COLD DARK ROOM

[Maro2Bear]

Back from a nice morning out kayaking a very nice set of creeks that feed the great Chesapeake Bay. The very ends of the creek are “tropical” while the more open bits are magically wonderful. Salty, sea breezes & some waves.

The Hazy Start in a Boggy Area


Working Our Way Upstream


The Ferns the FERNS!


Wide Open Waterways

 

[Cathie G]

Back from a nice morning out kayaking a very nice set of creeks that feed the great Chesapeake Bay. The very ends of the creek are “tropical” while the more open bits are magically wonderful. Salty, sea breezes & some waves.

The Hazy Start in a Boggy Area
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Working Our Way Upstream
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The Ferns the FERNS!
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Wide Open Waterways

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All of them are really good pictures. I especially like the colors in the first one but all the others too.

 

[Cathie G]

All of them are really good pictures. I especially like the colors in the first one but all the others too.

And I'm so glad you got to have such a beautiful day after all that heat.

 

[Cathie G]

I hope everyone's having a wonderful Saturday. Even though I was kinda laid up I had a little friend close by watching over my every foot step.

 

[Ray--Opo]

Goodmorning, up early today. Hope everyone has a good Sunday.
@Cathie G did you injure your knee or foot? What happened and hope you heal soon.

 

[Maro2Bear]

Happy Sunday all.

 

[Maro2Bear]

Goodmorning, up early today. Hope everyone has a good Sunday.
@Cathie G did you injure your knee or foot? What happened and hope you heal soon.

Ray, you need to see if Mulberry trees grow down there. Like cactus pads, the plant that keeps on giving. I fed our Sully three nice 2-3 foot branches on Friday. Sully was out devouring them in the evening, branches & leaves. I’m guessing really good for beak maintenance!

 

[EllieMay]

Good morning all! I have not heard from @Chubbs the tegu either.. I hope everything is ok for him and the family!
We left early Friday morning for our annual canoe / Kayaking trip. Had rented the 5 bedroom house We rent every year and an additional cabin. Very large group. We all met in Benton Arkansas for lunch and Made it the rest of the way to Yellville by 2:30ish.. I took Cinder of course and she had a blast swimming and playing with us all in one of the clear subsidiaries off of the Buffalo river. Shallow most places with a couple of deep holes clear to the bottom.. we had a shuttle scheduled to pick us all up from the cabin yesterday morning at 8am and drop us on the Buffalo. To be picked up at 6pm about 18miles down river. Lot of drinking involved I never made the shuttle... when I woke my son up to get him ready he was developing a fever blister in his eye. Almost no one stocked the meds he needs and this is a very time sensitive issue for him. I didn’t take meds with me because it had been over a year since this has happened and what I had was expired. Either way, I knew the 6 hour trip home for the old meds would be the quickest start to getting him on track. I left hubby and the girls there to ride back with our friends and had him loaded up and on the way before the shuttle ever arrived. I have his specialist cell number due to the severity of this and we got his new meds on order. He was feeling better some by bedtime last night. We will have to go meet the group and pick up the rest of the family today. Spoke with hubby a few minutes ago and everyone had a blast yesterday. They will send me pictures later on I’m sure. Here’s what I took going in the mountains.

 

[Maro2Bear]

Good morning all! I have not heard from @Chubbs the tegu either.. I hope everything is ok for him and the family!
We left early Friday morning for our annual canoe / Kayaking trip. Had rented the 5 bedroom house We rent every year and an additional cabin. Very large group. We all met in Benton Arkansas for lunch and Made it the rest of the way to Yellville by 2:30ish.. I took Cinder of course and she had a blast swimming and playing with us all in one of the clear subsidiaries off of the Buffalo river. Shallow most places with a couple of deep holes clear to the bottom.. we had a shuttle scheduled to pick us all up from the cabin yesterday morning at 8am and drop us on the Buffalo. To be picked up at 6pm about 18miles down river. Lot of drinking involved I never made the shuttle... when I woke my son up to get him ready he was developing a fever blister in his eye. Almost no one stocked the meds he needs and this is a very time sensitive issue for him. I didn’t take meds with me because it had been over a year since this has happened and what I had was expired. Either way, I knew the 6 hour trip home for the old meds would be the quickest start to getting him on track. I left hubby and the girls there to ride back with our friends and had him loaded up and on the way before the shuttle ever arrived. I have his specialist cell number due to the severity of this and we got his new meds on order. He was feeling better some by bedtime last night. We will have to go meet the group and pick up the rest of the family today. Spoke with hubby a few minutes ago and everyone had a blast yesterday. They will send me pictures later on I’m sure. Here’s what I took going in the mountains.

Darn, but do hope the kiddo’s eye gets all better fast! Make the best of the rest. Drive & travel safely.

 

[Maro2Bear]

Found this little Arachnid monster on the shed door where I keep our push mower. Friend or Foe?

 

[Maro2Bear]

Hey, some real Euro football/soccer on the ol Telly. Leister vs Manchester United ! Premier League play - live.

 

[zovick]

Found this little Arachnid monster on the shed door where I keep our push mower. Friend or Foe?

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The spider looks like a harmless garden spider. It appears to be one of the group called orb weavers, named for the shape of the webs they make. I have loads of them here in my yard in GA. I never kill them as I think they do a good service for me.

Heck, I have Black Widows here, too, and I never kill them, either. Or the Copperhead snakes, etc. In general, my property is a "no kill zone" for any living creature.

 

[Lokkje]

Found this little Arachnid monster on the shed door where I keep our push mower. Friend or Foe?

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Agree. Looks like Argiope aurantia. Orb or garden spider. Friend

 

[Maro2Bear]

The spider looks like a harmless garden spider. It appears to be one of the group called orb weavers, named for the shape of the webs they make. I have loads of them here in my yard in GA. I never kill them as I think they do a good service for me.

Heck, I have Black Widows here, too, and I never kill them, either. Or the Copperhead snakes, etc. In general, my property is a "no kill zone" for any living creature.

Yes. No kill zone here too. ? Had to go grab the ipad for a pix, he had moved about a bit, but not too scared. Id say tip to tip, wing to wing, leg to leg about 4 inches.

 

[Lokkje]

Usually I have a live and let live attitude unless I’m totally being infested by scorpions that are inside my garage and inside my home and then they’re getting stomped. I have a small rattlesnake living under my deck and if I ever find it again after it slithered away when basking in the sun I will destroy that because it’s too high-risk for my dogs. Otherwise I live in the middle of a desert on a mountain side and I fully expect to find critters and they have just as much right to hang out as I do. I will smoke them if they sting or bite me or my animal family though and that’s just pure spite on my part.

 

[zovick]

Yes. No kill zone here too. ? Had to go grab the ipad for a pix, he had moved about a bit, but not too scared. Id say tip to tip, wing to wing, leg to leg about 4 inches.

That size sounds about the size of the bigger ones I have here in GA. The ones here are often yellow with black and grayish highlights, but I have seen a few similar to yours as well. The webs they make here are huge. It's always fun walking into one of the webs when not paying good attention to what I am doing!

 

[Yvonne G]

The spider looks like a harmless garden spider. It appears to be one of the group called orb weavers, named for the shape of the webs they make. I have loads of them here in my yard in GA. I never kill them as I think they do a good service for me.

Heck, I have Black Widows here, too, and I never kill them, either. Or the Copperhead snakes, etc. In general, my property is a "no kill zone" for any living creature.

Hey, Zovick!!! Welcome to the cold dark room! Hopefully one of our more in tune members will be along shortly to clue in on all the inhabitants here. In the meantime settle back and put your feet up on the snow leopard. Don't worry, she only eats carrots.

 

[Maro2Bear]

Hey, Zovick!!! Welcome to the cold dark room! Hopefully one of our more in tune members will be along shortly to clue in on all the inhabitants here. In the meantime settle back and put your feet up on the snow leopard. Don't worry, she only eats carrots.

Agree, Welcome, but the Snow Leopards in our neck of the ozone eat turnips. Welcome aboard! Pull up a one-legged stool. Have a wee dram of something stronger than thistle juice.

 

[EllieMay]

The Buffalo River,
Yellville Ar

 

[Ray--Opo]

Ray, you need to see if Mulberry trees grow down there. Like cactus pads, the plant that keeps on giving. I fed our Sully three nice 2-3 foot branches on Friday. Sully was out devouring them in the evening, branches & leaves. I’m guessing really good for beak maintenance!

I will research, thanks Mark