Friday, August 26, 2005

Soon to reappear

Sorry for the absence. My hard drive bit the dust. I am even now using a pc at the public library. My time is about up on it so I'll have to make this short. I hope to be back online sometime next week. Meantime, it's blogger withdrawl!

Tuesday, August 09, 2005

Scrapbooks and Snakes

At long last I have completed the scrapbooks I have been making for our baseball players. I made each of them a scrapbook of their summer here. I think they liked them. It takes me forever to do scrapbooks. I spend about an hour on each page. A large portion of that time goes to just staring at the blank page trying to think of something to do.

On to more interesting topics. The new snake. She is doing well and the kids love her. I decided to respond to the comments about her in a blog. While she isn't furry, she is cuddly in her own way. She wraps herself about you and you can tell she is enjoying herself. I know if you don't like snakes, her wrapping herself around you wouldn't necessarily sound appealing. But, if you like, or at least don't mind snakes, it's kind of a neat experience. Sheba likes to wrap herself around your arm or neck.

Our snake eats mice. Live mice. I didn't realize she ate live mice before we got her. It's a bit of a disturbing thought, putting a live animal in with another animal knowing the one will kill and eat the other. I wouldn't want a mouse as a pet, but some of them are rather cute. I gave the permission for the snake by the way, because it has no hair/fur and thus I likely wouldn't be allergic to it and I don't think it would stink as bad if at all.

Happily, this type of snake does not bite at all. It has about 80 teeth, all of which are fine as hair. That was a definite snake owning requirement. I'll have to take a picture of her and put it on here.

Our snake had a sister at the place where we got her and we went today and bought the sister for my nephew for his birthday. (With his mom's permission of course).

Next feeding date is Thursday. I'm going to tell my husband to pick out an ugly mouse to feed it.

Thursday, August 04, 2005

New Addition

Wow. Been a while since I've posted. Amazing how crazy things can get in a short period of time. The summer baseball season is winding down. We made the playoffs though so have at least till the first part of next week. Also, my son is turning 7. Unbelievable. We had his birthday party today. Even though we have a pool, he wanted to have his party at the public pool. Had more kids show up than I had expected but all went well.

Well, for the new addition. We now have a new arrival to our family as a result of my son's birthday. My husband and his sister picked out a snake for a birthday gift. Actually, I don't really mind snakes. I definitely feel comfortable around home raised snakes, ones that don't bite that is. It's an albino corn snake, white base with orange markings. It's actually quite pretty. I think we have settled on the name Sheba. My son is pretty excited over his snake. I don't think he really thought he'd get one so he was fairly surprised.

My side of the family isn't very thrilled with it though, but I kinda expected that. They're fairly conventional and stick pretty close to conventional norms. I'm not a wild person myself but I don't mind sticking my toe across the line from time to time. But that's another topic for another day.

Any snake stories out there?