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CarolM

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Good night now... LOL
I’m good. I am having a decaf coffee to unwind while son watches shark boy n lava girl.. this is my TFO, online shopping time:). So my night box is running. I’ve set the oil heater at 78 and the Kane mat at 83... I will check the temps early in the morning while it’s still in the 40’s and see how it held up...

What have you done today Carol??
Glad to see that you are good. Me...mmmmm What did I do? I worked in my garden, although you would never say so. And cleaned house, as Jarrod's girl friend (or at least I think she is) came around on Sunday, so the house had to look spic and span.:rolleyes:
 

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Welp...looks like it ain’t over...I wish I’d live in paradise with you guys...View attachment 267945
Like "paradise"?

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(Danish paradise ;) )

Just saw you're in Canada -- our future home. Been just reading a bunch of Russians complaining about Canadian winters on forums. :eek::eek::eek:
 

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Good mornooning everyone. It’s catch up time for those of us East of the Atlantic as we wonder what happened overnight :D


JoesDad’s plane still hasn’t made it to Delhi. Flights are being rerouted to avoid flying in Pakistan’s air space due to the political tensions between India and Pakistan at the moment. Hopefully he’ll arrive in the next half hour or so.

It’s lunchtime in India (5.5 hours ahead) and JoesDad has to go to work once he has checked into his hotel. I hope he got some sleep!
 

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Like "paradise"?

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(Danish paradise ;) )

Just saw you're in Canada -- our future home. Been just reading a bunch of Russians complaining about Canadian winters on forums. :eek::eek::eek:

[emoji23] I thought Russian winters were at least as bad as Canada’s?!

For Olivier’s benefit, Lena is a Russian currently living in Denmark. She was living in Turkey when she first found the CDR.
 

CarolM

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Sheldon’s tests came back as cancer. He is helping us accept this diagnosis by destroying his brand new mattress. So not happy with him at the moment. The doctor said that we need to watch his appetite, breathing and energy level. He said if it spreads it will more likely go to the liver or lungs. He said on a scale of 1-3, it was a 3. That’s not good. He said it could come back in a month, year, or never since he is so old already. He still seems like he feels fine just loves to drive us crazy while we are gone. The neighbor is having a new fence built and the machine they were using was beeping a lot. He can’t handle beeping so he tore up his bed. I try not to leave him alone for more than an hour but today we had an awards banquet for our daughter. We have him meds to help, but the beeping was too much. The good news is, he didn’t destroy the walls in the hall like he has done in the past. I’d much rather him destroy the mattress.
So sorry to hear about the cancer. :( The destruction of the mattress is annoying.

I have to ask: is Sheldon NOT a tort?..
 

CarolM

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Good afternoon all.
Hope everyone is having a super Saturday!

Lola has had a freak accident today leaving him with a jagged beak.:(
He was in his bath and I was holding onto the side of it ready to lift him out. He was sniffing the back of my hand when he made a grab for it and got his beak stuck behind my gold ring.
He shot back into his shell and as he pulled back he broke off a small v shaped piece of his beak,
It didn't bleed at all and I managed to file a sharp piece down using a file attachment on an electric nail care kit I have, which he tolerated pretty well apart from peeing all down me.
He sulked for a while but he is eating OK, - what are the chances of that happening?

is there anything else I should do to make sure he and his beak are OK?
Oh no shame. Maybe his beak need to be trimmed a little bit and now is.
 

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@Bee62 taught us a fantastic phrase in German last year. Still love it:

"Weihnachten im Klee, Ostern im Schnee"

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I must have missed that one. My school German (well it was 40 years ago[emoji33]) couldn’t translate Klee, but Google could fortunately!

“Christmas in Clover, Easter in Snow.”

I like it :)

We have “March winds, April Showers, bring forth May flowers”... We have certainly had March winds this year, I wonder if we’ll get April showers?

Has anyone else got weather related folklore sayings from their geographic area?
 

CarolM

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I can hear Carol shivering down in Cape Town! :D We don’t get snow like that ever in this part of the country.

When I was a teenager in the 1970s living further north in Yorkshire, we used to get a lot of snow every winter. Nothing like what Canadians call snow, but it would regularly be over a foot/30cm deep.

Climate change means it rarely happens up there these days.
Whahaha. Very true, the only time we get snow is in the middle of winter and then it is on the mountains and sometimes in Ceres. Although it has been so hot here over the last couple of years we have not had much snow in Ceres. And I have never touched or experienced snow.
 

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