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Willow did her little howl/"YAAAAAARRRRCH" trick at some horribly early hour. Twice. Nothing but mucus - she seems to have been off her feed. :( A bit later there was a crash heralding her knocking her food dish off the sink... sending, of course, food all over the bathroom floor. Food which the ants love. I got the food picked up, but of course ( Read more... )

Not only has Willow's food dish been invaded again (an event accompanied by the overhead light in that bedroom - a tricky one to replace, of course - burning out), but I was most displeased to glance up at the kitchen ceiling while psyching myself up to start a loaf of bread.... and spot a huge roachy-looking thing. So I ran for a bus schedule ( ( Read more... )

I recently had some trouble with the stinking things invading Willow's food dish - haply, putting the food dish in the tub and running really hot water is something they really don't enjoy. Like, they kinda boil and then get washed down the drain. Which is where my policy of not putting down a lot of food for her (so she doesn't have a huge amount ( Read more... )

Yeah, I let Elmer go. He was looking pretty listless overall (though he got all excited - prematurely - once when it looked like I might be getting ready to open his container. Probably peckish, though it was his own fault for turning down (as far as I could tell) perfectly good romaine and the bit of nectarine (possibly even the dandelion blossom ( Read more... )

...in the makeshift insect habitat (really just one of the larger prescription vials I have hanging around). Discovered a huge click beetle, after I heard two of them clicking back and forth at each other. Or it sounded like there were two (wouldn't surprise me, I've seen at least two other specimens of the big'uns, assuming the roaches I've ( Read more... )

Grissom's dream vacation?

That is, it's that time of year around these parts that the ladybugs invade the indoors. Suddenly there are a bunch of 'em (14 or 15) in the pantry, groovin' on the grow light and buzzing around. I've set up a little water station for them, stocked with raisin bits (recommended by a website on keeping ladybugs, and last year's guests seemed to like ( Read more... )

Playing Working in the garden today, pulling weeds. Managed to piss off a colony of ants with the weed-pulling in one area. Heard what sounded like a bird or possibly a baby rabbit (I don't know, I've never actually heard a baby rabbit pipe up, as far as I know), and followed the sound... to a clump of violets. This is clearly not a bird. Say, I ( Read more... )