Monthly Archives: September 2006

I now have each of the babies set up in its own little nursery–a plastic shoebox with holes drilled through the sides for ventilation, lined with paper towels, and with a water dish and a mound of damp sphagnum moss to hide in. (Baby Brazilian rainbow boas dehydrate very easily, so high humidity is essential.) [...]

So, Mike and I got back from a dinner party tonight, and were staggering off towards bed when I flipped on the light, glanced into the snake cage, and saw…BABY BOAS!!! I had no inkling that Isis was even pregnant. Except that she was resolutely refusing to eat, but I was chalking that up to [...]

Finished 3 sections of my proposal yesterday and today…easy ones, so don’t be too impressed! I did “Complementary Books”, “Markets for the Book”, and the promotion plan…that leaves me with just a couple more sections to go before the proposal is ready! I will probably send it off to my writing coach for review, tomorrow [...]

Red ostrich feathers. No, really. I had been wondering what to do for Day Five, aka Red Dress Day. It’s problematic. What’s a girl to do in the face of a thousand hot guys in red dresses? There’s no way a woman can out-fabulous a guy in a slinky cocktail dress. Especially if he has [...]

Skills Clinic Well, the Skills Clinic was mildly helpful, but didn’t produce any major revelations (not that I expected it to). I did learn some interesting things about steering and countersteering, as well as some ascending and descending skills, but most of it I’d been doing instinctively already. Put in 8000 miles on a bike [...]