COLD DARK ROOM

[Cathie G]

Great plan...if it ever rained! [emoji6]

Snow works too. As long as it's not yellow...

 

[KarenSoCal]

Oh me oh my. I do need some buckets full of rain water for my soon to be new betta pet but...we've had 100 year flooding this year. Who's going through a drought? that we can share some April showers with.

We could always use some here! How are you sending it? [emoji57]

 

[KarenSoCal]

It's really hard even when you run it through a purifier. It ruins plumbing. It ruins humidifiers and the filters. It grows red algae. I think it's ok for my animals to drink since I run it through a purifier...but I don't want to put a little fish in it. I think Marco2bear is correct. Rain water would be nice to recycle with.

Our water is hard, but not as hard as yours. The rainwater is a good idea for you.

 

[KarenSoCal]

Snow works too. As long as it's not yellow...

True! But it never snows here. Well, it did once or twice.

 

[Cathie G]

Our water is hard, but not as hard as yours. The rainwater is a good idea for you.

Yes. I think so too. That's a big thanks to Marco2bear. I could add tap if I have to. But if I can help it I won't.

 

[Cathie G]

We could always use some here! How are you sending it? [emoji57]

Thru best hopes and prayers. Then you'll get lots of flowers in the desert.

 

[CarolM]

I hate turf! It’s super hot for the players and we get those black balls all over the car and house!!

Their turfs are green and blue and an orangy red color. We don't get any balls. Maybe it is a different kind of material that they use to make it here compared to yours. My son prefers playing on turf.

 

[CarolM]

Number 2 woke up today!!

This is my first time burmating. Willow is gonna be 3 in Sept and I’ve always kept her up.

The older guy Buddy my sister gave me did great!! I’ve only had him about year so brumating was scary for me.

My daughter found Willow next to our pool as a hatchling.

I did it!!

Willow
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Well done. Now it should be easy and get less stressful hopefully next year.

 

[CarolM]

Good afternoon! So the crawfish boil was a success! The weather was patchy but not near as bad as we expected and mostly held out. The worst came this morning. We had ALOT of people come and go and still had Three Families here this morning. We had corn, potatoes, mushrooms, eggs, shrimp & sausage in addition to the crawfish.. we had lots of cleanup but it’s finally done and the company’s gone... *breathe*. I could never do this more than once a year. All the food turned out good! View attachment 269193View attachment 269194View attachment 269195View attachment 269196

Love these pictures. I take my hat off to you. As that is a big undertaking. And well done for getting through it all and surviving. Especially the clean up.

 

[CarolM]

I filled it with tap water. (Can't hardly wait) While the bacteria builds I'll be searching for better water for water changes. In pet smart today, I heard about the frustration aquarium owners in our city have with the tap water. I'll change the filter etc...I saw such a beautiful betta there the other day. Thankfully a pet smart associate bought him.

Why Thankfully, were you worried that you would be too tempted and thereby loose out on a good deal that might come your way?

 

[CarolM]

I’m not good at remembering to take photos. I’m always to busy hosting! I only got these few because I was thinking of my CDR friends [emoji16]... there was another canopy over a large picnic table, another round crawfish table and people scattered throughout and up into the pasture. We had also set up a bouncy house for the kids which did get some use I the sunny moments... some crazy people (NOT ME) actually jumped into the pool which is still REALLY cold! There was a tent setup under our shop this morning, a camper set up in the pasture and every room in the house was full plus a mattress on the living room floor.. we do this for many political/business reason but it’s also a personal thing for me and my hubby. He enjoys the spotlight and I enjoy seeing him loosen up once a year then I’m extremely glad it over [emoji12]

I am still very impressed. But as long as you enjoy it than all is good.

 

[CarolM]

It’s got to the point where JoesDad says “Do you need to take a photo of this for your tortoise friends?” [emoji23]

You have JoesDad trained well. Whahahaha

 

[Lyn W]

Good morning and Happy Monday all.
It's a grey drizzly day here at the moment. I was going to paint my fence but that will have wait a while.
Maybe later.
Have a good day.

 

[JoesMum]

Good mornooning everyone

Mrs B has amassed a large amount of nest material so far. I have a sneaking suspicion that she is now laying.

They lay 1 egg a day for around 10 days and sit once the clutch of eggs is complete


There were sounds of an intruder (again) and she became very agitated and spread herself over the nest


She has disappeared off again now.

 

[CarolM]

Yes but I think if only one person around do speak signs it can open the deaf's person world a lot, in my class there was a mute student of about my age and there was a translator who communicated all the teacher was saying to him at the exact time and I felt this was truly a beautiful adaptation to him. He could learn all the same thing we did, when he had a question he did the sign with the translator who asked vocally the question to the teacher, it worked great, and this was a robotisation class in cégep not primary school.

That is great, but that is probably quite expensive for the normal person. The Schools should maybe invest in have such a person available as part of their services. Then it would be really great. But at least here in the SA if you wanted that kind of service available to you, you would have to pay for it out of your own pocket which most of us I would imagine would be not be able to afford. We are all just making ends meet as it is, for the average family anyway.

 

[CarolM]

Hehe, merci beaucoup!

Thank you very much!! Merci = Thank you and beaucoup would be either alot or very much! Correct

 

[CarolM]

Un bon soir à vous madame! Sorry I don't speak Afrikaans....I can't make a cool sentence

You are saying: A Good evening to you too madam! Am I correct. LOL I did french at school but was never good at it. But maybe some things did stick in my head. Although Linda's sentence most of it I did not get. Mine is very basic.

 

[CarolM]

It’s for the storage of photos or videos... I guess if you needed to go back and look at something that happened yesterday, you could with subscription... you could do that with the SD card as well but right now, I have neither and I still love it. I can only look live or screen shot my live view for photos though. About an hour ago, I’d had Toretto in the tub for his soak and poo, then I took him outside and put him down in the yard. I knew a storm was coming so I was debating on putting him in his box but he headed straight for his favorite patch of grass to graze... it was already raining lightly at this point but I decided to let him eat and I’d check on him in a bit. I came in and did some other chores and I was just about to go check on him when I got an alert on my phone that was a motion detection from my camera. So I opened up the app to see Toretto had already put himself back in the box. Now I don’t have to go back out in the rain View attachment 269207

The first one I bought that didn’t work well was a Geeni by merkury

It is so nice when a plan comes together.

 

[CarolM]

They have headed back to Michigan. But the last few days here he only wore socks.
I wish I still was resilient. I guess as you get older you lose that

Ray being diabetic also slows your healing down quite considerably. So I would not be too hard on yourself.

 

[CarolM]

Yes. So true for most deaf people. They are intelligent but deaf. However, my brother is also developmentally disabled but...he is able to communicate with anyone in his own way. Even his cat knows what he's saying. I love this subject. Because of growing up with my brother, I've been able to talk with people that don't speak my language. Yet we get each other. It's amazing.

You then have a big advantage over other people. You would most probably be very good at reading body language. Which is always a useful talent to have.