'Tis the Season to be Hunting for Crabs?
Merry Christmas to you!
Just rode the cruiser to the mall to exchange some pesos into dollars Americanos for daughter Steffi who is off to L.A. this evening to visit a friend in Mission Viejo. Trust everyone had a prosperous Christmas and got all you ordered from the man in the sleigh. So far it's been an interesting vacation which involved a crab dubbed Princess Penelope.
We were at Plaza Caracole the other day getting some last minute items and the girls introduced me to the new pet store called ¨Mascotas¨which is really something! They had quite the assortment of creatures including black scorpions (we had plenty of those during our years at the Rancho!) all manner of parrots, ferrets, a chinchilla and of course lots of puppies. If you pay $25 pesos they'll put you in a room where you can play with the little guys. I was tempted when I saw little ¨Scottie¨who is too cute for words! Anyway, Jacqui thought it would be fun to by her current squeeze a pet crab since they are very economical and easy to care for. A few crabby pellets and some water and voila! Easy, right? Apparently not. Once we got home we set ¨Princess Penelope¨in a large tupper dish with the pellets and the water and put a cookie rack on top to keep her in her temporary ¨hotel.¨ All seemed well and good until the next morning (Christmas morning) when I discovered our little guest had escaped! For the next half hour the entire family scoured the pad looking for the little nipper, but to no avail. Not a very illustrious beginning to the day and we have no idea how she got out of the apt. or if in fact she IS out. At any moment we could come across her unexpectedly, but in the meantime we have given up. Oh well, it's the thought that counts.
Just rode the cruiser to the mall to exchange some pesos into dollars Americanos for daughter Steffi who is off to L.A. this evening to visit a friend in Mission Viejo. Trust everyone had a prosperous Christmas and got all you ordered from the man in the sleigh. So far it's been an interesting vacation which involved a crab dubbed Princess Penelope.
We were at Plaza Caracole the other day getting some last minute items and the girls introduced me to the new pet store called ¨Mascotas¨which is really something! They had quite the assortment of creatures including black scorpions (we had plenty of those during our years at the Rancho!) all manner of parrots, ferrets, a chinchilla and of course lots of puppies. If you pay $25 pesos they'll put you in a room where you can play with the little guys. I was tempted when I saw little ¨Scottie¨who is too cute for words! Anyway, Jacqui thought it would be fun to by her current squeeze a pet crab since they are very economical and easy to care for. A few crabby pellets and some water and voila! Easy, right? Apparently not. Once we got home we set ¨Princess Penelope¨in a large tupper dish with the pellets and the water and put a cookie rack on top to keep her in her temporary ¨hotel.¨ All seemed well and good until the next morning (Christmas morning) when I discovered our little guest had escaped! For the next half hour the entire family scoured the pad looking for the little nipper, but to no avail. Not a very illustrious beginning to the day and we have no idea how she got out of the apt. or if in fact she IS out. At any moment we could come across her unexpectedly, but in the meantime we have given up. Oh well, it's the thought that counts.
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