Leopard Gecko Tankhood

Fixed my leopard geckos up with their own site, again. It needed upgrading anyway.

Not a whole lot going on but I'm glad there's at least some kind of quiet around here.

My fire belly toads eggs have turned into tadpoles. Some of them are fat little things now so I'm looking at them allot waiting for some little legs to grow. At least one of them stayed tiny, it's like ant size. I'm looking forward to trying to get these guys going though. I got another tank ready for when they hop out of being mostly tadpoles, already ordered some flour beetles so I can give them an alternative to pinhead crickets. Anyway it's encouraging.

My leopard geckos are breeding but I've missed all the eggs thus far. Missy still hasn't laid hers. I'm kind of worried about her cause I don't really know just how long it takes for them to lay eggs after they're fat with them. Seems like forever and I wish she'd eat by now.

My fire belly toads laid eggs on the 19th, and now I have tadpoles, yay! They're in their own tank now and I'm keeping my eye on them. I hope they make it to froglets. I'm glad I finally got those guys to breed. It's kind of tricky with changing the water out. All the last times they haven't seemed to be terribly interested but maybe now they'll lay again.

One of my leopard geckos is pregnant and I've been watching her every day for like a week now with no eggs and she won't eat. She didn't even eat her last shedding so I'm starting to worry because her tail is aweful thin now. If she doesn't lay those eggs she's going to die of starvation. I've got an incubator ready for them. At least my geckos are breeding and the other two might have eggs again at some point. I left town for a week just a while ago and missed their eggs. When I came back they were already laid and had dried out.

I went and got some fire belly salamanders too, I got them in their own tank but they're only babies so, I dunno if they'll even make it to adulthood just yet. If they do I'll get 3 or 4 more, it's a fair sized tank and they're pretty sociable so maybe I can get enough to catch males and females to breed out of it. You just about can't sex them at all.

I have two Forest Chameleons or Helmeted Iguana now (Corytophanes cristatus) I think they're actually a Basilisk. They don't do much hehe, sit in one spot and stare at everything, but so far they're doing well and their tank is huge. I might get two more females if these guys do well. Helmeted Iguana

Seems like I have a regular zoo. I think I do pretty much, I could just about have my own little aquarium store here.

Not much else to report. Shane got to go to the beach on our week out with my brother and Steve up in Houston. He's learned how to swim on his own with his Spiderman life jacket. He caught a piggy and a croaker when we went fishing and basically had a blast. He's pretty much ready to ride a bike without training wheels too, getting up in the world there. He's growing so much so fast.

Just got off the phone with my bro's friend David. He's going to give me a ride to houston next friday to see my brother graduate. Yay! He's going to be an official super puter graphics geek-man. I'm so proud for him, I know our parents would just be bursting with it right now. Him and Steve are doing fantastic for each other. He's got like the most idealistic job right now. He can work at home off of the puter for this company and they're paying him like 75k a year. No kidding, David was teasing me he's calling my bro sweet sugar daddy lol! When bro first told me about it I mentioned cool, hey, Steve doesn't have to work now! Bro was like oooohhh but nooooooo! hehehe

Now that he's graduating he might even do something off the side with schooling for studio stuff, get even more into sound after his DJ hobby. I thought he ought to go for it. Why stop with just one thing eh? And when he retires or something, he can just play with the studio stuff and be a super geek sound man on top of it. My bro is like a fresh of breath air. It's great to see him being so successful and happy. I hope him and Steve adopt. They talk about it, but now they really can and their kids wouldn't have to worry about anything. I know my bro though, they'd still have to pull their own weight, work hard in school like he has if they want to keep it. Man, I hope Shane sees allot of my brother in his life, so he can see, if he doesn't like what he has at home, he sure as hell can excell into something else and make it up there if he really wants to. Just love what you do and work for it.

Course, I'm a mom so I think things like doctor, big shot attorney, uber geek ... :P well, all I really have to cover is making sure education is important to Shane and hope I get to him before drinking or drugs ever do. I didn't go to college, I tried for nursing but the high grades competition, I didn't cut that. I'm a little slower paced than college will really let you be. They have special help stuff but when I went back to my highschool to get a record for me having a disability, they didn't have one. Kinda off ennit? I go to resources and remedials in school all that time, and I don't even have a professional opinion on it like I'm ADD or Dislexic or anything. They said I had a learning disability in like the third grade. I still feel like I was put in resources and just forgotten about, not expected to excell or anything but I also think things like that go two ways. I could have tried harder, cared more, be less miserable and withdrawn. I thought I was stupid, hell I was treated like I was pretty stupid. Me and bro didn't have the easiest childhood but we do have some good memories and loved our parents. It feels like a relief to look at my bro and think we both come out alright. We both got things our parents would be proud of.

Sometimes I still wish they could see Shane, just talk to them. It's really hard not having them there, sometimes it feels down right like there's just no escape, no one to turn to. Especially for advice or just to vent like when Ashley drives me crazy or I'm not sure how I should feel or what I should do. I'm locked away on the inside. Sometimes I think that's not a bad idea, I can be so paranoid, loose my whole mind. I think about things but it's a really big problem for me about responding to what I'm thinking, start feeling it. Like if I think everyone's looking at me then I'd like to go crawl into a corner and plant my head between my legs. Every now and then I still feel like the hunted animal on the run, allot of fear, guilt, anger and depression with no real sense of why. Maybe if I had a good reason it wouldn't be so bad. I mean ... I miss being able to feel like myself, without feeling like a prisoner of war. Then I have to run away again, before I get too close to inside. I'm a nightmare.

Okay, so it's a bad time for me to make comparatives in the positives between me and my brother. I'm happy for him. He's shining and I love my bro, I'm so proud for him. Right now I suck, I just want to make it to the next day. My bro is sensitive though, he's even worse than me about having to deal with anything on the down side and I don't want to upset him. I think I'm going to have a good time in houston, watch my bro graduate, take some pictures, maybe go out to eat or Steve will make one of those fancy dinners of his. Just hang out. I miss him, we haven't hung out in a while now he's been so busy. Believe me, the last thing I'd put on my bro's plate is anything that'd drag him down. I care about how he feels, and I'd like to assure him he should be feeling on top of the world.

We have a baby duck, I got him for Shane on Easter. He was died green. I dunno why they do that to the poor damn things. It wasn't nessicary to go and half drown them in different dye colors. I only got him after a long plead bargaining with my hubby. Mom in law and Ashley were all for it, suggested it first while I was still thinking about it. I had to promise I'll let him go at the park where they have a bunch of ducks once he/she's old enough. I'll have to be sneaky though and hope no one sees me do it. I dunno, I'm sure someone would tell me to take my duck back cause they got enough already or something.

I got the baby pool out the other day and let baby duck play in it yesterday before it started to rain. I have him inside in a play pen and he's getting bigger so he's making a bigger mess. No kidding, I'm running out of newspaper. He loved the pool after I got him to come to it though. He's so sweet, I peck the ground with my hand going 'took,took,took' and he comes right to me and starts poking around like I'm momma showing him a good spot to find a treat. He splashed and played for as long as I pretended to do the same thing with my hand. I'm going to let him play in the pool again today a little later, let him go into the backyard with me I think. He needs allot more excersise than that baby pen for sure. I dunno, if I can't get away with letting him go, maybe I can convince hubby to keep the duck. I mean, we got a backyard pond and soon as I can get the back yard fenced all I would need is an adequate shelter so nothing could get at him at night.

I sure got plenty of things to eat in the backyard. All my peppermint and spearmint are two huge beds and the peppermint is already starting to spread out enough to overflow it.

I got some fig trees going too but it'll be years before they make figs and it doesn't look like they'll be big enough this year to take out of their pots. I'm just going to plant two and put the others in my first garden/yard sale. I'm kind of divided between yard sale or ebay ... if I ebay I'll have to mail eight million things. Maybe I'll just do both. They'll sell anything on ebay, there's even some polk salat seeds for sale on it and I got that stuff growing in my backyard like crazy ever since I started taking care of the one by the compost pile. And the false strawberries I promoted everywhere are just making my yard look like I peppered it in red poka-dots right now. My yard - is edible hehehe.

Damn cats got into my bird nest though, I'm trying to figure out what I can put up there so the birds will be safe from my cats. I'm thinking of maybe just wrapping a mesh wire around it like chicken fence stuff in a cone, so birds can get through but the cat can't get a paw far enough to get at them. Sucks.

Oh man, they posted it. *smack forehead* I wish I had just left it to my live journal. It always turns out like that. Post something just cause I felt like having an opinion but then want to smack my forehead the day after like it's some kind of 'omg what did I do' hangover. hehe bleh. Oh well, at least I meant what I said. And it does feel kind of good to vent once in a while like I'm actually alive.

Trentonian.com

SPACE ALIEN DIPLOMATS: Local men claim immunity from U.S. laws; cops not buying it
03/15/2007
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TRENTON -- Four men claiming diplomatic immunity as members of a "indigenous nation" that includes people from "the so-called planet Earth" and other planets such as Mars and Venus have been arrested and called frauds this week by Trenton police.

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The four claim to be part of Abannaki Indigenous Nation, over which the U.S. has no authority, police said.

The group’s Web site links to the Universal Zulu Nation, which denounces the U.S. as a slave state (see sidebar).

Police said they’ve had "encounters" in the streets all week with the purported diplomats who claimed immunity from U.S. laws.

In each incident, the men presented diplomatic identity papers which investigators determined were fraudulent, police said.

The first incident occurred on Sunday in the 200 block of Stuyvesant Avenue in Trenton.

Police said Wilbert Harrington, also known as Ashir M. Bey, 27, of Willow Court, Hamilton, was arrested at 5:46 a.m. and charged with possession of a controlled dangerous substance and related charges, obstructing the administration of law, resisting arrest, and displaying fraudulent documentation.

As of early yesterday, he was lodged at the Mercer County Correction Center.

Then at 9:29 p.m. Monday, Abdul Ali Amin, 33, whose last known address was in the 800 block of Carteret Ave., was the subject of a traffic stop at Perry and North Broad streets, police said.

He was issued traffic summonses, and also charged with displaying fraudulent documentation, police said. Bail was set at $2,500.

William McRae, also known as Born El-Rey, 33, was arrested Tuesday at 22 minutes after midnight on a local warrant following a traffic stop for fictitious tags at Stuyvesant and Hayes avenues, police said.

An arrest document provided by police gave McRae’s address as 824 Southard St.

But Assistant Municipal Prosecutor Lenore Hannoh said McRae would only give a post office box number in Philadelphia as an address at his arraignment yesterday morning before Judge Lawson McElroy. So stated his municipal court documents.

"The defendant did commit the act of exhibiting false government documents; to wit, knowingly exhibiting a false government document which was used as a means of verifying a person’s identity," court papers stated.

Police also they towed a car with phony diplomatic license plates from where it was parked at Anderson and Hewitt streets.

The vehicle was said to be owned by a Russell K. Davis, age unknown, of the 300 block Franklin Street, who was arrested.

Police kept the car hidden as evidence yesterday and wouldn’t identify the make or model, nor say what was on the plates or phony documentation.

The Trentonian unsuccessfully attempted to interview six men who said they were with "the diplomats" as they stood in the Trenton Police and Municipal Court lobby after McRae’s arraignment yesterday.

The men wouldn’t give their names, and turned down interview requests there in the lobby.

One of the two best-dressed men in the group, who said he was "a representative from Nation," said he and the group would visit the newspaper for an interview after court.

They did not appear, however.

Police told The Trentonian that the Muslim group first appeared in Philadelphia. Members were first recognized in Mercer County seven months ago, and authorities have had their eyes on them ever since.


©The Trentonian 2007

Space Alien Diplomats

My contribution to a little insanity. What the heck. I'm waiting for these guys to post my comment. I think they might actually pass my submission. I didn't really have much to go on though, do these guys think they're Abenaki Native Americans or what? The misspelling has me kind of screwed around and there's nothing else on them. I guess I just wanted to vent for the hell of it since everyone else was posting their wild, irrelevant opinions.


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Fossil range: Pleistocene - Recent
Image of a man and a woman on the Pioneer plaque.
Conservation status
Least concern
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Hominidae
Genus: Homo
Species: H. sapiens
Subspecies: H. s. sapiens
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Linnaeus, 1758

Humans, or human beings, are bipedal primates belonging to the mammalian species Homo sapiens (Latin: "wise man" or "knowing man") in the family Hominidae (the great apes).[1][2] Humans have a highly developed brain capable of abstract reasoning, language, and introspection. This mental capability, combined with an erect body carriage that frees their upper limbs for manipulating objects, has allowed humans to make far greater use of tools than any other species. Humans originated in Africa about 200,000 years ago, but now they inhabit every continent, with a total population of over 6.5 billion as of 2007.

Like most primates, humans are social by nature; however, humans are particularly adept at utilizing systems of communication for self-expression, the exchange of ideas, and organization. Humans create complex social structures composed of cooperating and competing groups, ranging in scale from small families and partnerships to species-wide political, scientific and economic unions. Social interactions between humans have also established an extremely wide variety of traditions, rituals, ethics, values, social norms, and laws which form the basis of human society. Humans also have a marked appreciation for beauty and aesthetics which, combined with the human desire for self-expression, has led to cultural innovations such as art, literature and music.

Humans are also noted for their desire to understand and influence the world around them, seeking to explain and manipulate natural phenomena through science, philosophy, mythology and religion. This natural curiosity has led to the development of advanced tools and skills; humans are the only known species to build fires, cook their food, clothe themselves, and use numerous other technologies.
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In North America, it is no more apparent than in the vast diversity of the United States that everyone should have the freedom of religion, the right of speech, education and all races of human being, in however much equality they will lend each other, to uphold constitutional right to it.

Maybe that pledge of allegiance to the United States of America should go more like "many nations, under what they so choose to believe". Fortunatley or unfortunatley "under the republic for which it stands" means we put these guys in office and if you don't like them, maybe run for office . Personally I'd rather we were a matriarchal dominant world than patriarchal, maybe folks wouldn't be so bent on power, oppression and materialistic dillusion.

I don't need to come from mars to dislike allot of things, I don't need to come from the dogma of priests, politics or social sect idealism like phantom oppressors and world conspiracies, to have my own mind about allot of things. I am from planet Earth, my mother, we are strange enough for me and nothings ever going to come from anywhere else outside of us, to solve our problems, but ourselves. We created them.

It'd be nice for a change if we were all "The Human Beings" for once, and that we all share the same Ancestors and Creator and Mother Earth. In my own idealistic world, not even some guy from Orions Belt would be the alien.

But man, you're still going to have to pay that extra .35 cents on your Quaker oatmeal at the super store for as long as we have materialism based on the economics we have structured our world domunant societies on.

It's not just the United States. Currency is a global economic and you'll still be paying the troll one way or another and you'll still be waving papers at some authority or another that have to be ligit if you want to play with the system you defy. You'll still have to show some form of identification, or you can just live in an airport in France for seven years and sleep in the terminals or some modern version of some internment camp where all the illegal aliens go ...

Figuring it out yet? Do what the Amish do.

Don't wanna pay taxes, take a script from Gandhi and go gather your own salt with your own hands.

What are you about? Is this really the kind of ways you want to gather recognition to your causes and beliefs? Nobody even knows what your beliefs are, it's just whatever the media is going to say about you. Looks like you're just screwing around trying to be provocative without any real substance behind you. Just some goofy fenatics wearing tin foil hats who are going to give the Native American Abenaki Nation a really hard time with slander and misconception they are anything like you.

Your attention based on having unrecognized papers to a car, driving around like what? You own something?

Since when do Human Beings actually own anything? In reality.

Been a while posting. Not much to really report. Much of the same. Haven't seen my Granny now in a couple of weeks since they let her go back home. She's at the hospital up there, I want to get up there pretty bad. I'm hoping I can do that this coming weekend.

My uncle is pretty much the same but kind of worse. Had a sprint of the hospital with him having some kind of wierd spasming in his condition, it might be due to his type of diabetes. I only got him to the emergency room in enough time because of his breathing. His oxygen was low making carbon monoxide high so he was pretty loopy and not making much sense allot. I was really worried. He had this convulsion while I was over one night complaining about the shaking and his legs buckeling from under him. I called an ambulance but he wouldn't take the ride. He had a visit with his physician the next day so I went over to make sure he got there. I told them I wanted him to go into the hospital. His doc couldn't admit him because his insurance wouldn't let her or take her or something, the usual insurance companies butting in stuff. She said I could take him though and admit him under his heart doctor. He was still saying he didn't want to go but she said I could take him in his own best interest since he was kind of out of it. So me and hubby took him to the emergency room and got him in there. It was a just in time thing because he had a bad asthma attack when they finally got him a room, so he ended up in ICU for a few days before getting another one. He had an infectious lung infection but it was some long name I can't remember. Aparently not as serious as something like menengitis though because they let him go home a little earlier than I would really have liked him to because he still couldn't breathe so great.

That wasn't really so long ago. He's home breathing better though, if his home health care lady doesn't try to kill him. She dried some towels, put them in the bathroom closet, closed the door and as far as anyone knows they just started to smoulder. He called the fire department, thank goodness. It wasn't as bad as I thought it might be when I came over to see what happened. Towels were charred in a little grass burnt circle in the front yard. The bathroom smelled pretty bad from smoke but there wasn't any structure damage, just a smudged looking spot in the shelf where the smoke was rising. I guess it didn't actually come into any kind of flames. I'm just glad it wasn't anything worse than that cause I'm trying to help him stay in that house and it doesn't have insurance.

My niece is kind of averaging out. She's still got problems and giving the rest of us some problems because of it here and there but she's not stressing me out like she had. She's got probation for the next ten years, man. She kind of blew up on easter, being just really mean and stuff. It was kind of like her old self I really never want to have to deal with ever again. I threatened to kick her out for a week but she barely managed to spend the night somewhere so we had that other convo. Just be a little more respectful and just a little greatful, especially to her grandmother. Home by 12 and just never come home ever again if she isn't sober. at all. For about a week now I got my mother in law to share her car keys with me, keep them out of Ashley's hands more or less. Boy she didn't like that. She really got nasty about not being able to take herself to and from work much less ride off with her gramma's car to her friends and such. She calmed down after about two days of trying to just calmly tell her to watch what she was saying. I told my mom in law, y'know, just hand me the keys and I'll take the brunt and be the bad guy. Because she's an old lady and Ashley will pitch her fit until she just relents, but if I have the keys I won't give in and my mom in law could feel better about it. She wouldn't have to take my nieces crap or have to give in, she could just come to me and ask me to give Ashley the keys and when I said no, she could just leave it at that and actually feel better about it. Out of her hands kind of thing. So far that did happen and she did feel better. My niece hasn't given any problems so far about loosing getting the car any time she wanted to run off with it. It's kept her out of allot of her usual trouble so far, since she has to find rides or ask. I think equally important, we're not worrying about it being wrecked or Ashley calling from jail with the car impounded. The cops around here spot her a mile away, they've really got it in for her and know she doesn't have a liscence. She's got a whole rep. So, mom in law feels better anyway about the rearrangement. She doesn't have to fight Ashley telling her she can't use the car if I've got the keys, and she's really got to stop driving it anyway. She'll be able to get a liscence in three years, let her drive something then.

My son Shane is a smart little character. I got him some shoes with laces instead of the velcro he usually had because he kept trying to tie my shoes after watching this "little bill" episode on one of his dvd's. It didn't take him three days and he's tying those shoes and wearing them just everywhere. Even after his bath he wants to put his shoes on hehe. He'll be five in august. We register him for kindergarten tomorrow. I'm really exited for him. I got him a bunch of letter paper like they start kids out with in school and he loves to practice his letters. He can spell his own name and is all interested lately in trying to learn how to spell mine and his dad's, Ashley, Nanny and Chase, my nephew.

Chase is spending weekends with us now. His dad is letting him do it. Chases step mom is pretty hard on him. I talk to her, keep things friendly and all. She's alright to talk to, about Chase lol. He doesn't have allot that's good to say about her though and my mom in law is not too fond of her. Too strict ect. But, Chase is making good grades in school and is more or less staying out of trouble. I heard he got kicked out of Target at the mall for acting like an idiot in there with some of his friends. I don't think it's unbelievable considering he got banned from the mall once while living with me because he and one of his friends were playing with shopping carts in the parking lot, ramming them into cars and stuff. Geh. Dunno, Chase was raised by his mom most of his life and Sandra's like ... Jerry Springer stuff. She can't even come over to my house any more because the last time she was high and tried to steal my mothers rings out of my bedroom closet. It took an hour just to get her out of my driveway from constantly digging in her purse for sunglasses she hadn't even brought with her to begin with.

Anyway, Chase lived with me a while and then there was some battle between mom and dad so child services came over to my house one day with Kyle and packed Chase up and off he went. He's said he has a court date soon where he can decide where he wants to live and expressed wanting to live with me. I've told my mom in law and hubby after talking it over with them, I'd never tell Chase no, but I wouldn't be exactly jumping for joy if he moved back in either. I've got enough on my hands between hubby and Ash and raising Shane. Anyway Kyle said he'd be having Chase until he's 18 and can decide what he wants to do with himself so I'm not too worried about it like I was when this convo came up.

I love the kid, honestly I don't really treat Chase or Ashley any different than Shane except there's age and character differences. I haven't just thrown the towel in on either one of them just because they weren't mine or they really make my life a living hell sometimes. We're all still family. Emotionally, physically though, I flat out honestly do not have the strength to have Chase come back and still feel like I'm just holding everybody up and keeping them together, praying Shane's going to get a decent life out of it and maybe be more like my brother in his life and become something that he wants to be like a doctor or puter geek or something cool like that. Whatever he comes out interested in I'll definitley be supporting it, I can only pray he'll never get into the kinds of problems these two can get themselves into.

I know allot of it had to do with the rearing, and forewarned is forearmed. Allot of times, all these guys really needed was someone there, to tell them some kind of values, no matter how little I feel I actually have. Tell them what I think they should've been hearing all along, and hope like hell it sinks in some day. I dunno, if life was a sledgehammer, I'd say Ashley and Chase do allot more pinging themselves in the forehead than they nail it. I can tell from the brain damage they gather hehe. Then again, who doesn't. It'd just be nice to have them figure it out someday instead of end up down some back alley. Preferably before the train wreck backs up over me.

I saw Granny again monday? sunday? I can't remember now. I need to call my aunt and see if she wants me to go later today or not. We're hoping Granny gets to go home soon, back to the nursing home anyway. She was sleeping when I got there but had a good day. My uncle Robert and his son had come down for the evening visit and I made the 4:30 one. She got her X-ray done and she has a fractured tail bone. Major ouch, and she has an extended abdomen so double ouch. She's on pain meds right now and has to sit on a donut but thank God for the x-ray. There's no way to tell how long it had been fractured but it hadn't happened in the ward so it was at least a couple of weeks or so, one of those times she fell from the wheel chair in the nursing home that got her up there for an evaluation in the first place. Still can't figure out why she's rocking in it so bad and trying to get out of it other than being so sleepy and a little lost in the head. It's nothing terribly major like a full blown senile but ... I dunno. Before that last visit I missed Friday. I was so full of pain meds myself on the toothache having two upper teeth kind of bruitally pulled I caught the tail end of the last five minuets to see her and kicked myself in my butt all the way back home. It was better this time though.

I've been gardening again, getting ready for spring so of course it's pouring rain right now. I didn't plant much, just a few things in the raised beds at the side of the house. None of my hibiscus or the bougainvillea made it through the last two frosts, durnit. So I'm just going to get my rose bushes and a couple of hibiscus to pot plant for now whenever they come in. I'm digging wild onions out of my yard one row shovel at a time, it's maticulous and I won't be getting all of it any time soon with all the ones I'm sure I've skipped over but I think I'll be able to get to them without a serious problem. They're pretty easy to get out of the ground after the rain and once they're thick enough to start budding.

I've found dog violets in different spots digging up the onions so I got a little batch of them in one of my raised beds now. I'm hoping the bindweed comes back sooon but I'm going to get some morning glories too. The bindweed is just a wild morning glory.

It looks like all my turkey figs are going to make it, they've rooted and are leafing so once they're big enough I'll find some spots in the yard for two and I guess give the rest away in a garden yard sale. I found two more shoots from my lophantha, replanted a butt-load of aloe vera and ordered some sassafras trees. I only wanted one but it was off ebay for three shoots so I guess I'll try to get them to pot long enough to be big enough to put in the back yard as well and put the spares in another garden yard sale. All of my irises and such are sprouting, my blue berries have flowers before they even got their leaves and the black berries are doing great, a couple of small vines are already flowering and the two thicker, domestic vines I bought from Walmart are full of leaves. I've still got more places to plant than I do flowers and a bed just waiting for me to start some peppermint and spearmint so I've got plenty of yard stuff left to do besides finish the pond and the green house.

I'm almost done working on this inside vivarium, converting it from being my inside green house seed starter. I was going to get pygmy chameleons but decided to go with corytophanes cristatus, Helmeted Iguana or Forest Chameleon, sometimes dubbed a basilisk. It's an iguanid though. They get a little over a foot big, like 14" long from nose to tail so the 'tank' is more than big enough for three. I decided on them over the pygmy chameleons because the chameleons are really just too small, maybe as big as my anoles but stubby, any babies from them would be as bad as raising froglets really.

Helmeted Iguana

I'm looking forward to getting them. All I have to do is wait for the clay balls I ordered (hydroton) to come in and I'll be good to go. I got some plants for the tank already, including a money tree that just might make it in there and a hand pump mister to simulate morning dew with a tiny office fan hehe.

I got crickets going and finally breeding them with good success, plenty of nymphs in my first batch that might not even all be gone by the time my second batch start even with feeding them to my frogs. I'm waiting for a good spring day to start trying to raise house fly's, but I put all that on my backyard/vivarium site. I got two tanks free that I'm trying to see if I can raise isopod woodlouse as feeders.

I'm going to include 2 or 3 more fire belly toads in getting the helmeted iguana's. One of the ones I already have is looking fatter than the others so I might be looking at an egg layer. I'm hoping so, and I'm feeding my gecko's allot more, hoping I can get them to feel like breeding too.

I caught my anoles from the back yard last fall as babies so I dunno if they're going to breed now or not but they act like they're comfortable enough for being right in the front living room in a high traffic area. Right now I'm more worried about their basking because they've started to make un-even colors. I think I need to change the lights out on most of these bulbs, them and the frogs, and hope that'll take care of it. Another problem with them though is their tank is so tall I can't get any decent plants to really establish themselves for some greenery. The arboricola plant is still holding up pretty good so I'm thinking about just getting more of it and putting it in there. Maybe try a money tree in it too because they're pretty shade and moist soil tolerant. I need something green, willing to get tall and still hold up with the lizards on them.

Granny had a good day today. My bro came down to see her. We stopped and ate and then I picked her up some lotion, caramex lip balm and a big purple easter bunny that was really soft and fluffy, maybe just smaller than a pillow. She was having a field day today. She light right up when my bro came in and then we gave her the rabbit. hehe, she nuzzled noses with it and gave it kisses. When she got to lay down we put it right in bed with her. Just made her day today. They're keeping her another 90 days or so, they had a meeting today so, she didn't get to go back to the nursing home. She's still being a danger to herself with being so restless when she's in the wheel chair. I talked to a lady there today, no idea who she was but she's going to get that x-ray for me tomorrow. The lotion I got for her is allot better than what they've been using. Now I'm kind of worried about the back of her head, she's laid on it so much hair is growing up instead of down and the back of her head is just all red. I dunno ... maybe wash her hair in baby shampoo?

I'm going to be up there more often for a while, two days for every day my aunt has to drive all the way from woodville to get there and see her. I think I'll get her a plant next visit, maybe something like a pot full of dianthus.