The Realm

Ok, so I have not posted much but I have just been incredibly busy enjoying life and living it to the fullest. This Monday I'm leaving to visit my friend ACTipton80 in North Carolina. As always I'll be stopping at my aunt's in north Georgia for a rest. I had planned to go to Tennessee and check out an awesome nepenthes nursery. But they never got back to me so that's all unlikely now. Very disappointing. I know they are busying with the biggest import of plants they've ever gotten. But who knows. Maybe on the way back. So I've been busy cleaning up the house. I'm finally seeing progress. It's been amazing. The garage looks amazing. It's still not done but I can't wait to do a comparison from when it was stuffed so no car could get in there to what it is now. And it will still be better. Getting so much out of there has helped get rid of stuff in the house too. The only things left of my mother's now are the tons of photos and some of her picture frames and diplomas that I still don't know what to do about. My room is a disaster but I might be able to work on that today.

I'm also trying to get the patio greenhouse to the point that it's super easy for Chris to take care of. I've got some very cool plants in my collection now. We have greenhouse frogs( Eleutherodactylus planirostris ) that got in the green house. These are tiny frogs that technically are toads. Micro toads. The reason is they are mostly terrestial. Females lay eggs in moist soil and they hatch as frogs. No tadpole stage. They don't swim and are adapted to live under moist plants. They aren't the pretties frog coming in brown, red and grey/tan. But my fave thing about them is the cute chirps they make. If you want to hear there this is my fave video that shows what they sound like.
https://youtu.be/7OyAFglwN28

So this Wednesay May 19 Chris took me to a petstore and bought me a terrarium and some supplies. I already had a lot of stuff around the house too like the plants. So I caught one male frog. Here's the set up.



He's in the upper right. So tiny. I have a nepenthes, and amorphophallus and Calathea Lancifolia. The nepenthes and the amorph will eventually get too big. I'll have to change them out. But for now they look really nice. Like they have a little palm tree in there. I hope the nepenthes will pitcher soon. I hope it won't eat my frogs. I also added springtails and isopods to the soil so they will clean up the frog dropping and decaying leaves. I have to culture those because I may have to restock and I have other tanks I'm going to turn into self cleaning tanks. The isopods are very pretty they are powder orange. I'm hoping I can find the native rollie pollies that are in the yard. I used to play with those as a kid and always loved them. Chris likes them a lot too. I also have to culture wingless fruit flies now too. Wow so much for some tiny frogs ha ha. It's ok I love a challenge like this and the pay off is something nice to look at.

I also bought a travel bubble backpack for Minion. He's coming on the trip and I'm also taking Nitro. They need separate cages but if I go in a store I have to take them with me hence the back pack.



Nautica went into it. She was not afraid and liked it.



Luckily she helped Minion to show him what to do. But he still doesn't like it. I have to train him and Nitro more. Everything is new and scary but hope he'll warm up to it. He needs to get used to it no matter what. I love it. Hope my birds will too in time.

I also need to prep the jeep. I want to convert the back into a sleeping area if for some reason I ever need to pull over for the night and sleep in the back. So I hope to experiment with that today. AND on top of that my other hobbies of action figures. Chris bought me UP and Jurassic Park figures. I have so many videos to make and show. If I have time I need to finish a talking Minion video at least. Ok better get to work. Time's a ticking.
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