Playing Catchup

I have an actual post in mind for later, and a secondary one for after that (I’m cryptic because they’re not that interesting) but in the mean time, here’s a few things I’ve been meaning to mention.

Look Who’s Come Crawling Back
This is the Gnome Who Sold the World, a Gnome I decorated and released for the 2010/2011 Moving Cache Race. He was hidden by the Living and Learning Centre in Panton Hill, but after 2 “Did Not Find” notes, I went to check on him and he was gone. I assumed, as he was near some houses, that he’d been muggled (a term used by us trendy and elite geocachers when a non-geocacher has tampered with or removed a cache).

I archived the listing and thought no more about it, but a couple of weeks ago my mother came home with this gnome. She’d found him in the Living and Learning Centre garden, so we guess someone found him out in the wild and popped him in the garden.

He’s a bit faded but none the worse for having been missing so long, and is in retirement in our own garden.

Dicey is growing up

By sheer fluke I managed to catch Dicey in the act of moulting – this is the process by which spiders grow as their skin doesn’t stretch as they get bigger. I missed the very start of the process, but managed to video most of it. Over all it took about 45 minutes from the time I spotted Dicey hanging upside to the time he walked away from the old skin. Yep, He. Now that he’s more mature, I can see he’s not at all a she. Oops.

A new spiny in the house

I’d noticed Dicey’s tank wasn’t really tall enough, so I wandered into the new pet shop near me to see what they had in taller tanks. Not much for under $150 sadly, but what they did have was Spiny Leaf Insects. I first owned spinies in 2008 or so, purchasing two ladies who gave me much joy. This one came home with me and has already asserted her personality, so yup, her name is Diva (and yes, she’s a she, of this I am sure for once!)

So that’s a quick catch up on stuff I meant to mention. If I don’t post anything else within a week, shout at me.