Hello-Goodbye

You say yes, I say no
You say stop and I say go, go, go
Oh, no
You say goodbye and I say hello
Hello, hello
I don't know why you say goodbye
I say hello

Hello, hello
I don't know why you say goodbye
I say hello

I say high, you say low
You say why, and I say I don't know
Oh, no
You say goodbye and I say hello
Hello, hello
I don't know why you say goodbye
I say hello
Hello, hello
I don't know why you say goodbye
I say hello

Why, why, why, why, why, why?
Do you say good bye Goodbye,
bye, bye, bye, bye
Oh, no
You say goodbye and I say hello
Hello, hello
I don't know why you say goodbye I say hello
Hello, hello
I don't know why you say goodbye I say hello hello, hello

I don't know why you say goodbye I say hello
Hello
Hela, heba helloa Hela, heba helloa

Dusty makes a new friend

Time to take Robby home for a visit. Unfortunately, Dusty doesn't know her own strength, and little Robby seems to be getting the squeeze!

Hope springs eternal, and little Robby the Rodent takes one last look up to the heavens, hoping that the hand of a higher power will save him from impending doom.

Dusty meets Mickey!

Dusty the Ball Python cruising through her neighborhood.

What's that up there on the branch?

Another cousin of Mickey Mouse has dropped by selling magazine subscriptions! This mouse was smarter than most and quickly realized that a longer life was only possible by climbing out of the terrarium.

Unfortunately, the little branch does not go all the way to the top. Little Mickey was hoping for a miracle at this point.

Do mice believe in an afterlife? Did little Mickey make it into Disney World? Did he see a bright light and hear the Mickey Mouse Club song as Dusty squeezed the life out of him?

Was he still alive when Dusty started to swallow him face-first? If there is such a thing as reincarnation, did little Mickey get reborn as a snake? Perhaps one day he will be a famous lawyer?

Playing mouse the hard way

Dusty the Ball Python sees the mouse

Snake strikes at mouse

Dusty crushes the life out of the mouse

Snake eats mouse, head-first

I found Dusty, the Ball Python!

After four months missing in action, today I found Dusty! We were all overjoyed to see that the baby snake was back! I was shocked to find it, and also very happy. There I was playing ball with my dog Brownie, when the rubber Hi-Bounce ball bounced over a book shelf and then rolled down the back of the shelf and got stuck between the book-shelf and the wall. These Super-Balls are about two inches in diameter, and Brownie loves running after them because they bounce around so much. When the ball bounced behind the book shelf, Brownie kept wagging her tail at the book shelf and whining.

I did not have a spare ball around, so I moved the book shelf to get the ball. When I moved the book shelf a little, the ball rolled all the way down the wall and under the book shelf. So I had to move the book shelf completely away from the wall in order to get the ball. As I pushed the book shelf about a foot away from the wall, I saw the balled up snake rolling on the floor! Apparently it had gone into hibernation, and I had awakened it? What is funny is that my dog Brownie has often sniffed at the bottom of that book shelf. Since I have lost a few of those Hi-Bounce balls when they have bounced behind various furniture (because I am not going to move the furniture to find a little rubber ball), I had always thought that Brownie was sniffing at some lost ball.

On the floor area that where the snake had been was the old waste of the last mouse it had eaten back in December, and a sloughed-off skin. It took a few minutes to clean tht up, as the stuff had all dried into the floor (fortunately it is not a rug!). Apparently Dusty had moulted once at some point. The snake had a tiny bit of skin that seemed to have been rubbed off, possibly when I moved the shelf. You can see the abrasion in this photo (about two inches on the ridge of its spine, near the right-hand corner of the photo) of Dusty that I took when I put it into its home. It stayed in the water dish for a while. It was too late to go to the pet store and buy a mouse. Hopefully Dusty will be hungry!

My ball python is gone!

My ball python was getting pretty big, though it was not really more than two feet long. One day, I took a couple of books off the top of the terrarium, and when I came back the top had been pried open and the snake was gone. I figured that it was under some furniture or behind something, and that after a few days it would show up. Several weeks later, I have never seen it again. I guess it must have taken off through an open door. Since this property has lots of common area that is landscaped, a snake would not have much trouble escaping. Finding mice on the other hand, might not be as easy. Then again supposedly there are mice and rats in most urban areas.

Ball Python catching a mouse

Jake the Snake looking for a meal



Yummy! Friends 'til the end?


This is the end, friend!

Is the mouse just playing dead (or plain dead)?



The tail looks crunchy!

My ball python is about six months old, and he seems to be getting fatter but not longer. I keep feeding him (or her?) a mouse every 5-7 days, and sometimes a rat-pup. It is good to see the python has a healthy appetite, and at least it is growing (fat?).

baby Ball Python

That's good eatin'


My baby Ball Python snacking on a pinkie