COLD DARK ROOM

[Bee62]

Good news!
Congratulations!

Adam, you has scared me ! I thought I`ve missed something special that will happen this evening I suggest.

 

[Kristoff]

I like the fish tatoo but the other one is some kinda dark... and sad and a little bit frightening too.

And deeply religious, with the crown of thorns and the ichthys (fish) symbol in blood.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Who knew that prickly pears were so hard to grow. Remember I told you guys about all the seeds I had delivered? Well they came with instructions but the instructions are a whole process. I am used to getting seeds and just throwing them down on the garden bed. Water and then Bobs your aunty plants grow. It almost makes me too scared to plant my seeds in case I mess it up. These are the instructions for the prickly pear.View attachment 232334View attachment 232335

Golly!
What a palaver.
Usually here we just plant a cut pad in the ground and off you go!

 

[Kristoff]

Adam, you has scared me ! I thought I`ve missed something special that will happen this evening I suggest.

Really, you’re planning to cover some 450 posts in one night??

 

[Bee62]

You dodged a bullet there!!

No names for me. I did a pink star gazer. It’s on my lower back and I never see it! I mean never! I forgot I even have it!!

So true !
Forgotten and never seen tatoos might be the best. LOL !

 

[Bee62]

Really, you’re planning to cover some 450 posts in one night??

With a little help of my friends .....

 

[DE42]

I like the fish tatoo but the other one is some kinda dark... and sad and a little bit frightening too.

Everyone has their own opinion of things. When I got it I was more religiously motivated. I designed a cross with a golden crown of thorns behind it (the yellows fades out on me) and then wrapped the "fish symbol" that represents salvation around it. I made the fish symbol be made out of blood because one can only be saved through his boold.

 

[DE42]

Good incentive for what ? Being tidy ?
Or a good incentive for the cats to leave their urine marks there ???

To be tidy lol i sometimes (all the time) have a pile of clothes laying around.

 

[Bee62]

Every little effort counts — usually. But not in this case. No torts are allowed in the CDR, unless they’re in hibernation. We don’t want them to get RI, do we?

My torts do not hibernate. I keep them warm in the nest of Silly and Willy.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

I’m following daughter’s former kindergarten on social media. They’ve just shared pictures of a boy who brought baby tortoises to class. I’m very uncomfortable about it, not just because I feel sorry for the torts and there’s nothing I can do about. But also because I feel a little responsible — last year, it was us who brought a tortoise to show the kids. My goal was to tell the kids how to look after tortoises, but maybe this boy and his family saw our pictures and were encouraged to take those babies out of the wild.

I get the same.
Because I have a happy, healthy, beautiful, sociable tortoise many people have bought tortoises for their children in my area.
Most of them have died horribly.
It makes me feel awful.

 

[DE42]

And deeply religious, with the crown of thorns and the ichthys (fish) symbol in blood.

Yep you got it.

 

[Bee62]

Everyone has their own opinion of things. When I got it I was more religiously motivated. I designed a cross with a golden crown of thorns behind it (the yellows fades out on me) and then wrapped the "fish symbol" that represents salvation around it. I made the fish symbol be made out of blood because one can only be saved through his boold.

I understand but I am not religious at all.

 

[Bee62]

To be tidy lol i sometimes (all the time) have a pile of clothes laying around.

Good you have no cat.

 

[Bee62]

I get the same.
Because I have a happy, healthy, beautiful, sociable tortoise many people have bought tortoises for their children in my area.
Most of them have died horribly.
It makes me feel awful.

When I think about Tidgys story that you told my heart is breaking .....

 

[DE42]

I understand but I am not religious at all.

I understand and was just explaining the thought behind it when I got it. I don't mean to sound like I am pushing anything.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Hello all! A cold morning here in Central California. . . but supposed to get up into the 70s later today. Right now it's overcast, but calm. So I plan to fire up the sprayer and tackle some more weeds (after my morning chores, naturally).

Good morning, Yvonne!
Poor weeds.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Have you decided what you are going to do about SPLAT? Is Wifey on board now?

Yep, wifey's fine now, as SPLAT has got its own enclosure out on the scrubby bit of garden behind the house and wifey never goes there.
I built a rough enclosure out of a few planks and some netting, should do fine for now.

 

[Bee62]

I understand and was just explaining the thought behind it when I got it. I don't mean to sound like I am pushing anything.

No, I don`t think you were pushing anything. No reason to apologize anything.All is okay.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

I hope SPLAT is fine.
Btw: Good afternoon Adam.

Good afternoon, Sabine.
Just heard from one of the families that their tortoise came out a couple of days ago and is not eating. But is drinking. Fine.
So SPLAT should be out soon.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

I think most people in Turkey don`t think about what an animal can feel or not feel. But in other countries too.


Die Größe und den moralischen Fortschritt einer Nation kann man daran messen, wie sie ihre Tiere behandeln.


Mahatma Gandhi

The mental high and moral progress of a nation you can measure in the way how animals are treated.
Mahatma Gandhi.

Very true.