Finally!

For those that didn't know that I had a hedgehog, I do. He's 2 years old , black and pepper, calles Ofus. I've been looking for a female for him. It took meuntil today. I saw one about a month ago. I went to tha ATM, when I came back she was gone! Someone but her.... Yesterday I saw somw hedhogs at the same store, but, all males....
Then I called the place where I bougth Ofus.. they told me they were going to arrive today.
When I woke up, I called to find out if they arrived and if there were any females, and if fact there was one!!! I ask them to save her for me.

We went to the cementery to visit my grandfather's grave and then I went buy her. For my luck she is white or a snowflake! just as I wanted.

Well she is a month old and her name is Petunia, here are some pics of Petunia and Ofus, he is the darker one

Bolita and Pelusa pcis

by the way, I know which one is which. Bolita , the girl, is bigger and fatter, plus she the only one that stuffs seeds in her mouth, and more sociable thant Pelusa the male...

closer look

While Bellota was sleeping on my bed.. I took some closer shots, then she showed me her best side on my flower pillow

sad time!

My father bought 2 great danes, the couple. They were living in the south of Costa Rica in a house we have there. That was about a year an 4 moths ago. They were the first dogs we bought so we were kind of unexperienced. to make the story short, they were not the healthiest, and since they were 4 moths old they developed the worst case of mange I'v ever seen! We tried every treatment posible, but it's so bad that probably this week they both will be put to sleep. So in memory of Axel and Pequeña, they were the sweetest dog, they thought they were as small as the beagle and always tryied to sit on my lap... here are some pic when they were a couple of months old.

bolita y pelusa

those are the names of my two new russian hamsters. I've wanted one since i saw a girl carry one in a small cage while I was walking Bellota. Thas was almost a year ago! Today I finally bought one, a female, but then I asked for the male becuase i really want them to reproduce. I bet, I'm going to see baby hamsters before baby beagles...

the names.. I actually can't distinguish which one is the female or the male, they are almost identical! I came up with this names, becuase my grandmother asked me about bellota but first she said, Pelusa (lint). I remembered about some stories my aunt used to tell me and my brother about 2 cats Bolita (little ball) and Peluson (big lint), thus the names I gave my hamsters!!
the problem is I can't decide which name is for the female: I first decided that Pelusa was the girl, but Pelusa was the nickname for Maradona, so it can be the male too. since they look pretty much the same and won't respond to their names, It doesn't matter!

tired of playing?

my brother has this stuffed fuball, and Bellota loves it, I guess she is exited to see the world cup too..

my debut!

for photo class we had to improvise as models.... here are some of the pictures my classmates took while I was "singing", and mopping the floor. It was extremely fun to do..

I'm a cook!!

i've always loved cooking, speacially desserts but they tend to be a little bit too chemical for me. Still I do it, but not as professionally as I want to be....
On the other hand I'm a genius. today I cooked the best Mango chutney I've ever tasted. I read the recipe from Alton Browns and then did my own stuff... everyone in my family loved it! Once again my experiment was a succes.

I forgot, I served it with fried Trucha.

jackses

this Sunday I was with my family at my grandmother's house and we started playing jackses, but we had some doubts concerning the rules. For those who don't know the game here's a summary:

by the way this is a game that falls into the traditional category in Costa Rica

jackses are little star like figurines

1.You need a comfortable space, tipically the floor!
2. you throw the jackses on the floor and the you bounce a little rubber ball on the floor, while this one is on the air you pick up each one of the jacjses one by one, with out moving any of the others or letting the ball bounce more than once.

3. you pick up the jackses by sets of 2, tehn 4, 5, .... and so on, until you reach 10. of course if you pick up a set of six, there are only 4 left...

4. you can only use one hand


so thats the summay


I use the picture I found at this website where you can find more traditional games, it's in Spanish

http://www.tricolin.com/tricodiversion/juegostradicionales.asp?id=4

more trees!

I just bought two more for my collection. One is a Muralla, i actually though it was coffe!. It has tiny red fruits that look very much like the coffe cherry. Also has tiny white flowers that smell really good, as cofee does also!
Well, since what I was looking for was coffe i bought a small tree but i have to turn it into a bonsai, another challenge for me.

On january i went to Tilaran and cut some branches of a tree they call Indio chingo, in English it means (as bad as it may sound) naked indian... but the good news is they are going extremely well. At least 3 branches have new leaves!!!! so exciting.

Also I bouth a wipping willow, a tree not a bonsai, a comple of months ago. I dind the same thing, and it has roots and leaves!!! the interesting thing was that it's almost as thing as a toothpick!
i hope they all turn into really beautifull bonsais!

VM

I'm so exited! there is going to be a 3rd season of Veronica Mars. It's my favorite show. i'm ansious to see what's going to happen on the next one. I wan Logan to stay with Veronica.
Common this show has mistery, romance, action and comedy, and sometimes animals! Is perfect!

new camera

We bough a new camera, it's great. We got it on Monday so I played for a while. My dog, Bellota was my muse

More pics

The first one: my counsin and me, and the second one with my boyfriend

Party

Hey!
Well last Saturday was my party. Almost everyone I expected showed up, but some of then left too early, some arrived to late and other were like holograms.. At least we did had a good time if we ignore the timing.

The piñata was a succes! everyone was ansious to hit it. It was way to stuffed so, by the second hitter it fell! Still we grabbed the candy and treats. It was grate.

Here's a picture of me, my cousing and some friends and the Bellota (power puff girl) that was decorating my piñata.

After that, we ate the cake that was delicous. At first it was a downner caus the pastry chef that I asked to bake it forgot about it, so he gave me one he had in storage.... but the decorations were not as pretty as the onesI asked for.

Also I baked mini chocolate hedgehogs that I found here; http://www.leitesculinaria.com/recipes/cookbook/hedgehogs.html
Everyone liked them, but the shape was not a pretty as the one from the link.

Bonsais

I think i should change the name of my blog. Ihave so many hobbies it's hadr to talk only about one.
As you can see by the name of my of this post, I collect bonsais.
Rigth now i have 6:
Olivo
Ficus Jasmino
Escampa Tropical
Higueron
Arbol del tesoro
Cipres (in prosses)

Theye are pretty young, all of them between 3 to 7 8years.

I started with the Olivo, since then it's become and obsesion, every tree I see I picture it as a bonsai...
The last tree were a gift for my bday from my boyfriend! yey

Now a need a shelf to place them all together. Now there' everywhere arround the house

my bday!

Hey!
on a differente note... May 10th is my BDAY!
I'm going to be 21! now I can drink all arrpund the world!
For my party I plan to welcome everyone with a shot of cheap tequila to get all my guests to be in the party mood!
Also, we're going to have a piñata. It's going be Bellota (I don't know her name in English0, the Power Puff girl dressed in green, bc thats my dogs name, remeber..

tips

here's a tip. not sure how effective it is, my Vet told me this;

just when your bitch is starting her heat feed her puppy food. This is going to give her more energy so she is going to ovulate more, thus more puppies!

kennels

Here's another link that I foudn very helpfull:

you can find guides to have your own kennel, how to build it and arrange it

http://www.lowchensaustralia.com/kennels.htm

I hope one day to have my own kennel

about breeding beagles

Since I am new to breeding, I've been reading a lot. Here's a link that really helped me; it's only about breeding beagles. It's from the uk so it explains how to breed hunting beagles, but stil it's very helpful.

http://www.beaglesinperil.org.uk/breed2.htm

Here's my summary:
after your bitch starts her second heat (or the one you desire), start using the calledar.

1. mark the callendar for the 7th day after the first day she is in heat. this is when you should get her with the disered sire.
2. during the next 5 days she sould be with the sire 3 times, for a 100% fertilization
3. you have to remember that the day of mating is not the same as the conception day, it's usualll 2 days later.
4. 20 -25 days after mating take the bitch to the vet to check if she is pregnant with a simple palpation ( the vet trys to feel the puppies, first to see if the bitch (now a dame) is pregnant and how many puppies she is carrying.
5. 60 - 65 days after mating you can expect puppies. Be ready to sleep a lot less, they tend to arrive at nigth.!

Breeding Bellota

Since I love dogs, my dream has always been to breed a dog. This is going to be the first time I do this.

Fisrt Step: get a female dog
In more "technical " terms, a beach. Her nme is Bellota, she a beautiful beagle. She is 1 year and 7 moths old, extremly social so i spect it to be easy.


Second Step: find a male dog

I have about 8 male dogs or sires (to continue the lesson in vocabulary) that are dying (they are dogs!) to mate with Bellota.


Third Step:
wait for the bitch to be in heat, at leats for the second time, usually when they are a year and half.

just in case: when the beach is in heat is when she starts the reproductive period, I' explain more tomorrow.