Stupid, Stupid Wasp Creatures!
Ughh I am about sick of cleaning out the shed in back yard. My neighbors and I held a joint yard sale yesterday, and will be doing it again this morning. I know that I will feel better once the shed is finally cleaned and I will once again have access to the shed itself. Unfortunately, it is quite tedious work, made dangerous by the copious amounts of wasps that live in this area. Just yesterday morning I was dive bombed and stung on the arm. My aversion to wasp stings makes me reconsider my half baked dreams of one day keeping bees. As far as I can tell though most bee keepers rarely, if ever get stung. Neil Gaiman is my bee keeping hero.
I have another pet hobby occupying my time that takes precedence over a possible future hive. Green snakes. I must own some. I have been trying hard to do my research and setting aside a little paltry amount of my paycheck to put towards habitat decoration. I have a used slightly damaged 20 gal tank that used to house my sisters iguanas. Unfortunately, from what I can tell, only the rough green snake variety is sold in this area and the rough snakes as opposed to the smooth green snake are by and large arboreal. My tank is 20 gal, but long instead of tall. I don’t know if I could construct a terrarium that is tree-like enough to keep them happy. Unlike the hermit crabs, they don’t seem to have any taxing humidity requirements. Having kept the hermit crabs alive for over a year I am encouraged that even in the colder months I could sustain two snakes.
So…unrelated, I’ve been on a “Nightmare Before Christmas” kick again…complete with obsessive listening of the soundtrack whilst I’m cleaning and driving to work. Which in turn has led me to listening to pretty much anything by Danny Elfman. Mostly from his Oingo Boingo years and snippets from Serenada Schizophrana (www.serenadaschizophrana.com).
My current “to do” list now consist of the following: take most everything not sold in the yard sale to the dump, register for fall classes, and slowly, but surely, create a green snake terrarium. *sigh*
I have another pet hobby occupying my time that takes precedence over a possible future hive. Green snakes. I must own some. I have been trying hard to do my research and setting aside a little paltry amount of my paycheck to put towards habitat decoration. I have a used slightly damaged 20 gal tank that used to house my sisters iguanas. Unfortunately, from what I can tell, only the rough green snake variety is sold in this area and the rough snakes as opposed to the smooth green snake are by and large arboreal. My tank is 20 gal, but long instead of tall. I don’t know if I could construct a terrarium that is tree-like enough to keep them happy. Unlike the hermit crabs, they don’t seem to have any taxing humidity requirements. Having kept the hermit crabs alive for over a year I am encouraged that even in the colder months I could sustain two snakes.
So…unrelated, I’ve been on a “Nightmare Before Christmas” kick again…complete with obsessive listening of the soundtrack whilst I’m cleaning and driving to work. Which in turn has led me to listening to pretty much anything by Danny Elfman. Mostly from his Oingo Boingo years and snippets from Serenada Schizophrana (www.serenadaschizophrana.com).
My current “to do” list now consist of the following: take most everything not sold in the yard sale to the dump, register for fall classes, and slowly, but surely, create a green snake terrarium. *sigh*