Month: March 2025

Crested geckos 

Digital drawing, by Grace Moon

Crested geckos are solitary and should only be housed alone (but if you plan to breed it’s ok), being constantly housed with a male will often stress the female out, so it would be better to separate them for the rest of the time). Two male crested geckos will definitely fight, as can two females.

The crested gecko, often called the eyelash gecko, is a good pet for beginners because of its easy to keep requirements, and has a friendly nature.

 Crested geckos can tolerate being handled, they are generally not known for enjoying it and are more of a display pet. They are skittish and might try to jump away, so handling should be gentle and infrequent. 

Crested gecko bites are generally not painful and rarely break the skin, often feeling more like a small scratch or a pinch. 

Unlike other geckos, a crested gecko cannot regrow a dropped tail. However, your gecko won’t experience lasting harm from dropping its tail. Keeping your gecko out of its vivarium for too long can cause its body temperature to drop. Return your gecko to its tank after about 10 minutes of handling.

That’s it for today.

Hummingbirds

Digital drawing, by Grace

Hummingbirds are really fast. During courtship dives, male Anna’s hummingbirds can reach speeds of approximately 90 feet per second, which is the highest speed ever recorded for a vertebrate, relative to size. 

 Hummingbirds wings don’t have regular bird wings. Hummingbirds have a unique joint where their wings attach to their sternum, allowing for a highly efficient rotational movement, further enhancing their agility. Hummingbirds are incredibly agile, capable of flying backward and even, for brief moments, upside down. 

Hummingbirds have a fast metabolism. Hummingbirds have an exceptionally high metabolism, allowing them to burn a massive amount of energy to sustain their rapid wingbeat and flight, with the exception of insects, they have the fastest metabolism of any animal.

A Girl Sleeping

School writing, by Grace, November 1, 2024

one of pictures drawn by Harris Burdick

In April.12.1995.…a girl is sleeping peacefully on her bed while holding her journal 

There’s something watching her from outside. She probably was writing in her journal before she was sleeping. Her arm looks broken but it isn’t. The lamp is so bright…so bright like there’s a monster controlling it. And the lights are all on what is going on…Something is going to happen but what?

Wait there’s something in the book…v-vines what does this mean…the full moon is out it’s so bright just like the light. But what is it? Something else is happening. There’s something under the bed, it’s round and it has eyes. Wait, is it a bed monster? No it can’t be. Back to the book, the book is called Creepy Stuff. She’s s-shaking in her bed. Is it because of the book???

“Umm what I’m getting taken away help me. Wh-where am I. My head hurts. I’m getting tired.” When she sleeps a hand appears and takes her away. 

“Breaking News…our best spy has disappeared…she was never to be found again.”

10 years later on May 7 2005…a detective finds the body of the spy in an abandoned house with blood covered in the closet. Her closest relatives wanted to see her so they went in to the abandoned house but they died there no one knows why they died but only ONE PERSON KNOWS BUT THEY DON’T EVEN KNOW IF ITS TRUE BECAUSE HAPPENED IN A DREAM WHEN SHE WAS YOUNG!!!