Coffee or Die (337/366)

TIME: 12:39 pm
PLACE: Kitchen
SUBJECT: Black Rifle Coffee shipping box

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HH and I like Black Rifle coffee - we ordered another 5-lbs and it was delivered today.

That is one thing I miss about work...the free coffee - they had pretty good stuff too.

With the money I'm saving on gas by working at home, we are able to spend a bit more and buy better coffee than before.

Even though we are drinking more coffee at home than we ever had, I believe I'm still coming out ahead in the long run.

Snake Saturday (263/366)

TIME: 5:07 pm
PLACE: Reptile store
SUBJECT: Green Tree Python

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I accompanied StellaDella on her trip to the reptile store to pick up crickets and mealworms for her geckos.

While there, we checked out the occupants in the aquariums and cages.

One of them was this guy...now, I am not a huge snake fan, but I gotta admit, they are fascinating creatures.

Take this Green Tree Python for example - it has such a beautiful color.  Also, the orderly arrangement of its scales is aesthetically pleasing to me as well.

Yes. I am weird.

What Stella Wants Next (194/365)

TIME: 6:54 PM
PLACE: Tye-Dyed Iguana
SUBJECT: Ball Python

Another Friday evening excursion with my Stella!

She wanted to stop at the Tye-Dyed Iguana to look at ball pythons – she said she’s been wanting another reptile for a little while now.  (Her gecko, Blade, passed away in October of 2016).

I’m not so sure about a snake, but he is pretty cute and very chill.

I’m thinking about it – I’ll probably cave.

While there, we also checked out the gecko tree….

The bevy of bearded dragons….

And Aphrodite, an albino Burmese Python – who was just finishing up shedding her skin.

HandsomeHusband's Snake (047/365)

"It's not that I don't care for snakes,
But oh what do you do
When a 24-foot python says …
I love you?"

Shel Silverstein, "Snake Problem", A Light in the Attic, USA: Harper Collins, 1981

TIME: 9:49 AM
PLACE: The study 
SUBJECT: Garter Snake

The HandsomeHusband rescued this snake in December.  I posted about it here, on my other blog, Suzy Homemaker.  Today was the first time it came up through the hole on the top of the flower pot that we have in the aquarium for its den.  My cat, Jack, was going nuts.  Whenever the snake comes out from under the pot, Jack is on top of the aquarium, twitching his tail and usually knocking something down in the process.  Soon the snake will no longer be a part of our happy family.  The plan is to release it at a nearby hiking trail, sometime in late April or early May, when the weather turns warmer.