Nice use of BW in your pix! Good scenes.
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Nice use of BW in your pix! Good scenes.
Hi Carol. Hope that you feel better and you parted with the porcelian bowl again ..... A gastro flu is not nice. Poor you
You are working hard on your health. I hope it works and you are feeling much better now. Eating greens and veggies with your tortoises makes you strong like them.
Btw: Tortoises. Your Rue looks beautiful and really relaxed. I think that torts know when they have a good home. Torts can be satisfied or not and can express this feeling on their faces and in the way they behave. Rue shows this.
He is really satisfied with his beautiful home and careful mom.We missed you too, Carol. Let`s smoke Table Mountain with everyone the mountain likes to, as long as you can see us though the dust and smoke.
Seems that Sully needs soon a bigger soaking tub.
My fingers are crossed that is only a little storm.We've been watching this one pretty closely, and are not really very worried.
The storm is small, moving quickly and hasn't become a hurricane yet.
Our house is not in a flood-prone zone (although the entrance and exit to our subdivision are occasionally inundated from really big, rainy storms).
I WILL bring Elsa inside to her "winter enclosure" just for tonight as as precaution, mainly from tall pine trees in our neighbors' yards that could fall onto our yard and her enclosure.
Fingers crossed that we're right!
A funny old fashioned story. I love these old stories and tales. Maybe it should tell us never go into a competition with the devil ?Thank you Linda.
Do you guys know about the story of Jan Van Riebeeck and the Devil and the cloud around the Mountain?
I was always told it was Jan Van Riebeeck, but in this one I found on the net says it was Jan Van Hunk. At least the first name is the same: Anyway whenever we see Table Mountain surrounded by clouds we always say that Jan Van Riebeeck and The Devil are at it again.
Old Jan van Hunks was a retired sea captain who liked to smoke his pipe of a morning and, for some reason, used to do so on the slopes of the mountain we now call Devil's Peak. This was long before our current anti-tobacco laws so perhaps he was just a considerate old fellow. Or perhaps it wasn't tobacco he was smoking? Whatever. One day, as he was sitting comfortably puffing away, a strange-looking fellow turned up and asked him for a light.Being a friendly sort, Van Hunks obliged. Then, for reasons that only highly competitive testosterone-driven men might understand, the stranger challenged him to a smoking competition and Van Hunks accepted. They both refilled their pipes and started puffing away, blowing smoke rings and generally trying to out-macho each other. After a while, the cloud of smoke grew so thick it covered the whole of the mountain like a giant tablecloth, which it still does today when the famous Southeaster is blowing.Eventually the stranger conceded defeat and stumbled, coughing and spluttering, off the mountain into the nearest thoracic Intensive Care Unit. As he was leaving, Van Hunks caught sight of his red, barbed tail sticking out from underneath his jacket and realised he had been puffing away with the devil. There's supposed to be a moral of sorts in this story but no-one's sure exactly what it is - and, of course, no-one is entirely sure what the competition's stakes were either.
For you too !
Yes, you are right. I don`t know why in German the autumn is compared with old women but it is. That`s why I like the "Indian Summer" much more !
About getting in new torts or sending the kids away?
Wow ! Happy anniversary Lena. I hope your day runs well and you have a wonderful evening.Good mornooning, roommates! House cleaning and a kiddie birthday on my agenda today. Tomorrow, daughter’s class is traveling to Copenhagen (25 mins by train from here), and guess who volunteered to tag along and take pictures of the kids?
Wishing you all the best for the next 10 years.Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr ! Now I know why the cranes are leaving Denmark so early ! Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...............................
Good mornooning, roommates! House cleaning and a kiddie birthday on my agenda today. Tomorrow, daughter’s class is traveling to Copenhagen (25 mins by train from here), and guess who volunteered to tag along and take pictures of the kids?
What a way to start celebrating your wedding anniversary! I think I’ll settle for the pizza in an industrial estate
Seriously though, enjoy your evening and Happy Anniversary to you both
Beautifully atmospheric pictures!
Good afternoon all. I have been manipulated by my osteopath and am feeling much straighter.
I am planning a quiet afternoon as I don’t seem to have had one since Friday
I am planning a quiet afternoon as I don’t seem to have had one since Friday
Seems that Sully needs soon a bigger soaking tub.
Yes....there’s not too much room for water in the tub once Sully is in there splashing around. Splash splash splash....and lots fiddling about. Gets him nice and clean....before walkies, grass eating...
Ps... good luck with your Aldabras! Wow...
Good afternoon all. I have been manipulated by my osteopath and am feeling much straighter.
I am planning a quiet afternoon as I don’t seem to have had one since Friday
A little straightening goes a long way
I’m glad your feeling better. You deserve that quiet afternoon Linda!
It turns out that I didn't have to bring her in at all. The storm made landfall far to the east from us, and is well past influencing us at all in regards to wind and rain. The weather has been NO DIFFERENT THAN USUAL for us, so I let her stay out!
We got NO wind, NO rain- NO problems whatsoever.
Elsa is currently cruising around her enclosure, nibbling her various weeds.
It turns out that I didn't have to bring her in at all. The storm made landfall far to the east from us, and is well past influencing us at all in regards to wind and rain. The weather has been NO DIFFERENT THAN USUAL for us, so I let her stay out!
We got NO wind, NO rain- NO problems whatsoever.
Elsa is currently cruising around her enclosure, nibbling her various weeds.
Excellent news!
