Snakes On A Bed!

OK. Don't get squeamish, but here are pictures of "Cloudy Sky." He's a snake, so if you don't like snakes, please don't scroll down. (But he's a teeny snake, so maybe that's alright.)

Cloudy Sky on Saul's arm.



Saul Being Very Still for the camera.
(Snakes are hard to photograph, people. They wriggle!)



Youngest daughter hamming it up.



And the poor neglected dog, Hobbes.
("Don't you love me anymore?")

There she goes again...

I totally wish that this were a better scan, but it is what it is.

My kid's art has just taken a huge leap forwards. (It's all the doodling she's able to do in class in Middle School, I think.) I'm not sure if you can get the details here, but her anthropomorphic grey foxy character is playing air guitar to her iPod shuffle, which is flying up into her white hair as she jams. My daughter's now starting to ink in different widths, varying the line shapes to give her drawings better flow and character. And check out the details on the jeans!

Mommy's totally blown away.

Do comic book artists ever give lessons? Cause this kid needs a tutor, especially in digital art, in the worst way. She's obsessed with Inuyahsha these days too. (Any other Manga recs? I'm totally clueless on this front.)

Enjoy!

Waving--Helloo!

Hey guys.

Just a note to let you know that I'm OK.

Just haven't posted in a while. (Then I upgraded Firefox and lost my blinkety blankety password too. Humph.)

Hannukah and Christmas are done. (Yay!) We actually had a guest over for Christmas--very unusual for us, but made it much less morose for me. The kids are out of school until Jan 7 or 8.

Best Holiday news? My son, bless him, worked really really really hard on his behavior and earned a reward that he picked for himself: A Corn Snake.

So far the snake is a little freaked out--we covered his terrarium with computer paper so my son wouldn't get right up next to the glass and peeeeeer in on him. But we've handled him a few times since he came home on Saturday, and he's very friendly once he calms down.

He's a Miami phase corn snake which means that his saddles will mature to a burgundy color and his background will be either tan or tan with silver. Because of the silver, ours is named "Cloudy Sky." I'll try for a picture in the next few weeks after he's calmed down some. Cloudy Sky's probably about 15 inches long and not quite the diameter of my little finger. Here's a picture of an adult Miami Phase from South Mountain Reptiles:



Pretty, huh?

I've been spending hours and hours on the various herp boards looking at pictures. My favorite "morph" of these guys is a really dark charcoal though. Great, a new time waster.