Eeep!

So, after a horrid morning in which I had the worst nightmare I’ve had in years, and got up to find one of my bettas dead 😥 …well, today I got my long-awaited Labradorite Sitting Griffin Chick at last.

I’d had to sign the slip on my door yesterday for FedEx to drop the package off (since I certainly can’t be taking days off work everytime I expect to receive something).

I come home, after a long dark day in which it has done little else but rain, to find the box sitting by my front door. It was all bulgy and bloated-looking, obviously soaked. I pick it up, and a thin stream of water cascades from one corner. 🙁

I take it inside and open it up. Do they make some packing peanuts out of cornstarch now, is that it? Environmentally admirable, I’m sure, and normally I’d be cheering, but standing in the rainwater dissolved these packing peanuts into pasty mush, and of course the weight of the inner box dragged it down into that mess. If it had been styrofoam peanuts, it would have stayed high and maybe dry. 😕

So yes, the inner box was soaked as well. Thank God and Windstone for that inner plastic bag! There was a little condensation in parts, but nothing worse. My heart could start beating again! 😉

I wish it had been sent USPS like my other orders. Then I could have either fetched it from the post office, or they’d have stuck it inside my screendoor, or used the side door–all drier alternatives. Oh well, all’s well that ends well, my new little darling will just have to take residence in someone else’s box until I get a nice display case for him.

And as a reward for all that griping, here’s a picture!

😈 NOW WE ARE FIVE!! 😈

Thanks!

They do pack very well, though I agree I don’t think a box would survive being run over! 😯

I’m very much looking forward to adding some black sunset chicks…and black violet…and brown… 😀

Thanks! I’m sure they’re plotting something… 😉