COLD DARK ROOM

[Lyn W]

It's early evening here and I am travelling back to my university city after a nice winter camp where I worked as a cook. It was a part of a scouts training course here, a sort of group leader course (I don't know the terminology used in English speaking scouts). I had two young kids helping me in the kitchen and over all it was pretty nice and the weather was beautiful.

That must have been good fun. A nice break from university.

 

[Lyn W]

We had a lovely day up until about 3 pm. Lola even popped out into the garden for a quick look at his kingdom - nothing nice to nibble on yet though. and he didn't like me blocking his way to a forbidden area so after failing to barge me out of the way he shuffled back in a huff.

It was business as usual after that and we're back to the rain, which will be with us for most of the next week, so no more outings for Lola.

I hope everyone has had a good weekend and you're all warm and dry.

 

[MaNaAk]

I was going to become a member to support TFO and intended to look into how to pay from UK but didn't get around to it. Was it easy enough to pay Natrah?

Yes I remember getting an alert about it and paying with my credit card.

 

[Cathie G]

I had intrusive ads like this some time ago, so I treated myself to Platinum Membership,and everything is fine.It isn't very expensive, and quite honestly the forum deserves to get some money coming in, for all the work of running it. I don't have anything to do with facebook or any other communications online,but it's wonderful to feel I have friends here, on this forum and I appreciate it so much.
Angie x

I feel the same. I love the people here and the comraderie we have together

 

[Cathie G]

We had a lovely day up until about 3 pm. Lola even popped out into the garden for a quick look at his kingdom - nothing nice to nibble on yet though. and he didn't like me blocking his way to a forbidden area so after failing to barge me out of the way he shuffled back in a huff.

It was business as usual after that and we're back to the rain, which will be with us for most of the next week, so no more outings for Lola.

I hope everyone has had a good weekend and you're all warm and dry.

I had to use PayPal here in the US to donate. It was actually so worth it to me even if I had to go online . I was going to do it no matter what because of the help this site is. The added bonus is no ads. I believe the small donation is for 5 years.

 

[jeff kushner]

I feel the same. I love the people here and the comraderie we have together

I worry about most of you guys, just so we're clear.

Saw this fox this morning picking through Kerry's cabbage rolls I put out for him & Rocky. That's what you at his feet behind him. Even they didn't like them! After taking the pic I put out half a chicken carcass Kerry was going to make soup from. We will split it since everyone has to eat.


Cool camp 4T...good for bud. Learning how to teach is a life-changing skill. It teaches and enables us to see on multiple levels. Very cool!

 

[MenagerieGrl]

I feel the same. I love the people here and the comraderie we have together

I'll second, and third THAT!

 

[The_Four_Toed_Edward]

That must have been good fun. A nice break from university.

It definitely helped doing something very different and simple!

 

[Cathie G]

It was a lovely wet day and I don't mean rain. It got so warm that by morning we'll have ice skating rinks every where. Our backyard got to 70°f . The front yard is still 59. There's water dripping everywhere and running in streams and Ohio will probably freeze tonight. hopefully so it don't flood and the creeks don't rise

 

[Cathie G]

It was a lovely wet day and I don't mean rain. It got so warm that by morning we'll have ice skating rinks every where. Our backyard got to 70°f . The front yard is still 59. There's water dripping everywhere and running in streams and Ohio will probably freeze tonight. hopefully so it don't flood and the creeks don't rise

God blessed us anyway and it didn't get below freezing last night. At least here. Our sidewalk was so flooded I figured it would be a sheet of ice this morning. It wasn't. All that water went somewhere

 

[Lyn W]

Good morning all.
There's quite a mixed bag of weather for us this weekend. It's wet here again today and temps are dropping tonight so there's ice on the way with a possibility of snow. Apparently though Saturday is going to be very bright and sunny so hopefully none of the slippery stuff will hang around for long.
There are lots of spring flowers appearing everywhere now so that cheers us up.
I'm popping to the shops before it gets too cold so TTFN
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[Ray--Opo]

Everyone's nightmare https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1CJbfD6bo9/

 

[The_Four_Toed_Edward]

Everyone's nightmare https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1CJbfD6bo9/

I made a thread on this and another case:

Heating elemements causing fires in tortoise sheds

Two recent news articles describe two different cases where heating elements have caused a fire in a tortoises shed. Backyard Shed Fire Leads to Unusual Animal Rescue https://www.signalsaz.com/articles/backyard-shed-fire-leads-to-unusual-animal-rescue/ Security Footage Captures Tortoise...

tortoiseforum.org

 

[MaNaAk]

Everyone's nightmare https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1CJbfD6bo9/

I'm glad the tortoise was okay.

 

[zolasmum]

We get live meal-worms by post for our wild birds in the garden, but I noticed on their website that they have a photo of a tortoise (as well as ones of birds). I don't know a great deal about tortoises other than Hermanns, and I was wondering which varieties of tortoises would eat them. I wouldn't put it past Zola to have a bite at one, given the chance, but I presume it wouldn't be a good idea !
Angie

 

[The_Four_Toed_Edward]

We get live meal-worms by post for our wild birds in the garden, but I noticed on their website that they have a photo of a tortoise (as well as ones of birds). I don't know a great deal about tortoises other than Hermanns, and I was wondering which varieties of tortoises would eat them. I wouldn't put it past Zola to have a bite at one, given the chance, but I presume it wouldn't be a good idea !
Angie

Red footed tortoises come to mind. As far as I know, all other protein heavy eaters are turtles, not tortoises. Probably too much protein for Zola!

 

[MaNaAk]

We get live meal-worms by post for our wild birds in the garden, but I noticed on their website that they have a photo of a tortoise (as well as ones of birds). I don't know a great deal about tortoises other than Hermanns, and I was wondering which varieties of tortoises would eat them. I wouldn't put it past Zola to have a bite at one, given the chance, but I presume it wouldn't be a good idea !
Angie

I think Redfoots like Lola probably do. Maybe Lyn would know.

 

[MaNaAk]

Red footed tortoises come to mind. As far as I know, all other protein heavy eaters are turtles, not tortoises. Probably too much protein for Zola!

Jacky and Daisy have tried to eat my thumb so they are in a class of their own.

Natrah

 

[zolasmum]

Red footed tortoises come to mind. As far as I know, all other protein heavy eaters are turtles, not tortoises. Probably too much protein for Zola!

Thanks - I thought red-footed ones ate them, but wasn't sure. I seem to remember that when Zola was very small, we had him out on the grass with us, and he tried to have a bite at a slug (and luckily failed ! ) I think that was just youthful curiosity, though.
Angie

 

[Lyn W]

I think Redfoots like Lola probably do. Maybe Lyn would know.

Definitely redfoots and yellow foots - maybe other tropical species but I don't think any of the Mediterranean species would eat them.