Well it's Tuesday and that means 2 for the price of 1 Tuesdays at Skycity Casino. This may seem that we have a gambling problem but this is far from the truth. It's more like we have a we like to eat buffet at a good price problem. So if you have been following Luna's Facebook page (you will need an account to see her personal Facebook account) you will see that most of her pictures are of her at the a table outside in the buffet restaurant. The only problem with eating out is that Ralph, our blue tongued Skink friend (lizard see blog for pictures), will have to go hungry. A couple of days back he didn't show up for about 3 days and we were worried. Then he did show up and one of his legs was not working well. We were quite worried. Fortunately for him he could slide around on his belly and didn't really require his leg all that much. We have been feeding him well and these last few nights he's been walking on all 4's ... if you call what he does as walking on all 4's. He really just uses his feet to push his big body across the patio. Kinda like 1/2 lizard 1/2 snake. All I can say as he sure must have a well exfoliated belly. L gave him shaved beef the other day that she puts in Pho (Vietnamese soup) and he just gobbled that down. We've fed him mango and papaya and he's eats all that. Needless to say if he is she and this is the breading season ,he/she will have healthy babies. We have determined that Ralph also has a buffet issue. He is really quite fun to feed and watch and he certainly makes dinner time interesting.
Speaking of breading the other night we had a green tree frog in the back yard perched on one of the chair arms doing a brap, brap, brap sound. Well this guy can project real well he was so noisy, but he wasn't the only one there were others calling all over the place. Later his lady friend showed up so we gave them some privacy. Later we found that the female had laid eggs in our fish/plant pond/pot and some in a bucket, that L had laying around, that had a dying plant in it. Well the eggs didn't survive in the fish pond as I think they got eaten by the fish but the bucket has about 50 tadpoles in it as well as some mosquito larva. We were fishing the larva out and putting it in the fish pond and the fish would eat them. That's what I call payback to all those mosquitoes that bit me. The tadpoles we didn't put in the fish pond because they are supposed to get pretty big, according to the Internet. In 3 days they have gotten noticeably bigger. We are afraid that they may eat the baby fish as they become carnivorous (eat meat) when they get older. We'll have to see how they do in the bucket, we are putting lettuce and fish flakes (fish food) in the bucket and some eat it. I guess those will be the guys that get bigger. I have read about these guys and it's easy to say that in a while there won't be 50 left some will most likely get eaten by the others, yikes.
