Snakes and Stones

Thanks!

So many walls to get past these days...I can't even figure out which one you are referring to.  


Photo #409

Ball Python = Spider/Het Piebald + Unidentified Pattern Altering/Reduction Gene.

Hahaha!   I've been dealing with ball pythons for so long I can tell by the body posture what they are thinking-Photo #408 is thinking: 'Leave me alone, I want to go back to sleep'.  

Photo #410

GHI + Fire

Photo #412

Ball python is a 66% Het Lavender Albino/50% Het Piebald. 

Photo #414

Ball python is a 66% Het Lavender Albino/50% Het Piebald.  Given the pattern on this one...I can make a good guess it is a Double Het. 

Photo #416

Ball python is a 66% Het Lavender Albino/50% Het Piebald.  Very obvious Het Lav Albino to me, Het Piebald...don't see it...

In other news my gf and I stopped by The Old Country Store in Moultonborough NH. The Old Country Store
We visit every now and then--it was built in 1781, certain areas are dark and definitely have a haunted vibe...
Gift shops aren't the best place to look for rocks, but, I live in New England-so I don't have many options lol...
I could make a lot of comments on the images below, but, I will leave them to your imagination.  

Haha yeah, I've been visiting The Old Country Store for many years now.  The store often gets packed wall-to-wall with visitors-I went there four or five times before I figured out they had a staircase in one corner that leads to a free museum on the top floor...I imagine a lot of people who visit: don't even know about it.

I did not buy any pickled limes in the jar shown-this time.  The brine looked a bit cloudier than I prefer... 

As for the flavor:  If you can imagine a very tangy sweet pickle-then that is your flavor.  However, the texture is very different (to me).  If I was raised eating them then the tough texture may not bother me...as it is...I would not just sit on the corner and eat a pickled lime-I would slice it into small pieces and make it into a sweet relish.  I think they do this Indian cuisine.

Pickled limes were very popular around Boston, MA (USA) during the mid-1800's.  I read somewhere that they were so beloved that Massachusetts actually tried to minimize the taxes on them...Tax-achusetts y'know...

Photo #417

Pegmatitic Granite with a Pastel/100% Het for Yellowbelly or Gravel. 

Picked up a small Uranium glass dish at an antique store the other day.
I also have a Super Lesser/50% Possible Het Hidden Gene Woma (HGW) ball python. 
Some people say you can see feint pigment patterns on a Super Lesser (Solid White Snake with Blue Eyes) using a UV light.  Hypothetically you could prove/disprove HGW.
Let's check it out!

Plate:

Plate/Rock/Snake:

Plate/Rock/Snake (365nm):

Rock:

Rock (365nm):

Hmmm...didn't see any distinguishable pattern on this Super Lesser ball python-in any of my efforts.  HGW seems unlikely. 

Photo #420

BP = Lavender Albino/50% Possible Het Piebald 

Thanks!  I would have liked to have taken a look at the 'Awesome Rocks' a bit more to see if there is anything unusual in there (my gf would have gotten mad). In passing-they looked better than the standard chinese tumbled rocks you find in a gift shop display.  I know some foreign vendors grade their tumbled stones so they were likely higher quality than normal.

I tend not to buy any finished stones unless it is something that I don't want to bother tumbling myself or the rough price and the finished price is too close to warrant my effort.  Besides, the photo below is my kitchen table right now with the amount of finished stones I produce in a two week time period...I really don't need to be adding any...