Angry Mother Hen

Chicken Originally uploaded by Jepster . ...and speaking of eggs. A few weeks ago, I was watering the plants at my plantbox (my flat has a small plantbox just outside my window). Summer has arrived and the few scraggly plants living (barely) in that space looked like they needed a good soaking. I was so busy the past few weeks that I didn't had time to check their condition. There was a water valve connected to a perforated pipe that ran through its length so I just opened the valve and let the water spray the ground a couple of minutes. I purposel…

Turtle Tales

Red-eared sliders. Photo by Jep  via Flickr. 2 new turtles have been added to my turtle family. My colleague asked me to take care of his 2 baby turtles. He and another colleague are taking care of the turtles and several rabbits. Rabbits being what they are, however, soon they found themselves with too many rabbits on their hands and no time to take care of the turtles. I gladly accepted the 2 turtles since I have enough space on my turtle tub. I named the 2 turtles “Kiko” and “Pong”. I still can't distinguish between the two, however. They do have…

Of Giving One's Flower (huh?)

Of Giving One's Flower (huh?) Originally uploaded by Jepster . A colleague of mine spotted this caption on one of the thermos bottles in our office pantry. She snapped the picture not me. I find it particularly funny. Heh. :p >

First Light: An astronomy themed blog

I would like to advertise my friend's new astronomy themed blog called First Light. It looks very promising and I would like to invite all of you to go visit his site at http://starcrosser.blogspot.com/ . Keep up the nice work :)