COLD DARK ROOM

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It's a foggy day schedule, so I fed everyone in their sheds and had to leave their doors closed.

The desert tortoise babies have eaten, now they're piled up under what they think is the sun:

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The leopard babies have eaten and they've all headed for the hills:
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This is inside their cave. You can barely see Leonard in there:
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The food tub and baby bowl:
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The painted turtle with the abscess that has to live indoors until I fix his abscess:
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Several box turtles that have to be in for various reasons:
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When I open my back door to go outside, this is my view directly opposite the door. Tony the Tiger, a feral tom cat that is vicious. I'm pretty much afraid of him, but I feel safe offering him food through the lattice barrier:
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Charlie getting his morning treat:
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The car port that is no longer a 'car' port, but rather, a tort port:
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Baby desert tortoises on the tort port, various ages from two years to one year:
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This is where my russian group is brumating. The plastic is because the tort port roof leaks:
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Moving past the greenhouse, going to the leopards, I stop to turn off the heater;
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Little orange tree in the leopard yard. They still have a bit of green on them, but they'll be ready soon:
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Inside the SA leopard shed are two tort tables on the walls:
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This is Lil' Kim, a rescue from Kim in So Cal. She rescued him from poor conditions a couple years ago:
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A stunted SA leopard from SoCal is in the other tort table:
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Spencer, waiting patiently for her morning snack outside the Manouria shed:
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In the tort table on a wall in the Manouria shed are two yearling Manouria:
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The YFs can't go outside because it's too cold, so I have to feed them in their shed:
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The babcocks also have to stay indoors until the sun comes out. The little male on the left is in tort jail because he's too randy to be with the others. But he goes outside when the sun shines:
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I had a bit of food left over, so Dudley gets a snack. He says it's never too cold or too foggy for him:
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And now, the bane of my existence - LEAVES!!!
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Misty thinks piles of leaves is great fun. You can't tell from the picture, but she was running around like a crazy person, then she'd pounce on a pile of leaves with her two front feet and take off running again:
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All piled up and ready to distribute:
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I pick them up and take them to the box turtle yard:
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From left to right, the Floridas, the luteolas and the three toes:
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The easterns (I see the sun is starting to peek out a bit, so in a half hour or so I'll open all the shed doors:
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Wow! Thanks for the tour Yvonne. That's amazing!
 

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HAPPY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! From now on you can be 49 and holding!
For me, life started at 50. A lot of difficult stuff was finally dealt with and I suddenly realised I didn't care what people thought of me. Resigning from a job that was killing me was the first step and I haven't looked back. I would be happy to stay 54 and certainly don't intend to get back into some ruts that caused me so much grief when I was younger.
 

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I didn't really make it back into the CDR yesterday.

The Saxons exhibition at the British Library yesterday was really interesting. They had gathered documents and books and some artefacts from the Saxon period in Britain (mid 600s to just after the Norman Conquest in 1066)

The workmanship in the bible illustrations was amazing and the historical story it told was fascinating. While I recognised many of the names mentioned, it's not often they get mentioned in the right order so you can understand who was contemporary with who. Naturally, copy of Britain's most important legal document, the Magna Carta,was on display at the end.

Afterwards we went to Islington and met son and his flat mate for lunch before going to the football. For reasons that aren't yet entirely clear, he didn't drink at the previous night's Christmas party so he was in good shape. Naturally, I have dobbed him in to his sister and I will leave it to her to get to the bottom of that one... we suspect female influence ;)

The match was a scrappy one, but Arsenal scraped a 1-0 win. We should have gone to Luton where Luton Town's 2-0 win moved them into second place in their League. If they stay there they will be promoted at the end of the season. However, there is a long was to go before the end of the season so we are not counting chickens yet!
 

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Such a lucky girl for you to be watching over her! What did you think of the conditions she was kept in before? Can we hope for a happy reunion down the road?
She was kept pretty good. Very loving family, they had rescued her from an almost certain death situation. Yes, if she ever wants her back, I would do it.
 

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I didn't really make it back into the CDR yesterday.

The Saxons exhibition at the British Library yesterday was really interesting. They had gathered documents and books and some artefacts from the Saxon period in Britain (mid 600s to just after the Norman Conquest in 1066)

The workmanship in the bible illustrations was amazing and the historical story it told was fascinating. While I recognised many of the names mentioned, it's not often they get mentioned in the right order so you can understand who was contemporary with who. Naturally, copy of Britain's most important legal document, the Magna Carta,was on display at the end.

Afterwards we went to Islington and met son and his flat mate for lunch before going to the football. For reasons that aren't yet entirely clear, he didn't drink at the previous night's Christmas party so he was in good shape. Naturally, I have dobbed him in to his sister and I will leave it to her to get to the bottom of that one... we suspect female influence ;)

The match was a scrappy one, but Arsenal scraped a 1-0 win. We should have gone to Luton where Luton Town's 2-0 win moved them into second place in their League. If they stay there they will be promoted at the end of the season. However, there is a long was to go before the end of the season so we are not counting chickens yet!

I love a good mystery (possible romance) ! Can’t wait for an update on what daughter digs up!!!
 

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Good afternoon roomies. I hope you all have a wonderful Sunday. In Germany we had heavy rainfall the last days and the last night. I think Linda send us the weather. @JoesMum Comes the lot of rain from England ? Some days ago you wrote about heavy rainfall where you live.
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Good afternoon roomies. I hope you all have a wonderful Sunday. In Germany we had heavy rainfall the last days and the last night. I think Linda send us the weather. @JoesMum Comes the lot of rain from England ? Some days ago you wrote about heavy rainfall where you live.
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Well it had to go somewhere and the wind is from the North right now... Hopefully it will head on south and fill a few dams for Carol!
 
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