COLD DARK ROOM

[Bee62]

Name of the female that layer them, Piglet. That’s the name she had when I got her.

Hopefully little torts hatch and not little piglets. A Happy New Year Cheryl !

 

[Bee62]

Hi Everyone! Very cold here this a.m. but I have a nice fire in the wood stove. Makes it hard to leave the computer (next to the stove) and get on with my day.

Cold in Germany too. Fire in my wood stove is crackeling cozy too ..... I can understand you well. A Happy New Year Yvonne !

 

[Bee62]

I know those kind of days. The wood stive snuggling sounds much better than chores!

Better chores than chaos. A Happy New Year, Linda.

 

[Bee62]

Happy belated birthday, Noel! @AZtortMom [emoji173]️[emoji322][emoji512]

Catching up paused here.

That is your "punishment" for being absent. A very Happy New Year, Lena !

 

[Bee62]

I bet they are tucking into it any edibles right now Bee

It seems so ...
A very Happy New Year, Lyn !

 

[JoesMum]

My orchid is now properly back in flower

 

[Cheryl Hills]

Hopefully little torts hatch and not little piglets. A Happy New Year Cheryl !

Me too! Happy New Years!

 

[Bee62]

My orchid is now properly back in flower
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A white beauty ! I like her.

 

[CarolM]

Maybe... I wonder if he knows what OUCH! means now...

I sort of got him back at the end of his soak, though... I got out the calipers for an accurate SCL measurement. That little stinker is getting less little. Bold is now 1 and 11/16 inches. Just about 1.75 inches.

I didn't use the calipers on Pinstripe, who is still a very tiny turtle. I'm beginning to see a little more margin between Pinstripe's scutes. Still, Bold is at least a half inch longer than Pinstripe, and possibly close to that much wider, too.

So nice when they do well and grow.

 

[CarolM]

So... @CarolM - you got it.

Yip. Piggies in a blanket. Normally mincemeat wrapped in cabbage and cooked with lots of gravy. That is what it means over here. [emoji3]

 

[CarolM]

You know Carol, we'd be happy to send you some rain, but the shipping is a bit prohibitive... Water is heavy!

We need to learn how to teleport it.

 

[CarolM]

I guess we could just make her add deuterium on receipt.

Heavy water (deuterium oxide, 2H2O, D2O)
is a form of water that contains a larger than normal amount of the hydrogen isotope deuterium (2
H or D, also known as heavy hydrogen), rather than the common hydrogen-1isotope (1
H or H, also called protium) that makes up most of the hydrogen in normal water.[4] The presence of deuterium gives the chemical different nuclear properties, and the increase of mass gives it different physical and chemical properties compared to normal "light water".

But how does that make it lighter.

 

[CarolM]

The Snowmen Quartet sings in the New Year

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Oh that is beautiful.

 

[CarolM]

Not yet.... I sent you some of that requested
Candy with your card but you may have to throw it out. I still have the tracking receipt in my wallet so I may run it and see where it’s at..

Aahhh. Thank you. That was very sweet of you.

 

[Maro2Bear]

My orchid is now properly back in flower
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Wonderful!

 

[CarolM]

Although it would be heavier we could ask Kathy to send Carol some of that snow and maybe take some home for herself..............

I will take anything I can get. But I still say that if we can teleport it, that would work better. It would be instantaneous.

 

[Maro2Bear]

Yip. Piggies in a blanket. Normally mincemeat wrapped in cabbage and cooked with lots of gravy. That is what it means over here. [emoji3]

Yep..same here - but the sauce is usually diced/pureed tomato.

 

[CarolM]

Yep, it was rather quiet in here. Only 800+ messages to catch up on. Gulp.

o-O good luck.

 

[CarolM]

Not in Izmir; I don’t know if one of the many ethnic groups in Turkey do celebrate it, but it’s not common.

Having said that, I celebrated privately the fact that the Sun set in Turkey after 5:30, not at 3:30 like in Denmark!

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[JoesMum]

Yip. Piggies in a blanket. Normally mincemeat wrapped in cabbage and cooked with lots of gravy. That is what it means over here. [emoji3]

British Pigs in blankets are pork sausages wrapped in bacon. A traditional accompaniment to the Christmas turkey dinner