(08-20-2012 06:59 PM)futureleopardtortoise Wrote:  I'm in, if we do one. Jacqui, you never said for positive, did you get Susan? Because I want to see pictures of Susan! Also, apparently we had two HUGE yellow bellied sliders that someone adopted there earlier... I missed them too, darn it! Now we just have this RES that came in in terrible shape... poor guy

Yes, I got Susan. Yes, you had two beautiful and large yb sliders. They are currently in an outdoor enclosure with a buried preformed pool.

I can't believe their are so many members from Nebraska here, wouldn't it be neat to have a Nebraska tortoise meet!

Don't forget Iowa and surrounding states.

(08-21-2012 06:08 AM)Jacqui Wrote:  

(08-20-2012 06:59 PM)futureleopardtortoise Wrote:  I'm in, if we do one. Jacqui, you never said for positive, did you get Susan? Because I want to see pictures of Susan! Also, apparently we had two HUGE yellow bellied sliders that someone adopted there earlier... I missed them too, darn it! Now we just have this RES that came in in terrible shape... poor guy

Yes, I got Susan. Yes, you had two beautiful and large yb sliders. They are currently in an outdoor enclosure with a buried preformed pool.

You adopted the sliders too?? Hahaha, I wondered if you did You should come back and adopt the RES, Jefferson, he needs a good place.

(08-21-2012 11:52 AM)futureleopardtortoise Wrote:  You adopted the sliders too?? Hahaha, I wondered if you did You should come back and adopt the RES, Jefferson, he needs a good place.

If I had saw him I would have, not that I need another RES, especially a male one. I do have another couple of old outdoor enclosures with various pools in them, that I am not using. He could have gotten some time out in the sun, which if he does have shell issues would have been ideal for him. Of course that would then mean having to keep a male RES area going, I don't put males in with my female group.

I'm actually not sure if it's a male, haha I just call him a "he" for the heck of it. How are the two yellow ones doing? I keep getting told that they were just huge, and the guy tried giving us his 95 gallon tank with them and we didn't take it. Booo! I would have taken it for myself

(08-21-2012 11:24 AM)Itort Wrote:  Don't forget Iowa and surrounding states.

Io- wha??? (checks Wikipedia and Google Maps.)

Huh- hey Jacqui- did you know there was a whole other state across the Missouri? Says here it is called 'Iowa', and actually has a capital- De Mones or something like that.

It even claims that have football, interstates, and WiFi in some places.

You learn something new every day!

Dang. Next they'll be telling me there are states between Nebraska and Canada!

Wait!? That place across the Missouri isn't just more Nebraska? I'm dumbfounded.

Yeah, but they don't play real football over there. Of course it is Larry and he does have hingebacks, so we can't hold his choice of states against him.

True. Not everyone can be lucky enough to be born in good old Nebraska where the summers are hot and dry, the winters are unpredictable and usually harsh, the herpetofauna is relatively bland and we don't have easy access to oceans or mountains.

Ummm.... remind me again why the heck we are staying here?

In the words of Shoeless Joe "Is this Heaven". Response "No, it's Iowa".

We stay because it's too expensive or too far away to move anywhere else And we get cheap, tasty corn here.

(08-22-2012 07:52 AM)Madkins007 Wrote:  True. Not everyone can be lucky enough to be born in good old Nebraska where the summers are hot and dry, the winters are unpredictable and usually harsh, the herpetofauna is relatively bland and we don't have easy access to oceans or mountains.

Ummm.... remind me again why the heck we are staying here?

Because there is no place like Nebraska!

Because some of us live in areas where folks never lock their cars nor their houses. Homes have no bars on the windows. Where if you pass somebody on the road, you always wave, even if you have no idea who they are. Where children can go to the park to play by themselves or to a home blocks away and you know they are safe and being watched as they pass by all the other folks in the neighborhood. A place where folks notice strange cars or people. A place where on a hot summer's day you can still safely go to the river and swim. At night the sky is clear and you can feel close enough to the stars to reach out and touch one, while listening to the chorus of frogs and the lonely howl of a coyote. A place where smog is not a reality, just a word for places like CA.

(08-22-2012 10:45 AM)Jacqui Wrote:  

(08-22-2012 07:52 AM)Madkins007 Wrote:  True. Not everyone can be lucky enough to be born in good old Nebraska where the summers are hot and dry, the winters are unpredictable and usually harsh, the herpetofauna is relatively bland and we don't have easy access to oceans or mountains.

Ummm.... remind me again why the heck we are staying here?

Because there is no place like Nebraska!

Because some of us live in areas where folks never lock their cars nor their houses. Homes have no bars on the windows. Where if you pass somebody on the road, you always wave, even if you have no idea who they are. Where children can go to the park to play by themselves or to a home blocks away and you know they are safe and being watched as they pass by all the other folks in the neighborhood. A place where folks notice strange cars or people. A place where on a hot summer's day you can still safely go to the river and swim. At night the sky is clear and you can feel close enough to the stars to reach out and touch one, while listening to the chorus of frogs and the lonely howl of a coyote. A place where smog is not a reality, just a word for places like CA.

You been to Omaha lately?

Jacqui Wrote:I love meeting members, because in your mind you have built up this mental imagine of what they look like and how they sound. Two of my children had met Mark before, so they and from what Mark himself has said, had added to my picture of him. It wasn't too far off and his voice was no surprise either.

.... and yes, of course we talked about ALL of you. Actually in our very short time, we did an amazing job of jumping around and touching many different tortoise subjects.

I've met Tom!