This may echo some of what I've posted in pieces in other places some...it's been a fun year, Tinley and Daytona were a blast, although more so this year in kind of the enjoyable hang out, check out lots of other stuff, enjoy good company and making new friends kind of way than actual sales from the shows. Tinley especially people just didn't seem to want to turn loose of money at all, there were a lot of people walking around with empty hands instead of carrying deli cups or bags. I still had fun, I'll definitely be looking forward to doing it again next year.

One thing that does seem like has happened this year, way more than I can remember in the past, is lowball offers...not sure why that's been so common this year to get people offering 50% or even 25% of a listed price for something, then act confused when you smile and just say no, not even close. I know it happens, no worries, let it go, just seems like it happens on a regular basis anymore, much more common.

Tinley...I will say one thing I saw there that really made me look twice, was Aubrey's wipeout animals. Aubrey, I think you understand what I meant now...your pictures look great, but they just really jump out at you much more in person. They really are a lot crazier looking live and up close than what I was expecting, huge congrats on discovering those! I would have loved to have brought home a pair of them, just didn't have the cash.

I did pick up a couple of animals there, one little group that puts me back into the hypo brb project. I'm not into naming animals as you all know, but if I did name a little het hypo girl that I picked up from Aubrey, she would probably be named Chomper. We definitely had a bonding session with her teeth and my hands while I was checking her out.



A hypo male and a couple of possible het girls from Trace Hardin, one of the girls is pretty brightly colored and has a bit of a connected dorsal pattern...






Now quickly some bad news, I mentioned "being back in the hypo project", the big hypo girl we now know had something go wrong during ovulation that we weren't able to detect. Some of the "eggs" ruptured during ovulation, basically glued her reproductive tracts together and then infection began setting in. We found this by doing surgery when technology wasn't giving us a good enough look to know what was going on. I had been feeling her every few weeks and towards the end of august began feeling a hardened lump in her. While she was still under the decision was made to put her down, so she is no longer with us.

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