COLD DARK ROOM

[Bee62]

Going back to my county road widening project -

Many years ago, when I started a turtle club in my town, one of the charter members was an older couple who attended every meeting. We got to be friends of sorts. They are very nice people. Come to find out, his son has a house just around the corner and across the street from me. Before he retired, the son was in some branch of local government, so is familiar with the ins and outs involved with this road widening thing-a-ma-bob. Because of my friendship with his parents, he has taken me under his wing, so to speak, and has told me he is happy to be my advocate.

So far he has sent a couple emails to the county requesting a larger version of the site map, and scheduled an appointment for the county to come out tomorrow morning to re-survey my property with my driveway in mind.

I feel so much more settled, knowing I have someone in my corner. I was starting to become a nervous wreck.

This a.m. when I was driving home from shopping I saw that the power company has started replacing poles further down the street from me - at the beginning of the project.

I'll be so glad when this is all settled and I can breathe again.

I hope your "advocate" can help you. No one needs such changes as they want to do with your property.

 

[Bee62]

Good evening all. Sorry I haven’t been around for a couple of days.

We went to The Camargue today. It’s a wetland area of international importance for wildlife and is listed by UNESCO as well as the various wildlife organisations.

The area is famous for its black bulls - beef cattle - and for growing a kind of rice that has a red colour. Also there are huge salt pans where sea water is collected and dried to make sea salt for cooking.

The “Gardiens” (cowboys) ride white horses that can also be found roaming the area. I took this photo for @Bee62 - some horses with a Cattle Egret riding the back of one!
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The area is also famous for its Greater Flamingoes and there were huge flocks today; more than we have seen before. Mostly they were too far off to photograph with my phone, but some were closer
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The bird watching generally was excellent today. We also saw other wildlife though...

Like this spider with a leg span getting on for 2 inches (5cm)... actually we saw at least 5 of these!
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And Coypu, known locally as Ragondin, which are actually not a native species
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And... a European Pond Turtle; we have only ever seen one before so this was special!
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Some scenery
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with flamingoes
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It’s been a long day, so I’ll say bonsoir and not see you all tomorrow!

Hi Linda. Thank you for the pic of the Camargue horses. They are beautiful.
Your other pics are stunning too. The spider is a wasp spider.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argiope_bruennichi
Wild living flamingoes are beautiful too.

 

[Maro2Bear]

Good evening all. Sorry I haven’t been around for a couple of days.

We went to The Camargue today. It’s a wetland area of international importance for wildlife and is listed by UNESCO as well as the various wildlife organisations.

The area is famous for its black bulls - beef cattle - and for growing a kind of rice that has a red colour. Also there are huge salt pans where sea water is collected and dried to make sea salt for cooking.

The “Gardiens” (cowboys) ride white horses that can also be found roaming the area. I took this photo for @Bee62 - some horses with a Cattle Egret riding the back of one!
View attachment 249940

The area is also famous for its Greater Flamingoes and there were huge flocks today; more than we have seen before. Mostly they were too far off to photograph with my phone, but some were closer
View attachment 249941

The bird watching generally was excellent today. We also saw other wildlife though...

Like this spider with a leg span getting on for 2 inches (5cm)... actually we saw at least 5 of these!
View attachment 249942

And Coypu, known locally as Ragondin, which are actually not a native species
View attachment 249943

And... a European Pond Turtle; we have only ever seen one before so this was special!
View attachment 249944

Some scenery
View attachment 249945
with flamingoes
View attachment 249946
View attachment 249947
View attachment 249948

It’s been a long day, so I’ll say bonsoir and not see you all tomorrow!

Some very cool pix there, thanks for sharing...

 

[Maro2Bear]

Evening all.

Yet another hot - 90F - day here, but lower humidity with a few scatterred thunderstorms moving about. Took Sully out for another long walk and bath/soaking. Took some video and a ton of stills - hard to pick “one” good one. Until i pick the best, I’ll throw one up here as a teaser.



Ok, maybe two.


Sully Enjoying Marsh Mallow, August 2018

 

[ZEROPILOT]

Maybe.
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These cars have been sold in Germany too. Right ? Maybe in Germany there are still parts to get.

I'm not absolutely sure they made it to Germany. But why wouldn't they have?

 

[Bambam1989]

Hi everyone! It's so quiet in here tonight.
Hope everyone is doing good.

 

[Bambam1989]

Evening all.

Yet another hot - 90F - day here, but lower humidity with a few scatterred thunderstorms moving about. Took Sully out for another long walk and bath/soaking. Took some video and a ton of stills - hard to pick “one” good one. Until i pick the best, I’ll throw one up here as a teaser.

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Ok, maybe two.

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Sully Enjoying Marsh Mallow, August 2018

Looking healthy and happy

 

[JoesMum]

Hi Linda. Thank you for the pic of the Camargue horses. They are beautiful.
Your other pics are stunning too. The spider is a wasp spider.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argiope_bruennichi
Wild living flamingoes are beautiful too.

We had identified the spider as a Wasp Spider

We had never seen them before, but there were quite a few. Minutes after identifying it, a picture of one appeared on the facebook page for Dungeness bird reserve near us in Kent. It seems these spiders are in the UK too!

 

[JoesMum]

Evening all.

Yet another hot - 90F - day here, but lower humidity with a few scatterred thunderstorms moving about. Took Sully out for another long walk and bath/soaking. Took some video and a ton of stills - hard to pick “one” good one. Until i pick the best, I’ll throw one up here as a teaser.

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Ok, maybe two.

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Sully Enjoying Marsh Mallow, August 2018

Beautiful photos!

 

[JoesMum]

Good morning all. Just popping out to buy some bread for lunch. Back later!

 

[EllieMay]

Good morning!! It is 2:30 am here and I should be sleeping.. hate nights like this:-(.

 

[Kristoff]

Thanks, Lyn.
I've ordered one from Malaysia again. But this time through Ebay so I have some kind of assurance that I'll actually get it.
I ordered one from an early Corolla. Not exactly the same. It'll require some cutting and welding. But I'll be done with it.
I appreciate the gesture.

Good luck with your project, Ed! [emoji173]️

 

[Kristoff]

Good morning CDRers the end of another week fast approaching!
I am going to try to cram all the things I've been putting off all holiday into the next few days!
Also have visitors for weekend so will be very busy.
Off to see Evita tomorrow night and then a blues band on Sat night and goodness knows what in between.
But meanwhile better make a start on my 'to do' list.
Have a good Thursday and not see you later.

Enjoy your busy Friday, Lyn! [emoji173]️

 

[Kristoff]

Lena, you just might be my twin soul, LOL!! I always try to have anyone over at my house instead of me going anywhere.. because of the vast age differences in my children, it’s just so much easier to accommodate everyone.. plenty of times I’m rolling my eyes too, but it’s really my setup the whole time[emoji4]. And for the pear tree, yes... I would plant it for the deer. I have a nice herd that hangs out in the pasture with the horses pretty often.. love to watch them... in all that free time that I don’t really have [emoji23][emoji6]

I’d love to have deer on or around my property! And I’d love to have property, to begin with. (We’re in a rented apartment right now.)
I hear you about the play dates. Another mom asked me today if my daughter could come to their house next week — and I freaked out! It’s so unusual that it won’t be at my place. [emoji23] Even though I roll my eyes and complain, I actually think other children bring joy to our house — twice: first when they come and the second time, when they leave [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]

 

[Kristoff]

Someone gave me one of those a couple yrs ago and I never knew the name. I don’t remember if I liked it.

Mark says you weren’t supposed to eat it... [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]

 

[Kristoff]

Going back to my county road widening project -

Many years ago, when I started a turtle club in my town, one of the charter members was an older couple who attended every meeting. We got to be friends of sorts. They are very nice people. Come to find out, his son has a house just around the corner and across the street from me. Before he retired, the son was in some branch of local government, so is familiar with the ins and outs involved with this road widening thing-a-ma-bob. Because of my friendship with his parents, he has taken me under his wing, so to speak, and has told me he is happy to be my advocate.

So far he has sent a couple emails to the county requesting a larger version of the site map, and scheduled an appointment for the county to come out tomorrow morning to re-survey my property with my driveway in mind.

I feel so much more settled, knowing I have someone in my corner. I was starting to become a nervous wreck.

This a.m. when I was driving home from shopping I saw that the power company has started replacing poles further down the street from me - at the beginning of the project.

I'll be so glad when this is all settled and I can breathe again.

This has been going on for a while, hasn’t it, Yvonne? Glad that someone is looking after your interests. Hope it gets resolved soon [emoji173]️

 

[Kristoff]

Good evening all. Sorry I haven’t been around for a couple of days.

We went to The Camargue today. It’s a wetland area of international importance for wildlife and is listed by UNESCO as well as the various wildlife organisations.

The area is famous for its black bulls - beef cattle - and for growing a kind of rice that has a red colour. Also there are huge salt pans where sea water is collected and dried to make sea salt for cooking.

The “Gardiens” (cowboys) ride white horses that can also be found roaming the area. I took this photo for @Bee62 - some horses with a Cattle Egret riding the back of one!
View attachment 249940

The area is also famous for its Greater Flamingoes and there were huge flocks today; more than we have seen before. Mostly they were too far off to photograph with my phone, but some were closer
View attachment 249941

The bird watching generally was excellent today. We also saw other wildlife though...

Like this spider with a leg span getting on for 2 inches (5cm)... actually we saw at least 5 of these!
View attachment 249942

And Coypu, known locally as Ragondin, which are actually not a native species
View attachment 249943

And... a European Pond Turtle; we have only ever seen one before so this was special!
View attachment 249944

Some scenery
View attachment 249945
with flamingoes
View attachment 249946
View attachment 249947
View attachment 249948

It’s been a long day, so I’ll say bonsoir and not see you all tomorrow!

What a beautiful area! Love those horses and the pond turtle!

 

[Kristoff]

Evening all.

Yet another hot - 90F - day here, but lower humidity with a few scatterred thunderstorms moving about. Took Sully out for another long walk and bath/soaking. Took some video and a ton of stills - hard to pick “one” good one. Until i pick the best, I’ll throw one up here as a teaser.

View attachment 249963

Ok, maybe two.

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Sully Enjoying Marsh Mallow, August 2018

Straight into the TFO Calendar, please! [emoji173]️

 

[Kristoff]

Good morning!! It is 2:30 am here and I should be sleeping.. hate nights like this:-(.

Hope you were able to fall asleep right after that message [emoji52]

 

[Kristoff]

Good mornooning, roommates! Daughter had her friend over yesterday, and I was too exhausted to check in here (or anywhere) after that. Another of her friends is coming for lunch today and then they’ll be off to the art school. I must buy flowers for our Russian teachers for tomorrow.