The Realm

Well so far looks like this place hasn't blown up just yet. Speaking of holding on until the bitter end...My cell phone is dying. You guys know I have no love for cell phones but I've had my Galaxy S7 for five years now. Chris got his J7 at the same time I got mine in Dec 2016. His started having problems with power and staying on as well as memory and not being able to receive photos in text. He held out as long as he could but as is our way to be "In your face world!" He got another J7 ha ha. And I knew the day would come when my S7 would kick the bucket. My problem has been my battery is getting worse an worse. And you can't just open my phone and add a new one. Of course they wouldn't do something easy or convenient like that. It has been holding less and less charge and become harder to charge up. Today looks like it's my last day with it perhaps. It dropped to 4%. I charged it for an hour and it wa 19% and I watched it go 18, 17, 16 all the way to 4%. I'm afraid to turn it off and unplug it. It's literally on a life line. I was afraid to get the memory card out as it might not turn back on. I was able to remove my photos at least through the cable which has never worked well for me. I'm now in the unpleasant process of trying to back up photos from text conversations. Some like with Chris, Joker and ACtipton I have tons of photos. And it's not easy. I have to download them to the internal storage then transfer them to my pc. I wish I could save texts. I'd have backed up those ages ago. You guys know I archive everything. But phones aren't real computers. They suck and don't make things easy as they should be. I'm afraid my phone will die before I back up all the pics. So that's what my day entails today. And yes I'm already looking through ebay for a good new unlocked S7 in white or silver. Wish me luck. I never liked that mine was black.

On a happier note. Here is a photo of my puppy when I met her at 4 weeks old.



She's five weeks today. I hope the breeder will send me updated pics, but she'll have to send them to Chris's phone.
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Ok so I think the subject is a good one as lots of things are getting closer. Before I go on, is anyone else getting the stupid banner up top to confirm email? I hate clicking stuff and don't trust most pop ups but it won't go away. Want to make sure it's legit. Click stuff is how you get viruses. Reminds me of when DA was doing this a few years back. I did ignore if for quite a long time. Very annoying. Maybe they're doing it because so many people lost their accounts when they made that change where you were forced to change passwords in a certain time. A lot of people did not have access to their old emails from decades ago and lost their LJs. They are still sitting there but they can't get into them. It's sad how LJ used to be the best (it still is but is dropping fast) and now they are going down hill to sucksville.

Anyway, I was worried because my Amazon order I placed this past week took several days to go through. Luckily it finally did and all my dog stuff came in yesterday. I got the play pen, some chew toys and blankets. Oh and an awesome new dremel tool. Ah, this brings back memories of when I was a macaw owner and had my awesome blue and gold named Joel. I miss him so much. He was amazing. I used to have a mobile bird grooming business in the 90s. I would advertise in the local paper then go to people's homes and clip wings, nails and beaks. For the big parrots the dremel was essential. You have to be careful with bird claws as they have a blood vessel. Some birds have black nails and you can't see the blood through it like those that have white. They are harder to clip cause of that. From what I've seen it's the same with dogs and their nails. I'm off topic now. So almost everything came in. Luckily I got the most expensive difficult stuff first which makes the last stuff on the list seem easy. Since I'm naming my dog Olive, I want a tag that has olives on it. I got a collar but they were green olives. She's going to be a black olive. I found a nice tag that will match the collar but you know me, I want everything customized. I'm wondering if I can recolor the olives to be black and if the seller would print the new art I will provide? I hope so. If not the green will be fine. Since the collar was a premade ribbon I can't recolor those to be black. Eh, but the green would show better against a black dog. Not sure. I need to think about that.

Speaking of puppies. I was looking around and found a breeder in Dallas. My goodness that would be a haul. I don't think I can do though, that is save up in time. I have enough for a deposit, but I can't meet the balance in time. Even in the 8 weeks it takes for a puppy to wean and be sellable. I want cropped ears so that makes things more expensive. Add a few hundred dollars on top of the price. If I can't go get the puppy myself add several hundred more dollars for a plane trip to Tampa. The bad thing about that is I don't get to meet the puppies and pick one. I may still contact them to ask questions but looks like this particular one wont' happen. A shame because I love how they care for the puppies, how well raised they are and just everything else is great. Oh that they aren't show dogs. I'm so sick of all the breeders being show dog people, making their dogs stupid expensive, having dumb points in the contract that I refuse to agree to and possibly getting rejected as a buyer. Now I have done my share of rejecting customers when I sell birds but those were people that I knew would not care for my babies as pets. Years ago I had a jerk keep pestering me in person to sell him a bird because his son let the last one go (not one of mine thank goodness) and they needed a new one. Are you kidding me? No. What's to stop his irresponsible kid from just doing it again? I really need to tell that story sometime. The guy was a scum bag but he never was able to pull a fast one on me. You guys know how I am in online flamewars. Well guess what, unlike the majority of keyboard warriors in the internet what you see is what you get. I'm the same in real life as I am online so he got the What For from me. Ha, I'm off topic again. The channel Doberman Planet made a funny video about jerk breeders actually where John plays all the parts and argues with himself. If any one wants to see it here's the link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epUFtRe6OZ8

I have finished the frog tank. Perhaps it's good the first one failed because this one is WAY better.



I'm a big fan of the 3d brick "wallpaper". I used light blue panels on the previous tank. This one I got these coral or peach colored ones. They were listed as pink but that's not pink. It's light orange. You can't see it here but the rocks are fish tank rocks in different shades of blue. I made an egg crate false bottom so it's not as heavy as the last one, will hold water better and uses fewer rocks. Since becoming a frog owner I have also now become a fan of small bromeliads. These are all Neoregelia genus hybrids. The one on the left is called Chiquita Linda, the one in the middle is Fireball and the one of the left is More Pepper Please. All these remain small which is perfect for terrariums. As far as size I love Chiquita Linda. One of the smallest. I think that's as big as they get. The other two might get bigger. I think the fireball might be close to full size but will begin to make pups. The more pepper is my fave for color in this tank. The plants on the side are fitonia white vein and pink vien. There's a peperomia cubanensis hiding in the left corner. You cant see it. The middle is a cutting of neon philodendron. That one I picked because the green will contrast the orange but it gets orange stems. And several types of moss that I hope in time will grow in and make a carpet. At that point leaf litter won't be necessary. I will let this sit for a week, maybe two so the frogs don't uproot everything and eat all the springtails and isopods which is what happened last time. Oh springtails are tropical pinks and isopods are porcellio scaber orange. I'm hoping with the leaves, the bark, wood and plants they'll have places to hide. I love that round thing on the right but it keeps growing hairy white mold. I don't want to get rid of it but not sure what to do.



I didn't take step by step photos. I did take videos but forgot to do still photos. This is the only one and it shows how I made the false bottom. I hope to make a video showing the progress at some point. I'm so behind on my videos. Ok that's it for now.
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