COLD DARK ROOM

[Lyn W]

I watched an episode of the secret life of the Zoo that focused on the mating of the mantis.. they were able to safely extract the male after he had done his duty and use him again. The female tried to get him though! Nature can be tough!!!

I saw that episode - they gave the male a name which makes it harder to watch!
I was hoping he would get out alive and phew....he did!!
Hope he was as lucky with his next female.

 

[CarolM]

"they operate" sounds ominous...

It is. Sad to say. Any excuse to make people pay.

 

[CarolM]

And you do realize that anyone can see the CDR, right? And click the links. It might be dark in here, but the walls are made of glass!

Listen there are so many posts going on in here they have to find it first. [emoji85] [emoji6]

 

[CarolM]

Good mornooning, roommates!
(For those who may not know, "mornooning" was coined by another dearly missed CDR roommate, @johnandjade, who's not been here for some time, to cover most of the time zones we have under this roof.)
Husband is coming back today from his Canadian trip, only to head off to China on Sunday. And daughter and I are going to Kyrgyzstan next week. I'll try to take photos of the gorgeous mountains surrounding the city, but I think we won't have time to visit the really picturesque places because my mom wouldn't be able to come with us. She has some difficulty walking now.
I had a first today -- I sent a proposal for a paid photo assignment to someone looking for a photographer. I asked for just enough to cover one of daughter's piano lessons because I'd never been paid for my photos before. My contract with Roskilde's tourism bureau should be renewed too sometime soon, so I should be able to visit the museums for free again.

Well done. Hope they take you up on it.

 

[CarolM]

That is shocking! It puts people off using environmentally friendly sources.

I better not say anything anymore as it is political. But I have zero confidence in our government and their uncorruptibility.

 

[CarolM]

Good morning Lena, I hope you manage to get some good family time over the weekend with hubby and daughter, and how lovely to be going home to see your Mum .
I'll look forward to seeing some pics from that part of the world.
Good luck with the photography work. At that price they should snap you up!!

I agree.

 

[CarolM]

Good morning world - well our CDR world at least!
We certainly are getting April downpours today, with a weather warning in place for snow on higher ground, but it should miss me.
It is cold though!!!
Hope everyone has a good day whatever the weather!

We had some wonderful rain. [emoji3] [emoji3]

 

[CarolM]

Progress report: In bed, it felt like I was all fixed. Moving round, it is obvious I am not. I am no worse than yesterday. Doing the exercises has improved the mobility. It feels like there’s swelling or something at the top of my calf that’s stopping me bending my knee properly and the muscle at the bottom of my calf goes into spasm quickly.

I shall keep doing the exercises and hopefully there will be more improvements [emoji846]

That is encouraging news. Well done.

 

[CarolM]

Thank you, roommates!

I did have to check whether “trifecta” was something related to photography, like a tripod but with a defect or something... [emoji53] Nope. Learned a new word! [emoji4]

He he he.

 

[CarolM]

Trivia fact of the extended day - It's #NationalWalkingDay and #WanderlustWednesday

I did not get much walking done.[emoji17]

 

[CarolM]

I thought we utilized Ninjas for this sort of thing???

I have it sorted. I will make chocolate tortoises and stick the gang in amongst the chocolates. They will all look like chocolate. I will even paint their shells with chocolate so that they look even more like the actual chocolate tortoises.

 

[CarolM]

Well back to normal. 3 1/2 hrs sleep. Took my grandsons yesterday over to the park where there are gopher tortoises and a pond full of different turtles that you can feed. As you start feeding them others here the commotion and start coming over. I think my daughter in law got some pics. I will post

Please do. We like pics.

 

[CarolM]

I watched an episode of the secret life of the Zoo that focused on the mating of the mantis.. they were able to safely extract the male after he had done his duty and use him again. The female tried to get him though! Nature can be tough!!!

Note to self...if I have to come back as a mantis I want to be the female. [emoji33]

 

[CarolM]

Only finished catching up now. This morning we had some really awesome rain. I am hoping that this winter we can get loads and loads of rain. In fact I want the rain that Mark got during his winter. On the advice of Dan, I want to move the gang outside so that they can start getting used to grazing etc. But because it is going into winter I will need to make sure that I build a few heated houses. Hopefully it won't be too expensive or hard to do. I still need to get it past Hubby that I will be spending more money on the torts. [emoji85]

 

[Reptilony]

My Daughter has a French Canadian friend who went to the World Cup (football = soccer) in France. He found it annoying that he would start a conversation in French and the locals would switch to English believing him to not be a native French speaker.

There must be an accent to Canadian French that the French French don’t recognise!

My spoken French is reasonable having worked in France when I was a student. However, I must have picked up the local accent (Ardêche) which gets me into trouble now. I start a conversation and people assume that I am more fluent than I am [emoji849]

Oh yeah that would so annoy me!! We can make the France accent anytime it’s just no one talks like that here...When they come here you can see the qc accent slowly creeping in them after a couple years...And then you hear them swear in Québecois, they absolutely love it lol

 

[Reptilony]

Hi Olivier! A tiny bit of trivia about your name from where I come from: Did you know that "Olivier" is what Russians call the Russian salad? The story goes, a French chef of Catherine the Great of Russia had invented the salad and it became known with his name - Olivier, but to the rest of the world it's the "Russian salad".

omg that’s not cool, i don’t want to be a salad...In french olivier is also an olive tree...put some olives on that salad...

 

[CarolM]

Have a fantastic Thursday.

 

[JoesMum]

Sorry to here about your pain. I hope you recover soon.

You can join the race between me and @Lyn W that she proposed Your are well qualified. I thinks she’s right that she would win though [emoji23]

 

[CarolM]

omg that’s not cool, i don’t want to be a salad...In french olivier is also an olive tree...put some olives on that salad...

[emoji23] [emoji23]

 

[Reptilony]

Whahaha. Can I then call Olivier "Russian Salad"

You can