A post about my recovery garden and how it is like Persephone, the goddess of spring and wife of Death, inspired by the Page of Pentacles. Also, some haunted moss and a good look into my frog’s golden eyes.

tippitiwichet.com/2023/09/23/m

@fernfren (more frog pics on the blog, not sure if you've seen them all)

@tippitiwichet

i love how you've got the whole circle of life going there

trying to figure out how i can fit another hobby into my lifestyle so i too can have a frog-based ecosytem

@fernfren Start with the bugs, you want a strong colony before you get your apex predator. I had a really nice terrarium with just the pillbugs (oh, pardon, rolly pollies) before I got Morty. I moved the colony to a 1 gallon tank. Hoping that soon I can get more bug tanks, maybe even the ridiculously expensive but adorable blonde rubber ducky isopods, or emerald roaches. Might also get a lizard that likes to be handled so my kid can hold it.

@tippitiwichet

oohhhh this is like the time i obsessed abt getting a tortoise but then i realized that it would outlive me & i would need to make arrangements for its care & that sounds like paperwork

idk. keeping bugs in the house just sounds like a disaster waiting to happen for me... but i love the idea of having little composters as pets. i don't think i could do worms, worms have always given me the heebie-jeebies. i've gotten better tho, gardening tends to desensitize one to h-jeebies

@fernfren Well, I tried to encourage your collection of new and interesting hobbies, but if you're going to balk, I just can't help you.

(I might be in a really good mood.)

@tippitiwichet

you did your best (worst)
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lol gimme a minute i just need to overthink it for a week

@tippitiwichet

just FYI, i did google isopods for sale and i learnt that the spiky ones from thailand are SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS

i like the zebras and the clowns tho... but i'm gonna let that simmer for a bit, i'm in the middle of swapping all my furniture around/installing shelves, etc, last thing i need is to throw some live bugs in the mix... but if i can work out where to put a habitat...

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@fernfren Lol, yeah, my next bug purchase will likely be zebras, I'm not even ready for my $200 blonde rubber duckies. But my clowns are happy in a 1 gallon, as long as Morty is near to keep it from being overcrowded. I kept them in a basic goldfish bowl for a while, they don't have to be pretty, they are happy with a pile of sticks and some leaf litter, with bug feeder pellets thrown in.

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