General Discussion & Chat: NIGHT OWLS ONLY - OPEN 12:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. EST, 3 by AmandaEsq

AmandaEsq wrote:
Good morning rockette and all you night owls!

I hope Anna is getting some sleep. Family stuff wears ya out, but then again most of my peeps are gone. Weird, if I got together with family it would just be me an one or two of my brothers, the third being too pissed off or something to partake. Didn't know we had anything to fight over when mom died, but that's about the gist of it.

In fact, it's a relief, not having that kind of stress around the holidays. Court's family is mostly in Virginia,an he has only just begun to experience losing family. I guess because his granny and his momma both had their kids while they were pretty young. We don't travel together for holidays, overnight affairs really, because of the critters.

Cats and dogs are easy enough to leave behind if you have someone very dependable. It difficult to trust that everything necessary Will be done for the exotics or aquatics. We Hav even hired "professionals" in the very distant past, with instructions written down with nauseating detail, to come home and find things screwed up.

Rita, our green iguana, is the one now w/o requires the most attention to detail. Very specific heat and humidity and feeding requirements. If anyone bothered to research the actual needs of these animals in captivity they would never have them. I mean, if they were being responsible and honest with themselves. By who is like that?! Ha!

Rita is a pet store rescue. All of our critters are rescues. Hell, even the dang giant Oscar fish in the 55 gallon tank is a rescue. AND that 55 gallon tank is actually too small for him, although it is recommended that that is the very minimum amount of water that a fish like this needs.

How did I get here,harping about fish?!

Isn't that what happens to everybody in the middle of the night when you can't sleep? I'll find myself thinking, " how did i get here," thinking about such and such.

Well snoopy is protesting the light so I will put the tablet away.

So you know I am still experimenting in the kitchen. Last night I made chicken. With hot madras curry sauce, mashed sweet potatoes with garlic, and steamed spinach. I don't plan these meals, they just happen as I'm going along. Sent a plate to the disabled guy next door. Hope I didn't make him sick. Haha! :)

Below, the datura that is eating the driveway. Court counted 88 blooms open or about to open overnight. I dead head the spent flowers and seed pods because it's so invasive. I think that's why it is so prolific.