A week in the life of me and the animals!

[Jain]

Thankyou, 2 hours she's been waiting for her medication so she can leave! Our friend has just picked her up now and they're on their way back (I can't drive otherwise I'd have gone, learning is still on the to do list) I've been out to water everything and found even more tomatoes and my mustard seeds have sprouted so that's something, also 4 of my onions are looking like they're going to sprout.

I had a sit by the lavender to watch the bees as well, nice and calming with the sounds of the birds!

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Can't beat home grown tomatoes fresh from the vine / plant

 

[Eriathwen]

Day 5!

Today was clean out day for the piggies. So, everyone had nice clean cages to enjoy their veggies in.



I was meant to go for a run tonight, but I have a race tomorrow evening so instead I went for a walk along the canal with a friend from the athletics club. It was lovely out, there's been a lot of flies and mosquitoes lately but there were a lot less than there has been which made it much more pleasant.



And now that I'm home and have had dinner, I'm relaxing in the garden listening to the birds watching the pretty clouds floating by

 

[Maz]

Lovely to see happy shiny piggies outdoors I felt quite relaxed seeing your photos - a nice walk and a beautiful sky.

 

[Zara]

The piggies all look so happy eating their fresh veg great photos of them.

What a beautiful walk too, lovely for summer solstice day.

 

[elusive]

The piggies all look very happy there.
Your walk & time in the garden sounds lovely, great photos.

 

[Coco61]

Beautiful happy piggies. Lovely evening walk and hopefully this evening’s race will go well.
Good luck!

 

[Eriathwen]

So sorry its late!

Day 6

I've spent today getting ready for a race, I try to run a couple times a week, next week I have another half marathon, this was just a 10km, but it was a challenging course, lots of hills, a stream...flies! It was a very pretty route though. I would have taken more pictures but I ended up getting some sort of fly in my eye which felt like I'd been punched, so I couldn't really see very well

 

[Maz]

this was just a 10km

I'm seriously impressed! I hope your eye is ok now. Gorgeous scenery, even if it was a tricky route.

 

[Eriathwen]

Thankyou! It's much better now, I've flushed it out now I'm home. I figured since this was a picture thread while I'm putting things away, here's my little collection of medals over the last couple of years. One of the only reasons I put myself through it apart from the amazing friends and community.

 

[elusive]

Well done completing your race, fly in your eye doesn’t sound like fun so glad you got that sorted!
That’s an impressive collection of medals you have there.

 

[Member ID2]

Wow! You must be superfit and very dedicated to be able to achieve that.

Beautiful, relaxing photos and happy piggies.

I hope your eye is ok.

 

[Frida]

Well done for completing the race. I hope your eye is better. I love all your photos

 

[Eriathwen]

Thankyou! I had an awful night I won't lie I shouldn't have done a sprint finish but I just wanted it to be over with how sore my eye was, I have felt rather sick ever since. Luckily my eye is fine today!

Day 7!

Today involved feeding some of my amphibian pets, I have others who did not want to cooperate, Pancake my ornate horned frog and Casper and Darwin my dwarf axolotls, dwarfs are very squished and stunted, and can be quite special needs. I'll put some older pictures of them if I can find some.

But all of my salamanders were more than happy to sit for pictures!

This is Spyro and Yoshi my spotted salamanders.



This is Splat my Solling lined Fire salamander, a very pretty subspecies of fire salamander found in a specific area in Germany, although all of these guys are captive bred in the UK. Splat has a mass under his chest that sometimes causes him to fall over, this will need to be surgically removed if it ever begins to impact his quality of life.



And lastly Franklin, who is an Eastern Tiger salamander.

 

[elusive]

Hope you get over the effects of the race & feel a bit better soon.

I had no idea you had amphibian pets too, the salamanders are beautiful, really enjoyed seeing those.

 

[RainbowBrite]

Oh they are so beautiful!

 

[Frida]

Oh wow they are beautiful I can't believe how many animals you have in your care.

 

[Eriathwen]

This is Casper and Darwin when they were feeling more sociable, they prefer to hide away most of the time so feeding has been a bit snatch and grab

 

[Eriathwen]

Oh wow they are beautiful I can't believe how many animals you have in your care.

Thankyou! In total there are 31 animals here at the moment, it doesn't feel like it most days, but days like today when I'm tired it certainly feels it

 

[Frida]

I'm starting to think you live in a zoo. It's wonderful you have all these gorgeous animals in your care.

 

[RainbowBrite]

I absolutely love Axoltis. My notebook has one on the cover.