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I am SOOOOOOO tired of the hot. So Very Tired.
Now I know you would be fully within your rights to point out that I, the heat hater, moved to the desert, full of heat, like a big dumb idiot.
BUT I urge you to keep in mind that I would be within my rights to squirt you directly in the face with the spray bottle I've taken to keeping in the fridge. Repeatedly. At close range.
So maybe you could just not point out the obvious, and deal with a few days of my whining until the temp finally drops? At least until the highs drop below 100? Please?
I did finally give up a little this afternoon. Power bills be damned, I've got both the little window AC units going nonstop along with the ceiling fans and have strategically placed our one standing fan so we have air circulating through the main rooms (I've given up on the kitchen/dining and the craft room)
Since the spot where Henrietta originally was ended up being too hot, I had already moved her setup. After today that put it directly in front of the fan pushing the AC out, so I worried she would get too cold (even my Hedgie has first world problems) That meant it was time to move her again, but in the middle of the day, when all the good hedgies are meant to be sleeping. Now she is in the cool but not too cold range, and happy. During the move though? I tried to wake her up nicely, because I know from experience she likes being startled awake even less than I do. She was not a happy camper.
Because I'm a meanie with a camera, here are the stages of Princess Pricklebottom's wake up
From balled up asleep so sweet, to the evil glare of "WTF is going on!?"
To the feigned indifference of "I'll ignore you until you put me back down to sleep" and then the stink eyed glare of "Who are you and why are you bothering me??"
~
Then finally she is awake enough to realize I'm talking to her, and "Oh hey! I do know you!" quickly turns to "Let's play! Let's explore! I smell a treat! And a new table!!"
And off she wandered to explore, until she turned sleepy once more (it was the middle of the day after all).
~
Now she is back into her newly relocated home and snuggled up in her fleece filled plastic igloo, happy as can be.
I'm a bit happier now too, because at least two of our rooms are at 75. I'll be less happy when the bill for the power comes next month, but if I turned into a homicidal grumpasaurus from overheating, I'm pretty sure that would be more costly in the long run.
~
I managed to get a bit more spinning done too, but not all that much. And not that thin either.
The lone bad side effect of the fans moving the air was that all the floaty fiber bits were a little harder to manage, but it's okay. I've decided instead of trying to ply this batch when I'm done, I'll just add it to the singles I spun at the tour's beginning for my cup cozy. I was needing more yardage anyway.
Now I know you would be fully within your rights to point out that I, the heat hater, moved to the desert, full of heat, like a big dumb idiot.
BUT I urge you to keep in mind that I would be within my rights to squirt you directly in the face with the spray bottle I've taken to keeping in the fridge. Repeatedly. At close range.
So maybe you could just not point out the obvious, and deal with a few days of my whining until the temp finally drops? At least until the highs drop below 100? Please?
I did finally give up a little this afternoon. Power bills be damned, I've got both the little window AC units going nonstop along with the ceiling fans and have strategically placed our one standing fan so we have air circulating through the main rooms (I've given up on the kitchen/dining and the craft room)
Since the spot where Henrietta originally was ended up being too hot, I had already moved her setup. After today that put it directly in front of the fan pushing the AC out, so I worried she would get too cold (even my Hedgie has first world problems) That meant it was time to move her again, but in the middle of the day, when all the good hedgies are meant to be sleeping. Now she is in the cool but not too cold range, and happy. During the move though? I tried to wake her up nicely, because I know from experience she likes being startled awake even less than I do. She was not a happy camper.
Because I'm a meanie with a camera, here are the stages of Princess Pricklebottom's wake up
From balled up asleep so sweet, to the evil glare of "WTF is going on!?"
To the feigned indifference of "I'll ignore you until you put me back down to sleep" and then the stink eyed glare of "Who are you and why are you bothering me??"
~
Then finally she is awake enough to realize I'm talking to her, and "Oh hey! I do know you!" quickly turns to "Let's play! Let's explore! I smell a treat! And a new table!!"
And off she wandered to explore, until she turned sleepy once more (it was the middle of the day after all).
~
Now she is back into her newly relocated home and snuggled up in her fleece filled plastic igloo, happy as can be.
I'm a bit happier now too, because at least two of our rooms are at 75. I'll be less happy when the bill for the power comes next month, but if I turned into a homicidal grumpasaurus from overheating, I'm pretty sure that would be more costly in the long run.
~
I managed to get a bit more spinning done too, but not all that much. And not that thin either.
The lone bad side effect of the fans moving the air was that all the floaty fiber bits were a little harder to manage, but it's okay. I've decided instead of trying to ply this batch when I'm done, I'll just add it to the singles I spun at the tour's beginning for my cup cozy. I was needing more yardage anyway.
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Date: 2012-07-13 02:07 pm (UTC)From:Also, I hope that things cool off there soon. *sends cool thoughts your way*
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Date: 2012-07-13 08:20 pm (UTC)From:We are supposed to get thunderstorms tonight, hoping hoping hoping that makes it cool down some.
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Date: 2012-07-14 07:06 am (UTC)From:What do you feed her?
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Date: 2012-07-14 09:19 pm (UTC)From:Her main food is Iams senior cat food (low fat high protein) and I've been working my way through the fresh treats list to see what she likes. Right now sugar sap peas and bell peppers are the biggest hits. Apples were kind of meh, and the blueberries she only liked to lick the mashed up ones. I haven't tried bugs yet, because you have to get those from the pet store to make sure they haven't gotten pesticides. Some of them also like plain yogurt, baby foods, grape nuts cereal...it's a pretty big list!
...wow. Long reply, sorry!
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Date: 2012-07-15 04:34 am (UTC)From:Our lizards have meat catfood sometimes. You have to be careful about ash I think it is.
They like blueberries and all but I think their favs are scrambled egg, banana and mushrooms. When they're warm enough they love snails too. We just get those from our garden here because we've not really got anyone around us and we don't put any chemicals outside. You can also feed them crickets and meal worms and stuff but I couldn't stand the noise of the crickets all the time. Once spring hits again we'll give them some more flowers too. It's reasonably easy because they live here anyway. More so on the coast than out here but we've seen one or two wild ones. We've seen more of the Bearded Dragons and Stumpy blue tongues here though.
Posts/comments about cute little animals are never too long *g*
What toys does she play with?
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Date: 2012-07-15 09:13 pm (UTC)From:I had wanted either bearded dragon or gecko (I was torn) for a while, but with rlbf being seriously freaked over any kind of lizard it didn't seem fair. I still visit them at the pet store though, and then I get the cuteness without the cleanup.
Henrietta is a climber! Her favorite things are this big crinkle tube, it's made for ferrets so she shouldn't outgrow it. There's holes at the ends and on on the top/side, and she spends a lot of time going over, under and through it.
Look at her stretch!
There's also a cardboard box I that tub for her to climb on and under. Plus the giant bucket wheel RLBF made her with instructions we found on one of the Hedgie forums. She doesn't mess with it during the day, but I see the evidence of her using at night when I clean it every morning!
In the other tub (she has a PVC pipe between) she has her "igloo" for sleeping, food and water, and her little toys. She pushes around a mini tennis ball toy and climbs (more climbing!) on this squishy cushion we got her.
Outside of her home she mostly likes to run up and down arms so fast you're sure she'll fall off or snuggle in laps inside of her little fleece sack.