Hello again –
Nice to know that roaches can’t survive getting chomped by a beardie, since Puff does at least do that even if he doesn’t do a lot of chewing.
Lately Puff’s poops have often been orange and squashy, without too many chewed up bug parts visible, unlike Broly. He still likes his butternut squash, and what goes in one end eventually comes out the other. The squash seems to be a bit of a laxative too, but probably not as much as Repashy grub pie. My husband recently found him some kabocha squash at the local health food store, and that seems to be his favorite. Sometimes we can get him to eat a tiny bit of the fresh greens my husband has been growing for him in the backyard, and that’s about as close as we can get him to a balanced diet lately.
I had cockroaches in my apartment in California. My cats thought they were the neatest little toys, but I hate to see anything get tortured so I’d take the roaches away from the cats and flush them down the toilet. Those things could probably survive in the sewer as long as the cats hadn’t already mangled them too badly. The little bitty bugs could also make a surprising amount of noise in the middle of the night if they got into a plastic bag and rustled around. It was pretty annoying when I was trying to sleep. But probably the worst thing was when one of my coworkers found a cockroach nest with a bunch of baby ones in her phone. She totally freaked out and started spraying Raid everywhere until the supervisor finally told her to stop before she fumigated all the humans out of the office as well as the cockroaches. :roll:
Yeah, dubias aren’t so bad as far as roaches go.
High temperatures are even less fun when the humidity is also high. Fortunately for human comfort, but not so much for fire danger, our weather has been hot and dry. They’re predicting rain in a few days, but it’s supposed to cool off too, so hopefully it won’t be so bad.
For the first time since I moved to Alaska, I’m actually looking forward to fall. I wouldn’t even mind a little snow. But my husband predicts that I will be complaining about the cold then, and I hate to admit that he’s probably right.
Ordered some new UV tubes for Puff, and they arrived yesterday. His current one is about due to be changed out sometime around the fall, but it’s still cranking out an adequate amount of UV according to the meter. I might be able to give it until the end of the year because that’s easiest to remember. It got changed a little earlier than usual last year because the lamp fixture developed a short. So Puff will probably get new UV for Christmas, or maybe Thanksgiving.
That explains it about Oreo. Time didn’t fly by quite as fast as I thought.
Checked out my Packers – they won their latest game against Houston, but only by 2 points. They play against the Ravens next week, and then the Raiders the following week, and then your Eagles will play against the Ravens, so we’ll see how the preseason goes from here.
Neem oil is supposed to be a really good natural organic pesticide according to what I’ve heard. It’s probably a really good thing for you to use for your plants.
I never met any of the teenage boys I corresponded with online. They didn’t use their real names and I didn’t use mine, so I don’t know if they lived close by or not. Probably best that way.
You and me both with the depression thing. As much as I hate to, I’ve been on meds since I got out of the hospital at the beginning of this year, but I really can’t tell if the ones I’m on now are helping, doing more harm than good, or not having any effect at all. I want to be off of them as soon as possible, but for now my main goal is to stay out of the hospital.
I have a similar problem with sleeping. When I’m depressed I often take a nap in the middle of the day or in the early afternoon because I can’t make myself do anything else, but then I’m still too tired to get up later and I’m still in bed when my husband comes home from work, and I don’t have enough energy to get up until the next morning, and then only for a little while. Depression really sucks.
At least I’ve been feeling a little better for the past couple of days.
Well, as usual, one good TLDR deserves another. :mrgreen: Almost time for Puff's good morning cuddle. :love5: