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You are reading the first journal of it's kind anywhere in the herp world!!.............no bone-heads were killed or injured while testing this product............make no mistake............what you are about to read is "the original"...............anything else is a fake...............Ralphie......:)

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JOURNAL_MAY_2003
Saturday_May_31
  Robbie the Robot and his brother Billy got finished up at the rat barn for the most part at 4 pm yesterday ...............I got there to "relieve" them.....:).............I put food on all of the hoppers and swept up................then I BLEW the place out...........yepper...............I love that damn thing!..........then I loaded up all the empty pine shaving and rodent food bags in the back of my truck for my "Saturday Dump Run"............After I finished up, I went to the garage where I store my Sea Doos...........this garage is also on Mr. John's farm...........03 clutch # 40 with mom 05/31/03.I wanted to make sure that the battery on the DI ( the one I have been having trouble with ) was fully charged and ready to go .............because Mr. John and I were going to be taking it out on Saturday ( Today )............the charger said that there was a "full charge"............so hopefully I will be good to go?...............Mr. John and I will be going to Theresa's Uncle Mark's place down on the Chesapeake Bay.............Solomon's Island...............we all call him ( Mark ) "King Solomon"...............last night some of the gang decided to go down to "Big Rock" and play horse sh03 clutch # 40........5 eggs............see the tick!!!oes.............I came home from the rat barn, grabbed a shower and went down to hang out for awhile...........Theresa and the kids were at a Carnival......;)...............I know.............BAD DAD!!............so that pretty much is it for Friday.................so lets move on to today...........I went to the dump first thing in the morning.............then I headed up to the garage to load up the Sea Doos and pick up Mr. John..............Solomon's Island is 120 miles from my house............it took us two hours to get there...............it rained off and on the whole time we were driving there...............we weren't sure that we would even be able to ride?..........it was looking like rain ALL DAY.............but we did get there.........it was still raining pretty bad.............so Mr. John decided not to go out on the water.............I didn't really want to either............but I had to..........I drove a03 clutch # 40......5 eggs...........Granite X Granitell that way to put the DI in the water and see if it "still" ran like crap?...........so Mark and I went out for awhile..............the new Super Charged boat kicked ass again.............it runs great.............the DI still ran like crap?...........:(,,,,,,,I was pissed..............I really didn't think that it was because the "battery was low"...........but that's what the Sea Doo dude said..................so I was pretty bent that the boat still was not running right...........Mark and I zipped around for an hour or so..............it rained the whole time............but it wasn't cold.......so it wasn't all that bad once you got used to it..........I decided to call the Sea Doo shop and see if they were open?...............and they were............I told them that the DI still was running bad...............they said to bring it back and they would find out what the problem was........03 clutch # 41 with mom 05/31/03........so I loaded them both back up on the trailer and headed back up the road......:(...............we unloaded the DI off of the trailer at the shop........the repair dude said that he would start working on it on Monday...........so Mr. John and I went and had a late lunch.........we were right near the Bay still...........so after we ate, we drove around and found some more boat ramps............there were two boat ramps very close to the Sea Doo shop...............and that is only 40 mins. from my house..............so it was nice to find a place so close to launch the boats ...............worst part is, that this was a pretty scummy polluted section of the bay..............it will work "in a pinch".......but I'd much rather drive further to go boating in nice water.......:).............we came back up the road..........pulled in a car wash and washed the salt water of the Super Charged boat..............we went to Mr. Johns a03 clutch # 41.......5 eggsnd flushed the boat out with fresh water.............then we backed er' into the garage.............all by her lonesome......:(............the Sea Doo guy said that the problem could possible be the fuel pump............and it's $800.00 to replace .................fortunate for me............it is under warranty.......:)................after the big day out............I dropped Mr. John off and told him I was sad that it rained and that he could not ride .............because I knew he did want to have some fun................he said "it will be better next time".............I said "I hope".............it seems like it has been raining for a month around here??..............I came home and set up two egg clutches # 40 and # 41.................# 40 was from breeding a pair of African hatched "Granites" together...................clutch # 41 was from breeding a Piebald male and a het Pieb03 clutch # 41.........5 eggs...........Piebald male and a het Piebald male bred to a 50% poss het Piebald female.......;)ald male to a 50% poss het Piebald female.................we shall see?.......;).............so I got those eggs all set up...............clutch # 40 was from a female that was imported as a fresh baby............I raised her up and bred her ..................attached to her clutch of eggs were a few ticks.............yes........African ticks??..................I have always heard that some breeders have documented seeing ticks on egg clutches..............and NEVER once seeing ticks on the snake prior???..............I didn't believe it?.............but it is true ........because this female had ticks on her eggs??...............it's the strangest thing?...............I haven't a clue how this happens...............this female was four years old ..................never once did I ever see a bug on her.............I snapped a pick of the little buggers............then I fried them!!..............I looked the female over and seen no ticks.................I did spray the cage and her surroLook at this little bugger????undings down with Provent-O-Mite................if anyone knows where the heck ticks can come from four years later.............please shoot me an email and let me know?..................I'm still baffled by this one?...............My Anery boa that is 66% poss het for Snow looks like she will burst any day now!!.................God I hope she is het for Snow........;)..................Theresa and all the girls are going out in a limo tonight.............bar hopping.......yepper..................I ain't happy about it.........;P...................I updated the Birthing Records page completely tonight................I'm bushed................it's been a long day.............zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzMay 2003 is gone...........
 
Friday_May_30
  Robbie is up at the rat barn cleaning..............I'm done all my paper work for the week............I got all the pics for the web-site sized and uploaded to the web...............all I have to do is write today's journal entry and I'm in good shape.......;)..............no eggs today............but I should get a clutch or two over the week-end..............my Anery boa 66% poss het for Snow is due to have her litter on June 1st............that will be 105 days after her shed................she just had her "waxy stool" yesterday...........so it looks like she is right on time...............Sunday or Monday I should be writing about her litter and that she IS het for A fresh egg being laid.....you can see how soft the egg isSNOW!!!..........;)............."Lilly" is doing wonderfully..........she is a very healthy little baby.............very alert and she has been hunting every night since she had her first meal..........my new little "Jaguar" ate to...............and The Patternless finally looks like a baby ball python and not a night crawler..............LOL................it was one of the smallest baby ball pythons I have ever imported.............a few meals does wonders!!.................So this year I imported "The Jag", "Lilly" and "The Patternless"................not bad at all Ralphie........;)...............It gives me something to look forward to now.............new projects always keep the adrenaline pumping............I hear that there is yet another white snake ( baby) over in Africa.............pretty soon they are going to be like "Midas tats"..............everyone will have one...............LOL................hey..............I hope" Lilly" ain't a Lucy!!...............hatching season is just about over in Africa ..............thank God!!.............there will be a few "straggler morphs" turning up here and there...............but not one every other day................if I could just get my hands on a baby Caramel Albino out of Africa??.................that would finish me off...............I need an "RDR line" of Caramel ...............I have a couple clutches that will be hatching in the next few days................Granite X Granite...............and "Black Head X Hypermelanistic"................then maybe..........just maybe I will hatch out a baby "English Line Axanthic"???????????..................so things are looking really good here..............I ordered a bunch of Freedom Breeder racks for all the new babies that will be hatching...........things are great!!..mom pushing out her last egg........;).............busy as all hell................but great!!...............My over seas clients have exploded this year..............I may sell more than 40% of my 03 offspring over seas??................I'm not complaining ............CITES was a little intimidating at first.............but once you do it a few times............it gets easier each time..............now it is as simple to me as shipping Delta.................I charged up the battery on the Sea Doo DI to a full charge...............so now I gotta run it and see if that was the problem??................I'm taking it down on the Chesapeake Bay tomorrow with Theresa's uncle Mark.............by the way............I'm sure after reading the journal and hearing about Theresa's huge family you are wondering how many uncles she has??...............Ronald, Wayne, Terry, Mark and Ricky.............they are all her Mom's brothers................all of them are serious "water people"...........they all have boats and go fishing and crabbing all the time..............and they love to play volley ball..............they are a great family to have fun with..............so anyway........Mark and I will be rippin' up the water with the Sea Doos tomorrow..............it will probably just be him and I..............I sure hope the DI runs better..............I hate it when stuff don't work right............I'd rather just get a new one before I mess around fixing something.............that's just me..........:)..................Theresa is going out tomorrow night to a bachelorette party...............yepper................her and a bunch of girls from her hair salon are renting a limo and bar hopping tomorrow night...............and boy am I jealous!!!..............I may spy on them........LMAO!!..............I need some help though..............can I get some of "The Brotherhood" to fly in by tomorrow night???..................I'm kidding............but I do hate the though of her and all those pretty friends of her's dancing at some club and I'm not there.............damn!!!...............yeah.............I'm a prick sometimes!!...Fatty gave me this for my Birthday......ain't it cute.......;)......:P.......it's a little after lunch time right now...............all the writing is done..............all I have to do is put some pics in for you boners to look at..........;)...............after that............I'm heading up to the rat barn to help Robbie The Robot clean rats..................Big Lou emailed me and said he needs a little money to get his butt out of China......LOL..............he comes home on the 4th..............I miss the big goof too..............he has been reading my journal just to keep up with the news............I know he is in love!!.........he says he has lots of pics for me to see.............so I will put them up on the journal when I get them.............Phil will be coming home from his vacation in North Carolina on Sunday...................Fat Ass will probably go fishing all week-end................he's back in the "fishing groove"....................I'm out guys................have a great week-end!!!...............Rock On People!!!
 
Thursday_May_29
  Paper work and bills again today ............plenty to do in the office......the end of the month means lots of bills and taxes!!!...........Robbie is cleaning the adult ball pythons today..........I got ball python clutch # 39..............from breeding a Lesser Platty male to a normal looking sibling to the Lesser Platty.............5 eggs.............this should produce more "Lessers" and possibly the "hidden recessive gene" I hope could be in the Platinum project??................who knows??...............both the Lesser male and the normal sib female are daughter and son of "Platty Daddy".................so if there is something weird going on............03 clutch # 39 with mom 05/29/03.they both should have it......;)............I will be getting three clutches of this type of breeding this season.........Lesser X Normal Sib...............I will be at the computer all day today ...............sizing pics and working on the web-site.............clutch # 1 has shed and they are ready to be separated out and fed...............03 clutch # 1 produced 1.5 het Ghost / Hypo.............I have a group photo of them on the Birthing Records page # 1............under clutch # 1's listing.............I got an email today from Robyn at Pro Exotics................he's a great guy!!.........anyway............he has a new employee named Rob Stone...............Rob has emailed me before and I have sent him some RDR shirts and stuff for him and Robyn..03 clutch # 39.........5 eggs..............well Rob decided to get a "Midas Tat"................I had sent him the art work earlier................Robyn sent me a pic of Rob's new tattoo and I was shocked!!.............as was Robyn to say the very least................Rob took the huge step!!................he plastered my name under "Midas"............unbelievable??...............Rob...........you are the first to do that bro!!.............talk about being flattered................you just let me know if those big guys out there at Pro Exotics give you a hard time about it??...............this may be grounds for getting fired......LMAO!!...............Well Robyn..............thanks for the email..............and treat Rob Stone well!!!..............I would hate to have to come out there and run a couple plays on your ass............;)................say hello to Chad for me.............all my best goes out to Pro Exotics!!!...............and Rob...........that was an unbelievable thing to do man.................what else can I say.........:)............I stopped working in the office for an hour or so so that I could help Robbie set up a bunch of new 03 baby boxes...............03 clutch # 39......5 eggs........from breeding a "Lesser Platty" male to a "Lesser Sib" female.we have the 1.5 from clutch # 1 and the 2.0 from clutch # 2 to get set up individually ...............I let the entire clutch stay together on moist paper towels until they shed.........after they shed I take a "group photo" of the clutch.......then each snake gets set up individually .............I fill out a record / lineage card...............draw a picture of each snake on the back of it's card ( unique markings )..............and snap a pic...............that way nobody "gets lost"..............from the minute the baby is set up individually it is recorded and can not be mistaken for another snake................even if you threw 300 brand new babies in a pile, I could sort everyone out as to what they were ( gene ).............it might take awhile.............but there is no way I could not sort out each snake...............only if two were totally identical............and that has not happened yet..................taking pictures of your snakes and recording unique markings is very important..........if I sell snakes to somebody...........and then they sell the snakes toRob Stone..............# 11 somebody else ...............usually the second person will email me and ask if I did indeed sell the snakes to the first person who is re-selling / trading them..............and I always have the pictures to show what the animals look like.................if they match the pics...........great!!...............if they do not.............then there is a scam............it's that simple................when I bag a snake up for shipping .............I re-sex it...............I look at the unique markings and make sure they match the back of the lineage card...........and I look at the picture...............those three things get done before your snake is shipped..........:)...............moving right along.........after setting up the new 03 baby boxes...........I set up clutch # 39 in the incubabtor................looks like 66 clutches total this year for me...................so I'm moving right along........;).............My anery boa 66% poss het for Snow had her "waxy stool"...............so I expect babies from her any day now................I hope she is het for SNOW!!!!..............;).............Robbie and I finished up with the snakes.........we vacuumed the place up and Robbie headed home to pick up Billy..............they will be going up to the rat barn to start cleaning this evening................I came back to the PC and started working again..............tons of pictures to size............and I started my 2003 ball python inventory list.............I have a complete inventory by the year of each gene I produce...............each snake that is produced that season, representing that gene is on the list................each snake has it's own number................as I sell the 03 clutch # 1 hatched out 1.5 het ghost/hyposnakes..............I mark the inventory page as to when I sold it and to whom it went to..............this way I know exactly what my inventory is at all times...............no guess work...............if somebody wants an 03 het pied...............all I do is look in my 03 het pied inventory and I know which ones are still "unspoken for"...............it's very simple...................:).............I added a 7th page to my ball python Birthing Records page today too..............yep...............it's gonna be one hell of a year for ball python production..............yepper..........;)
 
Wednesday_May_28
  No eggs today..........;)............this morning Fat Ass, Rick and I are going to Phil's house and stud out his basement...............Phil is away on vacation...........he cleaned his basement out before he left..............I have been promising him I would get up to his place and stud the place out for 6 months!!.........LOL..............he wants to have a bedroom for his daughter and a nice sized family area for hanging out and watching TV.............a full bath..............and to have all the laundry and utilities behind a wall with door access.............so the three of us went there this morning and kicked the crap out of the place..............we got stared around 10:30 am and finished at 4:30 pm.................studded up a bedroom with a closet.........A very pretty "Granite" about to lay eggs....a family room area.............a full bath................a laundry / utility area.........and built some pretty bulk heads around all of his duct work on the ceiling.............it looks damn good!!............so now Phil can come home and be nagged by his wife Robbin to start running the electric............then insulate............then dryway..........yada yada yada..............Lou emailed me and said that SARS came from a cat??...............it came from people in China eating cats??...............yes Lou is still in China ( and no I do not watch the news )...............he comes home on the 4th of June...............he says he is having the time of his life.......LOL............oh by the way..............we started at 10:30 am because the lumber got there late...........LOL..............we ain't "slackers"...............believe that!!.............I was tired as hell today too..............staying up late taking those tests about killed me................I went to bed this morning around 3:30 am...............and got up at 7:00 am..................so I'm mud!!!!............I got home and helped Robbie finish up his work............I cleaned all the turtle tanks ...............answered a few more emails ...............I'm dead tired............zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz........damn............construction makes for a pretty boring journal..............LOL...........go FATTY!!!.........see what you guys get if I have to work all the time??..........;Pwhaaaaaaa..........poor baby.........:(
 
Tuesday_May_27
  Business as usual..............I skipped my rodent deliveries this week because of the Holiday......:).............Phil and his family left for a vacation in North Carolina on Sunday..............they are gone for a week..............I'm still thinking about all the fun we had yesterday on the lake................even if we got thrown off.........LOL.03 clutch # 38 with mom 05/27/03..............My landscapers stopped by this morning to put a few trees in the ground...............I'm getting some trees planted and having new mulch put down soon...............they have not scheduled me yet............but they had some extra trees on their truck to get rid of...........they stopped by and asked if I wanted them?............and sure I took em'..........:)..............Robbie is up at the rat barn cleaning the rat holder bins and loading up rats to feed the 01's and 02's today..............I answered a zillion emails.............just having a day off from downloading emails kills me..............I pulled down 200 emails this morning...............half were junk though...............God I hate junk email!!..............does anyone out there know a program that will get rid of all the junk???.............after I got all my emails answered, I checked on Robbie to see if the feeding was going good...............he said he was fine.................so I went up to the garage03 clutch # 38.....10 eggs and hooked the Sea Doo trailer up.............I called a water craft place to see if they would look at my Sea Doo DI............the "turd on the lake".............they said to bring it in and they would take a look at it.................so I drove down there and met with a guy named Ron...............he is the area's top PWC repair dude...............he hooked it up to a computer and said that it was perfect.............the only problem that he could see was that the battery was low on charge...............he said that could be what caused all my problems on the lake...............the Sea Doo has so many electronic gadgets controlling the fuel injection that it needs the battery to be at peek charge.............if the charge is low, it will cause the computer to malfunction and this is what throws the fuel off .............basically the Sea Doo's brain was not sending the right message to the fuel injection system.............thus making it run like crap??..............sounds good to me.................so I bought some supplies while I was there and headed home to put the battery on charge............Ron told me to charge it on a 2 amp trickle charge for 24 hours..............and that's what I did........;)........so I'm hoping that will fix the problem..............the Sea Doo did sit all winter long..............so maybe the battery did need some charging?..............I'm still learning about all this boatin' stuff......;)...........after I unloaded the trailer and hooked up the trickle charger....03 clutch # 38...........10 eggs........from breeding a "Butter Ball" male to a normal female..........I headed off to Mom's to pick up the kiddies...............I got ball python clutch # 38 today.............ten eggs from breeding my "Butter Ball" male to a big normal female...............this will be the first year I produce from him.................I know he will be co-dom...............ten eggs..............I wonder how many "Butters" will hatch??..............I can't wait!!..............I got the kids to bed and decided to go to the web site where the police told me I could take the "on line" test................I did some reading and signed up to take the test..............it costs 15 dollars to take the test.............you pay that whether you pass or fail.............each time you take the test................and then it costs ten bucks to get your "card"...............so for 25 bucks you can pass the test and get your butt back on the water.............I took it and got 75 questions out of 75 correct!!..............so I scored 100% on it............they even let you print out a temporary certificate while your "card" is being made.............I told Theresa to get her butt down here and take it too............she passed!!.............so now we are all nice and legal to run our Sea Doos in PA............I'm glad that isWay to go John!!!!...........the first "Lesser Platty" female in the world to produce eggs!! over with...............I missed chat because of the damn test too!!..............I hear DeMo was there??............I got an email today from John Piro.............he is the very first person to buy a Lesser Platty female from me.............he now has a pair of 01 "Lessers"................well he bred his 01 Lesser female to a het Axanthic VPI male..............and he got 5 eggs!!!...............way to go John!!..............I can't wait to see what the "Lessers" produce?...............and poss het for Axanthic too...............cool!!!................John will get one clutch from a "Lesser" this year...............I will get three clutches...........this is gonna be one exciting year!!..........Who farted?
 
Monday_May_26
  This morning we decided to go to the lake............it is nasty out too............it looks like it could rain all day "off an on"...........but we are heading out anyway.............it beats staying home............so I went up to the garage at Mr. John's where I store the boats and got them all loaded up.............Theresa got us all packed up with the "goodies"...........Raystown lake is 2.5 hours away from us...............so to do a day trip is no big deal..............we stopped and had lunch on the way up..............we got there a little after lunch time...............we launched the Sea Doos at "Shy Beaver" boat launch.................we usually go into the main camping resort at Raystown to launch the boats..............but Shy Beaver is 20 mins. closer...........03 clutch # 37 with mom 05/26/03...so we launched there..........the bad thing about Shy Beaver is that there is a "no wake" zone for about a half mile..............it's way back in a nice secluded cove...........so they enforce the "no wake" rule there................what sucks is that you have to idle a Sea Doo for a half mile.............when all you really want to do is hammer it and scream across the water..............Sea Doos are so fast!!................we have one that is 130 hp and the newer one is 185 hp " super charged"..............that is basically why I wanted to go out anyway.....bad weather or not...........I wanted to see how the new boat ran?............so we made it out of Shy Beaver and onto the main lake................I was on the new Super Charged boat with Kyle and Theresa was on the Sea Doo DI with Brooke.............all I can say is that the new super charged model is insane!!..............it has to be the fastest stock personal water craft on the water.............I was totally03 clutch # 37........4 eggs impressed with it's power and there was ZERO lag..............it is just awesome!!............so that was the good news................the bad news is that Theresa said the DI was running like crap??................I was like......."no way".............it's only a year old and I just had it serviced for opening season??...............so we switched boats............and sure enough..............the DI was running like a turd.............it seemed like it was not getting fuel..............or maybe there was water in the fuel............it would run good.........then all of the sudden it would bog down and run bad..............it never stalled out...........but it never ran well either.............top speed on it is almost 60 mph..............I never got it past 41 mph??...............so I ran it anyway............I was hoping to run the bad gas out of it, and that would fix the problem..........so we ran around the lake for a few hours............the lake was empty??..........I couldn't believe that on Memorial Day the lake would be so empty??...............the weather was OK............it was cloudy...........but it never rained...........the sun even popped out a few times............I guess it is just too early in the season for all the crowds to start showing up at the lake?................so anyway............the lake was like glass...............perfect for ripping up and down with the Sea Doos...........03 clutch # 37........4 eggs.........from breeding my "Anery" male to a "het" female from NERD..and there was ZERO traffic...............so we ran around a bit, then we decided to go back into Shy Beaver and get some goodies out of my truck..............we wanted to grab a few snacks...........then head back out for another hour................so we grabbed our snacks and started back out through Shy Beaver to the main lake.................and the DI was actually running better...............so I figured it was just "bad gas"( I know that sounds goofy ).............and that if I ran this tank dry, I would be in good shape................so we are just about at the end of the "no wake" zone ...........there were two dudes on personal water crafts just in front of us.........we see a water police boat coming our way.............and sure enough, they pull us over and ask us to see our credentials............the boat registration and our ID's................so we showed them our stuff............and they were satisfied............they told us just to make sure that we obey the "no wake" signs ( no wake means to disturb the water surface as little as possible........GO SLOW ).............and we were..............they even said that that was the first super charged Sea Doo that they had seen, and they asked how fast it went?..............Theresa said that she had it up to 59 mph at "half throttle"..............LOL................so we left the police and headed for the main lake.............as soon as we got past the "no wake" buoy we nailed the gas and started to haul ass across the lake................two seconds later another police boat pulls us over ( here is two police boats in three minutes...............and I have not seen two police boats in ten years ??? )..............LOL..............they actually had to yell for Theresa with a loud speeker..............she was way ahead of me when the cops stopped us, she never even saw or heard them.............so again we are asked for our ID's and credentials...........the registration yada yada yada..............we were just pulled over by a different police boat like three minutes ago..............and everything was fine??.................don't these guys have radios??............so Theresa and I again showed the police our registration cards.............but this time we had two "prick cops"............they were not happy with what they saw.............they said that we needed to have a card saying that we passed the Pennsylvania PWC safety course.................huh??................I said I had no idea what they were talking about??...............I told them that I had been coming to that lake for ten years and was never asked about a "safety course card".............well that was the wrong answer...............they told me that they could ticket us for not having the card...............but instead..........they tossed us off the lake.................yepper...............they ordered us off of the water until we had our safety course cards................it really sucked..............one cop boat says we are fine.............the second cop boat busts us??.....................and we had the lake to ourselve's...........it was perfect..............and that is why the cops were out.................Theresa and I were sitting ducks!!............we were only going to be out another half hour anyway...........Fat Ass and his daughter Autumn.........they caught some nice fish yesterday at the lake.............;)...so it really was no big deal................but the cops were boners.............they could have told us to finish the day and then not come back until we were certified...............so we left.............and I really wanted to run the DI out of gas..............I was pissed..............LOL.................but we did have a great time and found out that the super charged boat is a total screamer!!!.................so we packed up and headed back home.............yepper...........the cops did tell us that we could take the "test" on line.............and they even gave us the web address.............here in Maryland anyone born before 1972 does not have to have a boater's safety course............so I'm fine............but I guess it is different in PA...............who knew??........I got ball python clutch # 37 today.............from breeding my Anery male to his "het" daughter that NERD produced and sold me many moons ago............4 eggs................I bet she produces Ghosts!!.............:).Those second cops sucked!!!
 
Sunday_May_25
  BIG ROCK all day baby!!.............it wasn't the best day in the world............but it didn't rain!!...........we cooked out and played volley ball all day............One of Theresa's many uncles "Terry" had his four wheeler down there.............so in between games he let me give03 clutch # 36 with mom 05/25/03 Brooke a ride .............and Theresa's other uncle Ricky gave a bunch of the other kids rides............most of the couples that come down to play have kids.............so the kids all play in or around the stream while we all play volley ball.............it works out really nice..............it wouldn't be very fun if the kids03 clutch # 36.......6 eggs were not occupied..............they really love catching crayfish in the stream...........Brooke always wants to bring some home too.............I used to let her bring them home......but the only tanks I have are full of turtles...............and turtles love to chase and eat crayfish........;).............we all played until dark............then we built a bon fire and had some drinks............I was hoping that we were going to play volley ball tomorrow , but everyone said they would be too tired...............NOT ME!!.............they really meant that they would be too hung 03 clutch # 36......6 eggs.....from breeding  DH Snow "Jolliff" X DH Snow "Jolliff"over..............LOL.................so I think Theresa, the kids and I will head out to Raystown lake to try out the new Sea Doo..............I got ball python clutch # 36 today............from breeding a DH Snow "Jolliff Line" male to a DH Snow "Jolliff Line" female.............6 eggs...............I'm hoping for one female Snow to hatch out of this clutch..........;)...............yepper..........Fat Ass and his family went fishing down at Mr. John's pond today..........I'm sure he will have some pics of the big catch!!....................and little "Lilly" ate her first meal last night!!!..............whoooooowhoooooooooo!!...........Big Rock was awesome today!!
 
Saturday_May_24
  First thing I did this morning was set up ball python clutch # 35............yeah.............I let her maternally incubate for a day..................I do that on occasion..............if I see that the mom is on eggs............and I'm too busy to set up the box............I'll just write doLilly still in shedwn the date she laid the eggs.............then I will wet down the shredded cypress mulch in the cage..............the humidity will keep the eggs nice for a day or so.............LOL..............I wonder if I'm the only "Bone-Head Breeder" who emailed the dude with the "Red Balls"................you can bet your ass that if they were the "real deal"...............I would be all over them..............but I'm sure it is a hoax..............when snakes are close to shed.............their skin will absorb color..............and that is what it looks to me, happened................they were soaked in some type of colored liquid................but man they are cool!!............this dude selling them don't seem like the brightest..............but hey...........he got an email from me...........soaking after the plane trip....;)..so who's the real dumb ass???.............LMAO...............Paul and Mair are coming down from Virginia today to get a bunch of frozen rats..............Paul usually comes down by himself............but today he told me he was bringing his total fox fiance "Mair" with him...............whooowhoooooooo..............they don't read my journal very much............so I can rag on him all I want................LOL...............Paul...........I totally dig Mair!!!.........." Lilly" had her very first shed today!!...............I snapped a few pics of her and put them up on my forum............she is so sweet!!!...........I will offer her a meal soon................she is pretty fiesty.......so I'm sure she will eat for me.......:).........I will say this.............."Mishead shot in sheds Lilly" sure did bust my African bank account..............and big-time!!.............she is worth every penny!!..........now watch...........I will mysteriously hatch out a "Lucy" this year from breeding two " pretty " normals together.............I doubt it though...........I don't get very much for free................:)...........I have been working around the office getting a bunch of stuff finished up, so that I can enjoy the Memorial Day week-end.................Paul and Mair came to my place first............I just finished all my work............prefect timing!!..............I showed them around the snake rooms...............then we went up to the rat barn.............I loaded them up with 230 small frozen rats..............we talked a little bit...............while I was staring at Mair....Lilly's very first shed!!...LMAO!!!...........so they rolled out and I went back into the rat barn to see how good of a job Robbie the Robot and his little bro Billy did?................and they did a wonderful job..............they even swept the place up to my satisfaction...................ask any of my close friends and they will tell you that my two most favorite things to do in the whole wide world are SWEEP FLOORS and VACUME CARPET................yepper...............I just love it!!...............and the rat barn is awesome ............because after we make a huge mess on cleaning day............we get to sweep and use the electric blower.................whoooowhooooo..............we sweep up the big stuff............then we blow the place out................it's a blast!!..............I guess you'd have to be there.......yepper.......;):)............so the kiddies did good..............there was an adult female rat running around??..............but she did not do any damage..............so while I was there I decided to "plumb a rack"................that means that I ran all the tubing and sippers on a 40 tub mouse rack system.................we have been building the heck out of racks..............but none of them are plumbed yet................so I figured , I was there.................why not plumb one rack...............it only takes an hour to do it...............once you get a good system down, it's pretty easy.Hi.......;).............but your hands ache like hell when your done.............that's from pushing the tubing onto all of the "T's" and sippers.................but it pays well.................so I'll do it......;).............after that was all done, I loaded up a mess of small prey items for "Lilly" and some of the other cool little imports I just brought in from Africa..............I will feed them tonight before I hit the sheets....................:).............I need plenty of rest tonight..............we have a fun day of volley ball at "Big Rock" tomorrow..............we were rained out last week..............so I'm ready!!!..............Volley Ball Tomorrow!!
 
Friday_May_23
  Robbie and his little bro Billy are up at the rat barn cleaning.........they both do the cleaning now................on Thursday evenings for a few hours and then on Friday morning until they are done...............they are usually done around 3 or 4...........Robbie is just unbelievable now............all he wants to do is work and learn the business ............I love03 clutch # 35 with mom 05/23/03 it!!.............It gives me more time to concentrate on the breeding and "the people" side of the business.....:)............I check everything he does with the snakes and the rodents to make sure he is doing things exactly the way I do............he will always be "in training".......hell......I still am............I never thought I could "get comfortable" with someone helping me with my snakes..............but I have to say that Robbie is impressing the hell out of me..........he wants to learn and is always asking me if he can do new things.........Robbie the Robot03 clutch # 35.........4 eggs, Fat Ass and Phil are the main reasons that I'm able to keep this web-site so fresh and updated............sure some other breeders don't have the time to do what I do..............or they flat out do have the time............but they don't want to do the work..............I myself do this out of the pure love of working with reptiles and getting everyone excited like me!!..............;).................so anyway............like I preach all the time..............good help is damn hard to find..............so if you do find it.............treat it like gold!!............The most important part of running a business and having people that work for you is treating t03 clutch # 35......4 eggs.......from breeding a "Goblin Type" male to a normal femalehem well..................In my mind........I have the very best "crew" that anyone could want, and it shows.................that's why everyone is always so damn happy around here at RDR.............things are scheduled and organized ..............everybody has a job to do and they do it well................it's the prefect machine!!........I'm very thankful for what I have...............OK Ralph.............shut the hell up bro, or all your employees will read this sappy crap and ask for raises!!.......LOL.........;)...........Jody the electrician is finishing up his work at the reptile facility today ( this is day 2 )...............he has me all "powered up" now..............I have more electrical outlets than I know what to do with now..............."it's better to have than to want".......;)...............I spent most of last night doing the "Midas Tat" page..........Lilly in shed when I first got her......I love the way it is turning out.........we have our "Top Ten "...........I will have to get pics of everyone's tat once it heals up and looks pretty..............so far we have ten tats that are "documented" on the site.............and a dozen or more "out pending"........LOL...............what the hell have I started here??..............I want to thank everyone for their very supportive emails concerning the boner that is prank calling me............many of you were very helpful.........;)..............the journal will go on..........not to worry!!!!...........just wait till you see the new website's "virtual journal"...............yepper..........I anyepper.......;)swered emails and got all my paper work done today.............I helped Jody fish a few wires when he needed help..............but pretty much all I did today was PAPER!!!..............Robbie and Billy got done their work at the rat barn pretty early...............so I don't need to go up tonight.....;)..............I'll check the place out tomorrow ............I got ball python clutch # 35 today................from breeding an African hatched "Goblin Type" male to an African hatched female..............I raised them both up for each other.....;)...............4 eggs from her............you can see pics of the little Goblin-ish male on the Birthing Records page # 4..........under clutch # 35..........."Dinking Around" as always..................:).....hope everyone has a great weekend!!!We made it to the top ten!!
 
Thursday_May_22
  What a morning??...............6:30 am the wife and I are laying in bed..............the phone rings............it is an "anonymous call" on the caller ID.............Theresa answers the phone..............it is a black women asking for me?? ( or someone trying to sound like a black person )................so I take the phone........and I can hear a black woman and a crazy black man ranting and raving on the other 03 clutch # 34 with mom 05/22/03end...............the man goes on to say some pretty nasty words............then he says that he is sitting outside of my house in a car and he is going to shoot me when I come outside??............I'm half asleep listening to all of this?..........about the time I could ask "who is this?"............they hung up................so this is my second prank call on my home phone in three weeks...............not the RDR business phone..............MY HOME PHON03 clutch # 34........6 eggsE!!...........I have to say............nobody has ever threatened to kill me before............it felt pretty strange..............and I have been thinking about the phone call all day.............I think I may have a problem here...............and Theresa is pretty upset because she thinks it is someone in the "snake world"...............I think she may think that my journal is not such a great idea?..............maybe it is too much information?...............maybe it is pissing some people off?..............who knows?.............We are going to file a police report and see what can be done about this..............I know I should have filed one today..............but I was hoping this person would call back.....03 clutch # 34......6 eggs from breeding a  VPI DH Snow x VPI DH Snow........we do know the exact times and dates of each phone call..............if any of you have any ideas of what to do, or have been through something like this.................please drop me an email .................basically right now.............Theresa just wants to call the phone company and have all "anonymous or unavailable" calls blocked...............I just want to catch the bastard!!........I'm very pissed off...............but I guess this comes with the territory.................and I'm not changing a thing.............so piss off!!!............so anyway...........things are a little weird right now..............and I don't need Theresa upset that the "snake world" is starting trouble around the house................she can deal with all the "ball python politics".............but threats and pranks calls she will not eccept.................so I have to do somethingrene is # 9 with his "Gold Crowned Midas"........05/22/03 about this........................I'm open to suggestions ..............I feel like I'm being stalked for sure.............I even looked out the window this morning to see if there was a person outside with a gun?.............enough of this creepy stuff.................I got ball python clutch # 34 today.............from breeding a VPI DH Snow male to a VPI DH Snow female...............this is the female who produced my VPI Snow Ball male last year...............she was just a het Axanthic 50% poss het for Snow until that little Snow Ball hatched out.........;)..............she gave me 6 pretty eggs today..............so I'm hoping for another Snow " or two" this year........:)..............I have been doing paper-work most of the day............I've been checking on the forum and answering emails too.............I see that rene went and got his "Midas tat"..................so rene is # 9................and the tat looks great rene!!...............I love the gold crown.....Midas # 10 on Gator...........sweet!!........05/22/03........" It's Good To Be King" ain't it bro??............welcome to " The Brotherhood" man...............it feels good to have you watching my back........:)..................then I just got an email from "Gator"..................he got his "Midas tat" today also................so he is # 10...............unbeleivabale.................we're ten strong so far!!!................I love it!!..............my little "whitey" has not shed yet...........she is all set up nice and cozy in the baby rack with a little hide box................I know she wishes I would stop looking at her.................:).............but I can't...............she looks so delicate ..............I can't stand it!!...............anyway............I pretty much have the journal written..............now I'm going to insert the pics and give you guys something to read...............sorry I'm so late getting it up.............I've had a bunch on my plate this week.................but I got'er done!!.............Great tat rene and gator!!!
 
Wednesday_May_21
  Well it looks like "Wetty" is number eight!!..............yepper..............Celia went and got her "Midas tat"..............she is # 8..................and # 2 for the ladies...............I love it Celia............blue looks great on you sweetie.......;)..............Now what does Sean think about all this, is another story??.......LOL......I got ball python clutch # 33 today............from breeding a normal female to "The BHB and RDR Bumble Bee"..............7 eggs.............this is the second clutch sired this year from this male...............I know this is some type of co-dom gene..............it has to be........;)..............Robbie is up at the rat barn watering03 clutch # 33 with mom 05/21/03 and touching up with the feed............I'm working on paper-work until it's time to leave for the airport..............I'm shipping out a package and picking up a package of some really cool ball pythons I brought in from Africa..............I can't wait!!...........Dougie is up at the rat barn building his first mouse rack.............."on his own"..........I think I have him all set up.............I told him to call me on the Nextel if he runs into any problems..............he did call to tell me 03 clutch # 33..........7 eggsthat BGE..........our local electric company did finally come over and switch our electric service over at the rat barn.............we had a brand new service put in a few weeks ago by an electrician.............but the final connections needed to be done by BGE..............so we had this awesome new service........but we could not use it until BGE did their hook up..............and naturally we got rained out a few times..............but they did finally get us all hooked up today............Dougie says that the lights are brighter in the room.............I will know immediately when I walk in the room if the new service we paid for is actually giving us more power...........I will be able to notice it in the fans and the way the swam03 clutch # 33........7 eggs from breeding a "Bumble Bee" male to a normal femalep coolers are working.............so BGE had the electricity off for 20 minutes.............. Dougie had to stop working for awhile..............Robbie was there to.............and he had to stop watering buckets because the well pump was turned off................so they waited................:)......I rolled out to the airport to drop off some snakes...........and to pick up some snakes...............I brought in a really cool looking ball python that looks similar to a "Labyrinth Jungle"..............but he is way more extreme............he has awesome black labial scales.............and a pattern to die for..............I think I'm gonna call him a "Jaguar"..............I have a couple of his African pics posted in the journal............I will post more once after he sheds and starts feeding...............then I got a few really nice "Granite" ball pythons...............I'm pretty picky on what my "Granites" look like.............these all have beautiful faded heads like a Pastel Jungle.............and nice granite sides..............then there were a couple cool striped animals...............and a couple that "could be axanthic".............then there was the mother load!!!.............a white one!!...My new little "Jaguar"..........this is a pic while he was in Africa............whoooooooowhoooooooo!!!.................yepper................I heard that there was a baby ball python hatched a few days ago in Africa...............it was described to have a white body.............a thin yellow stripe down the back.........and dark eyes.................they ( Africa ) would send ZERO pictures of it...............I took a chance and said YES..............I want it................I figured this would be a great Birthday present to myself........:)........I opened the box right at the airline hub.............checked to see that everyone was healthy and had their tongues flicking............I especially wanted to see the white one................and what a beauty she is...............yepper...............a little girl!!................so I boogied on home and got my new babies all set up................most of them are in shed ............including the white one............so I set them up on moist paper towels..............I filled out a record card for each of them..............looked at the little white girl ten thousand times.......LOL...............I just couldn't believe that I had her in my facility??.................she has not shed yet................just like the Patternless.................it was a " stealth mission"...............I heard about the animal..............I said "send it"..Another shot of my new "Jaguar" in Africa.............and it was in the air within 24 hours..............so I don't have to tell you how happy and excited I am about this ..............I finally got something I can call my own ..............whether it is a "Lucy" or not..............it's mine!!.........yeah baby!!..............I believe that this is the second " hatchling" white snake to ever be imported from Africa..............the first one was believed to be a baby male that went to Japan............many years ago...............so anyway.............the pic that I have here is of her when she made it to the US importer's place................he snapped a quick pic of her and sent it to me................he knew I was peeing in my pants to see what she looked like................she is deep in shed now.............I'm going to "try" and leave her alone so that she can shed and start feeding ...............but it will be very hard!!!................I'm so stoked!!!..................so I got all the new stuff set up............then I headed down to Mom's to pick Brooke up...............Mom wanted me to get Brooke before American Idol started.................LOL.................I do not watch American Idol every time it is on................but I know the show is great................I just love Simon..............I brought Brooke home and we watched American Idol until it was time for her to go up for bed.................I did flip back and see that Ruben won...............I'm glad................I though Clay was just another "new kid on the block"................he was great...............but a dime a dozen if you ask me.............and a little on the prissy side?????????.................maybe it's just me.........Holy cow!!!...........my new little girlie............:)....she is at the importer's place in this pic.......going deep into her first shed!!......but he seems a little fruity................but hey..............I'm totally down with that.................I just watch the show to see Paula secretly wanting Simon anyway................LOL.................you know they have to have a "thing" going..............getting back to my new snake............all I can say is that I had a wonderful year in Africa ( 2003 )...........I think I got the best snakes this hatching season for sure..............I told myself last year after I got ripped off for $65,000.00 that I would stop importing.............but after thinking about it and planning "my come back"............I knew that I could get things done "differently" then the way I used to do it.................and here it is.............I'm bringing in baby snakes before they even shed................I'm working with some great trustworthy people who get the job done quick and painless..............no BS!!..........I was extremely resentful and still am to a degree to a few people who stuck it to me good regarding snakes in Africa the past couple years ( Africa and US )..Midas # 8...........the second  ladie to get "Miss Midas"......way to go Celia........I love it!!!........05/20/03.............all I wanted to do was stick it right back in them and make them pay..............and I did...............not to mention that they are ALL now getting the same treatment that I was getting from them..............it feels good!!..............Karma is a bitch baby!!!!..................and I haven't even written about any of it yet ................timing is everything................just watch and see................I try very hard not to have to lower myself to other scum bag's tactics..............but sometimes that's all you can do............it's like a big wheel with a piece of poop stuck on it............if you stay in the game long enough............that poop will come back around.................and if your Karma is bad..............your screwed.................Ralphie's voodoo is working overtime baby!!!..............not to worry............the recipients know who they are.............is this cryptic stuff or what!!..........Rock On People!!!!!.................;)I finally got a whitey!!!
 
Tuesday_May_20
  Jody the electrician showed up right on time ( Jody is a great electrician...........he does a lot of work for Peter Kahl and I..........."reptile stuff")...............I was in the shower as usual ...........I'm always still in the shower when people show up in the morning.....;).............I put the last coat of silicone on my turtle pond and filled it back up this morning.......yeah I A huge ovulation on a het Albino femaleknow..............I should have let the second coat dry.............screw it!!.............we shall see if it holds!!...............it will...........it's a very small hole..............just big enough to let water trickle through and stain the carpet...............Robbie is up at the rat barn cleaning the rat holding bins..........I decided to take this week off form feeding and cleaning the snakes..............we have been rearranging the place and now Jody is here running electrical wires.............the place is just to busy this week to feed and clean.................so I told Robbie he had an easy week ahead of him...............but you know Robbie...............he wants the hours!!!.........maybe I will let him clean out the pig pen??.............No eggs today.............I'm glad ( too much going on ).................Jody has this place ripped apart putting me in another electric panel..............I think I have a 500 amp service now.............holy cow!!!...........Well it looks like "Snowboner" went and did the deed...............he is lucky number seven................he went and had " Midas" put on his right leg..........Midas tat # 7..........05/19/03 on Snowboner.......lucky # 7............way to go BONER!!............it looks really good...............I knew you had it in ya man!!...........Today I got a bunch of Construction Office work done and helped Jody "off and on" with the electrical work...............we fished a lot of wires.............and only had to cut one hole in the drywall.............that's because a smart dude built this house.............and put in a bunch of access panels..............yepper.......;P...............I'm pretty much whipped today..............I have to go pic Brooke up from Church.............this is her last Tuesday night class............now she has off for the Summer............I don't think I'm gonna make chat.................I haven't been getting much sleep lately.............but I'm going to try to get some tonight.........zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzRalphie's mud..........
 
Monday_May_19
  I got up this morning and put the first coat of silicone on the hole in my pond.............that 03 clutch # 31 with mom 05/19/03sucked...............the first thing I have to do on a Monday morning is wade around in my turtle pond.............NOT!!...............I buzzed around the room checking for moms with eggs real quick.............I got two clutches today..............ball python clutches # 31 and # 32...............I just made a mental note of the eggs...............I would pull them from the moms when I get home later today.............Dougie and I met up this morning to work on mouse03 clutch # 31..........7 eggs and one "tiny nipple egg" racks...............we went to the lumber store and picked up all of our supplies.............then it was off to the rat room.......it was "training day" for Dougie................Dougie is a carpenter who sub-contracts carpentry work from me when I'm super busy.................we are usually always very busy with the Construction Company............so Dougie usually has plenty of work...............well today he didn't.............so I told him he could03 clutch # 31 ............7 eggs........from breeding a "English Axanthic" male to his het daughter come help me build two mouse racks and "learn the ropes"..............I wanted to get him familiar with how I do things, that way when he needs some work.........he could build cages for me............it's still just carpentry.............so that's what we did...........we built two racks.........Dougie did very well............I think it all "sunk in"................we will see ..............because the next one he is doing by himself .............I have a "master sheet" with all the measurements and parts to cut listed to build each type of rack......03 clutch # 32 with mom 05/19/03.....as long as he has the list and the materials..............it's basically a "no brainer".............you just have to have some carpentry skills ...............which he does.................so it should work out well.................I sure hope it does...............or I will never get the journal written!!...............damn!!..................after we finished up the two racks we swept the place up and went home................I needed to get hom03 clutch # 32.......5 eggse and pull those two clutches of eggs................clutch # 31 was from breeding my "English Axanthic" male to one of his het daughters that I produced.............7 eggs.................clutch # 32 was from breeding a normal looking male, who is a son to my "Platty Daddy"...............to a normal looking female who is a daughter to my "Platty Daddy"..............it's a long shot.............but I'm hoping that some type of "hidden" recessive gene pops out of this breeding..............this would make explaining why "Platty Daddy" looks the way he03 clutch # 32...........5 eggs..........from breeding a normal looking "Platty sib" male to a normal looking "Platty sib" female does.............much simpiler..............Im wondering if there is a simple recessive trait hidden in the "Platty Daddy"???...............if there is...............I sure should be able to expose it by breeding his sons and daughters together??..................so that's the plan anyway........;)................she laid 5 nice eggs!!..............My electrician will be here bright and early tomorrow morning.............he will be upgrading my electricity..............no more tripping breakers around my turtle pond!!..............I guess three pumps.......and three metal halides are too much for one circuit .......LOL............;)...............Doug did damn good today..........
 
Sunday_May_18
  It is raining today..............so that means no volley ball at "Big Rock" .....:(........so I went up to the rat barn to water the buckets and check for floods..............and boy did I find trouble!! ..............I found and adult female rat running loose...........she was running around on one of the levels of "mom birthing" tubs.............and she chewed all 5 water lines on one level down to the sippers and "T's "!!.............she went nuts chewing!!...........a level has 5 tubs across.............so there is a water line that goes across the front of the level with 5 water sipper lines "T 'd " off of it...............she chewed the main line and all 5 lines that go to the "T's " and sippers.................two tubs took the bulk of the flood.............all those animals died..............the other three tubs were very wet............but nobody died..............so I caught the little witch and put her back with all the female rats in the holder bin...............then I repaired all of her "handy work"................I will say this..............rats are damn smart ..............every time we have one loose for a couple days...............they always end up chewing water lines to get water.............they have tons of food to eat right off of the tops of the rack levels.............but no water...............so I can understand why they do this............and I give them a lot of credit for doing it............they must chew a hole and get the water started.............then when the bucket runs dry.............they must figure that if they chew ALL the water lines..............more water will flow.......LOL..............I did find out how she escaped...............Robbie had found a mom tub opened a day or so earlier with just babies inside..............no mom??................so he just figured he messed up and did not have a mom with the babies..............when what really happened is mom got her tub pushed open some how and started running around the rat room ...............usually when a mom does escape..............she will still go back into her "open box" to take care of her babies..............I guess this mom "got lost"...............LOL............so I got it all fixed up...........I knew that tomorrow Dougie and I would be in the rat room working on building more rodent Midas tat # 6.......the first to go on a lady............"Miss Midas"...........on Robbin......05/18/03racks.............so I decided to call my rodent customers and deliver rodent orders today.............that way all I have to do tomorrow is check the room out and get started on building cages...............so I did do that..............I delivered my rodent orders............in the rain...............I drove right past 'Big Rock"..........:(...............we look forward to playing there all week............and when it rains............it's a bummer...............we don't know what to do with our Sunday's if we aren't playing.............:)............Phil and Robbin stopped by to show off Robbin's new tat...........and boy is it pretty!!........she got a little "Miss Midas"...........with a little pink crown...........it really looks like a "girlie tattoo"............I'm sure her's will spark a few more of the ladies to get their's done................come on ladies!!............you know you think Midas is a cutie pie!!..............join the "Sisterhood".........LMAO!!............I fixed a hole in my turtle pond while they were here ..................somehow one of my turtles pulled a piece of silicone off of a hole that I had patched earlier.............and this created a very slow leak.............so Phil and I drained a few inches of water out of the pond...........just below the hole............that way I could let it dry out before I put more silicone over the hole...............yes I was wading in the pond in my "skibbies"........after that..........we shot a few pics of Robbin's tat and I uploaded them to the "Midas Tats Page".....................Robbin is the first babe to get Midas put on her..............and boy is it in a sexy spot..............whoooooowhoooooooooo!!You Go Girl!!
 
Saturday_May_17
  Phil, Robbin, Theresa and I went to "the mall" for my Birthday dinner last night LOL...............I wasn't in the mood to do dinner at a crowded restaurant............and I love the mall's pizza joint.........so that's where we went..............then we went to The Colonial to meet everyone else and play shuffle board.........it was also Theresa's Uncle Ricky's Birthday.............he was hatched on the same day as me.......;).............so it was a big crowd of us playing...........Phil and I were partners............we didn't do very well last night............I had to many "rattle snakes" and "sexy beaches" I guess.......:).............We all played music on the juke box and had a fun time..............the owners put a "Best Of Kiss" CD in the juke box just for me....:).............yes I wore it out big-time!!.............it was like karaoke night.............I was singing all the songs..............and yep.............I got hammered............we had a great time!!..............we didn't stay until 2 am this time..............we left around midnight Moe sent me this pic............he calls it "Fear Factor Food Challenge".............LOL........sorry to see all the slugs Moe........:(..............Theresa and I both had to work the next day...................sux!!!..............I want to thank Sean and Wetty for the nice tin of goodies they sent me for my Birthday........it was delivered today............the cookies and brownies were awesome guys!!.............Thank you very much!........;)..............so anyway............I had a really nice time last night...........I got good and loose...........felt great!!.............yes I passed out when I got home.............that's all I did...............yepper.................so now it is Saturday..............and yes I'm feeling pretty woozy still.............Phil and I met up this morning to build rat cages ( I let him do the driving ).............we went to the dump first, to get rid of a bunch of empty rodent and pine shavings bags .........then we went to the lumber store to get all of our supplies to build a mouse breeder rack............we got one completed............well almost...............our air nailer crapped out on us just at the very last few parts we had to nail on.....................we called it a day after that happened.............we came back to my place and did a few "odds and ends" that I needed to do.............hang the flag pole out front...............hung a flag pole out back ...............replaced some lights outside .............typical "Harry The Homeowner" stuff..................then Phil and I went to my computer so I could print out "Midas" in a few different sizes..............yepper.............Phil's wife Robbin was going to be getting her "Midas tattoo" tomorrow.............the first chick to do it!!.............LOL.......my wife missed the boat on this one............but she'll end up getting it...............she will be the first chick to plaster Midas on her ass!!..............I went up and grabbed a shower after Phil rolled out..............we were going to go and have dinner with Fatty and his wife Sandy at Chi Chi's...........I love that place!!............we all had a very sloooooowwwwwwwww dinner...............the waitress was really slow............but I did get a free ice cream.............and some of the staff even sung to me........;)..............and that be that........all I can say is "hat's off " to all the hard core people out there who can get hammered and still work the next day................I worked today ...............built two rodent racks.............and felt like I was still buzzing the whole time...............sheeeewwwwwwie!!bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
 
Friday_May_16 ~~ Ralphie's Hatch Date ~~ 36 years old!!
  Well I'm 36 today................I still feel 21though......;)..............in my mind I do anyway.............my body feels pretty much like it is 36 years old.................having two back surgeries before I was 32 didn't help me any......;)..............It's so weird .........My dozen butterfly koi from John Spada............thanks man!!..........I love them!....because when your a kid you can never imagine what it will be like to be 36??................you kinda feel like you won't ever get older??........now I can't imagine what it will be like at age 56??..........my life moves very fast...........I have so many things on my plate that it seems like I'm just living in "one long day"..............but hey..........this is Ralph............I guess I'm built for Here we all are on our last Rock Fishing trip.........Capt. Charlie just sent me this pic...........he snapped it at the end of the day........it..............it sure has worked for me so far..............so I ain't changing......;).................I have had 36 kick ass years and hope for at least that many more!!............Robbie is up at the rat barn with Billy cleaning............I doubt I will even have to go up today...........it's my Birthday present....;)...............it is 2:30 right now, I will get the journal finished and uploaded............then I will just chill for the rest of the day ( yeah right )...............we are all going to The Colonial tonight to play shuffle board..............and I'm getting "hammered"...............it's been awhile.......;)..............and I have to work building cages tomorrow..................so I feel sorry for the guy getting tho03 clutch # 29 with mom 5/16/03se racks..........LOL............It is raining it's ass off today...............it started last night............we actually had flood warnings............it is just a nasty day...............I got ball python clutches # 29 and # 30 today...........# 29 was from breeding a "Green Head" male to his "het" daughter..............she laid 4 good eggs.............one small egg that will probably go bad?..............and two slugs........it would be nice to hatch out a baby "Green Head" i03 clutch # 29.........5 eggs and 2 slugs...........1 of the 5 eggs is probably going to go badn this clutch..............the name probably won't "stick"............but it is what I call them for now.............they are pretty much just really pretty striped animals with cool colored heads..............but they are neat looking................and clutch # 30 was from breeding a Lavender Albino male to a normal Albino female...............I wanted to see if the Lavender Albino gene is compatible with the normal Albino gene??.................well this clutch totally sucked!!..............one good e03 clutch # 29........5 eggs and 2 slugs.........from breeding a "Green Head" male to his "het" daughtergg and three slugs!!..............this female Albino gave me two slugs and three good eggs last season..............so hopefully this "one egg" will make it, and hatch..............if it is a normal I would expect that means that the two Albinos are NOT compatible..............if the baby is an Albino of some sort??.............then I would say that the genes are compatible............but it would be nice to have more eggs...........especailly if the genes are compatible............that way maybe the clutch would produce some normal Albinos and some Lavender Albinos...........03 clutch # 30 with mom 5/16/03.but that ain't going to happen..............I got one egg to work with on this one!!...............what a Birthday present................SLUGS!!!..............LOL............it happens............it goes with the crappy weather outside..................my first clutch of the season is hatching today............all the babies will be het for Ghost/ Hypo................a wild caught male Ghost that I bred to a weird looking "Green" female................all the babies have their heads out..............and they all look normal..............no white ones!!....03 clutch # 30..........1 egg and 3 slugs........;(.....damn!!...........:).............Theresa and the kids just came down to give me my Birthday presents and cards.............they gave me a DVD Player and the DVD Godfather collection..............and a big fat bag of lemon " jellie bellies"...............my favorite!!!.............I forgot to write about something that happened to me last Saturday...........it happened just before we all went out for dinner ( Theresa's Birthday dinner )............I was all showered up and waiting for Phil and Robbin to show up so that we could go to dinner.................when Nicole called the house..............Nicole is a girl who works at Theresa's salon ...............Nicole and her boyfriend were over at a friends house visiting...........and the friend told them to go look in the back of his neighbor's pick-up truck.............he said that there was something really cool inside??...............so Nicole went and looked...............it was a big snapping turtle!!..............the guy had his tail-gate filled with some water an03 clutch # 30........1 egg and 3 slugs..........from breeding a Lavender Albino male to a "normal" Albino female............d had this huge female snapper in the back.................he wanted to sell her to someone who would eat her...........Nicole new that I loved turtles and that I would know what to do...............so she called me and asked if I would come over and take it..............she said that she felt sorry for it and that the dude who found her on the road was a butt-head hill-billy who just wanted to eat her or sell her to somebody who would make soup...............so I rushed over to see what was up...............I got there and looked in the back of the truck..............and yepper...............there was a huge snapper female in the back.........and she was pissed off!!..............she must have just came up to lay her eggs..............and this guy found her on her way backThe wife in action at her hair salon..............:P to the water............this snapper was at least 36 inches around.............she was massive ..............a big old girl who deserved to live out the rest of her life!!............well Nicole was getting nervous............she was afraid that the hill-billy dude would be pissed that the turtle was missing..............he would have knew who "took it"...............I didn't care..............I reached in a grabbed her by the tail................she probably weighed 60 pounds!!...................I put her in the back of my rig..........I gave Nicole 20 bucks to give to the hill-billy and I rolled out of there.................I knew that there was a killer swamp just down the road..............I hunt for baby turtles there a lot..................so I rushed her dPeter Frost...............# 4own there and released her big ole behind into the swamp..................I felt really good doing that..........:)................then I rushed back home...............changed my cloths..............and still was in time to make the reservations that we had for dinner................yepper.................this reminds me of the time I drug a trash truck driver out of his truck and kicked his ass for running over a box turtle that I was going to pick up out of the road...............he seen me moving towards picking up the turtle.............and he still ran over it!!!.................but that's another story..............I should have went to jail that day..........:).......anyway guys...............I really appreciate all the nice emails, posts in the forums and phone calls wishing me a Happy Birthday...............you guys are the best................thanks!!!!!.............have a great week-end!!!.............RDR people rule!!!........:)
 
Thursday_May_15
  Raul, Javier and Raul ( yep........two Rauls ) showed up this morning at 8:30 am............I was just getting into the shower.....LOL................I heard them pull uVinnie shaving Raul's hairy ass back!!p and I knew it was "hard-core" Raul............he would have slept in the front yard if he could have last night......:)...........He loves visiting Ralphie....;).............I had to watch Kyle all day today.............so me and the boys slipped out real quick so that I could get some coffee.............I was dead tired.............I went to bed last night arounVinnie placing the carbon of "Midas" on Raul's shoulderd 4 am.............I stayed up to get a bunch of paper work done and get the site updated.............I knew today I would not be able to do anything .............because we are going to take Raul to see "Little Vinnie" to get his first tattoo!!..............so we went and got me some coffee real quick before Theresa left for work............cause I had "Little Gump" all day...............damn........:).............I showed them around the place and let them see all my morphs and stuff...............then we went up to the rat barn to meet a guy that was coming up to buy rats............I showed thThis is what Vinnie will trace.......:)em around the rat room a little..............we didn't want to spend too much time in there because we would have stunk like rats at the tattoo shop..............:)..............then we went back to my place.............I burned all of the "Midas Art Work" onto a disk..............and off to Little Vinnie's we went............with Kyle.............yepper..............little Kyle was gonna get his first look at a tattoo shop...........Vinnie's place is top notch...........it's not some The carbon of Midas.............yepperskuzzy biker tattoo shop.............not that I don't like visiting skuzzy biker shops...............but not with Kyle....;)............Vinnie's shop is in the same strip center as Theresa's hair salon...............so I knew I could take Kyle up there to her salon if he got bored..............she has a little table with coloring books and stuff for kids, when they are with their parents at the salon............so anyway...........we got to Vinnie's and decided on what size and color "Midas" would be............Raul decided to go 6" big and all black ink withRaul is passing out before it even gets started........LOL natural shading............on his left shoulder...............so Vinnie printed up a copy of "Midas" and made the carbon of it.............the carbon is an exact copy of the tattoo, it is moistened and transferred onto the skin.........this is what the tattoo artist uses to get the initial outline of the tattoo into your skin ( they trace it )............me and Raul's friends were ragging on him pretty hard, saying how bad the tattoo hurt and stuff...............Raul was like " I can take pain, no sweat"...............LOL.................and this is his very fiSo does it hurt bro?rst one..............so I knew he would be in for a shock once those needles started cutting into his skin..............I think tattoos hurt like hell...............but they are worth it.......;)...............so Vinnie got the carbon transferred onto Raul's shoulder.............we were all pleased with where it was at, and how it was positioned.................then Vinnie asked Raul "if he was ready?"..............Raul said he was..............and Vinnie started the tattoo.................the rest is history............without making Raul look like a wuss.............I will just say this...........the 45 min tattoo ended up taking two aMidas is coming to life!!nd a half hours...........LMAO!!.............Raul, your a real trooper and I'm glad you hung in there and got the work done..............it looks awesome dude!!!.............your " number five" I believe??...............a friend in England named Pete says he is number four??................but I don't have the proof yet.......LOL................so welcome to the "Brotherhood Of Midas"..............LMAO!!.............this is just too crazy??...............it sure will make soA "Royal Masterpiece".........# 5me people jealous.............even if they do think it's a bone-headed thing to do.................eat your heart out!!!!..............Kyle was great for the entire time we were there.............he did go up to the salon for a half hour or so............then he came back to Vinnie's because I ordered him some food that was delivered...............he loves looking at books and pictures.................so he was in heaven there................Vinnie must have a million pictures of tattoo art-work...........so right now it looks like there are 5 "MiJosh's tattoo.......this is # 2 in the world!!das" tattoos out there..................and at least a dozen more getting done...............so get'er done people!!!..............low numbers count!!!..........LOL...............We came home to a "fish box" on my front porch??...............It was a live tropical fish box with my name on it??................I picked it up and could feel water sloshing around inside the box...............I'm like "what the hell???"................so I opened it...............and there on the top of the styro says "Happy Birthday Ralph.......from John Spada".................John sent me a dozen absolutely gorgeous Butterfly Koi for my pond outside..............dude.............that was really nice ofLittle Vinnies!! you to do...............I love the fish man!!..............and you and Brian ( and Russ ) are welcome here anytime................I acclimated the new fish and released them in my pond.............they look great!!..............Thanks a million!!.............everytime I look at my fish I'll think of you now..............boy is this getting disgusting or what??........:)..............thanks bro!!..............yesterday ( Wednesday ) I got a hair up my butt to start moving around all my snake racks to make room for new snake racks I have coming in................so after I finished feeding the big room and Robbie finished cleaning, we started moving stuff............I ended up throwing away a truck load of crap that has jusA very cool SHOGUN collection in one of the artist's roomst been piling up...........Phil came over after work and helped us too............I can't believe how much more room "I found"............but we did............the place looks empty now................be watching the site this summer..............I'm going to be moving out a bunch of normal females, and "dinking around" projects to make more room...........yes...........I said to make room............not to buy stocks or toys..............just good old fashioned ROOM...... ..........;)............but anway............This was in a magazine at his shop.........I love wings!!!..I'm in good shape now..............I have the room I need to house the 360 "give or take" baby balls that will be hatching this year..............and the 40-some baby boas that should be produced.................so I'm in good shape now ( I just said that ).......:).............damn it's nice to have good help........:).............My electrician stopped by today to take a look around at my power supply..............I want him This is a really cool  tat that Vinnie put on...........I love it!!to add more circuits to the reptile room..............so he came by and did a "take off" on the materials that he needs to get me all fixed up..................I have a few areas in my snake room that are tripping breakers every once in awhile...............so we are going to fix that problem..............I need more power!!!...............Raul and his friends rolled out around 4 or so...............they were mud.............they drove all night with not much sleep.......and you could tell that they were draggin"Little Gump" at the tattoo shop........:)' ass..................I packed up Raul's snake he bought and they headed back to New York................I had a great time guys!!.................don't pick at your new tattoo Raul...............just slap it if it itches.........;)..................Lou emailed me again, he sounds like he is in love.............he says he will be back on the 4th..............and that he takes medication everyday for SARS.................he said that when he gets home he will have to stay away from everyone for ten days..............He knows he's cute!!..he sounds happy as hell.................so if he is happy...............I'm happy..................and I know you miss me you big GOOF!!.............tell Xulin I said hello and I can't wait to see her.................another person to go with us to the Sushi Bar..............:)......................CSI was really great tonight...............Grissom is finally going to get the surgery he need's for his deafness ................I can relate to that because I to am deaf in my right ear............In the "RDR tradition"....and can hear out of my left ear about 50%..............so I pretty much read lips during a conversation ...............I don't even know I'm reading lips until I can't see the lips and notice I can't hear or understand what the conversation is about.............it sucks...............but I was born with it, and must have went to too many KISS concerts.......:)..............not to mention all the tools buzzing in my ears on the construction sites.................so I'm pretty damn deaf............yepper...................and I'm so loud!!!!................Ryet another "sleeping pic"..........nobody is safe sleeping here.....LMAOobbie finished cleaning the big room today, then he went up to the rat barn with his little brother Billy...............so tomorrow should be a pretty fast day in the rat room................Billy is a great helper..................I'm out.......and too all you crazy people who like tattoos .................Midas Rules!!!...............I totally had "marketing" in mind when I designed the little guy...............tell me I'm not a genius!!..................Midas will dominate the reptile logo world!!!..................It's good to be King............and check out the new page I built for Tattoos....................I know I'm a boner.............just deal........:P
 
Wednesday_May_14
  I got ball python clutch # 28 this morning............7 eggs...........from breeding an Albino male to a 50% possible het Albino female................this is one of my buddie's poss het Albino females ...............earlier I wrote about how I have six of his poss het females on loan............and that last year two females produced from being bred to an Albino male............with no Albinos..............this year I got two more of the poss het females gravid from an Albino male ( two different females )...............so we will see???...............I still say he got ripped 03 clutch # 28 with mom 05/14/03off...............but I may be wrong........;)............I hope I am.............I should produce quite a few Albinos this year..............I have many "pre-sales" for them...............so if you want an RDR Albino..............you better email me before they are all spoken for.....;)..........I found two more females that are gravid yesterday.............a het Albino female bred to an Albino male................and a Pastel female bred to a Lesser Platty male................I have a Blonde Pastel female and a Pastel female gravid from being bred to a Lesser Platty male...............this should be extremely cool!!!!................I'm stoked............I also have an Albino female gravid from a Pastel male................and an Albino female gravid from a Piebald male...............and two Albino females gravid from a Genetic Striped male...............not to mention other cool stuff............I know.............shut up Ralph and stop bragging!!!................OK...........I'm done now.........;).......just excited to pop out some new stuff this year.......;)...............Lou emailed me again this morning...............he is fine.............he is settling in like a big dawg..............maybe he will never come back?...03 clutch # 28...........7 eggs............maybe he will become a champion sumo wrestler?...........LOL.................."One week in" LOU!!!................how's the PUU???...................LMAO!!..............make sure you bite plenty of cheese and stay away from the meck...............and for God's sake.................don't show the peedle...............you got that Big Boy??................for any of you who have no clue what I'm talking about.............that's because you have not emailed Stu and asked for a copy of the RDR Glossary.................LOL..............AMY!!!!................I just got finished feeding the Big Room and setting up clutch # 28.............I checked in on my Anery Boa that is 66% poss het for Snow..............and she is still holding her litter..............so "hopefully" this litter will be my first good boa litter for the season.........:).................Robbie did a little work up at the rat barn this morning............then he brought me the rats for me to feed the Big Room..............he is cleaning the baby and middle rooms now..................thanks LOU!!!................:)...............I'm going to get a few more things done in the office, then I'm going to try to get the Birthing Records page totally updated............I will say that keeping the web-site updated, writing the Journal and Birthing Records page really takes up a couple minutes of my time each day.............but you guys are all worth it!!!!...........LOL...............be glad I work fast too..............or I could never be this entertaining ..............I really do enjoy what I 03 clutch # 28...........7 eggs from breeding an Albino male to a 50% poss het Albino femaledo.............and the Journal has turned out to be really cool..............It is really nice to look back into the archives a see what happened "way back when"...............it also helps me keep important stuff recorded ............I just can't believe how many people read the journal now??...............I never expected to write this and have people "waiting" for updates on it...........you guys are hooked big-time............I'm glad too ...............because now I can tease you all with it................LOL................one day I will post some of the great supportive emails I have received from people about my Journal.............you guys are awesome!!!...............and the people that are reading from over seas...............you guys are hard-core...........you guys are the ones that make it "sink in", that people are really reading my Journal................all I can say is you can ALWAYS expect something fresh and new from RDR.............I have big plans for my new site..............I'm just waiting for everyone to spend their money and copy my site as it is now..............then I will drop the bomb with the new "RETRO RDR SITE"...............ain't I bad??................:P..............but really guys.............I do appreciate everything you guys say to me in emails and on the web..............I like how you guys think I'm "very approachable"...........and I'am............ just a regular boner like the rest of you.......;)...............Kyle is in the snake room with Robbie right now..............I can hear him trying to tell Robbie how to do his job......LMAO.............I just went in to snap a quick pic of my Patternless because he just shed...............and Kyle is standing at Robbie's work cart talking his ear off..............LOL..............I just said to Robbie............"be nice, because Kyle will be our boss one day"...............LOL...............Kyle will be the the head honcho for sure around here one day......Here's my baby boy!!.........he just shed.............don't you just want to eat him up!!.........:).....well.............I guess since I have a bunch of stuff written..........."I may" drag the journal up onto the web a day early??................not sure yet??.............I have Raul coming over tomorrow to buy a snake and then I'm taking him to get his RDR "Midas" tattoo.........my treat!!.............I figure if anyone is crazy enough to put that on their body.............the least I can do is pay for it......;)...............so I promise to get some good pics of him squirming in pain.................this is his very first tattoo ...............I hope he doesn't faint...........LOL..............anyway...............I'm out guys..............I need to put a few pics in the journal and get it done.................then I'm on to to Birthing Records page................later!!...............Poor Raul.............:)
 
Tuesday_May_13
  I packed up a snake to ship out this morning...............Robbie is up at the rat barn cleaning all the rat holding bins...........then he will bring down rodents to feed all the babies and yearlings...........Robbie fed all the snakes while I got a bunch of office work done...............Big Lou has been in China for a week now.................I believe he is staying for a month??.............he has been emailing me, everything seems to be going well.............has he met his new bride???................He's nuts...........that's all I can say about the A hatchling Caramel Albino in Africasituation.........but I want him to be happy......:)...........Phil showed up here way earlier than usual............he got off of work early........so he was going to go up to the rat barn and fill his rodent orders for tomorrow's deliveries...............about that time .............Uncle Joey called and asked me if I wanted to meet him down at Liberty Damn and "test run" our new boat?................I said sure!.............so Phil and I loaded up my new motor and battery ( Thanks Mom ) and a couple rods............we met Joey down there and hopped in the boat................it was three of us............and it was pretty windy...............the motor did just fine.............it moved us across the lake faster than I thought it would...............I was happy............and Joey liked it so much I think he will be buying a motor like mine..............then we can run two motors at one time......;)..............we spent and hour or so out on the lake just "dinking around".............I casted a rubber worm around a little bit...........I got a few hits but nothing specail...............this was our maiden voyage!!..............so we were all pretty much satisfied with how the boat ran, and how stable it was...............it really is a great little boat!.............Phil and I went to the rat barn and loaded up rat orders after we left the lake.............Phil dropped me off at home and I did an hour's worth of paper work until it was time to get An Albino and some cool aberrants in Africa...........the Albino has a deformed spineBrooke from church.................Brooke and Kyle aka " little gump" are doing great...............Kyle has one more month in a cast I beleive...............he doesn't even let it get in his way anymore...............Chat was fun last night............but I have noticed the "lag"...............I think I may have to look into buying a better chat system............one that can handle more users??.....................any thoughts guys?.............anyway..............not much happened today...........no eggs................Robbie did some feeding and that was pretty much it............yepper........:)
 
Monday_May_12
  I got ball python clutch # 27 today...........from breeding my best Reduced Pattern male to a really nice Reduced Pattern female.................6 eggs...........it will be nice to see some "obvious" baby Reduced Pattern babies hatch out of this clutch...............:)............I went to the rat barn and filled two rodent orders ............maybe I should just keep copying and pasting this sentence ..........LOL.............I filled all the water buckets and took care of a "Midas" on Phil's leg..........this is crazy!!!......# 3flood............on one of our "group mom" tubs they pulled the sipper through the wire mesh.............and they chewed the hose...........so they got wet!!............nobody died because the bucket was low on water anyway.............so I fixed that and rolled out to do my deliveries.............the second swamp cooler is kicking ass by the way!!!..............I'm so glad we got that thing in and working before it gets too hot!..........I got an email from Phil this morning.............he went and did the "nasty".............he must have been feeling pretty bored yesterday, because he went and got "Midas" plastered on his left leg..............yepper............I believe that Phil is # 2 in "The Brotherhood".............LOL..............I know I have sent out the "Midas" art work to several people...............but I have not seen any pics of a tattoo yet??..............so Phil goes down as number two........:).............I know that Raul is coming down this Thursday to meet with my tattoo artist and get a "Midas" on his shoulder.............so that will be number three.................see what I started!!.............."The Brotherhood of Midas" has just begun ..............maybe I will let people use it as a "discount card" for snake purchases??..........LOL.........I have been working with the T- Shirt people "fine tuning" my new colors for the next run of RDR T-Shirts................and they look awesome!!...........some will be six colors!!!..............the Albino version is going to look killer!!...........so anyway............I got all my deliveries done.............I went to the dump and got rid of a bunch of crap that has been piling up in theThe Paragon Ball  by Renaissance Reptiles garage...............I got rid of a lot of stuff that was just laying around so I have more room for my boat supplies and gear..........;).............yepper..............I met up with Uncle Joey down at our new boat.............we installed 4 rod holders on the boat for trolling .................Liberty Damn has some big fresh water Stripers and Walleye's in it..............and trolling is the way to get the big boys...............so we did that...........went and had some lunch.........then I headed home to get some paper-work done...............I logged onto Kingsnake and seen the new ball python that Gail and Nigel got..............they are calling it the Paragon ball...............what a beauty!!.............I had seen the snake earlier when Gail and Nigel came down to visit.............it was hard not to "let the cat out of the bag"...............they got a great response on their new project and I wish them plenty of luck with it 03 clutch # 27 with mom 05/12/03too!!!.............Congrats guys!!..............Now for Survivor.................all I can say is "unreal"???????...............I was so shocked to see the way the end of this show went down??.............I knew Jenna was not going to go up against Rob because " she thought he was easy to beat"............that was just crap................she knew he played the game better than anyone out there...............and that he would beat her in the vote.................so she canned poor Rob ( which killed me ) and kept Matt to go up against .............looking back at Matt and Jenna together at the reunion.............I'm not so sure Jenna didn't pick Matt because she liked him ( maybe Matt even new that? )..............but who cares!!!.................Matt, even though he was kind of a dork, deserved the million dollars!!...............he worked his ass off on the show, fed everyone...............and I can't ever think of a complaint coming from his mouth??............why couldn't the others see that??.................I figured that Jenna had Heidi and Alex's vote...............I figured Matt had Butch, Rob, Dave, Denna and Kristy...............but the 03 clutch # 27.........6 eggsonly vote Matt got was from Butch????????....................I was so shocked.............but hey..............after seeing them on the morning show the next day.............I have a feeling Matt is going to be "in on" the million bucks anyway.............I think those two have a "thing"..............and if it started on the show???.................I sure missed it................so Jenna won the million bucks................I wanted Rob to win it.............he deserved it..............and if it was "the people's vote"...............he would have taken it easily................but at least the show and the others admitted that Rob was probably the smartest player to ever play the game........" and lose"..................LOL...............and that the jury said that if Rob was the one going up against Jenna.............they would have gave him the million bucks................so that was cool to say..................so now we wait and see who gets "famous" from all of this...............I see "LOSER" Heidi losing her job as a teacher since she treated poor deaf Kristy so bad and "got naked"...............but then I see her getting 03 clucth # 27..........6 eggs from breeding a Reduced Pattern male to a Reduced Pattern female$250,000.00 from Playboy to do a nude photo session...............so she will be better from all of this................I see Matt and Jenna disappearing................but Rob...............Rob has a future.............maybe his own show or a newspaper column...........you watch..............rob will come out of this better than anyone ever has.................maybe even a nude Playgirl spread...........LMAO!!!........6 Survivor shows............the score is three men and three women "sole survivors".......Pearl Islands are next.......can't wait!!!..............I'm out................You still won Rob!!!!
 
Sunday_May_11
  My little Patternless male is going into shed.......;).........I can't stop looking at the little dude..............we all pretty much lounged around the house today and did nothing............we watched some movies and hung out as a family..............what we really wanted to dThis is a cool little Hyper Mel in Africao was go down to Big Rock and play some volley ball................but it is Mother's Day..........:)............we had reservations to take "our moms" out for dinner............so we just hung around until it was time to go eat..............Theresa and I treated our moms to another seafood dinner ..............LOL............actually we were going to treat............but my dad insisted on paying the bill...............so we did not complain.............it was his turn anyway.......;)..............My birthday is next week............the 16th...............and my mom and dad will be out of town that weekend...............so they decided to give me my presents early............dad took me outside of the restaurant and opened the back of his SUV...............and what do I see??................yepper................all the fishing equipment I need for the new boat thatA little Albino Nile monitor in Africa Uncle Joey and I just bought!..............I got a sweet 50 lb. thrust electric motor..............a battery with case..............a paddle ( for when I'm a boner and get stranded )............a floatation cushion and a depth finder.............I was stoked!!..............Mom called Uncle Joey ( her little brother) and told him to pick up what ever I needed for the new boat...............and that he did......:)................so now Joey and I each have duplicates of everything we need to go out on the boat.............this way if we do not go out together..............it's no sweat.............damn right mom!!!...............finally something I can use!!.......:P..........3 hours of Survivor tonight!!!...I'm all rigged up and ready to go!!
 
Saturday_May_10
  Phil and I met up this morning to work up at the rat barn, today was the day to install our second swamp cooler........we found a really good spot for it to go............our rat room is in the bottom of the barn............we are only using half of it for the rats............the other half is just "open barn"............it is dark and very cool ( temperature wise )............the entire barn is really cool.....:)..............but I mean that the other side of the barn is very dark and cool..............so we decided to mount the second swamp cooler on that nice cool side.............this way the swamp cooler will always be pulling nice cool air into the rat room.......ain't that This is a pic from Africa of two really cool little hatchlingsNICE?.........LMAO..............I think it will work great!!............so we got there and Phil started working on moving some plumbing around and doing a few alterations on the swamp cooler to best fit our "side mount" application .............I took some measurements and started cutting the hole in the wall for the swamp to blow through..............then I built the platform for it to rest on.........we both pretty much finished at the same time...............so we humped the swamp up onto the platform and secured it.............it fit perfect..........of course!!............:P..........once it was set..............Phil hooked up the electricity and plumbed a cold water line to it...............we fired it up, and it works awesome!!............so hopefully our rats will be very comfortable this summer with all the air blowing around......;)..............It took us a couple hours to do the whole job...........When we first got there, my Uncle Joey called me and asked what I was doing?............I told him that we would be busy working on the swamp...............he told me that he bought us a new 12' john boat for fishing at Liberty Damn Reservoir and that he could use a hand getting it off of the roof of his truck...............so I told him that we would give him a call whenThis little hatchling died a few days after hatching in Africa...........looks like a premie......... we were leaving the rat barn.................we finished up and headed out to the reservoir to meet Joey..............he got a really nice boat for fishing the reservior...........there are only 1,800 permits issued to fish this particular body of water.............its a huge body of water and there are plenty of fish in it............I remember as a kid, Joey would take me there fishing all the time............it's where I learned actually.............then things changed .............I got older and started my business and Uncle Joey got busy too..............so we never really fished that much at Liberty Damn after that ...............probably ten years or better..............but now we are going back to our roots!!............so it will be really cool to have the boat docked at the lake..........the permit allows us to keep the boat right there...............so it will be easy when we want to go fishing, just to throw some rods in the back of the truck and go!!...............your only allowed to use electric motors in this lake.............Joey has everything he needs for fishing fresh water...........I have my tackle...........but no battery or electric motor yet................so I will be shopping soon, so I can get all geared up for fishing on the 03 clutch # 26 with mom 05/10/03lake................yepper........;)...........So Phil and I helped get the boat off of his truck and we took it down to the shore, where we will dock it...............we put a chain and a lock on it and that was that..............we walked around the water a little bit.............then we headed back home...............we had to get home and get all dolled up for dinner and a movie for Theresa's birthday.................:).............we all went to a seafood place and had dinner ..........Theresa and I, Fat Ass and Sandy, Phil and Robbin, my mom and dad............and Theresa's mom.............after dinner we went and seen "Anger Management".................let me be the one to tell you..............that movie was the biggest disappointment I have had in awhile..............it flat out sucked!!.............it was not nearly as funny as it was hyped up to be.............we all thought the same thing..............IT SUCKED!!!.............Theresa came home from work before we left to go have dinner and told me that there was a weird message on our home answering machine............she said it was for me??.03 clutch # 26...........6 eggs...............so we listened to it............and it was some scum bag saying things about me playing basket ball with my son Kyle.............then saying "I touched" my son..............and now he ( my son ) doesn't want to play basket ball with his dad anymore????? ..........then he goes on to saying......"that he liked my balls"............so this was obviously a "snake person" pranking me..............and on my home line???..........it was really weird stuff.............and the caller ID did not pick up the number..............so I called the Phone Company and they DID pick up the number................and I know who it is ...............really good stuff ain't it SCUM BAG!!!...............I suggest you never call my house again .............I'm already building a case, so your pretty much screwed............have a nice life!!.......and if you were smart............YOU would apologize and ask me NOT to pursue this .......sorry folks.............but I have been dealing with some pretty funky stuff lately.............kinda like someone is obsessed with me.............it's kinda creepy............I did save the recording..............and you can hear a second person in the background laughing ...............first time for everything I guess .................anyway.............aside from that crappy movie..............we had a great time tonight ...............I did get ball python clutch # 26 03 clutch # 26...........6 eggs from breeding a normal female to "my" Bumble Bee male..............:)today.............from breeding a normal female to a really cool male that BHB and I own together .............I had seen this snake in Africa several years ago................and so did Brian...............we both got pics sent to us..............well Brian ended up getting the little male..............he actually brought it with him to show people at the Daytona show.................I seen it and told him that I was trying to get it as well.............and that I really loved it................so he just handed it to me and said " we will split the project".............just like that..............what a good guy!!!..............Thanks Brian!!.............I expect two clutches this year from our "Bumble Bee" male............;) I got your number.............CREEP!!
 
Friday_May_9 ~~ Happy Birthday Theresa ~~
  Today is my wife Theresa's Birthday............she turns 19 today!!!..............yeah man............I know how to pick um'................LOL..........eat your heart out "smug dude"..............I know it's a little old for your taste..............but hey.........I was never a boy scout ...........sorry folks............I just had to get that one out of my system...............Theresa turns 33 today.............I met her in High School way back when.............I have been with her since 1985.........we got married in 1991...............we have been together for 17 years .................more than half of her life she has been stuck with a big fat bastard like 03 clutch # 25 with mom......05/09/03me................go figure??.................Maybe it's my "hidden" talents ............I knew when I seen her the very first time walking the school hallways in the morning before class...............that I would get her and keep her..........and here we are ..............living just like The Jeffersons................LMAO..............Happy Birthday baby!!................and thank you for putting up with me all these years...............I swear the mortgage is only three months behind.............we'll be fine.................:)..............As you can probably figure out..............I'm writing the rest of the journal right now................I have to place the pictures in it and then I will be done..............Robbie is up at the rat barn cleaning.........Phil and I will go up later on today after Phil gets off of work............I finished up paying all my bills and answering emails this morning................I got ball python clutch # 25 today..............from breeding an aberrant female to my "Patternless Sided" male.............this is the second and the last clutch I will get this year from this really cool male................5 eggs.............I'm almost half way there!!...............I did a count of what I should finish up the season with, and I'm coming up with 63 clutches ...........I'm gonna need room!!...............maybe I will have a "price slasher sale" because there is just too much pressure to bare??..................NOT.............this year's sna03 clutch # 25..........5 eggs.......kes are going to be primo animals ...........I really concentrated on "quality" instead of worrying about making a bizzilion of each mutation ............I have sold I think five Pastels in my life, and I'm still making my bills OK................LOL.............my point is that why should I suck the smaller less expensive morph market dry when I can kick ass and lead in the "new morph" market............the smaller less expensive mutations are for the newer up and coming breeders to make money on.............that's ancient history...........RDR ain't ever gonna be a "snake mill".............that ain't my style..............the thought of producing tons of one or two mutations just to get them out the door and make the money don't fly here...............I don't want to be the majority ...............I want to be the minority..........each year I don't just produce more and more of the same thing...............I try to produce completely different things..............that's what floats Ralphie's boat...............I get bored real easy..............I'm dangerous when I'm bored...............so a rack full of Albino's, Pied's and Pastel's ( as great as that sounds ) ain't gonna do it for me anymore.....................I need new stuff to look forward too...............I can control everything I do here................so why get stuck at a dead end??.................prime example...............last year was the first year I ever produced Axanthics ( and I could have produced them many years sooner )...03 clutch # 25.........5 eggs........from breeding an aberrant female to a cool "Patternless Sided" male...................I have huge het Axanthic females to breed...............I know that the Axanthic market is really tough.............and that it will stay tough until more Double Homozygous animals are produced and more people can get interested in them...............I feel that an Axanthic is worth $7,500.00 to $10,000.00................I know they are not flying off the shelves.................so why make more??...............I have what I need to breed.................why grow up snakes that I can't sell?.................sure it would be nice to make them and sit them on the shelf until somebody decides to buy them...............but that ain't me.............I like to make things that I can keep a few to raise up and sell the rest before the next breeding season.............and get the price I'm asking for them................so anyway...............I don't know where all that came from??...............I guess it's the fact that I'm producing so many clutches this year...............but not " a lot" of any particular thing...............it's 1:30 right now................I'm done writing and ranting for the week.................I really appreciate all the nice emails about my new snake................and all the emails about "smug dude"..............the best thing I can tell you to do is just block all of his emails and hope he goes away..............that's what I do..............LOL..............I have been told that he is calling around asking why Jeff has not banned me from Kingsnake yet??...................LOL................He asked a friend of mine who goes to Kingsnake a lot......." how is Ralph getting away with it"................LMAO..................getting away with what??.............get a life man.........you burnt too many bridges .............I have more emails concerning you now than I ever did .............nobody cares what you have to say...............so stop pestering everyone...............go for a walk or something..................OK All...................I'm out...............You all have a great week-end and don't let your meat loaf...............wahhhhhhhhhhh............
 
Thursday_May_8
  Robbie cleaned the big room today..............the big room is where all my adults are kept.........he found an Albino female on eggs..........so that's ball python clutch # 24.........4 eggs.............the Albino female was bred to a VPI Axanthic male...............so these babies will be Double Het for SNOW..........this particular Albino female is one of the Albinos that you can see hatching on VPI's National Geographic Special..............It was way back in 1997 when I believe the show first aired on TV.............I was watching it and seen the baby Albinos hatching...............I called Tracy right away and bought a female from her.........03 clutch # 24 with mom......05/08/03......this female has been a Royal pain in the butt too.................she was a very slow grower and a difficult feeder.............but that's how it goes sometimes, it's nobody's fault...............I just kept working with her and finally got her bred.................so this entire clutch will be from VPI stock..............and the Albino female is very light, so that will make nice DH's for SNOW...........;)............Robbie got finished in the big room and headed up to the rat barn to start cleaning..............he has been cleaning the rat barn half a day on Thursday's so that we can get done earlier on Friday's................I have been swamped today with paper work and phone calls.......Africa is on fire right now with cool stuff!!!.................I packed up a few T- shirts to ship out this week-end..............I'm almost out of them...............I have my T-shirt designer working on a new color scheme for this season...............it will probably b03 clutch # 24.........4 eggse a "High Gold" version and an "Albino" version of little Midas.......;)................and I'm getting more smaller sizes for all the chicks at Daytona...............so if your reading this and you want a FREE T-shirt at Daytona ................shoot me an email and tell me what size you want ladies...........;)...............this way I will know I have enough.................and don't sweat it guys..............I will have plenty of "dude shirts" to throw your way.................Kyle had his appointment with the bone specialist today.............the specialist said that Kyle's bones are perfectly normal............he said that he has no disease, he said he was watching Kyle in the waiting room and he could see how he busts himself up so much..............Kyle is hyper like his dad.......LOL........so Theresa and I feel great now that we know there is nothing wrong with Kyle's bones...............so now I can start beating him again..................:)..........That was a joke....;).........I'm sure you guys all seen that VPI finally hatched out some baby Ivory Bloods............it seems like it has been forever waiting to see those little beauties ..............Congrats to VPI on producing little "carbons" of those 5 foot Ivory monsters...............I just may have to swing in the Blood Python direction......03 clutch # 24.......4 eggs.........from breeding an Axanthic "VPI" to an Albino female...........all babies will be DH for SNOW..it would make a nice "dinking around" project for me........;)..........hey Tracy.............If I promote the crap out of them, can I get a free pair?...........LOL..........great work guys.............they are really pretty little snakes...............now let's talk about tonight's Survivor episode.................WHOOOOOOOOOOOO>>>>WHOOOOOOOO ..............Heidi "Skank" is gone!!!...............I loved it!!............I can't believe what she said at the Tribal Council???...............she should have just said " vote me off tonight"................what a little witch...........I'm still pulling for Rob.............I think he deserves to win......VPI's brand new baby Ivory Blood Python 2003.......he has played the game the way it is supposed to be played.............he is entertaining and he has put his balls on the line many times..............and Matt...........this guy is un-stopable...............he used to be "the goof".............but I think that was all a show................Matt really has his stuff together now.............I can't wait to see the two hour episode on Sunday...........all I can say is that Rob has hurt a lot of people................but he deserves the money.............this is a strategic game............it's not some place to make new friends............I just hope if he does make it to the final two, that the jury takes into consideration of how smart he has played..............he didn't just bore us all with flying under the radar...............he played man!!!!..........GO ROB GO!!!!.................I'm out..............Bye Bye Skank!!
 
Wednesday_May_7
  Robbie was over bright and early to clean today.............that's right.............today is the first Wednesday that we are trying out our new schedule..............now That Big Lou is in China..........we have to spread the work load out a little bit..............I fed the adu03 clutch # 22 with mom.........05/07/03lts while Robbie Cleaned.............I was checking for pre-lay sheds and eggs while I was feeding............I found two females on eggs!!................so that's ball python clutch # 22 and # 23................# 22 was from a Possible Double Het for Snow "Jolliff Line" bred to a Double Het for Snow " Jolliff".....4 eggs.......this is the same female who produced the Paradox Albino for me last year..............she has pro03 clutch # 22.........4 eggsved to be het for Albino...............I don't really care if she is het for Snow..............I just want another Paradox Baby!!........:)..................clutch # 23 was from breeding two het Clown balls together..............this is this female's first clutch...........6 eggs..............I'm hoping for some Clowns to be born in this clutch.......;).................so I finished feeding everyone..............I'm actually "doubling up" now.............most of my adults are back on track and pounding food again................after the feeding was done, I set up two egg boxes and set them in the incubator room...............I'm about 1/3 of the way there now...........;)..............I'm still expecting 60 clutches this season.............give or take..............and there won't be much "junk".........I ran out today to be a good husband and father......;)...............I got Mother's Day cards for my wife and my mom.................AND..............a birthday card for 03 clutch # 22..........4 eggs.........from breeding a DH Snow "Jolliff" male to a Poss Het For Snow "Jolliff" female............she produced a Paradox Albino last year from this same breeding......;)Theresa................her birthday is this Friday................mine is the following Friday ( make sure you write this down...........you will be tested later )..........then I ran over to Lowes and picked up some more box fans to lay over each of my rat holding bins...............I let the box fans sit on the top and blow air down into the holding bins...............this helps keep the rats cool..............much cooler then they would be with out the fans...............I also picked up some stuff to do a job for Mr. John tonight.............Phil and I are going up to the rat barn ( the top part ).............the upper level of the rat barn is where Mr. John's son Mike has his glass cutting business.................anyway.............They have a big glass polishing machine that uses water all the time while it is working.............the water tends to spray out and get things wet...........the plywood floor under the machine is starting to rot................so I had Big Lou's old boss weld a nice stainless steel pan to sit under the machine..............so tonight Phil and I 03 clutch # 23 with mom.......05/07/03with Mr. John's supervision tore up all the old plywood .................replaced it with marine grade new plywood,,,,,,,,,,,,,glued and screwed............then we put down the brand new stainless steel pan...............what an excellent job we did to...........it's always good to score brownie points with your Landlord ..............I call it "biting cheese"...................Lou emailed me from China................he made it there safely.........he's funny.........Robbie has been bringing me all of Lou's household bills and sitting them on my desk in the office..............I'm like........"what are Lou's bills here for? "..............Robbie 03 clutch # 23..........6 eggssays that Lou told him that I would pay them while he was gone.........LOL..................and sure enough in Lou's email..............he asked if I could cover all his bills while he was gone??..................with my luck Lou will be gone for six months!!!............I sure hope he knows what he is doing over there in China.............no PUU in the world is worth getting DEAD............but that's Lou...............not a single care in the world.............After Phil and I were done working up at the barn we drove home................Brian from BHB Enterprises called me on my cell phone................he called me to tell me that everything was doing well with his breeding season and that he really enjoyed reading my journal..............that's a huge compliment coming from a guy like Brian.............he hates the interent..........03 clutch # 23...........6 eggs from breeding Het Clown X Het Clown.............so if he is logging on just to read my journal...............I must be pretty entertaining.....;)............we talked about the new Patternless ball I just got in................Brian gets a lot of snakes out of Africa................so he knows what's going on over there just like I do.................he said by the time he heard about the snake..............."It was in the air"................that's right..............it was on it's way to me..........;)...............Brian and I own a snake together that I call the "Bumble Bee"..................I know this snake will be co-dom or dom.................I will be getting two clutches this year from it................so Brian and I both are really excited to see what happens with this project..............hey Brian.............it was really great talking to you.............and I'm glad everything is getting better for you bro..............:)................I'm out...............zzzzzzzzzzzzz...............Smug people suck!
 
Tuesday_May_6
  I headed off to the airport this morning to ship the Pied male..............I tried to call the "Jersey Boys"..............but they were still in bed at their hotel..................:P...........they had a long drive last night so I'm sure they were tired..............John called me on my cell as I was leaving the airport..........I told him that I was on my way home and that I would meet them there................they showed up just as I was getting home.............it waJohn, Brian and Russ........The boys from Jerseys John, Brian and Russ............Robbie the Robot was feeding the baby room and the middle room today............we changed our schedule to two feeding days per week................we now feed babies and sub adults on Tuesday's and the adults get fed on Wednesday's..............it works out nice............We feed the babies and yearling's on Tuesday's.............Robbie cleans the babies and yearlings on Wednesday's while I'm feeding the adults................then Thursday's the adults get cleaned...............it spreads things out better, so that there is not so much to get done in one day.............I like it..............so the boys showed up and I gave them the "RDRI had to crop out the snakes John bought...........Oh My God!!!! grand tour"............I showed them everything in my collection and even let them hold some stuff.........LOL..............If any of you have ever met and hung out with John and "Silent Bob" you will know that they were made for each other.............they could get their own TV show for sure............ Russ is a good guy too.........I had seen him around before, but this was the first time I ever hung out with him............so we talked about all the ball python politics up in the northern east coast ..........exchanged a bunch of "he said she said" stuff................the usual juicy gossip........;)........then we went out in my back yard and burned T-This will become a tradition for sure!!!.....I had a blast guys!!!Shirts...........LMAO....................they wanted to see my rat barn............so I took them up there to show them how it was set-up.............then we went and had some lunch..................after lunch we went back to my place and bagged up John's snakes................he got some beauties too!!...............I gave them each a RDR baseball cap and T-shirts.............then I got to snap some incriminating pics of them...........:P..............I had fun guys...........even though it was a short visit..............I enjoyed it and appreciate your views on certain political matters here in the Ball Python World................good luck to you John, with the awesome ball python projects your working on!!..............glad to see that your starting to spread you wings........;)...........next time maybe you guys can come down with Gail and Nigel?...........that would be a hoot!!!.........so poof.............they were gone ................heading back to Jersey....................poor bastards!!............Yeah I posted some more childish stuff on Kingsnake today...............and yeah it got yanked..............I guess somebody doesn't like my greatWill's Banana on eggs 2003 sense of humor?...........Now let's talk about Will Slough.............holy cow!!.............I need to back up a little on this story............to my knowledge there are two "White Smoke" ball pythons in the US..............the reason I know this is because they both were offered to me...............and I passed on both of them like a total idiot!!!..............the first one was an adult male that was offered to me from E B Noah in Africa..............it was priced at $25,000.00...........I did like the way it looked.........I could see that it had yellow and lavender hues to it.............but I thought it was just an old Caramel Albino Will Slough's Bananas in the egg 2003with a lot of ticks on it..........( later I found out that some of "those spots" may have been ticks.............but most where dark individual spots that were part of the way the snake looked )............... I passed on it and told Noah that I'm sure that Lindy,Kevin and Tracy would buy it...............and they did............they brought this animal in and called it a "White Smoke"...............so that was that.................then maybe one year later another one shows up..............and adult female in Africa............this one was offered to several other people for I believe $30,000.00???...........Will Slough ended up with her, and I knew it was the same mutation as NERD's "White Smoke"................Will posted some pics of her on Kingsnake shortly after getting her...............and I was one of the "big mouths" to say that I though it was just an Will's "Banana" pic when it was up for sale out of Africa"ancient" Caramel Albino..............well boy was I wrong!!..............Will calls his a "Banana".................NERD calls his a "White Smoke".............they are both the same mutation I believe............we will have to see how "those dark spots" show up on Will's babies???..............and they both have proved to be a dominant gene so far..............how can this be??...............from what I know, these snakes do have red eyes to a degree.................so they are some type of Albino................they could potentially be co-dom............think about that?.................a co-dom Albino??...............unbeleivable...............Will hatched out 3 baby "Bananas" in his first clutch of eggs..................and to think I didn't make a move on these snakes......Nerd's White Smoke in Africa............I should have bought this snake!!!..........what a boner!!!.................as far as NERD.............he has also produced from his "White Smoke" the same way that Will did..............so we have ourselves a brand new mutation to work with.............I'm not really sure how the names will be "re-classified" on this project though??...............Will calls his a "Banana" and NERD goes with "White Smoke"..........I would think it all depends on how much the babies from each snake look alike when compared to each other??............let the games begin!!!.......now send me my Coral Glow NERD!!!!...................Then you have everyone and their brother ( including me ) trying to figure out what the Sutherland's did to produce their new snake???................I've heard it all............Mojave x Mojave..............High Gold x High Gold...............this times that and so on.............I'm not even sure that they really know............I know it keeps me wondering?..................anywho.............chat was fun...........the idiot didn't show up.............but he did send his brother..................:PThanks John, Brian and Russ!!...........I had fun!
 
Monday_May_5
  Theresa had to go to school with Brooke this morning...........so I took Kyle to school....;)..............yepper............Kyle is in school two days a week..............he loves it!!.............we put both our kids in school when they were 2 and a half years old............I really think it was a good move, it makes pre-school and kindergarten less of a "shock" I 03 clutch # 20 with mom........05/05/03think..........I went up to the rat barn to pack up rodent orders after I dropped Kyle off at school............he's so funny.......I got him there a little late.............all his class mates had moved up to another room where they all get to play for 10 mins in the mourning.........he walked me right to his room and it was empty...........then he took off his coat........he showed me where the coats go.............then he showed me where his "snack" was supposed to go..........he had it all under control..........LOL..........."Little GUMP"...............I did my deliveries and had to stop by The Perfect Cut and un-clog the damn hose screens again............that sediment in the water lines is really a pain in the butt.............the plumbers who d03 clutch # 20..........5 eggs and 1 slugid the work on the well must have really stirred up the bottom of the well..........and you know that none of the chicks that work at Theresa's salon can figure out how to un-clog the hoses............so that leaves me.............I know.............shut up RALPH!!................Big Lou left for China at 6 am this morning...........I begged him not to go.............I told him to wait until all that stuff about the virus was figured out, or over?...............but he's Big Lou...............he went anyway..............right into the eye of the storm...............I'm still quarantining him for a month when he gets back............I got word from "The J03 clutch # 20..........5 eggs and 1 slug.........from breeding a DH Arctic X Burgundy male to his mother Burgundyersey Boys" John Spada and Brian aka "Silent Bob" that they would finally be coming down to visit me and buy some snakes tomorrow.................They are both great guys............John is a tuff cookie too...............I have been trying to sell him snakes for over a year now..............he is very methodical about his snake purchaces.........LOL............so they should be getting into Maryland sometime tonight..............I had to pack up a Pied male today that will be going out on Delta Airlines tomorrow................this is the Pied male that a person just called me out of the clear blue and bought it...............no hassles at all...............he just said "I want it and the money is on it's way".............that was sweet!!..............I posted my little "Patternless" male up on Kingsnake and the RDR Forum today............it got a great responce...........some people think that it could be a "Striped" ball python...............which is fine buy03 clutch # 21 with mom.......05/05/03 me...............if it is, it's all mine.........:P.................Some "smug dude" even posted one of his hair brained "read between the lines" posts to it.................you see...........I kicked this twit out of my Forum awhile back.............if you ask him, he will tell you that "he wanted to be kicked out".......go figure?..............but anyway............I used to be friends with him...........we would talk on the phone and exchange emails ............I was friends with him when everybody else on my board couldn't stand him..............he used to cause quite a stink when he was allowed in my Forum.............he debated everything, and relentlessly hassled a few of the users to the point that they would not post anymore................then other03 clutch # 21........7 eggs........ people stopped posting on the board................then I got emails asking me to please remove him from the board................I actually was asked a year ago to have him removed.............but I just couldn't do it..............I felt sorry for the guy.............any of you who do not know what I'm actually talking about can consider yourselves' lucky.................some of us went through hell with this guy................it just got old...............so anyway.............now that he is banned from the RDR Forum..............he is emailing a bunch of the regular RDR Forum members, with his typical senseless crap..............and in turn............these people email m03 clutch # 21..........7 eggs.........from breeding a "English Axanthic" male to his "het" English Axanthic daughtere or call and want to know what the hell is wrong with him??...............so he has actually caused me even more work.............I can't win............so basically in a nut shell...............he used to stalk people in my Forum by email, phone calls and on the forum board.................he wouldn't give in..............he just had to have the last word..................so he's gone............he has talked smack about pretty much "anybody who is anybody in this business"................and now he is on Kingsnake trying to "kiss-up" and pretend like everything is OK..............well I have news for you................there are about 700 RDR Forum users and lurkers who know exactly what time it is...............it makes me and them sick to even see the way you act so "un-natural" on Kingsnake.............I myself will play the game with you and treat you the way you treat others..............because I KNOW YOU...........and you will sit there and wonder when I will be banned from Kingsnake.........LOL...............I know that's what you want.............you want me to cross the line and get banned...................dream on Butter-Cup...............you have a veryYes...........this is what Lou's new squeeze will be sleeping next to one day...........:P rude awakening coming................I got too much on you for you to ever open that drunken mouth of yours..................I should have stopped talking to you a long time ago...............I should have listened to the majority..............but I didn't..............and that's my fault..............but it is over now.............the best thing you could do is just shut your mouth and take it like a boy scout................I know you think you can retaliate with a law suit or what-ever else your hair brain can think up.............but remember what you have written, posted and said........Curly????........I have it all bro..................your a sick SOB ( And "gutting" your competition???.........WOW )................have a nice miserable life........your a mean, nasty, miserable person..............just leave me alone and stop emailing my friends asking what's going on in my Forum and trying to tell "your side of the story".....................in the mean time I will enjoy bustin' on you when I'm in the mood...........my little childish digs on you are just a fraction of what you deserve...........feels good don't it?............after all this I look back and see that Kingsnake yanked the posts...............go figure??............long live censorship!!!..........No offence Jeff..........I totally understand your rules and why they are there...............Thank you for such a wonderful playground ( I'm sure this entry will be forwarded to you...........I'm just making a point )..................:)....~~DISCLAIMER~~ **The above rant could be about anyone who has stalked and tormented me in the past several years**...........on another note...........I got ball python clutches # 20 and # 21 today..............# 20 was from breeding a Double Het Arctic x Burgundy to his Burgundy "mother".............5 eggs and 1slug.............so maybe I will get to see some baby Burgundy Hypos hatch out of this clutch.............clutch # 21 was from breeding my original "English" Axanthic male to one of his het daughters that I produced.............7 eggs...........I sure I hope I can "prove" this gene out this year and put it to bed.............this is the second clutch from the "English Line" this season.................I expect one more..............sip sip........
 
Sunday_May_4
  I went up to the rat barn this morning to water the buckets and check for floods...............I gave Mr. John a couple rock fish fillets................he and his wife Irene like it when03 clutch # 19 with mom.........05/04/03 I bring them fish........;)..............after that I headed down to Big Rock to play volley ball..............I took a bunch of fillets down so that we could throw them on the grill.................we had three teams playing again this week.............and we had some really long games ............really close in points and lots of long volli03 clutch # 19...........7 eggses..............and the fish was delicious!!..............we rapped the fillets in tin foil with butter, salt and pepper and let them cook for a half hour or so.............they were perfect!!................I came home and offered my little Patternless boy a meal..............he ate!!...........that always makes you feel good when a new baby eats for the first time..............so now he has some food in his belly and he can start growing!!............I have been thinking of all the mutations I want to cross with the Patternless gene.................there really is not a bad choice you could 03 clutch # 19.........7 eggs.........from breeding a pair of "Whacky Stripes" together.........:)make........:)...............I'm so stoked about him!!..............I got ball python clutch # 19 today..........7 eggs from breeding two "wacky striped" balls together............this is my second clutch from these animals this season..............I have 2.2 in my collection ( they were born in the same clutch in Africa ).............and both females have laid eggs..............I'm really hoping for something crazy to hatch out of these two clutches............:)............He ate!!!
 
Saturday_May_3
  Fat Ass, Big Lou , Phil and I got up this morning at 3 am to gRalphie "workin it"o Rock fishing again.."The Crew"..............Big Lou, Phil and Fatty...............LOL.....:)...........we were fishing out of Solomon's Island this time ..............Solomon's is about thirty miles south of where we went out from a few weeks ago...........that place is called Chesapeake Beach............We got down at the dock around 6 am............met up with my uncle Joey and his friend Bill................so it was a total of 6 of us fishing. We were going out on the "Jennifer Ann"..............a brand new 51 foot fishing boat...............and she is awesome!!.............She is huge!!........When we got to the boat, Captain Charlie told us thaThe "Jennifer Ann"t there was a rock fishing tournament and thatStill workin......... we could enter if we wanted to...........so we did.........it was a two day tournament............so my group would be doing the first day of it.............and the charter that was going out on the boat Sunday would compete for the second day ..............basically the boat is entered in the tournament............who ever is fishing on the boat gets to split the prize money if the boat wins..............so we were pretty excited to know that we could win some money if we caught big fish..........;)..............The toNo pictures of me with fish.............:).......so I got plenty of "Studdly" action shots..............LOLurnament started at 7 am.............so we had to idle out in the bay for awhile until the tournament officially started................at 7 am.............Capt. Charlie put the pedalBait!!!...........we had 27 rods in the water!! to the medal and we hauled ass out into the Chesapeake bay..............it wasn't the best day in the world...........it was cold and windy.............the waves were 2 to 4 feet high.............it was pretty nasty............no smaller boats were out in the bay because it was so rough................on our way out to the fishing spot...........we were all ragging on Big Lou..............Lou was very quiet on the way out...........I think he was either nervous or getting sick.........LOL...............he stayed pretty quiet while we were heading out tThree fish on at one time...........Fat Ass, Big Lou and Bill.......o the fishing spot and while the mFat Ass hooked into the first fishate was rigging up all the rods that we would be trolling with.............27 rods we used!!!.............this boat had holes all over the place for trolling rods.............it was a beast!!..............So we got all the rods rigged and in the water, Capt. Charlie started cruising around, trolling for Rock Fish............Lou was still planted in a seat inside the cab of the boat........LOL............this was Lou's first time in a boat. We fished from 7 am till 3 pm, the tournament was officially over at 3 pm....Big Lou strikes again!!!..........we had a total blast.............we caught 36 rock fish at sizes from 36 inches to 40 inches...............we were only allowed to have 6 fish on the boat by law............so we just kept the longest and the heaviest fish, in hopes of placing in the tournameA keeper!!nt............we all took turns reeling in fish like we usually do.................when it was Big Lou's turn, he actually did very well.................I think once he got up and started moving around, he felt much better.............so it was 6 of us taking turns, in order catching fish...............36 fish............6 of us...........we had plenty of fish to reel in.......:)............There was never really a dull moment...............Lou wouldn't eat anything for the loYour gonna do some prayin' for me boy!!!............what movie???..........LMAO!!ngest time.............but he finally caved in and started eating............after that he was totally fine...............he was fishing!!!................we ended up bringing back two 39 inch fish.............one 40 inch fish.............two 37 inch fish and one FAT 36 inch fish.............once we had the 40 inch fish in the boat we only wanted to Big Lou........hooked into his first Rock Fish ever.............go LOU!!!keep fish that were bigger than it.............we never topped the 40 incher...........we threw back a bunch of nice thick 37 to 39 inch fish...........we were looking for the big boy!!...............we had heard that some dude caught a 50 incher...............but he did not enter the tournament...............poor bastard...........:)............You could win buy the total inches of three fish combined................and or total weightI liked this pic............it looks like I'm fishing "one handed" while smoking a cig...........that is Uncle Joey's hand and cig beside me.......;) of three fish combined...............when we got back to the weigh-in............we ended up with a 40 incher................and two 39 inchers................so I believe we did well in total inches................but not the best...............and What a proud day for Big Lou.........;)the fish averaged around 22 pounds...............so I don't think we won................but we did have an awesome time........AGAIN..............so we got all our fish checked in, then we had our fish filleted by the mate of the boat................there is a really cool little place to eat at the maHard Core Fishing Rigs!!rina, that sells awesome crab cake sandwiches............so we all got a sandwich, ate it on my tail-gate, while we shot the poop................."Guy Talk"..........if nothing else............we did eat all day long on the boat.............then we ate a crab cake sandwich...............then we even stopped for ice cream on the way home!!................what a bunch Phil hooked up........that's Uncle Joey beside himof lard asses!!!..................On the way home Theresa called us and said that they were having trouble with the water flow at her hair salon.............they had to do some work o"Jennifer Ann" at the dockn the well that supplies the shopping center with water...............after working on the well...............a bunch of fine dirt and sediment got into the water lines and clogged up the hose screens and stuff at her salon.............so we stopped by there on the way home and got her all fixed up...............after that we went and got ice "Ham it up".............cream..........then we went home..............I wasn't feeling nearly as tired as I usually do from fishing.......I think it is because I did not take any "sea sickness" medicine ...............I think that makes me drowzy................so I didn't take it this trip..............I felt fine..............and did not feel sleepy.The end of the day.....zzzzzzzzz................so we all went our separate ways after the big fishing trip.............we all had a stack of fat fish fillets too!!...............I came home to find ball python eggs.............I got ball python clutch # 18 today............6 eggs from a het "EThe big 40 incher!!!nglish Line Axanthic" female ( That I produced and raised ) bred to her father, the original male "English Axanthic ".................I expect a few clutches from het female English Axanthic03 clutch # 18 with mom 05/03/03s that I produced myself this year................so if this is genetic? ...............I should prove it this year...............I have been "dinking around" with this project for four years now...............but I have been using the "original hets" that were 03 clutch # 18..........6 eggssold to me with the male Axanthic...............I think the "original hets" are 03 clutch # 18..........6 eggs.........from breeding a "English Axanthic" male to his "het" English Axanthic daughterbogus................but I do think the original male is an Axanthic..............so we will see........;).........yepper..........
 
Friday_May_2
  I met with the electricians up at the rat barn this morning...........I had to get them straight with what they had to do............then I fired up my generator and plugged all the fans into it that run in the rat room..............the electricians would have the electricity off for several hours.............and it would get way to "muggy" in the rodent room with-out some airMy new little man!!! moving around.............so I had Fatty stop by the barn yesterday while we were cleaning rats, and drop off a few extension cords and the generator.............damn I'm prepared!!!..............after that I left and came back to the office............I got a bunch of paper work done and "tweaked" the Journal.........I like teasing you guys with it..........:)................Robbie came buy and did some cleaning in the main snake room..............the room where all the adults are pounding food like crazy and pooping out footballs!!!...........yepper.............it's good to be in the "off season"............the electricians called me up a few hours later and said thaAin't he purrrrrrtty?.........:)t they were finished..............so I headed back up to the barn and made sure everything was done the way I needed it ..........everything was perfect.............now I'm hooked up with MORE POWER!!................so I killed the generator and unplugged all the cords I had running to the fans..............I got everything set back up the way it was................boy does having that swamp cooler and exhaust fan running make all the difference in the world..............while the elecI love his little cheeks......:)tricity was off, the room was very "muggy"..............the air felt to thick to breath...............but when that swamp cooler is running and the fans are whirling, the room is really nice...............it smells a little..............but it's nice......;).............I finally got my boat stickers today for my new Super Charged SeaDoo that I bought a couple months back..............so now I'm legal............It's almost time to get wet folks!!!!...............I'll be fishing off of the back of mine ..............trolling at 60 miles per hour........LOL........we are all going to take it easy ton03 clutch # 17 with mom...........05/02/03ight............we got that big day of Rock fishing ahead of us........LOL.............the gang will be sleeping over at my place tonight.............we have to be up at 3 am............so I'm sure we will grab some grub and just chill out with a movie...............I promise to get some great pics of Big Lou doing something stupid............he is so spooky............he's already scared the boat will sink..........LOL.....I got ball python clutch # 17 today...........from my "Tiger" female bred to a really nice Banded male............this 03 clutch # 17.........5 eggsis my thrid year in a row producing "hets" from my Tiger girl............I hope she proves to be a simple recessive mutation.............now lets get to the good stuff ..................SURVIVOR baby!!!...............I'm totally pissed............I can't believe that Kristy pulled that stuff with Rob..............all she had to tell Rob was her intentions on the vote..............but instead she said that she was not sure who she was voting for, and that she would decide once she had "pen in hand"..............WRONG ANSWER KRISTY!!!............you can't ever tell Rob something like that.............that's was the kiss of death for her.................she was acting a little too cock03 clutch # 17.........5 eggs........from breeding Tiger X Banded.......y.............and she got blasted..............I hate to see her go because I really did like her.............but I like Rob much better..............this guy is playing the game big time!!!...............Most people would say he is a lying scum bag...............but it is a game..............and it's for one million bucks............and then you have Jenna saying that she can't believe that Rob would treat his friends like that??................what??.........HELLO...............how can you have friends in a back stabbing game like this??.........get a grip Jenna!!..............I can't wait to see how this all plays out................but I do not want to see Jenna or Heidi win the Tiger female laying eggs......... money!!...............hmmmmmm............I stayed up till 1 am watching the show last night.............I was cleaning rats while it was on...............so Theresa taped it for me.........:)................I called Fatty and Theresa on my way home to ask them how the show was................they both said that I would love the show.............and that was that.............they wouldn't tell me a damn thing........LOL................I'm out people!!............you have plenty of reading to do............make sure you catch the end of April's journal...........it is in the archives section................Have a great weekend everyone!!!!..............GO ROB GO!!!!!..........
 
Thursday_May_1
  KISS tickles go on sale this Saturday................whoooooooooooowhoooooooooo!!!...........the gang and I are going to "hopefully" be able to get tickets to see KISS and Aerosmith when they come to town in August............:P..............I'm stoked............KISS was supposedly going to "retire" after the last tour..............yeah right!!...............KISS RULES..............KISS DOMINATEImagine this guy mixed with other mutations??S!!!.........." You Wanted The Best, You Got The Best"...........I kinda like KISS a little............LOL.............anyway...........Robbie the Robot and Big Lou cleaned the snakes today.........poor Robbie was feeling pretty bad also...........he thinks he may have eaten something bad??..............but he's a trooper...............he worked through it..........and BIg Lou had butter fingers all day.............I left some small rats in with snakes over night and it was Lou's job to pull all of them this morning before he started to clean...............well lets just say that I spent an hour chasing little rats around the snake room...........and it wasn't pretty............if there is one thing I hate..........it's a rat running around in the snake room...........they chew everything in sight ...........wires mostly.............and I can't have that............so when we drop a rat, it's shoot tHere he is as soon as I got him home.........I'm hydrating him in the sink......:)o kill!!................We are all going Rock fishing again this weekend.............Fat Ass, Big Lou, Phil and I will be joining my uncle Joey and his friend Bill for hopefully another kick ass day of Rock fishing!!.............yeah man!!!............I know..........you guys think I just sit on my ass all week and bark orders at people............then after that I go fishing............LMAO.............not true............I just like to fish............and so do my friends.............and this will be Big Lou's first time out on a fishing boat................so hopefully I will get some pics of him "ralphing" off of the side of the boat!!...........LOL...........today is an awesome day.............I got that beautiful "Patternless" ball python in yesterday.............and the two Ghosts...............well the Patternless is a BOY!!............and the two Ghosts are girls..............so I'm very happy to say the very least.............I can't wait to get this project rolling .................everything arrived safe and sound.........:).............but that is not why today was so great..............what's great is that we have the rat barn cleaned................yepper...........we decided to clean the rat barn today instead of Friday........Him in Africa.........holy cow!!!....Phil, Robbie and I kicked total butt there today............I have the electricians lined up to do the electrical work tomorrow..............it would be a pain in the butt to clean the rat room while the electricians are working..............not to mention, there would be no electricity............no lights or fans..............it would suck...............so we did it today.............and it was a long day for sure..........it will allow me time to get my journal uploaded tomorrow so that all of you guys don't have a cow!!!.............I just got a little behind this week..............but never fear.............THE JOURNAL IS HERE!!!!.............no eggs today...............just cleaning snakes and rats...........I missed SURVIVOR............but Theresa taped it for me...............shhhhhhhhhhhhh.........You Suck!
 

 
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