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Maro2Bear

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Don't you find that when you put out seeds that you end up with tons of bird poop on your walls, fences and roof?

Hhmmm. I don’t think so. Three of our feeders are back in the woods, and one on the deck to enable better pix. So, i think they spread it about AND we get enough R A I N often enough that I’m guessing it’s washed and blown away.
 

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Thanks Lyn, I think I overreacted with Opo. What was ironic was after I go under anaesthesia. It takes my bowels about a week to wake up. So this was happening at the same time. I didn't want Opo getting impacted. Not fun LOL
Hope you are doing well.
No you didn't overreact at all, Lola's bowels still worry me even though not pooping regularly seems to be the norm for him.
Doesn't hurt to check .
 

Lyn W

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Happy birthday Todd!

Good afternooning everyone.

This week has run away with me.

Travelling home on Monday means I lost a day and there has been much to sort out.

We are setting up a Lasting Power of Attorney for my mum and the government office has messed up.

An LPA is a legal document where trusted individuals can be appointed to take control of someone else’s affairs if they lose capacity to make decisions themselves. The LPA has to be setup before the person loses capacity and only kicks in if it’s lost. Mum is perfectly OK at the moment, but this means my sister and I can can take over if anything happens.

Anyhow, Mum got a letter returning hers because she had failed to respond to a letter she hadn’t received. Enclosed with it were two letters to other people we had never heard of. In the UK (and the rest of the European Union) we have very strict Data Protection laws and this clearly breaches those laws. So I have been on the phone reporting the data breaches and arguing that it isn’t our fault we didn’t respond to a letter we didn’t receive... and we are concerned that missing letter was sent to someone else. Government departments are never easy to deal with [emoji849]

On top of that I have school governor meetings to read up for and somehow the chores need to be fitted in... especially laundry as I am running out of underwear :D

No peace for the wicked!

Anyhow I am feeling MUCH better this week, pretty much back to normal at last. I hope everyone else is doing OK :) x
Welcome back and hope the LPA gets sorted out soon, but I can understand the worry.
Make life easier for yourself - forget the washing - buy more clothes!!
 

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Still sunny but bitter windy cold out this afternoon. Received the teeny, tiny Pawl Ratchet thingy for our Chipper/Shredder yesterday, installed and BAM! We have liftoff. Sooooo, changed the oil, air filter and shredded the pile of burning bush branches I had collected. From a large pile of misc brush to nice mulch in 30 mins or so.

Ok. How cold is it? Still cold enough to freeze water in my buckets outside..

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Who was speaking recently of Owls? Ours is stone cold.


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Through the Ice
 

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Oh dear. :( We really need a volunteer to do some spring cleaning here! @johnandjade was amazing at this. @Tidgy’s Dad also did a great job. So did Bea @Moozillion, I think. Who’s gonna do it this year?
Ordinarily I would love to help with spring cleaning in the CDR, but right now I'm very busy getting things ready for my new turtle baby, to be delivered in about 2 weeks! Much to do in preparation.
Hugs to all. :):<3:
Mooz
 

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It's sunny here today, but cold. :)
Florida winters are nasty. When it's cold it's bone chilling. So you wear more clothes. Then the sun shines for a minute so you're too hot and remove a layer...it's back and forth all day everyday thru winter. That's a lot of laundry.
 

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What seems to be the problem with Mr Betta? How are your temperatures? When did you last change water and what volume exchange? Food?

He is lethargic, not eating and kinda just floats on one side or just leans against the filter.
He always looks dead but swims away when I touch him.
Right now his temp is about 85 and I’m keeping the tank in the dark because if he does have velvet it helps kill the parasite.
His fins also look ragged.
 

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It obviously wants to stay alive. [emoji3]

How are you feeling by the way?

My body hurt so bad last night. I ended up taking NyQuil and slept like baby except when the thunder rolled in.
Today I managed to clean kitchen and relax on the sofa watching 3 episodes of This is Us.
 

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Apparently San Diego had 2,200 lightening strikes in 5 hours! The thunder was crazy loud! I’m sure it was nothing like the Midwest, but it was loud a few times!
I'm in Ohio and I actually like a good craZy loud thunderstorm but that is off the charts.
 

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