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Well, I ended up not going to work yesterday... I know, I'm horrible. If I didn't have so many stressful things going on right now, I would have went in. But all this with our aunt, family stopping by, Thanksgiving right around the corner, and not to mention, being harassed by the crazy fabric lady that's trying to make us dish out $25 to ship HER fabric back to her! Sigh... I need to go stay at a resort for a week or two.

Okay, time for some happy news!! Chloe and Boone's upcoming joeys are not only a leu and a plat, but a leu and a TRUE PLATINUM MOSAIC!!! Can you freaking believe it!?!?!? So this wondrous occasion is proof that Boone is, in fact, a mosaic under his white! I'm in awe!

LaVaughn and I messaged Shannon to be 100%. She has plats ALL the time, so if anyone knew, it would be her. Apparently, plats ears are the first thing to color up, as well as their tails. Their ears are very, very dark, even when they're tiny babies. Our little guy's ears are basically white with a few speckles of gray. And his tail is almost solid white with one faint little ring on it. SO adorable!!

This is something that would happen to another breeder, not us!

As if Taylor wasn't excited enough about her little leu boy, she now has to be excited about a TPM!! I'm so happy for her. I know how excited we were to get Cas, so this is just so awesome for her. I love being able to hook friends up with their dream gliders. Makes me feel awesome.

I got lots of awesome pictured of both boys a little while ago, plus pictures of everyone else in the glider room. I was just going to take pictures of Chloe's babies and give everyone treats, but since I already had the camera in there, I thought, "Why not?" Now, I didn't go nuts this time and get 8 face pictures of every glider, I just got a group shot and then one face pictures of each. I think I might have taken two of Charli and Violet, though. I also took a few more of Avon for Kalie.

In non-glider related news... we tried gelato for the first time yesterday! While I was in the store, I noticed that they actually had some. And since there was only one tiny, little jar of pistachio gelato left, I decided to get it. And dude, it's awesome! I have to admit, it is a lot richer and creamier than regular ice cream, but not so intense that you would be able to tell a mile away. Wait, did I just contradict myself? Anyways, it's definitely worth a try.

So... am I the only one looking forward to the Black "Friday" that's starting tomorrow evening? Walmart actually has a few things that I want to get people for Christmas (unfortunately I can't say what). Not to mention, they have The Walking Dead season 3 and Supernatural season 8 for $10 each!! They also have The Walking Dead game (the one with the Dixon brothers) for $15, The Lord of the Rings trilogy on blu-ray for $10, and a handful of other awesome things for even cheaper! I know, I'm terrible. LaVaughn doesn't want to go with me, and I'm too scared to go alone, so I don't know what I'll do. Sigh...

Oh well, at least we have Thanksgiving Dinner to look forward to tomorrow and (hopefully) the same "Black Thursday" deals online! Just in case you don't hear from me tomorrow, Happy Thanksgiving! Make sure you're thankful for the little things. There are millions of people out there that don't even know if they'll be able to find a piece of bread to eat tomorrow, or someplace to keep them warm tonight..

Love & Peace

-Megan

This is the awesome gelato that we tried:

LaVaughn's collection:

She went a little overboard...

Here are Chloe and Boone's joeys:

Look at the splotch on the back of his head!!

And those little white ears!!

Sadie & Pip

Kira, Logan, & Seamus

Charli & Tyler

Cas & Violet

Avon

Chloe & Boone

And lastly, joey tails!!

THIS is the little plats tail!!

Facebook groups will be the death of me!

I was browsing around on one of my favorite Facebook groups a couple days ago, Bates County Farm and Garden, for some baby ducklings that I could call my own. I looked for hours, to no avail, when I saw a link someone had posted to yet another Facebook group! This one, called Southeast Missouri Farm Birds, Game Birds & Rabbits: Buy, Sell, Trade, automatically caught my eye because, well, because I saw Southeast Missouri and farm Birds in the same sentence, lol.

Of course, I joined and automatically posted that I was in desperate search of baby ducks. Well, I didn't add the desperate part, but that's the way I felt on the inside. The very first comment was some snot nosed twat saying, "I have two ducklings, but don't want to part with them. Sorry!" so yeah. I didn't want the bitches ducks anyway! After that, a few people chimed in and said they had this, that or would have something in a couple weeks. Of course, I responded by asking prices, locations and breeds!

Then came Lanette... precious, precious Lanette. She began to tell me that she had a few ducklings hatched out and would be hatching more out in a couple days. At the end of her description, she added that they were... WELSH HARLEQUINS!! Welshies are only my favorite duck in the entire world. Saxony are a close second, but I adore the Welsh Harlequins. I responded -- all the while trying to contain my excitement -- and asked where she was located. My jaw dropped when she said she was from Perryville! She followed with a, "You probably don't want to travel that far for ducklings, though." boy was she wrong! As fate would have it, my aunt was due for a dentists appointment in Perryville this Thursday!

After I calmed down from all the excitement, I asked her to email me so that we could go more in depth about pick ups and so on. I emailed her and explained that my aunt would be in her neck of the woods in a couple days and asked if she could get them for me. After all was said and done, I ended up asked her if my aunt could just call her. She said yes and talked to my aunt a little while ago. So, it's official... we're getting baby ducks TOMORROW!!

Okay, I need to calm myself!

We tried the whole "bathtub intro" with Cas and Violet yesterday. We cleaned the bathtub out, pulled the curtain up and dried up any remaining water. We then proceeded to put one drop of vanilla extract on the backs of their necks and put them in the tub. At first, Violet was freaked and chased him. Then, for no apparent reason, she just stopped! That's when I started scooting Cas up closer and closer to her. Unfortunately, as soon as he would see her, he'd take off. Usually crabby, but not always.

So now, Violet is okay with Cas, but Can is completely scarred from all the times she chased him. *sigh* Now I have no idea what to do. I guess we'll keep trying this method - since it's the only thing that seems to be working - and hope that he gets less freaked by her.

Kira is letting us see more and more of those gorgeous joeys she has tucked away! The little girl with the white tip appears to have a really awesome hood! It's a stripe that goes all the way across her head. Definitely going to be a looker! The other little joey - who I originally thought was a girl, now not sure - with the larger white tip has a nice band at this base of his/her tail. This little one also has a small white splotch on the back of his/her head. These are going to be some pretty, pretty joeys! Their new mommy is getting SO excited about their upcoming OOP date.

We managed to get all the gliders' nails trimmed today. Believe it or not, it actually went very smoothly and quickly. Even Stacie's gliders! If you add that up, that's 10 gliders and 180 nails! Wowza!!

While we were trimming Kira and Logan's nails, we heard faint singing that got progressively louder. Since we were holding Kira, we knew it wasn't her. It was Sadie! Her joey is so tiny, I can't believe she was already singing to it! Blows my mind, seriously. Especially since sugar gliders don't normally sing to their joeys until they're a couple weeks from being OOP and after. She's a weirdo.

Okay, I'm going to end my short novel there.

Love & Peace

-Megan

Violet & Chloe

Cas

 He was not happy with his nail trim, lol.

Prettiest True Platinum Mosaic sugar glider ever!!