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Oh my garsh...hehehe hehehe
 

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Does he eat them?

Our Sully was out wandering yesterday in our back garden. After about 10 mins of trapsing about, Sully picked a nice shady spot under one of our hydrangeas. Nice, warm, protected. Content - not devouring overhead plants.

Ogh, and to ur question - the Tortoise Table on hydrangea...says......NO! Hydrangea contains a cyanogenic glycoside that is TOXIC to all animals and can cause gastrointestinal upset and bloody diarrhoea.
I have never seen him eat them. But there could be that first time. So they are Hydrangea?
 

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They are used to get food every evening and they are hungry. So it is not easy to disturb them. I will try to take a picture through the window. Yes, and I am wishing too that my eys were a camera with day and night vision and my brain will be the SD memory card.:)
Yes the beautiful and funny things I've seen just watching animals be themselves.
 

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Hey Ray!!! I have only had 1 armadillo come visiting in all the time I’ve lived here. My dogs had it hemmed up so I rescued it and released it... it never came back... my brother and I used to play with them growing up but I don’t think I live far enough in the woods for them now...

I wouldn’t dare give my advice on your plants except that I wouldn’t feed anything that I wasn’t 100% sure of...
I watched one of the shows on TV like monster inside me. A teenage boy was playing with a dead armadillo. He ended up in the hospital on his deathbed. Doctors couldn't figure out what was wrong. Somehow they found out he had been playing with a dead armadillo. The boy had contracted leprosy. They say the only way to get leprosy is from armadillos.
Dont know if that's true but it was on TV.
I guess it's time to go to Google.
 

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I have never seen him eat them. But there could be that first time. So they are Hydrangea?

No...urs are whatever Yvonne told you. The point I was trying to make is that even as I type, our Sully is sat beneath a large TOXIC hydrangea. When hunger happens, Sully will wander out to the grass and clover, not eat the bush she’s sitting beneath.

Have you watched Opo to see if he nibbles on bushes above him?
 
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Last Wednesday I ordered something online that was coming from Minnesota. I've been following the progress on their tracking system (fedex). I think it's coming by covered wagon:

Thurs - Oklahoma, Fri - New Mexico then Arizona, Sat - Wasco, Calif., Sun - Stockton. It's only two hours away from my city now. I wonder where it will be tomorrow?
.... and I thought FEDEX is so fast ! Yes, since poor Tom Hanks had a plane crash and was trapped on an island for years, FEDEX lost it`s speed.....
 

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No...urs are whatever Yvonne told you. The point I was trying to make is that even as I type, our Sully is sat beneath a large TOXIC hydrangea. When hunger happens, Sully will wander out to the grass and clover, not eat the bush she’s sitting beneath.

Have you watched Opo to see if he nibbles on bushes above him?
Ok got you. Opo has never attempted to eat or sniff them from what I can see. I have watched him go in use the branches to scratch his shell and lay down. Home depot sells them I guess I will go there and maybe figure it out.
 

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Without a doubt I am much worse!
I have also made cheese on toast - with slices of butter - when it could be bought by weight instead of pre packaged!
Ruined a stew by putting a whole bulb of garlic in it instead of one clove.......
I have forgotten more bad food mistakes than I ever made good meals, but people often like to remind me!!!
HI Lyn. Reading your post I suddenly thought of Adam. CHEESE ON TOAST !!!!! Adam @Tidgy's Dad we still miss you !
 

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I watched one of the shows on TV like monster inside me. A teenage boy was playing with a dead armadillo. He ended up in the hospital on his deathbed. Doctors couldn't figure out what was wrong. Somehow they found out he had been playing with a dead armadillo. The boy had contracted leprosy. They say the only way to get leprosy is from armadillos.
Dont know if that's true but it was on TV.
I guess it's time to go to Google.
It is true. Armadillos are known that they can infect people with leprosy and other deseases.:(
 

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Whew. HOT here today and rising temps. Close to 90 already and hotter tomorrow.

Our peonies that bloomed wonderfully well for US Mothers Day are looking very sad today. Wifey dead headed a good amount.

On the plus side, our Knock Out Roses are kicking in to gear now and will provide our sidewalk to fron door with some splashes of color through Summer. Banana trees are enjoying the heat too!

Knock Out Rose - May

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Beautiful rose. Beautiful color.
 

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Hello?........ anyone there?.........
I’ve been lost in a corner somewhere for a couple weeks. It feels ages since I’ve been on here (probably a week ago):D

I’m might be looking after a five year old tortoise this summer. She’s a mix of a Greek and Tunisian tortoise but she’s doing well. The lady who put her up for adoption kept the parents together, a female Greek and a male Tunisian.
Hi Ben - hope you've been studying in your absence and it's going well.
You'll be getting called the Tortoise Boy and everyone will be bringing you their tortoises!!:D
I'm known as the tortoise lady since I was stopped by some people who asked me why I'm picking dandelions. Luckily I've not been asked to take in any unwanted torts.

Make sure you quarantine the lodger away from your own torts - better safe than sorry!
 

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I watched one of the shows on TV like monster inside me. A teenage boy was playing with a dead armadillo. He ended up in the hospital on his deathbed. Doctors couldn't figure out what was wrong. Somehow they found out he had been playing with a dead armadillo. The boy had contracted leprosy. They say the only way to get leprosy is from armadillos.
Dont know if that's true but it was on TV.
I guess it's time to go to Google.
I did see on channel10 news that one species of armodillos carries leprosy. I can't remember which one it is. Every weekend our news channel does a Columbus Zoo spot and that's where I saw it...I do think though like others here that most virus and bacteria have to enter a scratch or orafice to infect you. Cats can give you cat scratch fever and bunnys can give you rabbit fever but I have one of each anyway.
 

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