COLD DARK ROOM

[JoesMum]

Good mornooning. Monday laundry day for me today.

I woke to a message from my school best friend who I last saw 26+ years ago (certainly before my daughter was born). She and her husband moved to California all those years ago and are now in Texas. She is going to be in London on the 18th and wants to meet I am ridiculously excited at the prospect

 

[CarolM]

Finally, a day of sunshine! Pushing 55F and heading toward 60 today...we are just now back from a nice hike in the Patuxent Wildlife Refuge. Sunshine, blue sky, good breeze. Plenty of resting migratory fowl on the ponds and marsh grasses.

On the way back stopped and picked a nice large grocery bag of mixed wild grass and weeds for the Sully Monster.

Here are two pix

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The funny thing about Goose Pond, is no geese!

Why is it called goose pond then?

 

[CarolM]

Oh no!! I hate it when I get off track:-( I’m sorry @CarolM

No worries. I sometimes miss posts too.

 

[JoesMum]

Why is it called goose pond then?

The other 364 days and 23 hours it is probably full of them [emoji23]

 

[CarolM]

I’m sorry! But I bet your beautiful Angulatas are happy lemons to lemonade ya know !

Lol. They do. And yes totally, you gotta use what you got. Besides hubby would have an hernia if I spent money unnecessarily.

 

[CarolM]

Good mornooning. Monday laundry day for me today.

I woke to a message from my school best friend who I last saw 26+ years ago (certainly before my daughter was born). She and her husband moved to California all those years ago and are now in Texas. She is going to be in London on the 18th and wants to meet I am ridiculously excited at the prospect

Oooh. Here comes some serious catching up.

 

[CarolM]

Good Monday All.
Was up early. Dropped my car to have a service, but I go to the wrong place and then find out I left my phone at home. So drive all the way back home to fetch my phone so I can phone hubby to check where I was supposed to go. [emoji85] okay that gets sorted and hubby comes to pick me up after dropping Jarrod off at school (first day back and first day of grade 8 at his new high school) . We drive away from the service place and there is this funny noise coming from the front tyre. We stop and check out the tire and there is a big screw in the tire, so off we go to a tire place who can fix the puncture. Hopefully nothing else goes wrong. It must be Monday!!
Hopefully everybody else's Monday starts off better.

 

[CarolM]

The other 364 days and 23 hours it is probably full of them [emoji23]

Whahaha.

 

[JoesMum]

Good Monday All.
Was up early. Dropped my car to have a service, but I go to the wrong place and then find out I left my phone at home. So drive all the way back home to fetch my phone so I can phone hubby to check where I was supposed to go. [emoji85] okay that gets sorted and hubby comes to pick me up after dropping Jarrod off at school (first day back and first day of grade 8 at his new high school) . We drive away from the service place and there is this funny noise coming from the front tyre. We stop and check out the tire and there is a big screw in the tire, so off we go to a tire place who can fix the puncture. Hopefully nothing else goes wrong. It must be Monday!!
Hopefully everybody else's Monday starts off better.

What a start to the week! Things can only improve!

 

[CarolM]

What a start to the week! Things can only improve!

Lol. Yes it definitely should. [emoji23]

 

[Kristoff]

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I like it. By the way, my last two eggs are peeping today. And it’s hubby’s birthday!

LOL, they’re Russian Christmas babies! [emoji173]️[emoji319][emoji173]️

 

[Kristoff]

@JoesMum
Love that video!

Good morning everyone... I will be sticking with my cows milk as well..
Looks like another beautiful Texas day.. my muscles are protesting the slight amount of action they received yesterday but I’ve no choice but to start over again today!! Toast n coffee and out the door!

@Kristoff
Your generosity should be an example for us all... but rest easy knowing that their will be a couple extra thighs for you both. I’m a “two breast” kinda gal so that’s a couple extra thighs for the both of you [emoji16].

I always knew we would get along! [emoji23][emoji23]

 

[JoesMum]

LOL, they’re Russian Christmas babies! [emoji173]️[emoji319][emoji173]️

So true! Russians hatching at the Orthodox Christmas. Maybe Lena can come up with some appropriate names

 

[Kristoff]

It rained most of the day yesterday, and it's sprinkling on and off so far this a.m. too. Guess it's housework for me today, darn it! Though it really might be a good idea because I'm having company tomorrow. My tortoise partner was at a reptile show in SoCal yesterday and he called me to ask if it would be ok for someone he met at the show to stop by here on his way home to Sacramento. I know of the Sacramento guy from Facebook's turtle and tortoise classified, and he's an ok guy. In fact a couple years ago I bought a female Manouria emys emys from the guy. It will be nice to be able to show him how beautiful the tortoise has grown in my care.

My cats hate the rain! I have an old, abandoned and vacant house sitting next to my house, and I leave the door open just to cat width, but for some unknown reason, the cats only go in there if I'm in there. It would be a great place for them to get out of the weather. I have cat beds and a couple litter boxes in there, but it remains catless.

This is the old house:

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It’s haunted! [emoji79][emoji33][emoji317][emoji33]

Hope the Sacramento guy is/was a pleasant visitor.

 

[Kristoff]

My tortoise starts trying to talk me into believing it's spring in mid February. He tries to stand up really tall so I'll take him outside. I would but there's still snow on the ground.

A saw a flock of cranes this morning!! They looked terribly confused, returning in the middle of Danish winter. [emoji33][emoji33]

 

[Kristoff]

Yep since I have one of each. My 2 favorite. First I play connect the dots on my living room floor. Then I soak my tortoise and see what kinda fables he tries to tell me.

He even talks. That’ scute!
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[Kristoff]

Venison is deer to my heart also. If I'm under the weather a bowl of veggie soup made with venison is another great medicine.

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[Kristoff]

Last time I heard we all come from eggs. We just hatch in a warm, moist, and dark place.

You’re cracking me up!
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[JoesMum]

A saw a flock of cranes this morning!! They looked terribly confused, returning in the middle of Danish winter. [emoji33][emoji33]

That's early!

 

[Kristoff]

Thank you. I really am not ready for tortoise type company. I like to have everything all cleaned and raked in the tortoise yards, no poop, etc. But with only a day's notice, I don't have enough time to make it beautiful. The poop's gone and they get fresh water every morning, so hopefully the place won't present too badly.

I’m sure he’ll be impressed even with poop around. All tort people love seeing tort poop, as you know.