Happy 4th of July!
I couldn’t help myself about 10:30pm last night I had to go out in front of my house and start to blow off some fireworks! My neighbors love me:) I might want to get professional help when it comes to that?? Not sure what it is, maybe I’m a closet pyro?? I’ll be honest I’ve looked into taking classes to become a pyrotechnician recently. Not because I want to do it for a living, but I want to make my own fireworks.lol I’m happy to tell you that Lori stopped that idea pretty quick realizing that only bodily harm could come from a decision like that. I know what you’re thinking, I have a slight problem with over doing things???lol Okay, there is no doubt that I’m one of those people that can’t just do something a little bit. That’s why you’ll notice that I keep my interest to a small number of things. I would love to get into a lot of different hobbies, but I know myself and I can’t do anything small. As soon as I start I’m hooked and I’ll stay awake at night thinking about it. Just like last night I could hardly sleep waiting for tonight when I get to blow off all the sweet fireworks that I bought over the last year. Yeah, I did say over the last year. This is what I do, every time I do a reptile show in a state where there is a fireworks store I try to go there and buy a few things. This does two things, by the 4th of July I have a lot of stuff to blow up and second it never feels like I’m spending all that much because it’s a $100 here and $200 there:) I told you I need help! Have a great holiday everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope I’m not typing my blog tomorrow missing a finger or maybe a hand????lolThe holiday weekend
First off I think it’s really bizarre to have just me Lori and Kel at the shop today. Feels like a ghost town at work:) So this brought me to thinking about why everyone is taking off work all around the country today. I guess the real question is when a holiday falls on a weekend does everyone deserve to get a day off before or after that weekend?? I understand that if you think you should get a day off for every holiday and then it falls on a weekend maybe you feel ripped off?? As a business owner maybe you feel lucky that it fell on a weekend?? I’m not sure where I stand with this one. For us this time it didn’t matter too much, we already decided we weren’t going to get a live rodent shipment this week because it would mean that Saturday would be a long work day and everyone wanted to enjoy the 4th. But for a lot of companies in this failing economy I wonder how they feel about losing a day of productivity and in a lot of cases still having to pay their employees. Just looking at it from a business owners perspective and not as a worker. Or am I just out of wack with my thinking?? I guess if I just worked at some factory I would want the day off too, but then again with the shape that most businesses are in now a days maybe everyone should think about wanting to keep their job as much as getting a free day off?? What do you guys think??Raining
Of course when we need the weather to be good to get my new roof put on it rains everyday for a week. We still have the roof tarped now and it’s by no means sealed up. There’s a constant leak in several places and it just kind of sucks that we spend a lot of our day cleaning up puddles. Trying not complain, but it’s starting to get old real quick. Everyday they tell me that tomorrow they’ll do the roof as long as the rain stops and I wake up to nothing but rain. Do we live in Seattle or London??? This time of the year we hardly ever get rain??? Okay, I’m done complaining:)
We’re getting to that spot in the breeding season where we’re about 90% done on first clutches of colubrids ( and we got a lot of eggs!), although I’m still maybe 50% on Ball Pythons ( I’m so late!). I pulled 20 clutches of Ball Pythons on Tuesday alone and I’m getting clutches everyday and I still have a bunch of females that are ramping up for ovulation. Anyway, the good news is that I get a little breather to catch up on all the things that I have had to put off for the last month while I was pulling eggs eight hours a day:) The bad news is that I have two trips out of town in the next ten days. I guess I just can’t ever get caught up.lol There’s no doubt that the best way to describe my life is a controlled kaos???? Or maybe not so controlled???