May 11, 2008
Erasmo committed suicide
May 10, 2008
Snail Additions

Three more snails have been added to our snailarium; clockwise from the top: Pancho, No Name, and Full Speed Chola. No Name currently has no name, but you are free to give him one. If you need to know more about his character and size in order to give him a proper name I will tell you this: he/she is the smallest of our snail family, very shy, and not very sociable. Full Speed Chola is very inquisitive, very fast, very sociable. Pancho is in love with Full Speed Chola; she's a little bigger than him, but that doesn't seem to matter to him. I think Erasmo has been feeling a bit left out of the commotion as he refuses to have much to do with the little snails. Maybe I should get him a snail that is his size. I also decided to buy them a real home so now they live in a modded tupper ware tray. 
May 4, 2008
Sackcloth and Ashes: My Uncle Dan
Apr 29, 2008
Erasmo
A snail has adopted us. I found him hanging upside down on our ceiling and left him there. The next day G. found him on the floor, his shell cracked. We've been nursing him back to health ever since then. 
He lives on the potted basil plant we have. We feed him food from the table, veggies, egg shells, stuff like that. He particularly enjoys strawberries and eggshells. 
We have named him Erasmo and are looking on line to find information on snail care. Apparently we need to scrub his shell with an old toothbrush and keep his environment moist, but not too wet. Erasmo is a helix aspera (common brown garden snail) and is usually a nuisance in gardens, though he hasn't eaten the basil yet.













