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For some reason, I'm imagining your ferrets on a raft, paddling along without a care in the world. Or something like that. ?
Lol...Those little hairpins would be my jewelry for the ride!!! When you see the ark crossing the state line, just remember not to call me Noah:)

I did just look for an update and it looks like Marco has lost all its steam while Laura is still Building up..
 

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I guess Crushers new burrow will be out of commission for a few days.. I don’t think he’s been using it though.. he was in the box and their were no fresh tracks in the dirt.. all the tortoises do seem to be expecting something though as all three were in their boxes today. I weed-eated and put Mazuri and treats out. Watered everything... normally any activity brings them all running but today, only Toretto joined the party ?
 

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Lol...Those little hairpins would be my jewelry for the ride!!! When you see the ark crossing the state line, just remember not to call me Noah:)

I did just look for an update and it looks like Marco has lost all its steam while Laura is still Building up..
Laura is going to be interesting...
https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/storminfo/
If you scroll down to the bottom you'll see the intensity models. At least there isn't an outlier that shoots up even higher. We've learned the hard way not to discount those outliers that show rapid intensification. Hurricane Michael was one of those.
 

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I guess Crushers new burrow will be out of commission for a few days.. I don’t think he’s been using it though.. he was in the box and their were no fresh tracks in the dirt.. all the tortoises do seem to be expecting something though as all three were in their boxes today. I weed-eated and put Mazuri and treats out. Watered everything... normally any activity brings them all running but today, only Toretto joined the party ?
They pick up on all sorts of stuff, don't they?
 

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Good Morning All,

So this weekend it was working in the complex garden and I made a big tortoise for the front where everybody comes in. I forgot to take a photo and will take one when I get home to post on here for you all to see. It was a lot of hard work and my body was finished once I was done with everything. But I am happy because it is all starting to look much better and the efforts are starting to pay off.

However saying that it was NOT a good weekend, as I ended up mowing my keys and totally destroyed my car keys. Only to find out that the spare set does not work. I have to get the battery replaced. ?

Short story long, I was not wearing pants which had a pocket and I did not want to leave my keys on the ground outside the complex while I was mowing. I was worried that someone might steal them. So I hung them on a protrusion on the handle of the lawn mower. They stayed there the whole time I was mowing with no problem and towards the end they fell off and I did not notice until I heard the grinding noise of the mower going over the keys.:eek:?‍♀️?‍♀️?‍♀️?‍♀️?‍♀️. Yeah Yeah, so very stupid and I should have known better and just worn pants which had pockets or hung the keys on a Lanyard to hang around my neck. But hindsite is always a B*#$%itch. But anyway that is the short story long.

Then after working on the tortoise late into the night on Saturday, we built it inside the complex first with the intention of anchoring it into the ground outside the complex (so that nobody could steal it) at a later stage, but then someone on Sunday morning went and pushed it over so that all of the succulents and everything fell over onto the ground and basically broken the whole thing. We then decided to just put it outside and dig the bottom part of the tortoise into the ground to stabilize it better with the hope that it would not be able to be pushed over again. But the fact that someone in the complex was nasty enough to do that kind of thing is just so mind boggling. I really do not understand why people have to be so nasty towards each other and why would they want to destroy the hard work of someone else when they are just trying to make the whole complex look better and beautiful. Ok Rant over. Sorry for ranting so long. But I really needed to vent and get it out of my system.

Today is windy, and we are expecting the next couple of days to be cloudy with a day here and there having rain. I love it when it rains as it is free water for my garden. I just don't like it raining when I need to work on my pond.;)??

Soooooo how was everybody else's weekend and How are you all doing?
I'm so sorry to hear about your keys - what a lot of hassle for you! Was the mower OK?
That is really rotten of the destructive bar steward who damaged your tortoise too - rant as long as you want.

Wet and windy here too most of the week I think.
 

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Holy cats!!! You are awesome! I am that way as well, maybe(but not awesome). I don't believe I said anything about my neighbor story on TFO because I am already a public embarrassment to my sister, but here is a summary.
A male neighbor and I were friends, somewhere along the line the friendship went bad and he started doing things, dog crap on my door, somebody else's garbage dumped in my carport, crap like that. So I come home one day to a handwritten sign in my carport reading " your a f***ing b**ch Maggot". So I stopped my car blocking the street, grabbed a hammer and took off for his house 3 blks away. I pounded on his house with the hammer screaming obscenities, pulling up his plants and throwing them at his windows. I was simply WAY outa line. So without buncha details, I was arrested 7 times in 5 years for retaliation for things he did to me. Now please understand, I was 69-70 he's 40 something. He loosened the lug nuts on my wheels, I had been doing 80 mph the day before, now I am doing 30 mph when my tire comes off and passes me up the street. Cops wouldn't even come. He did $4000 worth of damage throwing rocks at my car. One day he ran up to my car and punched me upside my head, I had a maple rolling pin next to me in the car, I just hit him straight on breaking his cheek, arrested for assault, me, not him. This thing carried on for about 5 years, with him crying in court, shaking and saying how afraid of me he was, and me showing stoic anger. I was arrested when he tazed me, I was arrested he was taken to the hospital crying and shaking...as a renter, he got kicked out of his house, I own my house, and he moved to the MidWest. and peace reined.
Please understand, I felt I only retaliated, not instigated. But I did fight back in a way that Little Suzy Normal would not. He regularly called the cops on me, I didn't call them but once. I got some pretty good charges, felony/criminal mischief, felony assault with hammer and more. I feel I defended myself against him. But the bottom line is, I am grateful my car got repainted (!), that I didn't lose my home or anything else. I think I would handle that kind of thing differently now, but I had been in a 25 yr marriage and relationship with a 1% biker, and that's what he taught me.
Hell - that makes my problems look so trivial! I hate manipulative people who can play the victims and get away with (almost) murder.
But when are you free to come and have a holiday at my place Maggie?;)
 

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Maybe you can put a motion sensor controlled light up, aimed at where he'd go looking over the fence. You know, to light him up... Proper lighting for pictures and all that! ?
One day he was up his ladder peeping over 5 times in 2 hours when I was working in the garden so I put my wildlife camera trap up where he would see it and pointing in the direction of their fence. He brought it up during Saturday's tiff saying that I was trying to catch him cutting my plants (gave himself away there!) and told me that I wasn't supposed to point cameras at his property - his fence. Thing is, if he hadn't been up on his ladder he wouldn't have seen it . It didn't actually have any batteries in it but it stopped him doing it for a while. It's very creepy and intimidating behaviour when he knows I live alone.
 

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Holy cats!!! You are awesome! I am that way as well, maybe(but not awesome). I don't believe I said anything about my neighbor story on TFO because I am already a public embarrassment to my sister, but here is a summary.
A male neighbor and I were friends, somewhere along the line the friendship went bad and he started doing things, dog crap on my door, somebody else's garbage dumped in my carport, crap like that. So I come home one day to a handwritten sign in my carport reading " your a f***ing b**ch Maggot". So I stopped my car blocking the street, grabbed a hammer and took off for his house 3 blks away. I pounded on his house with the hammer screaming obscenities, pulling up his plants and throwing them at his windows. I was simply WAY outa line. So without buncha details, I was arrested 7 times in 5 years for retaliation for things he did to me. Now please understand, I was 69-70 he's 40 something. He loosened the lug nuts on my wheels, I had been doing 80 mph the day before, now I am doing 30 mph when my tire comes off and passes me up the street. Cops wouldn't even come. He did $4000 worth of damage throwing rocks at my car. One day he ran up to my car and punched me upside my head, I had a maple rolling pin next to me in the car, I just hit him straight on breaking his cheek, arrested for assault, me, not him. This thing carried on for about 5 years, with him crying in court, shaking and saying how afraid of me he was, and me showing stoic anger. I was arrested when he tazed me, I was arrested he was taken to the hospital crying and shaking...as a renter, he got kicked out of his house, I own my house, and he moved to the MidWest. and peace reined.
Please understand, I felt I only retaliated, not instigated. But I did fight back in a way that Little Suzy Normal would not. He regularly called the cops on me, I didn't call them but once. I got some pretty good charges, felony/criminal mischief, felony assault with hammer and more. I feel I defended myself against him. But the bottom line is, I am grateful my car got repainted (!), that I didn't lose my home or anything else. I think I would handle that kind of thing differently now, but I had been in a 25 yr marriage and relationship with a 1% biker, and that's what he taught me.
You go girl! Police officers don’t arrest me because I’m a physician and I might be standing over the gurney one day. They also don’t arrest me because I used to teach firearms for the sheriffs office and I am a fully certified firearms instructor. They also don’t have to arrest me because my younger brother is a sheriffs deputy here in town. I can be pretty nasty to people and nobody does anything about it and I am not exactly tiny like you are tiny and so people tend to back off. It’s a darn shame that they didn’t recognize the real problem and usually the men are the ones that get arrested but my strategy with that kind a guy would’ve been to play on his insecurities and his lack of gentlemanly manhood. Basically I would’ve removed his family nuts.
 

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You go girl! Police officers don’t arrest me because I’m a physician and I might be standing over the gurney one day. They also don’t arrest me because I used to teach firearms for the sheriffs office and I am a fully certified firearms instructor. They also don’t have to arrest me because my younger brother is a sheriffs deputy here in town. I can be pretty nasty to people and nobody does anything about it and I am not exactly tiny like you are tiny and so people tend to back off. It’s a darn shame that they didn’t recognize the real problem and usually the men are the ones that get arrested but my strategy with that kind a guy would’ve been to play on his insecurities and his lack of gentlemanly manhood. Basically I would’ve removed his family nuts.
A microbiologist, an MD, and a firearms instructor... Dang.
Sure you don't feel like moving to Florida? ?
 

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To tell you the truth. I haven't done so yet.?
I was thinking about it the other day.
Life has been overwhelming, I feel behind the 8 ball in every aspect of life.
I know it's my fault and the need to get motivated. When the covid hit and I couldn't go to physical therapy. I allowed myself to become less motivated.
I did look at the mirror boxes online with intentions to purchase.
Thanks for the question. ?
I am going to take this post to put myself on notice to purchase the box.
I used to joke that my wife says I am a procrastinator.
I say I am just a very patient person.
Need to get serious at this time.
Thanks Yvonne!
Yep... sometimes I finally get around to it also. In the meantime I like to watch just to see.whats up!?
 

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It's awful how one selfish householder can upset things for other. I have been keeping a record and photographing all the rubbish they have fly tipped behind the low wall opposite my garden, it's escalated this summer and usually done when I'm not home. I will be sending it all to the council and their housing association who own their home. I think they are more worried about the latter finding out.
Good good.?
 

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It's awful how one selfish householder can upset things for other. I have been keeping a record and photographing all the rubbish they have fly tipped behind the low wall opposite my garden, it's escalated this summer and usually done when I'm not home. I will be sending it all to the council and their housing association who own their home. I think they are more worried about the latter finding out.
Why not allow the home owners see what the tenants are doing? If they're doing it in broad daylight they shouldn't mind if it all gets seen on video. Or even in the dark. Especially when they are in your yard.
 

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Lol...Those little hairpins would be my jewelry for the ride!!! When you see the ark crossing the state line, just remember not to call me Noah:)

I did just look for an update and it looks like Marco has lost all its steam while Laura is still Building up..
She can fizzle to nothingness also. With prayers on the wings of a butterfly...?
 

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Thanks Lyn, I wish I had the high pain threshold in my younger years. I think the pain tends to wear you down.
I don’t think you’re worn down. I think you’re awesome and amazing. You have survived and gone through some thing that would’ve taken down a lesser person and you’re doing well. When you have to live with pain it’s never your friend and it does grind away at you but many people couldn’t do what you do and so I think you’re amazing and I look up to you.
 

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