Rachel and Jun

Thunder passed away last year. :( He lived a pretty long life, though!

Now that it's spring Jun was able to refresh his aquarium and we got a new Betta! His name is Cirrus.

Poor guy arrived in his stress coloring, but by day 3 reached full shine! He's super genki and getting along great with his tank mates

Watching me clean her terrarium. She's used to it now and climbs right onto my hand when I offer it to her. Ugh this little FACE 💚

Little chonk then and now! She's grown and filled out so much in just two months. She went from filling up with a couple aphids to demanding 6-7 crickets a day. She chases them down in her terrarium now, so I'm feeling confident she'll be able to feed herself when it's warm enough to release her!

The little gecko is doing great! She waits for me every night to drop her dinner in with that lil face just staring up at me!!

Jun's been holding her when I clean out her terrarium and she climbs all over him. She's already getting bigger and a little chonky!

Orange cat smiling while sleeping

Sometimes when Haku is sleeping I could swear he's smiling

Welp she hasn't found the crickets so I'm still dropping aphids in front of her face 😩 but otherwise she seems happy lol

Well!! Pet store live food was too big and she didn't like the bug paste they had so I've been plucking aphids off our homegrown greens daily 😭😭😭 but she eats them like a champ. Today I finally got some little crickets in the mail for her to try so hopefully I can stop harvesting aphids lmao

As of today the yamori finally has its own temporary little terrarium and personal cricket farm until spring when it's warm enough to release her back outside!

Thank you! I'll look for something more suitable for a longer stay tomorrow. Any idea around what temp we should wait for before releasing it back outside?

We had one outside! Currently warming it up before I put him in

Nagi found a baby yamori (gecko). Normally I'd put it outside but it's snowing and the ground is literally frozen; I'm worried it'll freeze. 😭

What should I do??

Our friend Laura is staying over and Haku is ECSTATIC

just cats

Resplendent

Our morning greeting.

It's the perfect height to surprise yell straight into Jun's ear as he rounds the corner. Sometimes we get a neko punch. Life is beautiful.

This dude is so clingy 😂

Festival on Shikanoshima that had beautiful bamboo lantern art! Makes me want to try my hand at it 😁