Monday, August 31, 2009

Announcing the Safe Arrival of Tarquin et Pindar

The girl bought two hermit crabs on Saturday...Tarquin and Pindar...named for a couple of characters in the book "Gone Away Lake" (which incidentally is one of my - and the girl's - all-time favorite books for children).

The girl regularly tries to bring "pets" home from the "wild" - so now she has some legitimate pets (from PetSmart) that hopefully will live for nigh on 10 yrs (according to the literature we read).

They live in a "crabitat" - a dry aquarium...incidentally "crabitat" is one of my new favorite words - and I dare say it could sometimes refer to my own domicile.



2 comments:

CanadianGrandma said...

An educational pet! At least they are quiet!

Anonymous said...

Well they roll stones around at night which sometimes wakes me up.

GroovyGirl