COLD DARK ROOM

[Maro2Bear]

You have a beautiful garden. Can torts eat fig leaves? Your figs are doing so well btw. Look like they are going to be nice and juicy. My mother-in-law always tells me that the first crop are what you use to make konfyt (which in English is fig preserve) Do you guys follow the same rule?

• Torts “can” eat fig leaves, but quite honestly, i don’t think it’s a favorite, and i don’t feed our Sully any. I’m sure if you have broken off a fresh leaf, you would see the white sticky sap. Some ppl are even allergic to this sap. So, it’s not too palstable. I’m sure in a desert drought, if leaves fell naturally to the ground, some torts would eat them.
• Fig Crops. Some types of fig trees produce “Breba” figs, they develop on last year’s old wood. Most types of figs don’t have brebas, but produce the figlets on this years new growth. We just eat them fresh off the trees as they ripen.

 

[Maro2Bear]

Love the little tongue. I can never get mine to pose so nicely.

Agree, that was a great pix. Tongue and all.

 

[Toddrickfl1]

So what do you guys end up doing with all the fruit? Especially you Todd as you are single (I imagine there is only so much you can eat )

I give most of it away. My grandmother likes to make fig preserves so she takes most of them. The deer and other animals get a lot of the pears before I do too.

 

[Toddrickfl1]

How is our little freind doing? Time for another video perhaps?

Quick video before I head out to work

 

[CarolM]

So I am all caught up. Some really nice photo's in todays catch up. Loved them all.

So Round 1 was Lena in the lead, Adam 2nd, Myself 3rd, Todd 4th, Linda 5th and Mark 6th.
Second round has started off with a bang with Mark getting an exact match. Well done. Todd and Linda have moved up one and I have moved down 2. Lol. Hopefully I start getting better results. And may the best Captain win....huh I mean player!

 

[CarolM]

• Torts “can” eat fig leaves, but quite honestly, i don’t think it’s a favorite, and i don’t feed our Sully any. I’m sure if you have broken off a fresh leaf, you would see the white sticky sap. Some ppl are even allergic to this sap. So, it’s not too palstable. I’m sure in a desert drought, if leaves fell naturally to the ground, some torts would eat them.
• Fig Crops. Some types of fig trees produce “Breba” figs, they develop on last year’s old wood. Most types of figs don’t have brebas, but produce the figlets on this years new growth. We just eat them fresh off the trees as they ripen.

AAAhhh interesting.

 

[CarolM]

Quick video before I head out to work

Snap is so Cute. Love it. Thank you and Have a good first day.

 

[CarolM]

I give most of it away. My grandmother likes to make fig preserves so she takes most of them. The deer and other animals get a lot of the pears before I do too.

Sounds like your garden is the garden to be in for the animals around you.

 

[Toddrickfl1]

Congratulations on your new job (Very very happy for you). Are jobs easy to find in the US of A? Over here if you are white and female or male it is extremely difficult to find a job, in fact practically impossible. Even if you have qualifications. So you would either need to start your own company and hope that it does well or you would need to move overseas and hope that you have something to offer on the overseas market.

I've been in my field since 1998 so I have a lot of contacts in other companies, that's why it was easy for me. Honestly though I don't know about the rest of the country, but here in GA there is more companies hiring right now than there has been in about 10yrs.
Gotta head out now. Have a great day everybody!

 

[CarolM]

I've been in my field since 1998 so I have a lot of contacts in other companies, that's why it was easy for me. Honestly though I don't know about the rest of the country, but here in GA there is more companies hiring right now than there has been in about 10yrs.
Gotta head out now. Have a great day everybody!

You too.

 

[CarolM]

@Moozillion I see you lurking around. When do we get to enjoy a video of Jacques and some pics (and conversation snippets) of Elsa?

 

[JoesMum]

Good afternoon everyone. I have read everything, but gave up with comments because it would take too long.

Nice to not see you again Lyn. You posted the 110000th CDR post!

I checked our camera trap this morning and the hedgehog had knocked it askew so the photos were terrible. It did however show the spines of two separate animals.

I have secured the camera and hope for better pictures of them tonight

 

[Kristoff]

Lol. I am sure we all have skeletons in the past.

Except those who were cremated?
(Awful sense of humor, I know...)

 

[Kristoff]

Oh they’re the best bit of the family tree.

One JoesDad’s ancestors was transported to Australia for highway robbery... not fair!

Cool!

 

[CarolM]

Except those who were cremated?
(Awful sense of humor, I know...)

Thank goodness for that. I will be cremated. I don't want to be worm food!!

 

[Kristoff]

After my great grandma on my mother's side died. We found a document that was a certificate of some kind(I was still young and don't remember all the details) it was verifying that she was directly related to General Robert E. Lee.
I kinda find it fascinating that I'm related to such a huge name in American history.

Possibly even cooler!

 

[Kristoff]

Hey all I had a decent day with the football pool! Making my great comeback lol. I start a new job tomorrow, looking forward to it, but a little nervous. @DE42 that's cool you you've looked into your ancestry. I've looked into mine a little and its been a little easier than most as my family is the only one in the USA with my surname.

Congratulations on finding a new job quickly! Hope you love it! Or at least find it tolerable...

 

[Kristoff]

Are Wales playing this year?

Nope — if you’re asking about the World Cup. It’s the only tournament on right now as far as I am concerned. [emoji460]️

 

[Kristoff]

....................or they may be on ebay!

Now that’s likely. I heard the Wool Spider uses the web quite frequently...

 

[Kristoff]

...
It took me a while to work out that 'WC' in some of your posts didn't mean 'Water Closet'
although looking at your predictions and scores some of you have been flushed with success.
...

Yep, I was on the roll!