Awww, wish I could buy Imp some dubia, he'd be eating them the same way. Those are great pics, that's for sure. Well I can't upload pictures anymore. I bought a new printer, got into the wrong page, tried to download the wrong info (was all on a disk) and got this 3rd party company that for $ will check your drivers on the computer. So I deleted those 2 sites from my computer and now I can't download. I'm not a tech kind of person, so have no idea what's wrong. I went to the computer shop to have the cable checked and it works but still can't connect the program to download, so pictures on my camera...I'll have to connect with my brother when I can to see if he knows what's wrong. Sigh...the computer guy told me what to do, but I have Windows 7 and it's not the same, he has a more updated version on the computer in the shop. So that didn't work either.
Imp is now 332g and 17 1/2" so he's continuing to grow weekly but today it was so hot (30C in the hallway, coolest part of my apartment, so even hotter in the living room) that he didn't eat as much as usual. I'm hoping this heat wave goes away, I just wilt in this heat and so do all my dragons. I did get my plants re-potted, though, I'm feeling much better than I was even Wed of last week, so that's good, too. I'm going to miss my babies when I go back to work, that's for sure. They've had a month of Mom being home and having outside time almost all day...
So it was an xray I had, no need for blood work, the fatigue is almost gone, so the puffers are starting to work, plus I'm taking a large dose of echinacea every morning which is helping a great deal. So get the xray results on Wednesday, unless there's something urgent. And I expect to be back to work p/t by Thursday if I'm called that is to arrng the time, that's how it works when you're on short term. So the deal will be 1/2 days Thurs, Fri, then 6 hours Mon-Tues,Wed, then full time after that if I don't relapse. I stay on the puffers for awhile yet, though and take an extra pill for the diabetes (talked to my specialist on Friday) as the steroids in the puffer, which is what takes away the inflammation in my lungs, caused my blood sugar to go up 3 points. Now it's back down to almost normal.
If this heat wave continues (it went on for 4 months last year), I'll be glad to go to work as I don't have air conditioning in my apartment. I'm going to move the timers on the dragons lights to earlier in the am and earlier in the afternoon, they'll still get sunlight but I'll have the lights off 2 hours earlier than they go off now, I do that every summer, as it just gets too hot in the living room, even with a fan running all day.
I hate the heat, I feel awful when it's hot, but what can you do? I can't afford air conditioning and would have it in my bedroom only, too many lights in the living room for a unit there. Maybe next summer, I'll see.
And I still have mice, killed one the other day (have traps under the stove) but found one running in front of the tanks earlier today, so now have to put more traps out, need to get some raw pumpkin seeds as they love them, so hope to clear them out soon. It's been almost 2 years that I've had mice and I'm getting sick and tired of it all. I wish there was an easier way to kill them, but I can't fumigate, would harm the dragons and they'd still come in anyway. I need to sanitize my place, will have to look into that, means moving all the furniture, including all the tanks away from the wall and not sure what the procedure is. I'm so sick of the darned rodents. Wish they'd just leave me alone. I have nothing out that would even interest them food wise, it's all put away in the fridge or in glass containers, so have no idea why they continue to come in here, so frustrating.
Say hi to Princess and yes, it takes hardly any time for them to change their ways,, when their owner loves them. I'm glad she didn't get away from you today, even though I'll bet she would have enjoyed a run around. Have you considered a leash?