What the hail is going on?

It's bad enough that the entire weekend was one long, dark rainstorm, but hail? That's a little much.

Crazy sh*t you only do for your pets (and your boyfriend)

I got Chaz a lemon tree for Christmas, which learnteach planted for me in my back yard. Last week the snails found the lemon tree and started eating its leaves. They can do this because the tree is still tiny, and in fact its lower branches touch the ground. learnteach gave me some copper tape to put around the trunk to keep the snails off, but I knew that I would need to dig the ground away from the branches.

This past week, Dymphna has been running all over the house. I've been meaning to take her out to the turtle run and see if she was ready to lay eggs, but it was pouring down rain all weekend and neither of us wanted to go outside. Tonight I heard a noise and went into the living room to discover she had tried to climb onto the bottom shelf of a bookcase and flipped over. I picked her up and she was obviously pregnant.

So, I went outside into the dark and filled an old plastic box with nice damp soil from under the lemon tree, and put it in the corner of the kitchen with towels around it so she can climb into it. I put her in the box, but I just heard her walking around in the living room so I'll have to put her back. I hope she takes to it, because it would be nice to have baby turtles. And no snails.