And still loving 'em... though I did have a few scares. Power went out a few days ago but just for a few hours... went to bed shortly after it came back on but woke up around midnight with no power again... packed up all 4 of my babies around 5 a.m. and headed off to work... 200 yards down the road there's a tree fallen across the power lines and the fallen lines across the road... now mind you I live out in the "boonies", have no generator and am now standing out in temps around 2 degrees thinking about the 4 snakes in my car, I'm thinking about the fact that these downed lines effect me and about 6 other households in the entire backwater town I live in and commercials reminding me that no line is ever safe to touch... long story short, the lines are soon off my side of the road (I really, really need to get a generator!), heading to work and wondering how my boss will feel having snakes in his warm toasty office... he's o.k. with it as long as they stay in their traveling containers 
Two days later my male poly has shed but one eye scale has stayed firmly attached... my first ever "wtf" do I do about this scenario... I put him in a small container filled with moistened cypress chips... hours later the scale is still there despite his burrowing through the chips... so I moisten up a nice warm face cloth, wrap him in it and make him tunnel through it half a dozen times until I'm finally rewarded with the eye scale stuck to the towel instead of him...
The point of all this... despite everything he's been through the last week (and this goes for the female as well), after six weeks of being handled he's now all right with it, no more spastic thrashing about, no more being pooped on etc. Still won't eat from my hand like the Black Milks but every bit as calm... all in good time I guess.
I see how this is an addiction, I've told myself no more than six snakes... but I'm thinking will my last two be VA Beach Kings, will it be Blue-eyed Leucistic Texas Rats, will it be Guatemalan Milk Snakes... will it be... arghhhhh, how do you people do this!
Anyway, here's the male poly playing nice... thanks yet again Scott
Gerry
