COLD DARK ROOM

[CarolM]

I'm familiar with the general premise. I don't think I ever read it, though.

You should it is actually quite a good book. We had it as a set work book at school.

 

[EllieMay]

Is it Chilly and Willy? Either way, they'd be so cute doing their little penguin walk around the circle!

I can picture this...

 

[CarolM]

I can picture this...

Yip, that's about right, me stuck in the middle with the nice slim and trim legs. ?

 

[Yvonne G]

Well I redid my pond and I it is mostly working. There is still a leak somewhere on the upper part of the walls. So i will be giving it another coat of the liquid vinyl paint. Do you think I could put a Beta fish in it? Or would that be too cold and big for one? I used rain water to fill it up.

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DANG, that's pretty!

 

[CarolM]

Since Adam was sharing how he looks I thought I would share with you all how I look.

 

[CarolM]

Well it is home time again, So until later peeps.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

The update. The second graft was successful and Jess has a strong pulse. They took her back into surgery this morning and Cleaned some veins & arteries and they closed her up .. they took her off the ventilator. She actually moved her finger and knew that she did it but has felt nothing else since. She has been in more pain since the closure and just recently has some complications.. ( fever, swelling, elevated heart rate). The trauma team came in and made some adjustments. They pulled some blood to
Send and see what’s going on. She is resting comfortably now and I’m praying that she doesn’t have to go back to surgery.. the next step after we get through this phase is just to wait. We will need to see what sensations and movement she will have if any as the vascular trauma heals and the nerves get settled.. this could take 1 day or 1 year... her shoulder is completely shattered and they are going to leave it alone.. there is nothing left to repair so she would most likely need a full replacement. They won’t proceed with this unless she gains some felling of use.. so she will not have any use of that side of her extremities for quite sometime. There was a lot of positives today... and a lot of unknowns..

Mostly encouraging news.
i'm concentrating on all those positive things and hoping that the unknowns will become known and sorted in time.
She really does seem to be a tough cookie.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

I am so angry.. this was so senseless.. I am so lost... I don’t even know where to start except that I can’t let myself go down that road... yet..

I am so mad because senseless violence has changed my daughters life forever.. yet I’d really like to commit some senseless violence right now.. doesn’t make much sense does it

I have seen youngsters toting AK-47s and playing games with live rounds in countries such as Afghanistan and Libya, you kind of expect it. But knowing this happens in the USA is beyond me.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Try to give them a little tickle as you count.. it’s good for the giggle

sleep well Adam!

I tried, but then I remembered it's impossible to tickle yourself.
And wifey and Tidgy were both most annoyed when I awoke them to tickle my feet....

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

You should have counted geckos on your wall. If I remember correctly you have plenty of those don't you?

Only one at a time, usually.
They are mostly blocked by the mosquito mesh wifey has over the windows. (no glass in some of my windows, and we only close those in winter. The mosquitoes queue up to suck wifey's blood, but don't touch me. Except in Spain.)
There are lots of geckos in my lab upstairs and on the terrace at night, but I don't like to sleep up there.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Your friends must think you are crazy!!! But they seem to be great friends to help you get your photos.

They're good sports.
But yes, they think i'm crazy.
That picture was actually taken for the 'cheese thieves' dream sequence in Esio Trot.
https://www.tortoiseforum.org/threads/esio-trot-by-tidgys-dad.159608/
for those who haven't read my version yet.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Talking of which, the new piece, " The Tort Who Walked by Herself' is entering the section of confrontation between wifey (played by wifey) and the Tort (played by Tidgy).
See https://www.tortoiseforum.org/threads/the-tort-who-walked-by-herself-by-tidgys-dad.184935/
If you wish to be a critic, you are most welcome, but please post any comments here : https://www.tortoiseforum.org/threads/the-tort-who-walked-by-herself-chat-page.184920/
so that the story flows uninterrupted.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

GOOSE!!!!

PENGUIN!!!!

 

[Pastel Tortie]

Talking of which, the new piece, " The Tort Who Walked by Herself' is entering the section of confrontation between wifey (played by wifey) and the Tort (played by Tidgy).
See https://www.tortoiseforum.org/threads/the-tort-who-walked-by-herself-by-tidgys-dad.184935/
If you wish to be a critic, you are most welcome, but please post any comments here : https://www.tortoiseforum.org/threads/the-tort-who-walked-by-herself-chat-page.184920/
so that the story flows uninterrupted.

I've been enjoying this one immensely.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Good Morning all. It is Tuesday yayyy. And it is time to get back to trying to killing myself softly with minus points. But don't tell the Dark Lord as he just might take that Spork and try to hit me with it. Ow ow ow Don't hit me Dark Lord, I promise to try and make good guesses.
So I am calling @Cathie G Dark Lords given mission to use some obscure English elliptical construction in her posts. Oh wait I googled Sitting Duck and he told me that it is an idiom. So I am calling her mission to be the use of Idioms in her posts. Huh that HAS to be it.

-10
Sigh.

 

[Golden Greek Tortoise 567]

I tried, but then I remembered it's impossible to tickle yourself.
And wifey and Tidgy were both most annoyed when I awoke them to tickle my feet....

Poor Tidgy, she must have bit off your toes. ?

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Wah, @EllieMay you don't have to tell me your mission because I have it.

I call your Dark Lords given mission to confuse the H out of all of us with big words, whose meaning I have to ask google for so I can pretend that I am smart!!! HUH !!! take that - and I will smoke your pipe for you too. Dark Lord take note I am not calling the big words I am calling confusion..

Yeah and my powers of observation are back. Whoop whoop.

Oh, no.
-10.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

I hope that explanation makes sense, because it's written with only one cup of coffee this morning, and my brain is still trying to wake up.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Hmmm.
Where's all the proper coffee gone?
I hate the stuff from the machine.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

You should it is actually quite a good book. We had it as a set work book at school.

It is a brilliant book.
But not very optimistic or positive thinking.
A friend of mine who is about to have a heart op read it a week or two back and became rather depressed.