Promised pics! I’ll do better next time but i got overloaded today.... past my bedtime folks!!
They are beautiful pics! Thank you [emoji177]
Promised pics! I’ll do better next time but i got overloaded today.... past my bedtime folks!!
Well we didn’t take the boat to Caddo but we did put it in the little lake behind the house. I worked on the enclosure all morning. Breaker for lunch and a Walmart run .. Still a good productive day
With a pencil?
That takes us back to Lena's '2B or not 2B?'
How odd.
No mention of England's loss to Belgium in the Third place play off.
Virtually no mention of the final.
Congratulations to France.
(a little grudgingly) .
England's future looks bright.
Also , no one seemed to notice or celebrate the three year Roomiversary!
Three years of the Cold Dark Room!
Thanks everyone for making it such a very special community of very special people.
The personnel may change a bit over the years, but the heart, kindness and silly fun of the place remains always intact.
Bless you all.
Well, the comments seem to have just petered out, rather.
But thank you, carol for organizing the World Cup thingy, it was great fun.
And congratulations to Todd for being so good at his predictions to win the thing.
I operated a thread over on the Fossil Forum with a person representing each country in the competition and getting points for the results, predictions and games and quizzes and questions about football, fossils and even a few on tortoises.
I had thirty two players, one representing each country, a mix of males and females from about twenty countries with an age range from teenage to late sixties. Much more cosmopolitan than the real world cup! Lots of other people joined in too!
It received 4.658 posts and was viewed 41,622 times, the biggest thread in Fossil Forum history!
Here is the Tidgy emoji they made for me.
And :
Great, hey?
Ah, you changed your avatar!
It's good, but I preferred the last one, very artistic and made you look most mysterious.
This one is hard for me to make out.
No sir... just a nick name I’ve had for as long as I can remember
The new play pen for Pickles and Crusher ( those are my torts)
I have recently made friends with a couple of very nice young mothers in Canada who go fossil collecting with their young daughters. They have been kind enough to send me lots of Canadian Ordovician fossils and slightly younger Devonian ones.View attachment 247287
Here are just a few plus some they collected in New York.
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These next ones were a prize for a competition i won.
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And from the other lady :
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And a piece of rare and valuable ammolite (a unique mineral replacing the shell of an ammonite) With some Canadian candies.
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And a card the first lady sent me with a drawing of Tidgy and me by her daughter,
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I find the psychology of children very interesting, though i know nothing about them (except they're loud and expensive) The sky is white and the clouds are blue and there seems to be grass growing above the sky.
Nos da, Roommates.
I have less than 2,000 posts to go now.
Since a lot of those are mine, I may be with you in real time later tomorrow (today) .
Speak soon!
There's a lot to be said for living in the middle of nowhere with only the wildlife for nature!Oh, Lyn!
I should have come over and sorted them out years back!
Animals.
Still my lot have been stealing my post, including notes saying parcels are waiting to be collected.
This has resulted in a package from an American Museum being returned to America and costing the museum an extra $100 on top of what they paid to post me the specimens to study for them in the first place. The Museum guy is really angry with me.
As a band called Europe sang -Nos da, Roommates.
I have less than 2,000 posts to go now.
Since a lot of those are mine, I may be with you in real time later tomorrow (today) .
Speak soon!
It will always be Barry Island! I think it's just the beach they've given a posh name to - may even be an old name they've resurrected, I'll have to find out.Barry Island renamed? No chance! As a proud descendant of a South Walian mother you can’t persuade everyone to call it something else!
That's a lovely place to stay.Good morning all. We had a lovely day together yesterday and the weather was a little cooler than it has been, thank goodness. Sleeping was far more comfortable last night.
This is our hut
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There’s a bedroom on the top floor, a bedroom and shower room on the middle floor where the balcony is and a small kitchen/sitting room and a toilet on the ground floor.
The ceilings are a little low for anyone over 6ft
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And sunset didn’t disappoint yesterday either
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We even got treated to fireworks that we could see over the bay
Good point.You were so sharp to catch that
Lovely pics!Promised pics! I’ll do better next time but i got overloaded today.... past my bedtime folks!!
Literally [emoji40]It's come a very long way.
There was a time you couldn't swim at Barry, you just had to go through the motions