I just love the joy you have with all your critters. Thank you so much for sharing it all. Pat Las Vegas Turk McGee wrote: > Pat, you'd just die if you saw the whole zoo!! LOL I also ordered at > the > same time 4 White's tree frogs. These are called dumpies and I just > love > them!! My life is semi-complete. Turtles, tortoises, frogs, lizards > and > snails. And now a snake. Joy oh joy!! > > The rage for pets these days is an ackie, or spiney tailed monitor. > I'll > have to check that out. Could be some really interesting morphs there. > > And if I die.... these critters are long livers!! The turts and torts > are > covered. The rest... I need a caregiver to will them to!! LOL Cause by > then > I'll have a healthy business. *G* > > Janis >

Pat Childs wrote: > I just love the joy you have with all your critters. Thank you so much > for sharing it all. > > Pat > Las Vegas Sometimes I think maybe I should put this energy into children or old folks. But the plain fact is I'm disabled. I can't lift more that 15 pounds, I can't stay on my feet too long. Yesterday I carried a 35 gallon tall aquarium into the herp room... maybe all of 7 feet. No biggie. Today I have been in agony from my back and with an irate hubby... YOU ARE IN DENIAL!! .... I never should have taught him psych talk!! LOL Yes, I want to just be me but I can't. Dammit!! The critters I will be breeding are endangered. I'm working to save species. (Plus have fun on the side. Hehehehe) Therefore, I'm doing good work that can tolerate me taking a day off to just lay down. Kids can't understand!!

What you are doing is wonderful! Perhaps you would not be able to keep up in another area. The animals need help too, and you can do that, and with love and concern. We recently won a battle to stop construction to protect the desert torts here. Maybe you need a little red house-wagon to cart your acquariums. Then you could just slide them onto an upside down box or whatever, until hubby can lift them into place. And hide the psych books, to much knowledge for a husband is a dangerous thing (comes back to haunt you)! Pat Las Vegas Turk McGee wrote: > Sometimes I think maybe I should put this energy into children or old > folks. > But the plain fact is I'm disabled. I can't lift more that 15 pounds, > I > can't stay on my feet too long. Yesterday I carried a 35 gallon tall > aquarium into the herp room... maybe all of 7 feet. No biggie. Today I > have > been in agony from my back and with an irate hubby... YOU ARE IN > DENIAL!! > .... I never should have taught him psych talk!! LOL Yes, I want to > just be > me but I can't. Dammit!! > > The critters I will be breeding are endangered. I'm working to save > species. > (Plus have fun on the side. Hehehehe) Therefore, I'm doing good work > that > can tolerate me taking a day off to just lay down. Kids can't > understand!! > >

> Maybe you need a little red house-wagon to cart your acquariums. Then > you could just slide them onto an upside down box or whatever, until > hubby can lift them into place. And hide the psych books, to much > knowledge for a husband is a dangerous thing (comes back to haunt you)! > LOL Now that's funny! I also like to garden. I bought a little red wagon to haul around my tools, pots and plants. It's the best investment ever! Plus I finally have my very own little red wagon! Janis Next comes a pony!! NOT