Linda's Magic Workshop - Linda Britt Design

 Mom and 2 eggs  Fat-tailed Geckos have large tails (hence the name) and skinny legs.   They are kind of funny looking and there are very friendly.   They have thin brown velvet like skin with a design and you need to be gentle with them.   Their tails can come off as a defense mechanism and it is where they store their fat.   The tail will be regrown but never as nice as the original.   They eat mealworms and crickets in captivity and insects in nature.   These geckos have eyelids which makes them unique in the gecko world. They grow to be 4-8 inches long and live 15 to 18 years.     We just added a Fat-tailed Gecko nursery to our house!   It really is a 2’x2’ incubator that keeps the humidity and temperature just right for the 4 existing eggs and 2 on the way! Peter had 4 fat-tailed geckos and he kept them separated for several years.   They were easy to care for and feed.   Now that Peter is building new cages for his animals, he decided to see if he could put them to

Yesterday my friend, Kim, and I met at Kuhle’s to explore the junk yard!   Neither of us had been there and neither of us had a camera to capture all the interesting shapes and textures and materials.   But we did find Darrell who led us to the locked up room where old sheet metal to be recycled is kept.   We found a treasure trove of copper and one sheet of brass as well as several gauges of wire.   It did not take long to amass 20 pounds of metal at $5.00 a pound.   Men are working! One of the first questions we were asked was, “Are you just looking or are you buying?”   Having grown up with two brothers and a father who was in demolition (along with many other businesses), I knew we better be buying.   I know not to waste a busy man’s time when it is close to lunch (or any other time either!).   So we were “buying”!   The sheet copper we bought had a natural patina, purple colors where I suppose someone tried etching, and there were a few thicknesses.   We quickly selecte

Heather and Peter Rusty Blackbird Sunday Peter and I took my niece, Heather, to Phoenix to attend a conference.   We wanted to show her some of the natural beauty of our area.   Saturday we toured her around the Prescott lakes, introduced her to birding and later shopped on Whiskey Row.   Sunday we stopped in Anthem hoping to see the Rusty Blackbird, a rarity in Arizona and a lifer for Peter and I. We had been to the community lake three times before hoping to add this to our life list and this time we saw it!   Looking for one bird of a kind is always a challenge and it helped to have three pair of eyes. Then we went to Tempe Town Lake because there was a Red-necked Grebe sighted and that also would be a lifer for me.   Tempe Town Lake is a beautiful community center.   In fact, there were three major events happening on the weekend.   We just wanted to stand on the pedestrian bridge to look for the one Red-necked Grebe!    Red-necked Grebe  Fortunately Pet