HOSS
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Little Hoss was playing outside in the yard today and after not hearing anything from him in an hour I went to check on him. He had built a contraption out of sticks that looked like a 2 ft tall teepee bound by string at the top. Another flexible stick about 5 ft long was laid across the top of the teepee at an angle with a rock holding the thick end of the stick to the ground. Kind of looked like a fishing pole with the little teepee as the rod holder. The flexible end was bent down to the ground and anchored under a string stretched between two pegs. A 3 ft long piece of 2"pvc pipe led to the end of the stick held down by the string. I called him over and asked what he had built and he said it was a double super duper snake trap. Puzzled I asked how he was going to catch a snake with that. He said 'simple dad.......the snake will think the pipe is a snake hole and will crawl in. When he comes out the other end he will press the skinny end of the stick down and it will come out from under the string and fling the snake up on the porch'. I told him that was a snake launcher and not a trap. He said 'yes it is.....when it throws the snake up on the porch it will fall in that bucket and can't get out'. I looked up on the porch and sure enough he had one of the orange 5 gallon Home Depot buckets up there. I didn't bother telling him that it probably wouldn't work and that since it was 45 degrees out there were no snakes around......I was too impressed by his in-depth thought process on how to catch a snake. I told him we need to send one down to Jogeephus so he could rid the Georgia swamps from the evil cottonmouth. He then got started explaining how he was going to build a huge one to catch alligators. I may put him to work designing a new set of working pens for me :lol2:
you have a very smart and creative kid there. Do you take pics of his inventions?
