already built in,

TWS