I’m melting! Melting…………..

*also, this is the scariest moment in a loving hermit crab mommy’s day…a little crab who has lost its shell is almost certain to die of dehydration as its abdomen dries in a few hours if it does not take another shell quickly, or dig down into the substrate to molt*

Rest in peace, Toodles.

The Daily Hermit apologizes for our recent silence. Life has been stepping in the way of almost everything, but we are slowly starting to work our way back to a recognizable, doable schedule. Until then, we will crave your indulgence for a few moments. Meanwhile, we’d like to give you the ballet from act three of tonight’s opera…oh wait, never mind…Meanwhile, we’d like to pray your indulgence while we get things going again, starting slowly with a (hopefully) weekly post.

Thank you!

What is it about Monday that leaves you unable to even keep your shell on right?

Luke 2

 ¹And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed.

 ²(And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)

 ³And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.

 ⁴And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:)

 ⁵To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child.

 ⁶And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered.

 ⁷And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.

 ⁸And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.

 ⁹And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.

 ¹⁰And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.

 ¹¹For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.

 ¹²And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.

 ¹³And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,

 ¹⁴Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.

 ¹⁵And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us.

 ¹⁶And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger.

 ¹⁷And when they had seen it, they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning this child.

 ¹⁸And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds.

 ¹⁹But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart.

Toodles proves that while you can sing the song “I’m too sexy for this shell” you aren’t necessarily ACTUALLY too sexy for your shell.

Get well soon, Mom and Dad - being sick is no fun!

…And we’re back! We apologize, as we were having extreme technical difficulties until very recently (when the computer with all your pictures on it won’t turn on…it’s rather hard to post!) but we’re back up and running. We’ll be working with the Tumblr backend to try to figure out how to get the software to work right for our purposes. Until then, please be patient, but we’ll post as regularly as we can manage!

I’m very lucky, I’ve got one of those constitutions where I never put on weight.

~Love Actually

The Daily Hermit apologizes for our erratic posting over the last week. Tumblr was updating its servers and the “queue” function temporarily went offline, followed by not being able to access queued posts at all and now it decided to post a whole bunch of my posts over two days, instead of one per day as I had scheduled. We are working to fix the issue, and hope you will be patient with us!