Well.. Its been a little while. I only have 1 month left till my parents & brother come out to visit. I can't flippin wait!!!!! Darryl is super excited too.

My horse has gained weight, and is doing well. So I'm happy about that.

Work has been steady & good. No complaints there!

The dogs are doing great.

Darryl & I have been going on walks (3+ miles) a few times a week. We have a great wildlife preservation center (plains area) right by the house and walk over there. We have run into garter snakes & a rattlesnake (western diamondback). I even caught a pretty large garter snake and brought it home and let it loose in my garden! Lots of bugs there for it to take care of.

The yard is looking great. My flowers are all bloomed & now dying (so sad).

Darryl & I have been tearing the house apart re-organizing it and cleaning it. We literally have been taking every single piece of furniture out of each room, steam cleaning the carpet, vacuuming, cleaning everything else & then reorganizing it so it works better. We switched our bedroom with the girls bedroom. The girls old bedroom (our new bedroom) has a closet & ceiling fan & is on the upper level instead of the basement. We have cleared out a bunch of stuff we just don't need anymore too, it's great! We still have the computer room, kitchen, laundry & living room left. But the girls room, our room, spare room & upstairs bathroom are all done.

We have worked on the enclosure for the snakes more too.. with good reason, which you will see below soon enough LOL. Got ALOT more done!













































Other than that... I have taken in 2 snakes that the owners could not keep anymore...


Well I was picking up a carpet python today that the owner needed a new home for. Got him for free. She didn't know what subspecies or anything.

Only thing she told me is that he is 5 years old and 4ft long.

I thought he was healthy by everything she said (never got pictures.. But hey its free right!)

Well he apparently got loose today and they had to cut him out of drywall... (arghhhhhh secure snake enclosures are a MUST!!!!) So that delayed pickup time by 6 hrs......

I got there and was expecting a 4 ft healthy carpet python of some sort...

I saw a very small, undernourished GORGEOUS jungle carpet python... They wouldn't pick him up out of the cage because he was agitated from the days events... No biggie I rubbed him let him know I was there and picked him up. No striking, a total sweetheart. Definitely wants to roam tho! Fast little feller. I could feel all his bones.. I mean there is no fat on him at all.. And he had no heating lamp/pad/heat of any sort. Put him in a pillowcase. And off we went.

Went to my favorite local reptile store where they sexed him for me to make sure he really was a HE... And the guys there even were like OMG that poor snake needs to EAT! It's a good thing you took him.

So got him home... Bleached & cleaned the HECK out of the enclosure he came with before I even brought it in the house... Including all the stuff that was in it.

Got it all setup (with a UTH & therm). Gave him warm water because I am hoping he will soak (he's super dry). Covered his cage w/ a damp towel and left a rat pup in there (pre-killed).

I know you're supposed to wait a week before trying to feed, but this is no normal circumstance.... He was only getting small mice every 2-3 weeks (if lucky.... They weren't sure when the last time they fed him was...)

He ate it no problem.

So he is 100% segregated from all animals in my house and under observation. (Thank goodness for a 4bedroom house, because I got another freebie today that needs segregation as well! - post coming soon for that...)

So enjoy. I have named him Lucky.

Oh ya... He weighs 459 grams.
Should be at minimum 6ft and much heavier.















Someone got in touch with me that needed a home for their redtail. I said sure, no prob. They brought her over tonight. She is just about 6 ft and SUPER healthy. Nice calm girl too. Her name is Leelah. Haven't weighed her yet. Next weekend I will do that. Just wanted to share some pics!

She is segregated from all the other animals to make sure she is healthy...

Enjoy!

Well some awesome pics and stuff to share with you guys!

I will start off with some more pics of my snake Meerah, and my NEW snake (yet to be named.. because I don't know a gender yet).

Meerah is a Normal Ball Python, 3 years old & Female:


















This is my new snake, an Aberrant Albino King Snake. He is a baby still. Well I use "he" loosely because I'm not sure what gender it is yet. It's not "people tame" yet but that will come with handling. So I expect to have 100+ snake bites this year by the time he is tamed. But he is teeny tiny so they won't hurt, and he isn't poisonous. He is 2 feet long, but will get to be about 6ft long.









I gave Tonka a bath last weekend, so hes looking pretty good, well not anymore since it has been monsoon season here LOL









This past weekend we had 5 tornadoes touch down in Colorado. All in the Denver area. We actually had one touch down & damage alot of stuff within about 5 miles from our house. Luckily we just had some hail & wind at the house. Darryl & I were actually in the mountains when it happened so didn't experience it. But I bet the dogs were flipping out.





These are the pictures from our drive through the mountains on Sunday... We went over Hoosier Pass all the way to Mosquito Pass (Highest Mountain Pass in Colorado, non paved 4x4 access only). Couldn't make it all the way over due to snow but some beautiful pictures none the less :D

















































Hope you enjoy the pictures and updates :)

Oh and Happy B-Day again Dad :) (Even though it is belated this time).