Today we drove out to the Pembina Colony where the Hutterites were having an open Fall market. We bought a pile of corn, some borscht (which we ate for lunch at the Scotts and was awesome).  We picked up some huge frozen chickens, some garlic sausage and chicken pies. It was a good experience and the colony was very interesting.

 

On the way to the Scott’s we caught a Plains Garter Snake sunning on the road. I felt like a cheap version of Steve Irwin trying to catch the thing but in the end (literally) it was caught and bundled into a platic container until we got home where he now lives near Nini the Leopard Gecko in its own small aquarium.

 

The snake’s name is Santos. It was either Santos or Gordon and we settled on Santos (has a more urban feel).

 

There’s a picture of Santos below along with pics of the frog pond we added in the front of the house. If anyone out there has an old aquarium they’re not using they’d like to donate to Santos that would be fine because he’s in a pretty small one right now. Just let us know.