Spring has arrived in Virginia!!
COLD DARK ROOM
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And another UK tortoise keeper’s torty is up. ????
Good afternooning all.
We haven’t had much sun today. It’s mostly been overcast and quite humid.
The first of our red mason bees emerged from its cocoon this morning
We had a fox visit the pond last night. The fox seems to actively avoid the hedgehog. I wonder if it’s had a bad experience with prickles?
And our dominant male hedgehog Splodge spent most of the night fighting with newcomer U. They’re pretty evenly matched.
The opening bout trashed the feed station
and this one nearly knocked the camera over
Mrs Hog still hasn’t made her mind up about where to nest. She was trotting backward and forward with leaves throughout the night.
We haven’t had much sun today. It’s mostly been overcast and quite humid.
The first of our red mason bees emerged from its cocoon this morning
We had a fox visit the pond last night. The fox seems to actively avoid the hedgehog. I wonder if it’s had a bad experience with prickles?
And our dominant male hedgehog Splodge spent most of the night fighting with newcomer U. They’re pretty evenly matched.
The opening bout trashed the feed station
and this one nearly knocked the camera over
Mrs Hog still hasn’t made her mind up about where to nest. She was trotting backward and forward with leaves throughout the night.
You said that better than I did. Scab over is the concept not drying. I have a couple of pads on my remaining plant to sacrifice just to see if it works. I'm gonna be wearing gloves when I try it though ?
Finally got a few 10 min downpours of rain today. Been a good month of no rain.
Everytime it rains Opo runs to his night box. I thought it was the thunder that bothered him. But we had no thunder today.
Everytime it rains Opo runs to his night box. I thought it was the thunder that bothered him. But we had no thunder today.
I have pads that are lying flat on the ground. The first time I picked one up. The whole bottom side had roots starting.
I've had a few bird wars so far but it should be getting really interesting soon... and no camera. Last year got really crazy and I've got so many new ones this year it's sure to be a fight to the finish.?
Hey! Picked a whole ton of bright yellow dandelions & other misc garden weeds today before the rains came. Beautiful big dandelions, yooooo hoooooo
ps @Ray--Opo my cactus pads have commenced growing again. I’ll have to take some new pix of all the new growth. I pretty much stopped watering all Winter, started a wee bit ofvwatering a few weeks ago, and viola, lots of new growth. I need to move them back outside now for Summer.
Banana tree shoots & leaves are growing. Mr Frost nipped a few tips last week, but no issues...
ps @Ray--Opo my cactus pads have commenced growing again. I’ll have to take some new pix of all the new growth. I pretty much stopped watering all Winter, started a wee bit ofvwatering a few weeks ago, and viola, lots of new growth. I need to move them back outside now for Summer.
Banana tree shoots & leaves are growing. Mr Frost nipped a few tips last week, but no issues...
If I'm understanding what you just said the roots didn't come from the joint ? they were growing from the flat side of the pad? If so those plants are invincible. I need to eat some too.?
Lola had his first dandies of the season today too - there weren't many of them and they weren't that big but he enjoyed them.
Chubbs the tegu
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Yeah weeds are starting to pop up here too! Found some wild violets today and chickweed ( never lgoes away it seems)
Finally checking out this thread, 8781 pages!!! Wow!
Spring has hit Philadelphia, my bulbs are working their way up and the forsythia has bloomed!
Spring has hit Philadelphia, my bulbs are working their way up and the forsythia has bloomed!
Yeah we've certainly notched up a few pages - not all of it about torts as you'll see. We just like to chat about anything and everything!
I have a flower bed planted with wild violets and a couple of dandelion plants so far.? I love wild violets. I'll send you a pic.
Chubbs the tegu
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I wish stuff like that grew here!
Chubbs the tegu
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I know! So rough living in Hawaii
Of course itʻs nice, the weather is great, we can go to the beach all year long, but we donʻt get nice perennials, and wildflowers like you do. Things are called by very different names here, that itʻs hard to identify plants even using the tortoise table. Who knew what we called milkweeds here are also called nipplowort? Okay, not the best of examples, but you get the picture. Everything has to be shipped in so prices are even higher due to shipping costs. The smaller islands? Hah! Milk is $10 a gallon. Iʻm not kidding. Great weather certainly doesnʻt pay the bills. The average price for a house - a modest 3 bedroom 2 bath with neighbors within spitting distance is about $850,000. So many families live in multi-generation houses, it's not uncommon for grandparents, parents, and kids to live together just to be able to have a house. The 3 bedrooms 1 bath house I live in - about 900 square feet is $2200 a month, not including utilities. I would much rather be living back in Texas, but my husband wonʻt budge.
Chubbs the tegu
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How bout Boston? Haha
Louisiana is the farthest east I’ve been but I’ll give it a go!
