COLD DARK ROOM

Maro2Bear

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Sooooo, I think we are now done with the Ships Galley box. Much scraping, much sanding, followed by multiple coats of varnish, sanding & more layers of UV protecting varnish. Other bits of the box coated with a marine grade white enamel.

Made another cube-in-a-cube. Here is the new one stacked on last weeks cube.

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The older I get the more I hate cold weather. I went out at 04:00 to collect the newspaper and my bare feet stuck on the ice that formed overnight. I am a born and raised California girl. I get cold at 65 degrees LOL
That's your fault for not wearing at least flip-flops in freezing weather. The girls around my house do in the winter. I myself need boots.?
 

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Sooooo, I think we are now done with the Ships Galley box. Much scraping, much sanding, followed by multiple coats of varnish, sanding & more layers of UV protecting varnish. Other bits of the box coated with a marine grade white enamel.

Made another cube-in-a-cube. Here is the new one stacked on last weeks cube.

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I haven't seen the ship's gallery box yet. ?Nagnag ?
 

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Cooler temperatures for us in North Florida as well. Low temperatures the next few nights are supposed to be freezing or close to it. We finally had to move the plants inside from the front porch. So there are plenty of orchids, cacti, succulents, and a few other plants taking up quite a bit of space indoors right now.
 

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Today in adventures of a wildlife care volunteer... I was based in the rescue’s intensive care unit (ICU) where all the new admissions start their treatment. I bring you a tale of 3 tiny voles probably less than 2 weeks old.

Their nest was dug out by accident in someone’s garden yesterday afternoon and they arrived with us huddled together and very, very cold. One of them looked like it was very unlikely to survive.

They needed warming quickly and standard practice with tiny animals and birds is to pop it in your bra (I’m not sure what the men do ?)

I, ahem, had enough room for a party of 3 so in they went and ten minutes later they started to fidget so they were then to be transferred to a critter box. Except they had other ideas. I ended up kneeling on the floor, to stop them falling, and gradually peeling off my sweatshirt... and then my shirt while two of the staff attempted to catch them. ?

We succeeded! And yes I did find tiny vole poop in my bra when I went for a shower when I got home ?

Here are two of the 3 miscreants
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We also had a very young baby hedgehog admitted. It’s far too small to hibernate. She was syringe fed a mixture of puppy mousse and puppy milk and is now with one of our human foster mummies for the winter :)
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LMAO!!! I really enjoyed this tale!!! I have to tell you that my daughter went to school one year with a squirrel in her bra. She was totally dedicated to rescuing it and she succeeded.. I just knew she would be the first kid at Marshall high to get sent home for having a critter in her clothes... but I couldn’t find it in my heart to stop her because she reminded me too much of someone else I know:)
 

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Today in adventures of a wildlife care volunteer... I was based in the rescue’s intensive care unit (ICU) where all the new admissions start their treatment. I bring you a tale of 3 tiny voles probably less than 2 weeks old.

Their nest was dug out by accident in someone’s garden yesterday afternoon and they arrived with us huddled together and very, very cold. One of them looked like it was very unlikely to survive.

They needed warming quickly and standard practice with tiny animals and birds is to pop it in your bra (I’m not sure what the men do ?)

I, ahem, had enough room for a party of 3 so in they went and ten minutes later they started to fidget so they were then to be transferred to a critter box. Except they had other ideas. I ended up kneeling on the floor, to stop them falling, and gradually peeling off my sweatshirt... and then my shirt while two of the staff attempted to catch them. ?

We succeeded! And yes I did find tiny vole poop in my bra when I went for a shower when I got home ?

Here are two of the 3 miscreants
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We also had a very young baby hedgehog admitted. It’s far too small to hibernate. She was syringe fed a mixture of puppy mousse and puppy milk and is now with one of our human foster mummies for the winter :)
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wait a minute!........?
The hedgehog got.....Mousse??
(Well ...I only get a sliver of cheesecake if I do something right.)
Lucky hedgehog ?!
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Chefdenoel10

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Sooooo, I think we are now done with the Ships Galley box. Much scraping, much sanding, followed by multiple coats of varnish, sanding & more layers of UV protecting varnish. Other bits of the box coated with a marine grade white enamel.

Made another cube-in-a-cube. Here is the new one stacked on last weeks cube.

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WOW!!!!
You’re an artist too?!!??
My gosh ..
I better get movin’ on somethin’!!!!! ?
 

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Today in adventures of a wildlife care volunteer... I was based in the rescue’s intensive care unit (ICU) where all the new admissions start their treatment. I bring you a tale of 3 tiny voles probably less than 2 weeks old.

Their nest was dug out by accident in someone’s garden yesterday afternoon and they arrived with us huddled together and very, very cold. One of them looked like it was very unlikely to survive.

They needed warming quickly and standard practice with tiny animals and birds is to pop it in your bra (I’m not sure what the men do ?)

I, ahem, had enough room for a party of 3 so in they went and ten minutes later they started to fidget so they were then to be transferred to a critter box. Except they had other ideas. I ended up kneeling on the floor, to stop them falling, and gradually peeling off my sweatshirt... and then my shirt while two of the staff attempted to catch them. ?

We succeeded! And yes I did find tiny vole poop in my bra when I went for a shower when I got home ?

Here are two of the 3 miscreants
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We also had a very young baby hedgehog admitted. It’s far too small to hibernate. She was syringe fed a mixture of puppy mousse and puppy milk and is now with one of our human foster mummies for the winter :)
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I also volunteered at our local wildlife rescue. But holy cats, our wild life is so different than yours. We have coyotes, raccoons, 'possums, deer, cougars, and too many falcons, eagles, hawks, woodpeckers and more. BUT, voles, mice, rats etc are killed or trapped in my yard, They wreck havoc on my outside tortoise pens, and are making headway into my house and have chewed on my electric wires, ruining my siding and really have caused damage to my house. So I set my traps nightly and mostly take whatever I catch for "a ride". But I do set poison traps under my house.for the rats, mice. I used to keep hedgehogs and Sugar Gliders. My cats catch voles and mice in the house and do what cats do. I have skunks living under my tort shed, and rats and especially mice have ruined the insulation on my tort shed. The baby skunks would come out and visit with me until they got older.
Anyway, my tort shed is not nearly as easy to keep warm as it was, mice and others have really ruined the insulation. I admire what you are doing.
'possums eat rats so the possums I trap are released back where they belong.
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