The food and the fed.

Two Bearded Dragons - 21/09/2009 16:43:20 - 170 mm - 1/60 - f/5.6 - ISO 400

After breakfast I helped Kevin out. The first shed houses all the mice and rats. The whole lot of them need to drink and eat. He showed me how to refill the water and how to fill up the food. I think there is about 100 boxes and in each box you can find a little or big family. The families exist of small pinkish skinny newborns to furry full grown rodents. The whole shed is actually a food stock for the shed next to it, the reptile shed.

After the feeding I helped Sonia out with the reptiles. Cages needed to be cleaned, newborn pythons needed to be sexed and hungry snakes needed to be fed. I'm not that fond of the feeding part though, neither is Kevin. I'm the one that has to get the mice. I get little pinky newborn ones for the small snakes, or 'wieners' for the larger snakes. So it's me that decides who's going to die and who's not...

We knock of at 4pm. I couldn't go for a walk cause it was raining. It's one of the few days I experienced rain during my stay in Australia. Rain is very wanted here in Adelaide. I'm currently staying in the driest state of the driest continent. The house hasn't got a bore so it relies on rainfall. All the rain that flows from the roof is filtered and stored into a big container. Because of that everything in the house that involves washing or flushing happens with a limited amount. After these few days I really start to realise how much water I waste when I was back home.

Dinner, tea, a Tim Tam, a movie on the iMac and off to bed.