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| Monday_June_30 |
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I
had the kids most of the day today ( Theresa
had a ton of work to get done ).............so
the first thing we did this morning was
start working on setting up all the baby
balls that have shed..........I had Brooke
cleaning water bowls and re-filling them,
and putting shredded cypress in each tub................
Kyle was handing me each snake, one at a
time from each clutch, so that I could re-sex
it, and draw a pic of it on the back of
it's ID card..............the kids actually
shaved an hour or so off of the work..............I
was impressed with both of them ..............especially
Brooke.......:)...............we got 40
babies or so all set up in their new homes.............Robbie
is up at the rat barn doing "Day One"
of the rat cleaning.................we were
supposed to go to the lake today and run
the Sea Doos around..............but we
are both too busy this week.............:(...........after
the kids and I finished up with the snakes...............I
took them to one of my favorite swamps to
look for herps.................we found
a nice little clear section of water that
was loaded with tadpoles................so
Brooke found a cup and started catching
them...............she ended up catching
4 tadpoles that "she liked"......a
half dozen baby crayfish and a snail.........LOL................there
were some really cool salamander larvae
swimming around..............but they were
too fast for Brookie to catch.......;)....we
played around there for a couple hours...............we
never seen any turtles?...................Kyle
is still wanting to catch a "Big Snapper".................we
found a container to bring the tadpoles
home in and called it a day............which
reminds me about a guy who called me up
a week or so ago, to tell me that my journal
inspired him to "stop traffic"
on a highway in New Jersey...............why??..............because
there was a "big mamma snapper"
crossing the highway........LOL..............he
called me just to tell me that he would
have never even gave the turtle a second
glance if he had not read about me saving
turtles in the journal.................you
made my day!!............get some pics next
time!!.............I'm sure that was a riot
...............I know how those "Jersey
People" can be when they are in a hurry........LOL..........Thanks!!!............"that's
good karma for sure "......so anyway
the kids and I got home and Fatty was at
my place................he was picking up
a master bedroom set that Theresa and I
didn't use anymore...........it is in the
spare bedroom ..............which is now
going to be Kyle's bedroom.........Kyle
is finally getting his own room!!................Theresa
ordered a new bed for him today..............it's
a race car bed.....LOL..................about
that time Phil and Robbin showed up..............it
was a full house!!................we got
Fatty all loaded up and I followed him to
his place to help him unload the stuff................Phil
and Robbin went to Mr. John's pond to fish............so
I helped Fatty get the bed upstairs and
then I went to Mr. John's pond to go fishing
too........;)..............we fished until
dark.................Robbin tore the bass
up using a rubber worm!! ( at my suggestion
:) )................a chick that can catch
bass????????................OMG!!.............after
that we all went up to the rat barn and
packed Phil's rodent orders for tomorrow...............then
we went to Taco Bell for a late night snack.......yuck!!!..........it's
been a long day............good bye June
2003............:) 
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| Sunday_June_29 |
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The
Colonial was pretty fun last night...............Fat
Ass actually sang too!!..............he sung
every song that I signed up for.............we
did a bunch of 80's rock songs...... .......the
good stuff............it must have been the
rum and coke.........;)................the
girls danced and danced and danced some more...............it
was a good time..................but poor
Phil was feeling pretty rough............he
got burned pretty bad on the boat while we
were out.............he was a hurtin' puppy...............We
all went to Big Rock and played volley ball
today...............Dougie had a collision
with another person on the court ( his son
Justi n
) and ended up cracking a rib.............Dougie
works for me doing Construction work...............so
I'm sure he will need some days off................you
big wuss!!!...............we played all day............after
we got home and got the kids in the bath..............I
decided to start working on all of my ID cards
for the new 03 baby balls..................300
plus balls this year..............that means
300 plus record cards to fill out!!.......I
like to stay on top of the cards............as
soon as the clutch hatches and I have everything
sexed out.............I start writing cards
and updating the inventory in my PC.......I
need to pay some chick to do the cards for
me.......:).......my writing sucks pretty
bad after filling o ut
the first few........LOL...............I got
ball python clutch # 59 today..............from
breeding a DH Snow " VPI" male to
a female that is 100% het for Albino and 50%
poss het for Snow "VPI"..................6
eggs...............this is the second out
of the three poss het females I'm expecting
eggs from this year!!.................come
on more Snows!!!...........:)............eight
clutches left to go this year!!.............I
think?.......... |
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| Friday_June_27 |
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T's
girl friend Chris is coming down to visit
this week-end from Massachusetts..............we
are all planning to get together with "The
Gang" and go to The Colonial tomorrow
night for Kareoke............maybe Sandy
and I will do more "Grease" songs.........LOL.............that
was fun!!...............all Robbie the Robot
has to do today is check the rat room for
floods and water a few buckets...........I'm
sure he likes that..............he's pretty
funny........... ...I
told him that I would take him out to dinner
for his Birthday...........well last night
before he left he said that all I had to
do was give him a hundred bucks........LOL...........he
gets an A for effort ...........I gave him
the money.............:)............clutch
# 58 came late in the day yesterday.........so
I just let the female stay on the eggs till
this morning................so I got her
clutch set up..............looks like 9
more clutches to go?....................what
a year!!!...............I bred 72 females..............and
I'm getting 67 clutches..................not
bad at all...........:)..............I will
also be setting up some of the ball pythons
individually today.............I set them
all up after they have their first shed...............I
keep them as a group on moist paper towels
until then..............after they all shed.............I
get a "group photo" for the Birthing
Records page...............then they all
get set up by their lonesome............if
you stay on top of it, it ain't so bad.............but
if you slack a little............. ..you
end up getting stuck setting up a couple
dozen snakes in a day............that's
a lot of cards to fill out............cages
to set up...............and pics to take...............so
I try to do each clutch as soon as they
shed...............I will get the Birthing
Record page updated today too..................I'm
looking forward to not doing much of anything
this week end..............maybe some fishing
tomorrow...............and volley ball on
Sunday..............I may go fishing tonight?...............I'm
not sure yet............I'm writing today's
entry earlier than I usually do.............so
some stuff may happen today that ain 't
written here......LOL................I will
put it in Saturday's entry if it happens.................maybe
I will catch a world record large mouth
bass tonight??.........have a great weekend
EVERYONE!!..................and ROCK ON!!............I'm
outa here!!.............
clutch
# 14's details inside!! |
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| Thursday_June_26 |
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Robbie
and I pulled all the rodents that were in
the cages over night this morning ( yes I
leave prey items in with some snakes over
night..........it's flat out part of keeping
ball pythons )..........then Robbie started
cleaning the snake cages..............I got
clutch # 5 7
and # 58 today.............clutch # 57 was
from breeding a Piebald male to an Albino
female............5 eggs.............all of
these babies will be double het for Albino
Piebald..........I produced double het for
Lavender Albino Piebalds last year...........:).........clutch
# 58 was from breeding a Lesser Platty male
to a Blonde Pastel female........this should
hopefully make a gorgeous "cross"
between the two mutations ..............I'm
hoping for a "new morph"..................:)................Jody
worked up at the rat barn today finishing
up all of the electrical w ork..............so
now that's all done............and man is
the place bright when you hit the lights..............I
can't believe we used to work in such dim
light??.............it's awesome!!..............I
get excited about the stupidest stuff don't
I?.........LOL.............Sandy ( Fatty's
wife ) stopped by this afternoon so that I
could remove six stitches from her thigh..............:).............yepper...............she
had a lump removed and they stitched her up.............they
did a crappy job too............so I c leaned
up my soucher scissors ( the scissors that
I snip eggs with ) and went to work..............they
were all scabbed over and hard to get too...............but
I got them all out................Dr Davis
is in the house!!!..................I worked
on the web site for most of the day..........I
usually size my pics for the journal as I
take them ( that way I do not get loaded up
with pics )..............but I was so "weirded
out" this week with "Karma"
that I didn't do any pic sizing.............so
today I sized a bunch of pics and started
writing.............yada, yada,yada.............Mr.
John called me today and asked if I was too
busy to come over to the barn and install
an exhaust fan for him...............his son
Mike has a glass cutting business in the top
part of the barn.............right above where
our rats are kept............anyway............they
wanted an exhaust fan installed over the bench
where they polish and grind the glass ...............they
needed something to pull the dust out............so
Mike bought a fan........I called Phil up
and told him that Mr. John asked for our help
on the "project"..............so
Phil and I hooked up and installed the fan
for Mr. John ( more brownie points..........besides............I
was tired of sitting at the computer )..........everyone
has to "bite cheese" sometimes........;).................it
took us an hour or so...........it was pretty
simple...........the inside of the shop was
just styro board.............and the outside
was wood with metal over it...............we
made a pattern of the fan and cut out the
hole ( circl e
).............installed the fan........then
we went outside and weather proofed it.................done
deal.......;).............we had just enough
time left when we were done to go down to
the pond and fish.............we fished for
a half hour or so..............I caught a
couple............Phil rolled a few over..................the
bats were flying around the pond in swarms
tonight..............they were dive bombing
the lure as I casted it......it was nuts!!.............I
thought for sure that one of the bats was
going to get my lure before it hit the water..............they
were having a ball eating bugs around the
pond............we called Fatty to see if
he wanted to fish...............I can't believe
it?...............he said he was too tired
today........LOL..........that's Ok Fatty..............you
didn't miss much............I just got home
and Robbie is all done his work..............he
won't have to come work with the snakes tomorrow..............he
busted ass and got it all done today............now
Robbie knows the benefits of being paid a
salary......... .....he
gets the same money no matter how long he
works..............so if he wants to work
four long days instead of 5 normal days..............it
works for me..............he knows what needs
to be done..............and I give him 5 days
to do it................he will need the five
days once the 03 babies are all in the racks!!..............that's
for sure......;).............I have the journal
written now..............I think I explained
what is going on with Karma's clutch pretty
well...............if she was not in the clutch
it would have just been what I expected ...............a
clutch where I should have produced some type
of "cross" between two co-dom traits
...............which I believe I did..............Karma
was
just a bonus!!...............her and her clutch
mates are doing just fine..............they
are all just starting to haze up for their
first shed......;)................I'm a happy
camper this week........and a wreck all at
the same time.................who would have
ever thought that I would have two white snakes
in my rack system within a month's time??...............not
me!!..............anyway.............that's
how it all went down..............I explained
it in better detail in the entries below.................I
juts got lucky.................:)...........Good
Karma baby!!!................do you believe
in Karma?............. |
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| Wednesday_June_25 |
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Today
is feeding day...........ALL the snakes get
fed on Wednesday's now............700 plus
the 400 on the way!!............you guys better
buy from me this year!!!...............I need
room bad!!..............but most of all I
need a new swimming pool, a Dodge Viper and
a new  boat.............LMAO!!..............don't
you just love it!..........I wrote that because
of some of the ads I see on Kingsnake................everyone
has a reason to sell cheap............the
big "one time offer"..............."
need money fast".............."previous
customers will be rewarded"...........great
stuff................I would like to go on
the record as saying that I sell my snakes
for primo dollar..............and I will never
have to worry about any past customers getting
a chapped ass because my prices fluctuate
like the wind ( is there some law that states
that each year the price has to drop? )................if
snakes sit on the shelf.. ........so
be it.............they only become more valuable......:).............I
got clutch # 56 today.......from breeding
a Double Het for Snow VPI male to a female
that is 100% het for Albino and 50% poss het
for Snow VPI..............I did this three
times this year.............I expect three
clutches from poss het females ( VPI ).................:)................not
to mention that I did get eggs from a DH Snow
female.................so I expect some VPI
Snows this year............."with some
luck".................:)..............I
have ten or eleven more clutches to go this
year...............I expect 66 or 67 clutches
to finish the year...............and some
of my best clutches have not been laid yet.............like
Lesser x Blonde Pastel..................Lesser
x Pastel...............I have a het Stripe
female who will be laying eggs...............I
want to
hatch out some Striped babies bad!!........so
I'm still just pluggin' away.............I
have 15 clutches out so far...............setting
each snake up individually and giving them
all and ID # is what takes the time..............then
I draw each snake on the back of it's record
card..............and then I take pics!!!...........aghhhhhhhhhhhh................I
made this much work for myself............so
there is no reason to complain.................:)..............all
I know is that I will be setting up baby snakes
until September ...............I still say
I'm taking the next season off..............or
doing very little breeding.......;)...............it
will give you all a chance to catch up..................LOL..........;P..................I
hatched out three gorgeous male Pieds today........... .I
have produced very few female Pieds in my
years at breeding them............and they
are what I want / need to keep back and raise
up.................I have two more clutches
that could produce Pieds...............both
are from poss het females...............so
I'm hoping....;)..............I took it easy
on my Pieds this year...................I'm
expecting one clutch of DH for Albino Pied
soon..........;)................I don't care
what anyone says.............and Albino Pied
will be awesome .................a Lavender
Albino Pied will be better.............but
both will be awesome snakes...............and
they will be simple recessive ...............a
" real morph"................LOL..........More
paper work today..............I fed all of
the adult boas and ball pythons..............Robbie
took care of the babies and yearlings..............after
that............I plante d
my ass in the chair and got some office work
done............"Karma" has me all
messed up.............I can't think straight
this week.........:)......I managed to get
all my monthly ending stuff done..............I
turn my books over to the accountant at the
end of each month..........so I print out
all my monthly reports and payroll stuff and
send it out to him............Jody worked
at the rat barn hanging the lights on the
ceiling yesterday..............holy cow!!......what
a difference it made.............we were practically
working in the dark...............the barn
has lights.............but they are just old
single bulbs that "flicker"............LOL.................so
now we are in business!!..............I went
up to the rat barn after all my offic e
work was done..............I needed to hose
out the swamp cooler.................it gets
pretty nasty inside from pulling all the outside
air through it................so it's good
to wash it out and hose off the pads a couple
times a year................then I climbed
up a ladder and cleaned out the gutters on
Mr. John's barn ( brownie points )............30
feet up in the air too!!.................I'm
getting to old for this crap.................Phil
and Robbie came up too................so they
were able to help lug the heavy ladder around
and raise it up to the gutters......after
all the cleaning was done.............we all
went fishing again.............Fatty, Phil,
Robbin and I................we fished until
10:30 pm..............we caught a bunch of
Bass while it was still light..............then
we broke out the lanterns and put chicken
livers on our hooks.............we were hoping
to catch some catfish...............we didn't
though..............all we caught was one
huge white perch...............and it was
 hooked
in the gut.............so we had to put it
in the cooler..............Robbin had a friend
who wanted any fish we caught..........so
somebody is gonna be eating white perch this
week.......;)................we all went to
Denny's to eat after that................I
got home around midnight ...............checked
on "Karma"................she is
all bundled up with her clutch mates.............she
is going into her first shed................"Lilly"
is in shed too.................this is her
second shed..............she eats like a champ!!................I
hope " Karma" eats well for me too............... |
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| Tuesday_June_24 |
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Well
the little snakelets' in clutch # 14 are out
of the egg!!.............and they all look
great...............here is what I produced
from this clutch.............1.1 " normal
looking "............2.0 "Phantom"............0.1
"Lesser Platty"...............0.1
" looks like a Blonde Pastel crossed
with a Phantom?"...............and 0.1
"Blue Eyed Lucy"................damn
right  baby!!!.............I
even said after I shelled out the $70,000.00
for "Lilly" that " I would
hatch my own"...............and her she
is!!..............her name is "Karma"............LOL............this
clutch has made my entire year!!.............I
produced "Phantoms" for the third
year in a row...............I proved that
"Lessers" bred to a normal will
produce more Lessers................I got
the "Cross" that I was after.............even
though I have no idea what the hell it is??.................and
I got a "Lucy"................now
how is that for a clutch???...............who
knew??................I think I did in the
back of my mind..............it is totally
unreal!!............and I believe that this
clutch was "fathered" by two males................this
is the second time I have done this.............the
first time was when I bred a VPI Axanthic
male and a Lavender Albino male to a Lavender
Albino female................it was the same
situation .............I had follicles in
the fema le
that were maturing ..............I added another
male into the mix at that time...............and
pow!!.............the clutch was 4 eggs..................1.0
lavender Albino and 0.3 "normal looking"
Double het for Lavender Albino Snow were produced.............two
dads for sure!!.................now it is
possible that the "Lesser" male
is the "sole dad".............but
I do not think so.............the "Cross
Snake" looks to much like some type of
a Pastel..............and there were two Pastel
males in the mix...............a regular Pastel...........and
a Blonde Pastel..............so I'm still
going to say that there are three things in
the mix...............Blonde Pastel.................Lesser
Platty...............and Phantom ...........needless
to say.............I will keep all seven of
these snakes in hopes that they are ALL "
het for Lucy".....................:).............all
I can say is that this is one hell of a mess??...............all
I know is what I can see...............the
"Ball Python Gods" really gave me
a precious gift in this clutch..............and
I'm thankful for it................don't worry. ..........I
won't go changing or acting snobby.............just
because I have two Snow Balls..........."Lilly"
and now "Karma"..............that
ain't no reason to toot my horn..............I'm
still the same "Boner".......( man
is this getting thick or what........LMAO
)........but it sure feels good to get under
the skin of people who have wronged you in
the past .............especially over a "white
snake"...............I love it!!........eat
your heart out bad people!!!!................KISS
MY ASS!!!.............I posted a picture of
"Karma" up on the web today...............I
was going to wait.............but I couldn't
stand it anymore.......;)...............I
want to thank everyone for their kind words
and support............:)..............I know
my email program has been working overtime
today...............LOL.................I
can't wait to get a picture of "Karma"
and "Lilly" together................they
are definitely two different mutations ...........I
believe " Lilly"
will get more color with age................."Karma"
will probably stay pure white with a pale
stripe down her back................and those
BLUE EYES!!!!!!!.............only time will
tell..............how can I complain about
something this great.............this was
better than winning the lottery if you ask
me...............now all I can think about
is the other clutch I have in the incubator.............from
breeding a "Phantom" female to a
"Lesser Platty" male..............that
was all I did ( one male )................so
hopefully this will shed some light on what
is going on??................and if there
is another white snake in this clutch??.................I
will drop dead from shock!!!..............LMAO!!...............Believe
it or not.............I got a bunch of paper
work done today.............the phone was
off the hook............."Karma"
has everyone asking questions...............one
thing I will not do people.................I
won't hide anything that I do.................here
it is, just the way it went down.................if
you have the snakes to produce a "Lucy".................I
wish you all the luck in the world!!..............I
still say it's all luck on the first time..............but
luck works for me........;)................I
got 10,000 "Midas" removable tattoos
in the mail today................I asked Phil
to research getting me some cool little "Midas"
removable tats for  Daytona..............he
found a company that made them at a great
price.............we ordered 10,000 of them................5,000.00
are "Midas" with a green crown...............5,0000
are "Midas" with a pink crown.................for
the ladies!!!.............my kids couldn't
wait to put them on................Fatty put
one on the back of his clean shaven bald head
and went home to his wife Sandy.................she
thought it was real..........LOL...............they
look awesome!!!..............I have them now...............and
a brand new "Albino Version" of
Midas on a T-shirt..................Midas
rules!!!!!..............the "Albino Midas"
looks great!!!.............Phil, Robbin, Fatty
and I went fishing down at the pond today..............I
had "Little Gump" with me..................he
loves to fish............but when he is there.............all
I'm doing is baiting the hook............every
cast gets you a Blue Gill in this pond..............they
are that thick!!!.................and "Little
Gump" loves reeling them in.........;)..................Phil
and Fatty caught some nice Bass while they
were there........ ......Robbie
finished the rat room today...............it
takes him two days to completely clean the
rat room..............that's cleaning ............feeding............watering
the buckets, and sweeping / blowing the place
out..................so this new schedule
will work great!!................2 days for
rats..............1 day to feed snakes.................2
days to clean snakes................:)............I
have looked at " Karma" so much
since the first time I cut the egg that I'm
seeing white spots!!!................I'm ate
up with it big-time, this week.............that's
for damn sure!!............ROCK ON PEOPLE!!!!................... |
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| Monday_June_23 |
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I
got ball python clutch # 55 today, from breeding
a normal female to a Red Axanthic male.............4
eggs.................I have hatched out two
clutches so far from the Red Axa nthic
male this year.............all of the babies
are "Black Backs"...............and
so is the Red Axanthic male ( a Black Back
to the extreme ).............so this has to
be a new co-dom mutation.................the
Red Axanthic is the "Super".................big
congrats to Corey Woods up in Canada for being
the first person to produce this new mutation.................it
will make one hell of a "combination
snake"................as the Red Axanthic
matures..............it becomes a "flesh
color"...............they are gorgeous
animals!!...............It look s
like pairs of "Black Backs" will
be $10,000.00 for the pair................and
the "Super" ( Red Axanthic ) will
be $20,000.00...........I'm sure glad I was
able to get a male off of Corey when I did.......;)..............Lou
and I hooked up today to pick up all of the
metal for our snake racks that Lou is building.................he
used to work at a metal fabrication company.............so
he has the "connections" there to
order and cut all of the metal parts for the
snake racks he is building..............he
is hoping to be able to bring these cages
to "market" by the end of the year.............as
long as I get mine first!!.........;).................we
had to make two trips with my truck............we
bought enough metal to build four baby snake
racks...............we have the tubs being
molded..............and we have a powder coater
lined up..............so this is actually
starting to materialize...........we had this
planned for a long time.............but then
Lou's mom passed away and it slowed things
down................then Lou falls in love
with a little China girl............and that
slowed things up even more!!.........LOL..............but
"it's all good" now................roll
the presses Big Lou!!!...........get'er done
man!!.................Today is Robbie the
Robot's birthday..... ...Happy
Birthday Robbie!!!............he is working
up at the rat barn.............today is the
first day on our "new schedule"...............rats
get done on Monday's and Tuesday's now.............I
met with Jody ( my electrician ) at the rat
barn today to show him what I need to have
done there..............we had a new service
put in a month or so ago..............so now
Jody is hooking up all of the existing electrical
stuff to the new panel................he is
also hanging a bunch of fluorescent lights
on the ceiling .............which we desperately
need!!.................so that will be nice...............he
will be starting the job tomorrow.......;).................Fatty
and I went fishing this evening.............yepper.............we
are eaten up with "the fishin' bug "................I
came home
and seen that my "Lucy" was ready
to come out of it's "Little pen"................LOL............I
have never in my life had to confine a snake
to a little "egg pen"...............it
worked like a champ...............it kept
it in the egg and "still" long enough
to absorb the yolk.................so I removed
the screen cover and let it be................the
others all had their heads out of the egg.................I
see two Phantoms, two normals, one Lesser,
one very pale headed snake?????..................and
a "Blue Eyed Lucy"..............HOLY
SHIT BATMAN!!!!!!!!!...............so they
should be out of the egg in the next day or
so...............I'm so stoked................what
a bunch of "mutts" this clutch produced................I
still can't believe all of this??????????? |
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| Sunday_June_22 |
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We
went to "Big Rock" and played volley
ball all day today.............and man was
it hot!!...........there were a lot of "no
shows"................so we just had
two teams............which is the way I like
it..............three teams sucks...............if
you loose.......you have to sit out and watch
the other two teams play..............and
I hate sitting out..........:).................we
cooked out and jumped in the stream to cool
off......................we played all day........ .......after
that the family and I came home .............ordered
a pizza.............and watched "Catch
me if you can".............that movie
was not as good as it was hyped up to be,
in my opinion.............it was rather slow...............but
the fact that it was all true made it worth
watching............I had to put my little
white snake in a "pen" tonight...............yep.............I
have been looking at it and disturbing it
so much that it is trying to climb out of
the egg.............and it is not ready to
come out yet!!.............it still has some
yolk to absorb............the last thing I
need is for this snake to rip itself off of
the yolk and die.............baby ball pythons
after slitting the egg will stay in the egg
for a few days while they finish absorbing
the yolk..............they are attached to
the yolk by their umbilical cord...........once
the yolk is fully absorbed through the cord..............all
the red veins will disappear.............and
the umbilical cord will draw up inside of
the belly..............that's when the snake
will finally crawl out of the egg............but
if you mess with a snake and keep disturbing
it while in the egg...............it will
try to climb out.............and that is what
my white snake was trying to do................so
I put the egg in a ceramic crock...........I
raised the egg to the very top of the rim
with vermiculite...............then I put
screen over the top and secured it with a
rubber band...............pretty crazy stuff
huh??.................here I have this little
miracle in the egg and I'm messing around
with it so much that I could do it harm??.................I
can't help it............the snake is making
me crazy!! ..............bet ween
me looking at it every ten minutes since I
cut the egg and then Pete and I poking at
it, and trying to see the eyes while it was
in the egg..............it's a miracle that
it has not had a heart attack??.................but
anyway.............I have it all set up nicely
in it's little "egg pen"................it
has a day of yolk left to absorb ...............I'm
not going to mess with it anymore until tomorrow...............LOL..............yeah
right!!!...........I don't usually cut all
my eggs........I like to cut on day 55 on
clutches that could potentially have something
really cool inside the egg..............and
this clutch was very interesting to me.............here
is how it all went down...............I bred
my original "Phantom" female this
season.........she is right out of Africa................she
was imported as a baby and raised to breeding
size........she has been bred the two previous
years to my Goblin male...............both
years she has produced baby "Phantoms"........"Goblin
Markers" and normals..............the
"Goblin Markers" are called this
because they do look like they have many of
the "Goblin" traits..............but
not all of them..............so I have been
raising up all of the babies from the past
two years..............I have sold nothing...........so
knowing that my "Phantom" is co-dom.............I
figured this year I would breed her to another
co-dom mutation.............I started off
the year breeding her with one of her totally
normal looking sons ( # 1 ).............yes............he
was not a " Marker" or a "Phantom"..............he
just looked normal...........this was "dinking"
to the fullest...........well nothing was
happening.............her son did not seem
interested at all.................so the next
male ( # 2 )...............was a Pastel Jungle
that I produced a couple of years ago...............he
also showed no interest with her?....................so
the next male ( # 3 ) was a Blonde Pastel.........I
never seen him breed her...........b ut
at this point in time she was developing follicles
that I could feel.............and they were
definitely maturing..........I really wanted
to make sure that she got bred by a co-dom
mutation..............so I said "what
the hell"...............I put in a "Lesser
Platty" male ( # 4 )...............at
the size her follicles were.............I
was sure that she was going to produce viable
eggs from one of the three previous males............but
I put a "Lesser" in with her anyway................the
"Lesser" bred her like crazy..............he
is the only male that I can actually say I
seen hooked up with her....................so
there you have it...............she was with
4 different mutatuions..................and
6 different males .............because she
was bred by 3 different "Lesser"
males..............she laid 7 perfect eggs
for me................and that was that.................the
time came for the eggs to start hatching................so
on day 55 I cut open each egg................the
first egg I cut was a "Phantom"..............the
second egg I cut was a "Phantom"................the
third egg was a "Normal".................the
fourth egg was a "Normal"..................the
fifth egg was "Lesser Platty".............the
sixth egg was "The Cross" that I
was after in the first place...............I
was hoping that this breeding would produce
at least one cross ...........whether it was
Pastel x Phantom...............or Blonde Pastel
x Phantom................or Lesser Platty
x Phantom..............well the sixth egg
has to be "The Cross"...............the
snake has a crazy Blond Pastel pattern.................the
head looks like a Super Pastel...............but
there are also some "Phantom" characteristics
to it???????..................so who the heck
knows what the sixth egg is???..............then
we have the last egg..................egg
# 7................I cut this egg and seen
nothing but WHITE!!..............I thought
I was in the middle of a killer dream..............I
sat there on the floor of my incubator room
and just thought to myself............"what
the hell is this?"................"
why me?"..............."Thank You
GOD!!!!!"...............then I thought
to myself how I have been predicting this
for a year..............I wished for this!!!..............and
it happened!!!...............I knew I had
to have been blessed with this snake because
of all the "bad karma" that was
in the air over my  previous
white snake dealings..........( which I intend
to write a complete article from beginning
to end on all of my experiences with "The
Lucy" )...............nothing will be
held back............NOBODY on this earth
is more qualified to write this article more
than me............once people read what actually
has gone down through the years with the "white
snake" dealings..............they will
see how me hatching this " lucy"
has made the entire experience come "full
circle"...............it is just too
unbelievable to imagine that this has happened.................I
call it luck...................I'm sure the
white snake is "genetic" in itself.................but
for me to have done this with the mess I was
working with was just luck...................one
female..............6 males....................she
was bred by 4 off the six males for sure..............I
believe that the Blonde Pastel and The Lesser
Platty are the fathers of this clutch................both
of them...............:)..................where
"The Blue Eyed Lucy" came from??..................I
say the Ball Python Gods.................It's
good to be KING!!!.............:P...... |
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| Saturday_June_21 |
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Well.........we
all ended up going to The Colonial to play
shuffle board last night.............T and
I........Phil and Robbin..........and some
of T's family.............I was all ready
to call it a day last night, when T told me
that they all asked if we could get together
to play...........so we did....... .:)...........it
was fun!!............four teams instead of
eight?..............so we didn't have to sit
and wait too long............Phil and I met
up this morning and headed up to the garage
where I store my Sea Doos................yepper..............we
are taking the boats out on the Chesapeake
Bay today for some fun in the sun.......;)...........we
had to fix one of my side marker lights on
the trailer before we left............Phil
replaced them both........then we loaded up
the trailer and headed off for some fun.............we
had a blast.............we ate lunch at a
restaurant right on the water ( the same place
I dropped Uncle Joey's keys )................we
took the boats a couple miles up a really
cool river that zig zaged like a road race
track............it was great!!...............it
looked like it could have rained all day.............but
it didn't...........we got lucky.............it
has only rained everyday for the past month
it seems!...........we ran around a few hours
and headed back to the boat ramp................we
did drive our boats around Fort McHenry.............that
is where the Star Spangled Banner was wriiten...............it
was really cool..............all the canons
are there pointing out at the harbor.............it's
hard to believe the way battles used to be
fought?................we loaded up and headed
back home.............Fatty called me on the
Nextel and said he wanted to go Bass fishing.............so
he and I met up at the pond.............we
did pretty well until the damn rain started........LOL.............yepper..............it
finally caught me.. ..........and
it rained cats and dogs................we
got out of there and up the hill just in time..............Rob
and Sandy ended up coming over this evening
and we watched a movie called "Ghost
Ship".............it was really good...............the
opening scene is crazy...........It was a
very original way to cut up a bunch of unsuspecting
victims......LOL........if you like horror.................check
it out...............then we watched the Lenox
Lewis fight..............what a joke that
was.................here you have a guy like
Lenox, who is capable of kicking the crap
out of the best heavy weights in the division................give
him some dough.............and TIME OFF.........and
you are left with a tired, out of shape boxer.............he
won the fight on a TKO..............the Russian's
eye was cut to badly to continue the fight.............and
Lenox should be damn glad that that is how
the fight ended..............the Russian kicked
his ass!!........and was ahead on all of the
judge's score cards...........it kills me
to see a boxer have a "bad night'................it's
not like they don't know it's coming?................Lenox
thought he had an easy win...............so
he didn't train..............and it showed...............he
made me tired just watching him..............anyway.............the
fight sucked.............I hatched out a cute
little Clown ball female today...............she
was produced from a 50% poss het female that
I kept back for myself a couple years ago................I
was really happy to see her poking her little
head out of the egg...............there is
no mistaking a Clown's head.............I
also have a really interesting couple of snake's
in the
egg from clutch # 14.............it is 7 eggs
( yepper..........4's and 7's again......;)
)...........and one of the babies looks to
be WHITE??..................there is another
one in the egg that has a gorgeous faded head
like a Super Pastel..............I cut the
eggs on Thursday...............I have been
a nervous wreck ever since I seen the white
snake..................Pete Kahl even came
over to see it in the egg for himself...............we
both stood there in the incubator room and
scratched our heads??................it has
to be "pure luck" I say...............I
have been crapped on so many times by fellow
breeder's and exporters over "White Snakes"
over the past few years.............I figure
I deserve it.......;)...............not to
mention that I wished terrible things to happen
to all of them as well.......;P................"what
goes around comes around"..............I
believe that to the bone............so that's
my explanation................:).................more
on "The Lucy" in the days to come.............. |
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| Friday_June_20 |
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Robbie
has pretty much an easy day today................it's
raining AGAIN!!...............my internet
connection is working great!!...............better
than it ever did!!...............I'm working
in
the office finishing up all my paper work
today...............I have the journal written.............I
have a bunch of pics to size and get uploaded
to the web..............I'm still laughing
at the pics I have of Big Lou and his wedding.............I
can't believe he married Xulin while he was
in China..............I snapped a pic of "his
pics"..........as I was working on them
in Adobe............I was just laughing..........it's
all I could do............the pics are too
funny..............and boy is Xulin  a
total foxy mama!!...............you did damn
good Lou!!...............Peter Kahl is on
his way over today...........he has some supplies
for me and wants to check out some animals
I have here............we will probably hang
out for most of the day.............he's very
excited because he just closed the deal on
120 acres of ground that he bought...........he
will be building a huge log home on the property.............and
most of all..............he will have plenty
of room to ride his dirt bikes............Pete
lives to ride his dirt bikes!!...............I'm
even gonna buy a four wheeler so that I can
run around with him................he's telling
me to buy a  "Grizzly"...............I
don't know much about bikes yet................but
it sounds pretty tough.......;).......anyway..............things
are starting to get hectic around here...............I
have 54 clutches out...............12 more
to go................ a bunch of clutches
hatched out..............I expect one more
litter of boas to be born in 90 days or so.................and
that will be that................Daytona is
right around the corner..............God time
flies when your breeding ball pythons...............did
I mention that I'm taking this coming season
off??..............have a great week-end everyone!!!............I'm
not sure what my plans are for tomorrow................probably
RAIN!!............ |
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| Thursday_June_19 |
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Robbie
is cleaning the adults today...........he
is in good shape too..............because
we are not cleaning the rodents this week...............we
are letting them go till Monday..........the
"New Schedule"..............they
will be pretty "ripe" by then.............but
we have to do it that way...........there
is no sense in cleaning them at the end of
this week, just to do it again on Monday................so
we are stretching it two more days..............fortunately
this week has been pretty cool in temperature............so
the rats don't smell that bad  anyway................yet!!.........So
Robbie will pretty much have Friday off this
week.............all he has to do is check
the rat room for floods and water a few buckets.......;).............I
still have no internet connection today?................so
I called "a Supervisor" and yelled
at them............I was able to get my "repair
date" moved up to the 21st.............whoop-dee-doooooooo..............I
told them that it was unacceptable............and
that I need it done sooner...........they
said that Saturday the 21st was the best they
could do...........so I called my computer
buddy Jeff...............he came over and
said that my modem was probably bad.................so
we went out and bought a new modem...............I
bought him lunch for that......;)...........AND
gave him some T-shirts...............we came
home and hooked it up... ...........we
called the cable company and told them that
we installed a new modem...............all
the cable company had to do was get the new
MAC # programed into the system................it
was that simple..............I was up and
running immediately............so now I'm
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