COLD DARK ROOM

[CarolM]

Morning everyone! Happy New Years Eve!

Happy New Year from SA.

 

[Bambam1989]

Hmm it's eerily quiet in here... I keep thinking I see the woolspider moving in the corners. I guess I better keep a jellyfish close

 

[DE42]

Ahhh!!! It's got me.

 

[Bambam1989]

Ahhh!!! It's got me. View attachment 226410

[emoji33] Aaaaa! The horror!
Lol

 

[Bambam1989]

Ahhh!!! It's got me. View attachment 226410

That's a nice looking spider though[emoji6]

 

[Maro2Bear]

 

[DE42]

That's a nice looking spider though[emoji6]

It was beside my foot when my father and I was fishing one day. It was about 3.5" acorss. 9cm to everyone else in the world lol. I wish the U.S. would adopt the metric system.

 

[Yvonne G]

It was beside my foot when my father and I was fishing one day. It was about 3.5" acorss. 9cm to everyone else in the world lol. I wish the U.S. would adopt the metric system.

Hush your mouth! I'm too old to learn new measurement.

 

[DE42]

Hush your mouth! I'm too old to learn new measurement.

Don't worry it's not going to happen any time soon. Lol.

 

[DE42]

I am sitting on my behind drinking mountain lightening (generic Mountain Dew) and eating potato chips while watching fat loss and workout videos on youtube. I'll look like a Greek God at this rate by this time a year from now. Lol

 

[JoesMum]

It was beside my foot when my father and I was fishing one day. It was about 3.5" acorss. 9cm to everyone else in the world lol. I wish the U.S. would adopt the metric system.

Hush your mouth! I'm too old to learn new measurement.

We coped here in the UK. Officially we’re mostly metric. Unofficially we use a mixture:
• Height - imperial - 6’6” makes more sense than 2 metres
• Weight (humans) - imperial - except we use stones (1 stone = 14lb) So 11 stone 2lb for an adult - 9lb 14oz for a baby (My second child really was that heavy at birth)
• Weight (groceries) officially metric, but some stores are happy to convert loose weights for you
• Temperature metric for ovens and weather... unless the weather is hot and then we use Farenheit because 95F sounds hotter
• Cooking - I use a mixture depending on the age of my cookbook/recipe, my Mum is all imperial, my daughter all metric.
• Distance - imperial: All our road signs are in miles, but...
• Fuel (petrol/gasoline) sold in litres, but nobody knows what’s good fuel consumption unless they work out miles per gallon. (And our gallon is based around a 20 oz pint and hence is bigger than US gallon based on a 16oz pint)

Daughter says it’s a similar mess in Canada where they’re also metric except when they’re imperial and the bits that are imperial are different to the UK. For example, Canadian ovens are in F due to US imports (ours are in C).

 

[CarolM]

Hmm it's eerily quiet in here... I keep thinking I see the woolspider moving in the corners. I guess I better keep a jellyfish close

You do? Hmmm better keep a few jellyfish. I hear the woolspider is nasty.

 

[JoesMum]

You do? Hmmm better keep a few jellyfish. I hear the woolspider is nasty.

The wool spider is fine, assuming she exists. Just don’t tangle her knitting

 

[CarolM]

Ahhh!!! It's got me. View attachment 226410

Good thing I am not terrified of woolspiders otherwise my phone would be flying across the room.

 

[CarolM]

We coped here in the UK. Officially we’re mostly metric. Unofficially we use a mixture:
• Height - imperial - 6’6” makes more sense than 2 metres
• Weight (humans) - imperial - except we use stones (1 stone = 14lb) So 11 stone 2lb for an adult - 9lb 14oz for a baby (My second child really was that heavy at birth)
• Weight (groceries) officially metric, but some stores are happy to convert loose weights for you
• Temperature metric for ovens and weather... unless the weather is hot and then we use Farenheit because 95F sounds hotter
• Cooking - I use a mixture depending on the age of my cookbook/recipe, my Mum is all imperial, my daughter all metric.
• Distance - imperial: All our road signs are in miles, but...
• Fuel (petrol/gasoline) sold in litres, but nobody knows what’s good fuel consumption unless they work out miles per gallon. (And our gallon is based around a 20 oz pint and hence is bigger than US gallon based on a 16oz pint)

Daughter says it’s a similar mess in Canada where they’re also metric except when they’re imperial and the bits that are imperial are different to the UK. For example, Canadian ovens are in F due to US imports (ours are in C).

Way too complicated. We are straight forward metric.

 

[CarolM]

The wool spider is fine, assuming she exists. Just don’t tangle her knitting

Lol.

 

[Bee62]

It was really early and I was taking some veggie scraps to the edge of the wood. We always did that for the rabbits and deer. I had gotten almost to the edge of the woods when I heard something go tearing through a thickett over to the side. I saw a deer go running by me. That was very strange but then right behind it came out a mountain lion. It must have been trying to catch the deer while it was bedded down but failed. It had started like it was going to chase the deer when it must have saw me. It stopped looked and looked at me for a second I guess deciding that I would be easier prey. At that time I run for the house, that was probably the worse thing I could do actually. But luckily the commotion must have alerted my dog because it started barking and took off after the big cat as I run away. If it had not been for him I would probably be dead.

My dad did not believe me when I told him but later that week my grandmother saw it in her back yard. She thought we had deer bedded down under the edge of one of the pine trees out back and started to walk up to it when it picked it head up and looked at her. It scared her a little but not like how it did me at the time lol. She said it just got up and walked into the woods. Here is the catch. It had a collar on. The Tennessee wildlife services had turned a number of them lose in the mountains near here early that spring. They denied it when ask but dad said "so if I see one in my back yard it ok to kill it?" They told her that he better not kill one and he then ask them "how can I kill something that you did not set out?". He caught them red handed with that. They either did get killed out by other hunters or they moved to another place because one has not been spotted in about 15 years now.

Wow! That is what I call luck. It seems your dog was your guardian angel.
In Germany the wolf is coming back at present and the lynx. But Germany is not big and has not much places without people and civilization. That could be a problem when there are too many roaming wolf clans some day.

 

[CarolM]

Wow! That is what I call luck. It seems your dog was your guardian angel.
In Germany the wolf is coming back at present and the lynx. But Germany is not big and has not much places without people and civilization. That could be a problem when there are too many roaming wolf clans some day.

Most definitely.

 

[CarolM]

We are playing risk and I am being annihilated.

 

[CarolM]

We are playing risk and I am being annihilated.

I am the red soldiers.