Thank you 🤗yep she's big as a horse 🐎She's just above center in the first picture, to the right of the pruned tree. 🐕
Thank you 🤗yep she's big as a horse 🐎She's just above center in the first picture, to the right of the pruned tree. 🐕
That looks great! I do hope that russian of yours shows his head after all this, but I can't remember, what happened to him?The old pole has been removed, and last Monday was "two weeks." They've not started construction yet.
But, I'm taking advantage of the fact my Texas tortoises are brumating and I'm re-doing their shelter and rotten fence. Over the winter I didn't take care of the grass, allowing it to revert to its wild state. But I've chopped down the Texas tortoise area and started taking down their rotten fence.
Last year one of our Fresno members sold his Manouria to my partner. Having no further use for 'tortoise fence' he asked me if I wanted his fencing. It's that artificial plastic/wood stuff. I'm not one to ever turn away free wood, so I took it. It was a whole pick-up bed full of different lengths pickets. I will plant 4x4s and attach 2x4s and then I've got all those pickets to attach to it! The only trouble is my energy level. I've been working at this portion for about two weeks and haven't gotten much done.
The area I'm working on:
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You can see the pickets leaning up against the driveway fence.
And here's their old shelter. I've already upgraded the desert tortoises' shelter next door, putting on a hinged roof and insulating with rigid foam:
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We've had nice weather and lots of sunshine, so I'm pretty sure he woke up and took off (fences are down all across the front of the property).That looks great! I do hope that russian of yours shows his head after all this, but I can't remember, what happened to him?
It looks to me like the new crew working on all this stuff is way different than the last one. That's downright rude.End of day three (after they cut my phone line and left me without phone or internet overnight!)
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It's a much bigger operation. The first contractor crew was only a few guys and very personable and friendly. This crew has four big excavators and enough workers that I don't recognize any of them.It looks to me like the new crew working on all this stuff is way different than the last one. That's downright rude.
Good. Maybe At+t'll remind the idiots that you are tearing up people's homes.It's a much bigger operation. The first contractor crew was only a few guys and very personable and friendly. This crew has four big excavators and enough workers that I don't recognize any of them.
Even though my phone line was clearly marked he still dug it up and broke it. It's like he didn't even care. He has a job to do and he's doing it regardless of what gets in the way. I was worried I'd be without phone all week end, but thank goodness AT& T's repair service works week ends.
It's a much bigger operation. The first contractor crew was only a few guys and very personable and friendly. This crew has four big excavators and enough workers that I don't recognize any of them.
Even though my phone line was clearly marked he still dug it up and broke it. It's like he didn't even care. He has a job to do and he's doing it regardless of what gets in the way. I was worried I'd be without phone all week end, but thank goodness AT& T's repair service works week ends.
Just my buried drop in an above the ground closure and perfectly flaggedwas it just your phone line or others also?
. . . if I live that long, Maggie. I'll be 84 this year, and my energy level and ambition are not nearly what they used to be. I'll be getting together with my tortoise partner, Will, later to see how I can thin down the herd and consolidate the yards.Well, I guess they are taking care of her financially, but the damage done to the plants and earth, matches the damage done to the hearts of those of us who partnered in her yard. When I drove truck and when I went to someplace interesting I brought back part of it,...cactus from Texass, ferns from Florida..something from New Mexico...that sort of stuff you can't replace. The lives of exotic reptiles already lost and more to lose. Her husband brought her a cactus from a bike run, I think...that makes it very old, and now gone. Frankly, I think the whiole thing sucks....but it is what it is, and she will just do it all again...
. . . if I live that long, Maggie. I'll be 84 this year, and my energy level and ambition are not nearly what they used to be. I'll be getting together with my tortoise partner, Will, later to see how I can thin down the herd and consolidate the yards.