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[Xrayted]

BTW Nanci - COOL SNAKE!!!

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Beautiful beautiful snake, Nanci! How big is she?
I remember the old saying "Red to yellow Kill a fellow//Red to black venom lack" that was in case you ran into a deadly coral snake in the woods and weren't sure.

I don't think Mr. Toad will be wolfing down unlimited crickets forever- he'll get pretty full and want a break after a while I'd think- especially if he needs to shed his skin after eating 5000 crickets!

When was the last time your "finicky" snake had a mouse/meal?

[Nanci]

I'm still in my pajamas...I think I am going to get dressed and go to Home Depot- I have a $50 reward card burning a hole in my pjs. Either mulch for the garage tree, or more weird paving stones to expand the cool tortoise walk, or a tree, or some sort of bricks to make a wall to contain torts, and for sure something to make a hibernaculum pile for Fagalo, because he's going....going....digging practice holes....getting very sleepy...

[Nanci]

Lisa, the only time I found a coral snake I couldn't remember the dang saying! All I could think of was "Black and Yellow, Black and Yellow" and couldn't come up with what rhymed with that, because it actually wasn't part of the saying, and the snake _did_ have black and yellow, as do the non-venomous versions...

Addy, the Hognose, has never eaten. I thought she ate a mouse two nights ago, but found it rotting, buried, yesterday. I'm very disappointed. But will keep trying. I weigh her regularly to keep an eye on her weight. Maizey, who went through a feeding slow down, and didn't eat at all for six weeks, is back to a regular schedule of one mouse every 10-14 days rather than every seven, but it has to be freshly killed (by the snake shop guy) not frozen/thawed. Choco eats when he is told, always, quickly, with no problems, frozen/thawed. He has recently graduated up one meal size. Inez is an unknown quantity, but she has been eating either fresh killed or live pinky mice. I will be able to offer her first meal in a week.

She seems to be about Choco's size, about 18 inches, but they look so much smaller. She hasn't come out of hiding. I took her shed skin out of her deli cup to look at.

[chickwhorips]

nanci mr toad looks so excited. love the pic!

[Nanci]

So I'm just not making it out of the house today. Too lazy. A scary thing happened yesterday. I got home, with a big pile of mail. Started taking off my scrubs, and had the top off, and was migrating into the bedroom, but sorting through the mail to see what catalogs there were. A black widow spider came dangling out of the mail and landed on my bare tummy! I flailed around and finally knocked it off and killed it. Geez.

[snapdragen]

Nanci - what a beautiful snake! Is it to soon to be worried that Addy isn't eating?

I came home from work early today, woozy tummy. Must've been the talk of food poisoning last night. I think I need a nap.

[spokewench]

Ok, just one more from when I was unpacking her...

No wonder you were excited about Inez arriving - She is VERY GORGEOUS

[Nanci]

On the snake forum, there is a guy who bought a python baby in June, which had eaten _one time_ since then, till he posted last week that it ate again. They can go a long time, sometimes for no apparent reason. They really don't do much to burn calories. Addy weighs four grams less than when I got her. I am comfortable with that. She is still nice and round, with no spine to be seen. I will release her if/when she looks thin.

Is it 5:00 yet? My newly-discovered Black Muscat is calling out to me. It's only 5% alcohol.

[Nanci]

Smartwool short sleeved womens T on steep and cheap right now, L and XL, $22 (retail $60)

[spokewench]

Oh gosh Dar, I thought I was doing really well with keeping up with the vacation posts. I'm so sorry if I ignored you. It certainly wasn't intentional. I just went back and looked for it. It's at the bottom of the page so i think i must have skipped it somehow. I'd actually love to go tour with someone but being such a newbie to cycling, i figured no one would want to ride. I have a feeling I'd hold them back too much. Although, I don't know the meaning of giving up.
thanks for even considering riding with me. I'm completely shocked. I've actually emailed to be put on the Cinderella Century registration form list. If I end up near Cali, I may end up doing it since it's the end of May, my current time slot goal. Gonna depend on how soon I can get cut and drilled. I typically rebound fast so I'm hoping it all works out.

Again, sorry!
Gotta go. The sick people need pics.
X.

Hey X: I got put on the Cindarella registration list as well - I've done the thing lots of times since I used to live in the Bay Area, but thought it would be fun to go back and try it again and visit some friends.

[Nanci]

I think finding a taser on the couch this morning is going to help me with the freaky night stuff tonight :-)

Nanci

[mtbdarby]

X - no problem! I figured you just missed it Offer stands. I would love to do a bike ride/tour through wine country but I think it would be more fun with someone. And I doubt you would slow me down.

Nanci - I saw that shirt already. One's on the way

[Nanci]

http://www.quadywinery.com/redelectra.html

And God bless screwcaps. Wave of the future.

[spokewench]

Screw tops huh! When I was planning my wedding (I lived in SF Bay Area, California at the time), my brother in law and I went to Canned Foods store to get wine to taste for the wedding. They sell wines (some cheap, some not so cheap) where the label was misapplied or something like that. Well, we brought back a whole bunch of wines to taste and some of them had screw tops. My sister, my bro in law, me and my soon to be hubby were all sitting around the table getting ready to taste wines and hubby gets this horribly distasteful look on his face and says something to the effect of "over my dead body are we serving screw top wines at my wedding". (He is a native, born in Oakland, Californian.)

So, being the nice folk that we are, we decided that we would not buy any screw top wine for the wedding reception. HOWEVER, we just couldn't resist when we went to the store the week before the wedding. We bought some generic Beer. NOW, this is back in the day when generic beer came in these really BRIGHT YELLOW LETTERED CANS that say GENERIC BEER! So, we put the yellow generic beer right on top of the iced down beer bucket and had Mark (hubby) step out onto the deck where we were serving the liquor! We have the best disgruntled photograph of Mark staring at the yellow cans in total shock!

We still give him a hard time about screw top wines!