Journee's Critters

I finished the 473 page Fablehaven book -cough -last night! At exactly -cough -10:25 PM!
I started the next Fablehaven book -Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary -this morning, and I'm almost half-way through! Though I've been taking care of my younger siblings and playing with my new tablet -which I got yesterday shortly after my books arrived.
The books are great, of course. The imagination the writer must have! I swear, it's amazing.

My tablet is pretty cool, also. But it's hard to use. It's going to take a lot of practice! I've played with it for around an hour today -and I think I've got the general idea of how to use it...hopefully I will finish a picture sometime, then I can post it -on one of my Blogs, at least!
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Dolly is doing really good -she was pretty wild last night; there must have been at least two coyotes out in the woods hollering. Dolly bristled up and started howling. It was pretty darn funny -though it was also in the middle of the night...so that wasn't good.

The baby chicks are doing great, too. They are getting quite big -and also quite messy. Mom wishes the weather was warmer, that way we could move them outside from time to time to run around and play in a little pen.
Little Diamond has some pretty: whitish-buff colored feathers now. But, she still sleeps an awful lot. And is so cute! With her little beard and all.
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Cody and Johnny are getting very VERY mischievous. I was holding Cody just a moment ago, trying to type the earlier parts of this post -and he got himself stuck between the couch cushions.
I used to hold them on my bed a lot; but now just doing that is hard. They have no fear! I have a small desk at the end of my bed with the dog treats, Norbert's crickets, and the rat food... I was on the ground one day, replacing their old cage bedding with new, and I noticed I hadn't seen the rats in a while; they had been running around my bed, occasionally peeking over the end to look at me....But they were nowhere in sight.
I got up and looked around; I found them hiding under my pillows munching on some rat cubes -apparently they figured out how to get into my animal-food stash on the desk.
Little varmints.
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They are the greatest pets -so much personalty! I'm amazed all the time.
On a side-note: Johnny REALLY likes surgery cereal. And he likes milk. I figured that out today at breakfast.

Cortana is doing very nicely also. She plays a lot during the night now -and tries to sleep through the whole day. Either me or my Mom feed her while my Dad is at work -she love her special milk, but Mom and Dad say it's almost time to wean her.

Norbert -my precious bearded dragon is still sleeping for days at a time.
 When he does come out, though -he begs to be fed. Which is one of the cutest things to watch -in my opinion. He'll stick his big pink tongue out to swipe at the glass of his cage. He eats a lot of the crickets I give him -then, he sleeps.
And sleeps.
Then poops.
Then sleeps again.
It's a hard life -really!

Don't you be fooled!
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All the very best,

Journee