faltering faith
Oct. 21st, 2013 11:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yamamanamaAnother quiet day at the Wildlife Center. I don't mind that I forgot to bring the camera.
So, it turns out Salvador's a girl (she laid eggs) and thus she was rechristened Salvadora, which may or may not be the feminine of Salvador but is most definitely a genus of snakes and a genus of plants. And let me tell you, I was very glad when I finished cleaning her tub and could get out of there, since there's a fruit fly problem and the old adage of catching more flies with honey than with vinegar is a myth, the room smelled of vinegar acids and there was a drosophilan hecatomb near Skinky's tank. There's a good reason the rafflesia reeks of dead things.
Speaking of dead things, there was a toy skull with glitter and light-up eyes just sitting in a clamshell.
And a really big juvenile swan. His beak looked kind of messed up but I'm not sure if it was an injury or a trick of the light. Oh, and Bling was sauntering around. See, there's this whiteboard near med ward that lists the current patients, their injuries, and their current treatments. On the other end is Falco's room and the currently unoccupied raccoon room, and lo and behold, the whiteboard is there.
Burning question: Xpander's not going to make me wait another fifteen months for his response, is he? And the backstory is that he replied to a message I wrote last year that I didn't even remember sending, not the response I wanted but a response nonetheless, so I asked him if maybe [censored] but not [censored]
So, it turns out Salvador's a girl (she laid eggs) and thus she was rechristened Salvadora, which may or may not be the feminine of Salvador but is most definitely a genus of snakes and a genus of plants. And let me tell you, I was very glad when I finished cleaning her tub and could get out of there, since there's a fruit fly problem and the old adage of catching more flies with honey than with vinegar is a myth, the room smelled of vinegar acids and there was a drosophilan hecatomb near Skinky's tank. There's a good reason the rafflesia reeks of dead things.
Speaking of dead things, there was a toy skull with glitter and light-up eyes just sitting in a clamshell.
And a really big juvenile swan. His beak looked kind of messed up but I'm not sure if it was an injury or a trick of the light. Oh, and Bling was sauntering around. See, there's this whiteboard near med ward that lists the current patients, their injuries, and their current treatments. On the other end is Falco's room and the currently unoccupied raccoon room, and lo and behold, the whiteboard is there.
Burning question: Xpander's not going to make me wait another fifteen months for his response, is he? And the backstory is that he replied to a message I wrote last year that I didn't even remember sending, not the response I wanted but a response nonetheless, so I asked him if maybe [censored] but not [censored]
