COLD DARK ROOM

[EllieMay]

Happy Monday to you too Heather, and to the family and critters in the family as well.

Critters definitely count as family at my house... I blessed to have a good caretaker that allows me the freedom to travel every great Now n then!

 

[EllieMay]

So beautiful!!!

 

[JoesMum]

Ticks are bad here.. = Lyme disease. No tick. Tickless in Maryland.

Ticks are a problem in parts of this country.

Son had to remove one today

They’re particularly bad in the area where Daughter lives and works and an occupational hazard of her career as an Ecologist. She carries a card to warn health professionals that she is at high risk and has to go for regular blood tests

 

[JoesMum]

Out trimming bushes and making things tidy. Our Joe-Pye “weed” is blooming nicely now and really attracts hummers and butterflies.

I can’t decide which photo to upload....hope i picked a good one...or three.

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Beautiful butterflies!

 

[Bambam1989]

Hey everyone. Busy day here, so just wanted to say hi.

 

[JoesMum]

Nice to not see you, Linda.
Only tea?

Yes. I was driving! And her kitchen is about to be ripped out so her house is a bomb site. Her daughter is a nurse and best buddies with my daughter since both girls were toddlers. I have handed over a key so friend’s daughter can sleep at our house when she’s on a night shift and the workmen make sleeping at her house impossible.

 

[JoesMum]

Lol... there are some pretty good vineyards within 30 miles of my residence

Oooh. Now that sounds good Heather. Is there good cheese-making locally too?

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Hey everyone. Busy day here, so just wanted to say hi.

Hi!
Good busy day, I hope.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Oooh. Now that sounds good Heather. Is there good cheese-making locally too?

Points!
(if I were still giving points)

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Somebody's clearly beloved tortoise has just passed on a thread I've been reading.
Heat, poison, something else, we'll probably never know.
You go to work, come home and a tortoise you've had and loved for years is stone dead
Horrible.
Really hurts me.
I can only imagine what the poor owner feels like .

 

[Bambam1989]

Somebody's clearly beloved tortoise has just passed on a thread I've been reading.
Heat, poison, something else, we'll probably never know.
You go to work, come home and a tortoise you've had and loved for years is stone dead
Horrible.
Really hurts me.
I can only imagine what the poor owner feels like .

It's very tragic. I hope the vet is able to give some answers

 

[Lyn W]

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You all look like you're having a brilliant time!

 

[Lyn W]

Shame Lyn, I so wish that I had a good solution for you. In the meantime, you could pretend to go out, and then sneak back with a camera and take a video of them in the act. As evidence.

Shhh don't tell anyone! I'm using my wildlife camera, secreted away in a flower pot.

 

[Lyn W]

Great photos!
Looks like terrific fun.
But I don't much like the graffiti on the rocks.

There's a cave we take the kids to for outdoor ed that has graffiti from the 1700s done in beautiful cursive handwriting.
It's the cave we see the lesser horseshoe bats in - I think I may have posted a pic of one a while ago.

 

[Lyn W]

Wow.....terrible. They always say fences make good neighbors. In this case, I’m not sure.....

• We had a bad neighbor for a few years. Conducting all kinds of illegal activities from his house (running a business, business deliveries to home, storage of commercial goods at residence, etc). After totslly documenting this via photos....we were able to get it in front of County officials who fined a few times. The guy eventually moved. But, it was a struggle for us.

It's terrible how bad neighbours can affect your life so much.

 

[Lyn W]

Maybe Lola is 'hunger strike' protesting his female name!

Maybe, but he stretches out when I sing his song and stroke his leg and usually passes urates too!

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

It's very tragic. I hope the vet is able to give some answers

Me too, though I somehow doubt it .

 

[Lyn W]

So, it’s Monday, daughter’s first day of school as Year 2. As you all very well know, I was very much looking forward to it. However, one of her classmates decided to have his birthday party after classes today. Still, it all could have been fine—if I didn’t volunteer to help his parents. I don’t know exactly know why I did it—must have been that whisky in my coffee early in the day on Sunday. So I was practically co-hosting a kid’s birthday party for 3.5 hours, and I got my hands full. As it turned out, the kids know me really well from previous trips with their teachers when I tagged along and previous parties—so if they needed a glass of water, or toilet, or dispute settlement, they came to me. I had two extra cups of coffee, and I’m wiped out.

I recommend a bottle of white wine followed by a long sleep in a darkened room.

 

[Lyn W]

hi Lyn sorry to read that ur tort is under weather it’s a horrid feelin I no all to well as Clyde ad ri before but he’s in the best hands possible to get him back up n running again

Thanks Laura, the vet couldn't tell what was causing Lola's problem but we were able to rule out a few things.

 

[Lyn W]

I hope your neighbors are wrong and it’s actually your property.

How stressful not to get along with neighbors.
Do you think they would ever move?

It is mine , Kathy. The house has been in my family for 60 years and the boundary is just a straight line between the two houses.
No I don't think they will ever move - that will probably have to be me
I do have some lovely neighbours but the ones next door are ferrel.