Archive for July, 2013

Tree trimming again, and the hard way

Thursday, July 18th, 2013

I have been back at the tree trimming again and trying to stay ahead of all of that dust. This time I really got crazy and climbed the tree and topped out the trimming. I don’t know if it was as much as before in ‘wood’ but it was a lot more cutting.

I spent most of the day in the tree. It was too hard to climb up and couldn’t get down easily, so even though I was really tired and getting cooked, I had to stay up there until I was finished.

I ended up losing about 2 Kilos! Of course, dehydration is not the best way to lose weight! ;-( And I just as surely put that weight back on with a little drinking…

Here are some photos of me up in the tree. I was at times looking down at the top of my 2 story house. I don’t think I’ll be climbing up that high in trees again any time soon, if ever…

My two little guys get a clean home

Thursday, July 4th, 2013

I have been taking care of these two guys’ ‘home’ from the beginning, and it hasn’t always been easy.

In fact, I just upgraded their quarters from their low, flat and square tank to a new one that is more of a fish bowl sort of one that we used to use for gold fish.

They really like it, and I like it since I don’t need to use rocks in the bottom. Cleaning those rocks has always been difficult and time consuming, so it’s nice to have this one that doesn’t need them to keep the bottom from being too slippery for them.

It has been a problem that it gets moss a little faster than before and it is hard to get out.

I bought a new brush today and it worked great!

They look happy, don’t they?

See for yourself: