Lol I'm sitting here with a cup in my hand right now!
COLD DARK ROOM
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Mark, now I know what you were talking about when you said rain is not the problem...
I was planning to do some geocaching around Central Park today. Maybe we’ll just spend the day in the Metropolitan Museum instead...Looking forward to your pics!
No picture?
Oh yeah, rub it in... It’s that kind of a “heat wave” in Denmark also! (But as someone who moved there from Turkish summers I can say even 27C feels surprisingly hot there.) The US heat waves are inhuman.
Sounds delightful!
Mark, now I know what you were talking about when you said rain is not the problem...
Looking forward to your pics!
The Met is brilliant. Go to see the Tiffany glass and the stained glass window in the American wing
Ok... we need some pix of the farm..the cactus growing...the lemon trees.....and more, have fun!
Mark, now I know what you were talking about when you said rain is not the problem...
Looking forward to your pics!
Yep....might even be worse today and tomorrow. Have fun, enjoy.
A postcard from the American Natural History Museum:
“Stupendemys was a genus of pleurodiran turtle, a type better known as a side-necked turtle. Side necked turtles acquired their name because their necks are so long that the only way they could fit under the shell was to fold their necks into one side. The preserved length of the largest known Stupendemys carapace (the upper shell) is one hundred and eighty centimetres long, and has been estimated to be as much as three hundred and thirty centimetres long in the living animal. With the addition of the long neck Stupendemys would have been even longer than the famously huge Archelon, a giant sea turtle that lived earlier in the late Cretaceous period.”
“Stupendemys was a genus of pleurodiran turtle, a type better known as a side-necked turtle. Side necked turtles acquired their name because their necks are so long that the only way they could fit under the shell was to fold their necks into one side. The preserved length of the largest known Stupendemys carapace (the upper shell) is one hundred and eighty centimetres long, and has been estimated to be as much as three hundred and thirty centimetres long in the living animal. With the addition of the long neck Stupendemys would have been even longer than the famously huge Archelon, a giant sea turtle that lived earlier in the late Cretaceous period.”
Geochelone atlas:
“Colossochelys atlas is regarded as possibly being the largest land living tortoise so far known, even bigger than the terrestrial turtle Meiolania. The only related reptiles bigger than Colossochelys were marine turtles such as Protostega and Archelon. As a slow moving herbivore, Colossochelys would have been a target for predators of the time, but the large shell would have been a formidable defence against their jaws.”
“Colossochelys atlas is regarded as possibly being the largest land living tortoise so far known, even bigger than the terrestrial turtle Meiolania. The only related reptiles bigger than Colossochelys were marine turtles such as Protostega and Archelon. As a slow moving herbivore, Colossochelys would have been a target for predators of the time, but the large shell would have been a formidable defence against their jaws.”
Aryna Sabalenka v Caroline Wozniacki
Me too!! Getting ready to watch France vs Argentina
Looks like a lovely day!!
rjamesbeasley
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Thanks I've planted them in a converted litter box (better and cheaper than a flower pot) today, imI not sure how they'll fair in this heatwave though!
I need one more goal France!
Well there goes that!
