COLD DARK ROOM

[CarolM]

And here is a little video of the area.

 

[CarolM]

I am right in front of the camera And you’re correct - blue and white
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He he he. Okay that is not who I saw, but good guess. [emoji23]

 

[CarolM]

Ok! Didn’t mean to keep everyone In Suspense but the little buggers kept me going all night and I had to jump strait up and run this morning. Outcome...... 3 adorable little turkeys the one that pipped on the wrong end of the egg didn’t make it out. And the last one that never pipped must have passed a week or so ago.

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That is soooo cool. So now the hard work starts, keeping them fed. What do you feed them and how do you feed them?

 

[CarolM]

The Title is Meet Arrow. I changed it to unlisted because private wasn't letting me do anything. "

" Thanks.

Oh no. It is not available for me. [emoji20]

 

[CarolM]

What a nice surprise on our front porch this afternoon. A newly emerged Cecropia Moth - North America’s largest moth.

Info: https://performance-vision.com/cecropia/cecropia.htm

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That is a beautiful moth.

 

[CarolM]

Look at those antennae!

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Wow.

 

[CarolM]

It would certainly be Gods will.. did I mention that large birds are my kryptonite.? emus terrify me[emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]. He sure is cute right now though!!

Lol. [emoji23] [emoji23] You are too funny.

 

[CarolM]

A friend of mine used to have a huge one. I am the only person that that bird bugged have to death. I hated that dang turkey! And I love birds. I would have ate him but he was to evil.

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[CarolM]

I raised a turkey chick years ago to full grown. When he got big ( and I DO mean BIG!!!) we couldn't allow little kids around him. He was so big and ungainly that it was easy for a bigger human to get away from him, but not little ones.

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[CarolM]

Missing you already...

[emoji8] Don't worry I am back.

 

[CarolM]

Good mornooning all. I woke up too early, but never mind.

I have nothing more exciting than a cervical smear test to look forward to today. It’s routine; I was called up for it as per the NHS schedule for women my age. It’s also not one of those things I will not be embarrassed about mentioning... it is too important. Like mental health issues things like this get buried by people’s falsely-based embarrassment.

I do also have some packing to do. I am not going to be home much in the next week. Two trips... one with JoesDad and one without.

Sounds exciting!!. The trips not the test.[emoji33]

 

[CarolM]

Well, roomies...I've been absent from the CDR for a bit over a week. I've just been incredibly busy, driving hither and yon every day.

Then throw in having my 2nd cataract surgery done last Wed, and I just haven't had the time or energy for TFO.

Oh, yeah, I bought a new phone on Fri, and it's taking me forever to get everything switched over and working right.

So it's impossible to catch up with around 800 posts in the CDR alone.

Has anything happened that I positively MUST know or life will never be the same??

I hope that the 2nd surgery went well and good luck with the new phone.

 

[CarolM]

Firstly, I hope the surgery went well... although perfect eyesight isn’t much help in the CDR’s gloom

I got a new phone last week too and I agree about it taking forever to get it set up!

As for the 800 missed posts... of course life will never be the same if you haven’t read them [emoji23]

On the other hand, I wouldn’t fret too much.

Heather has newly hatched babies, Carol is away for the weekend, Ben has healed after having to have a pin put in his broken toe, Mark found dead turtles while out kayaking [emoji22], I watched England beat South Africa at the cricket yesterday and, and ... I have a terrible memory for the rest, sorry.

I saw you caught up with Bea’s sad news about Jacques already. [emoji22][emoji22][emoji22]

Nice, quick summary Linda. Well done.

 

[CarolM]

That' very useful to know - trouble is I would have to take all the wine out of my oven!
Better start drinking it now!

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[CarolM]

Hope the surgery went well Karen and good luck with the new phone!!

Snap!!!

 

[CarolM]

Good morning all,
Just caught up with you all and happy to see everyone is well!
I've been busy shopping the last couple of days and still no luck!
Everything is either too long, too short, too frilly, too low cut, or just plain too expensive ( I'm not paying £170 for a dress I won't wear again!).
I just can't find one that is just right and the trouble is that there are very few shops who stock a wide range anymore because they are all online!
So I've a few more places to try this weekend.....I can think of other things I'd rather be doing
Anyway hope everyone has a good day and a wonderful weekend!!

Oh dear. Maybe find one that you like but is too long and then just have it shortened.

 

[CarolM]

More news for the CDR - one of our banana trees is popping a flower bud, in preps for baby bananas! So exciting.. Right now, it looks a big fat corn on the cob.

The trick now is to keep it well watered, maybe 5 gallons per day.

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Oohhh. Organic bananas!!

 

[JoesMum]

Ok, lots of catching up to do. But first things first. Congratulations Linda I heard that England beat South Africa good and solid on Thursday.
We left on Friday Morning around 11am to go to a place called Killarney Trout Farm. It is situated between Montague and Barrydale. Barrydale is just on the outskirts of the Klein Karoo. I so wanted to get some photos of tortoises as the Karoo is a good place to find them, but I was not going to be lucky in that department at all. Anyway we reached the toll gate just after Paarl which is after Cape Town and before Worcster. And then we were on open road. The only thing which would have made it better would have been a flask of coffee with condense milk. ( Nostalgic memories) but I don't allow that as condense milk is basically pure sugar. Our open road was a short one, as we first had to go through the tunnel. My father actually helped build this tunnel, and poor hubby has to hear me say that everytime we go through it. View attachment 273645View attachment 273646View attachment 273648View attachment 273652View attachment 273653View attachment 273654View attachment 273655

Wow! Loving the scenery [emoji7]

 

[CarolM]

Look what I found in our street.
It’s our senior neighbors. This is the 4th time I have found one of their torts. 3 hatchlings and this female.
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If they keep on escaping why don't they sort it out? Lucky you found it though.

 

[JoesMum]

The photos are brilliant Carol. I will watch the video when I am back on wifi.

Meanwhile, here’s another postcard by proxy from my offspring in Venice