Cleaning Time

Lyric spent the morning cleaning out her snail cages.  She has one cage with adults and one with babies.  Some of her babies were ready to move to the adult cage.  These snails have been the best pet!  So easy!

Rainy Day

We had a stormy day today. But, this afternoon things calmed down, so we all headed outside. Lyric decided she wanted to be the "Snail Protector" So, we went around the yard collecting snails. Yes, we-daddy and I helped. At one point I counted 26 snails and a roly poly.The lines you see in the picture above is the "slime" they leave behind as they glide along.

I actually think they a pretty fascinating little creatures.Miss Lyric and Baby Cadence went for a ride in the John Deer, but they had to be very careful not to run over any snails in the grass. Sisterly love!

Lyric tried to get Cadence to play with one of the snails, but she just closed her eyes. I guess she thought sister would leave her alone if she pretended to be asleep. It didn't work.

After we came inside, later this evening I noticed the girls rubber boots on their desk. I wondered why they brought those muddy boots in and put them on the desk, but I didn't say anything because they aren't my boots and it isn't my desk. Actually, the desk is pretty messy, so the boots kind of fit right in;-) Tonight, Devon was helping Lyric get something going on her computer and he looked inside the boots... there were about 15 of the snails we found today in the boots!

A couple had escaped and were on the outside of the boot. One was off of the boot and on the desk. I asked Miss Lyric what she was doing. She said she decided to keep the snails, so she just put them in her boots. I asked what she planned to do with them. She said she was just going to leave them in her boots on her desk. We discussed how they could get out of the boots and then they would be loose in the house. We decided to put the boots outside so the snails could go back home.

New Pets

So, the week before we moved we came over to the new house to get some measurements and just check it out one more time before we moved in. Lyric and I were walking around outside and I saw a snail. I picked it up and gave it to Lyric to look out. We commented on how cool it was and how we should read up on snails on the internet to see how hard they are to take care of. We brought it home and Daddy got on the internet to do a little "research". You have to remember my husband is the kind of man who screams like a girl when a bug is anywhere near him, but who will go out of his way to keep from harming anything. Like tonight there was a bee in the kitchen. He is terrified of bees, but when I attempted to kill it with the dishrag he was mortified, so I gently wrapped the bee in the dishrag and set it free outside.

Anyway, so he ended up spending like an hour on the internet reading about snails. He then became very obsessed with this snail we found. We needed to go to the pet store the next day and get an aquarium for it. We needed to get a cuddle bone, because they need calcium or they will eat their own shell. We had to get some spring water to spray the cage. We needed to get some vegetables, but they had to be organic because many pesticides are specific for snails. WHAT? Are you kidding me? So the next thing you know the girls and I are out buying all of this crap, I mean stuff for this freaking snail that we found on the ground!

We get the little guy all set up in his new home and of course the girls want to look at it and carry around the little cage because it is their new pet. Daddy can hardly stand to see the way they carry it around and mess the cage all up, by moving it around. He really worries about the snail that we found on the ground, that I could have easily stepped on!

Well, we had the one snail, Sheldon. Lyric picked his name out all by herself; isn't she cleaver! A couple of days into the move we found two more snails. Story named one Snaily and Daddy named the other Morton. We are now the owners of three snails who get sprayed with spring water and eat organic carrots.

Here is a close up of one of the little guys. I'm not sure which one it is.

Here is one of them having a snack:

They are actually really interesting to watch!

There is only one problem with having three snails... they poop a lot. So, Daddy got back on the internet and found out we should put some worms in the cage to eat the poop. The girls had a really good time picking out the two worms who were going to go in the cage. I think Lyric was the only one who would touch them.

She LOVED them. She would take them out and talk to them and play with them. One of them had to be released in the dirt because he was being mean to the other worms.

Cadence became a little obsessed with this little guy. He got himself stuck in the picnic table and she kept watching him saying, "Stuck, stuck!" He finally worked himself loose.

Story was just being Story. Having a good time as usual!

We put two in with the snails. I am not sure if they got names or not. I know at one point Lyric was calling one Longy and Story was calling one Shorty.

Too soon to tell if they are going to eat the poop. I will be sure to keep you updated!