Sunday, August 31, 2008

Theodore the Hermit Crab

I'm back from a lovely week with the family at the beach.  It was also my birthday, and Carrie was kind enough to give me a hermit crab.  She figured that since I had two hermit crabs growing up, I needed one again.  Here's what he looks like all shelled up:





Do you see him, back under the log thing?  He's hard to see because he's all curled up.  I just redid his cage and he's traumatized.  Fay and I made a Petsmart trip to get him a new shell and see if they have hermit crab food.  It turns out they have hermit crab food, and shells, and a thousand other hermit crab things besides.  We brought back:
  • a hollowed out log for him to hide inside
  • a shell-shaped nutrient cake, so he gets all his vitamins and minerals
  • calcium-enriched sand, which will hopeully keep his cage a little neater
  • "vacation" food cakes, which are big enough to last for a few days
  • a book on the care and feeding of hermit crabs
  • a shell
I hope he likes his new home.  We're going to try keeping him in the bathroom, where he can get misted once a day and where he'll have good company with the lobster statue you see behind him.  With our luck, now that we got his crib all spiffed up, he'll croak tomorrow.

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

A love story on YouTube

Check out the  cute love story by a friend of mine on YouTube:


Not just people fall in love you know.  My favorite is the way the protagonist spends his spare time.  He watches YouTube.