COLD DARK ROOM

CarolM

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It is, but he lost the ability to eat like we can eat over years. At last only very well mashed liquid food that he can drink with a drinking straw was possible.
He often aspirated this liquid food into the lungs and was living with the fear of getting pneumonia. The gastrical tube is the only way for him to overlive, but yes, he is missing the taste of food.
Oh shame. That would be awful.
 

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Ed @ZEROPILOT will be able to tell you all about it, I think. Fortunately, he does have quite a few hobbies.
My hobbies are no closer to getting my attention than they ever where.
Right now I'm in Georgia.
So far, I'm not a big fan of being retired.
 

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Good evening CDR. I hope all my roomies are all well, busy and happy.:)

Me too.:D After 3 days of working I have 4 days "off duty". My torts are all fine. The sullies grow and grow. They need a bigger enclosure soon. My little greeks are active. They don`t know that it gets cold outside. No hibernation for them. :D
I have two redfoots. One is growing well but the other is my little problem child. He doesen`t grow ! He eats, walkes around in his enclosure and is not sick, but he doesen`t grow. He is my Bonsai tortoise !
Ma & Mo are well too. They are not as active as little sulcatas or greeks but they eat and walk around and bask.
That is a short summery of what`s going on with my torts.

Nights are cold here in Germany: 3 - 4 C. Day temps around 15 C. I miss the warmth of summer even now. I am a "summer child" not a snowwoman. I think that my cats and the torts feel the same.:D

I wish you all a good evening.:<3:


Good-evening-everyone.jpg
 

CarolM

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Good evening CDR. I hope all my roomies are all well, busy and happy.:)

Me too.:D After 3 days of working I have 4 days "off duty". My torts are all fine. The sullies grow and grow. They need a bigger enclosure soon. My little greeks are active. They don`t know that it gets cold outside. No hibernation for them. :D
I have two redfoots. One is growing well but the other is my little problem child. He doesen`t grow ! He eats, walkes around in his enclosure and is not sick, but he doesen`t grow. He is my Bonsai tortoise !
Ma & Mo are well too. They are not as active as little sulcatas or greeks but they eat and walk around and bask.
That is a short summery of what`s going on with my torts.

Nights are cold here in Germany: 3 - 4 C. Day temps around 15 C. I miss the warmth of summer even now. I am a "summer child" not a snowwoman. I think that my cats and the torts feel the same.:D

I wish you all a good evening.:<3:


Good-evening-everyone.jpg
Little Harry is also my problem tort. He grows at a very slow pace. Nothing like my other ones.

It is definitely cold there at night. I'll send lots of get warm thoughts your way.
 

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My hobbies are no closer to getting my attention than they ever where.
Right now I'm in Georgia.
So far, I'm not a big fan of being retired.

It’ll take time.
You could always volunteer somewhere to get back into a routine.

Volunteermatch.org has many categories to choose from.

I’m sure you have many projects already but it could be the routine your missing.

I guess you could play bingo
 

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Good evening CDR. I hope all my roomies are all well, busy and happy.:)

Me too.:D After 3 days of working I have 4 days "off duty". My torts are all fine. The sullies grow and grow. They need a bigger enclosure soon. My little greeks are active. They don`t know that it gets cold outside. No hibernation for them. :D
I have two redfoots. One is growing well but the other is my little problem child. He doesen`t grow ! He eats, walkes around in his enclosure and is not sick, but he doesen`t grow. He is my Bonsai tortoise !
Ma & Mo are well too. They are not as active as little sulcatas or greeks but they eat and walk around and bask.
That is a short summery of what`s going on with my torts.

Nights are cold here in Germany: 3 - 4 C. Day temps around 15 C. I miss the warmth of summer even now. I am a "summer child" not a snowwoman. I think that my cats and the torts feel the same.:D

I wish you all a good evening.:<3:


Good-evening-everyone.jpg

Redfoots do grow way slower than other torts. Are they together? One could be bullying the other.
 

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Almost done paddling....and I saw this beautiful scene.

Perfect Ending to a Days Paddling

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I don't like being in the water. I can't stand the idea of fish sharing my water. I hate my face being splashed. I can't swim good enough to stay alive. I don't like the water! BUT. . . I really want to go kayaking!!!
 

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Don't worry she does get treats. Just dog and weight friendly ones.
I was just thinking about that today (dog treats). Misty and I eat lunch at the same time. She finishes before me, and I usually don't quite finish all mine, so I generally set the plate on the floor for her. I noticed last night, as she was laying on her back with her feet in the air, that she has quite a soft-looking belly on her. So I thought I'd do a search on chewy . com and see if they sell any low calorie doggy treats and quit sharing my lunch with her.
 

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I knocked off another yard inspection today and the people came this afternoon and took home a very nice male desert tortoise. That leaves me with one 65 pound male sulcata, one juvenile-almost-adult m? f? desert tortoise and 6 yearling desert tortoises. I also have three hatchlings, but I don't adopt them out until they're a year old. I was worried I was going to have to hibernate all those desert tortoises - at one time, not too long ago, I had about 20 of them!

Nothing new on the road widening in front of my house. Still wrangling over where they want to put my driveway. So far they're still in the engineering/right-of-way stage. Next comes the $$$ stage. Once I get the finalized copy of where the boundary/property line is, I'll have a fence company come and estimate how much to build a new fence at the new property line, an estimate on how much to make a new driveway (decomposed granite, gravel, etc or maybe even cement), what my full size trees that they tear down are worth, what my full size, mature cacti are worth. . . I wonder if I can add onto all that pain and suffering of the property owner. Hm-m-m-m
 

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I don't like being in the water. I can't stand the idea of fish sharing my water. I hate my face being splashed. I can't swim good enough to stay alive. I don't like the water! BUT. . . I really want to go kayaking!!!

Yes..a kayak really opens up a ton of opportunities to many things.. comradarie, solitude, nature, bird watching, wildlife photography, exercise, balance, visiting new locations, history, fishing... One gets to choose...

Get out and try it!
 

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