fallen_angel
Fallen Angel's Geckos
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With a baby on the way and due at the end of this year, Mike and I will be moving to Lodi, CA (one hour from Sacramento) to be closer to my parents. This is something that my family has wanted to do for awhile, so now we're making it a reality.. just taking "one baby step at a time" lol
We don't have so many geckos that we are overwhelmed, so we won't be downsizing them by any means. The only thing I'm worried about is eggs.. any eggs we have at the time will obvsiously need to be flushed since any major temp. fluctuation hurts the embryos anyway. For that reason, we have our incubator up all the way, sexing for males to make sure all of the eggs we do have hatch in time.
I have to finish up my AA by taking a summer class in June, and our lease doesn't end until June, so we will at least be in AZ for that long.. I am not sure how quickly all of this will manifest into reality, but we could be moving as early as July.
We will be downsizing all of our other animals. We are rehoming two cats, our snow corn snake, our african ghost land crab, and our lil' chihuahua Leeloo. This is going to be one of the hardest things ever, but with the baby's best interest in mind, it's what has to be done. Leeloo is going to be the hardest for me, I just love her to pieces. But when a baby is born, am I really going to want to walk the dog and play "chase the ball" with her all day? I am pretty sure I will have many other priorities to say the least :main_yes:
At any rate, we are even more thrilled to be getting out of this wretched state!!!! No offense to any other Arizonans that love it here, but Mike and I came from the east coast and that is where our hearts lie :heart:
CA isn't the east coast, but at least it's much nicer up there. Better weather for one. Lodi is also in the middle of WINE COUNTRY, it's a nice, smaller town (I HATE BIG CITIES).
So to all of you northern CA people, we will be much much closer to you VERY soon!!!!
HEATHER - we won't be too far from you either
We don't have so many geckos that we are overwhelmed, so we won't be downsizing them by any means. The only thing I'm worried about is eggs.. any eggs we have at the time will obvsiously need to be flushed since any major temp. fluctuation hurts the embryos anyway. For that reason, we have our incubator up all the way, sexing for males to make sure all of the eggs we do have hatch in time.
I have to finish up my AA by taking a summer class in June, and our lease doesn't end until June, so we will at least be in AZ for that long.. I am not sure how quickly all of this will manifest into reality, but we could be moving as early as July.
We will be downsizing all of our other animals. We are rehoming two cats, our snow corn snake, our african ghost land crab, and our lil' chihuahua Leeloo. This is going to be one of the hardest things ever, but with the baby's best interest in mind, it's what has to be done. Leeloo is going to be the hardest for me, I just love her to pieces. But when a baby is born, am I really going to want to walk the dog and play "chase the ball" with her all day? I am pretty sure I will have many other priorities to say the least :main_yes:
At any rate, we are even more thrilled to be getting out of this wretched state!!!! No offense to any other Arizonans that love it here, but Mike and I came from the east coast and that is where our hearts lie :heart:
CA isn't the east coast, but at least it's much nicer up there. Better weather for one. Lodi is also in the middle of WINE COUNTRY, it's a nice, smaller town (I HATE BIG CITIES).
So to all of you northern CA people, we will be much much closer to you VERY soon!!!!
HEATHER - we won't be too far from you either
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