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Yvonne G

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If you want to see some strange but beautiful pictures, do a Google image search for lenticular clouds. Just one example:

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Cowboy_Ken

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If you want to see some strange but beautiful pictures, do a Google image search for lenticular clouds. Just one example:

lenticular2.jpg
Sorry to have to correct you,(of all people) here ms.Yvonne. You Earth Borns may reference them as, "lenticular clouds" but in reality those are returning ships here to pick up those of us that were dropped off on information gathering projects. Those are only Scout and Retrieval ships. The actual Mothership is on the other side of the moon, much too big to come in near the earth. Just saying. Yet a great picture all the same! Here's the one I snapped leaving for my Earth sentence ImageUploadedByTortoise Forum1472027628.725982.jpg
 

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Crap, it's Wednesday? I leave for Spokane tomorrow and I'm not remotely prepared.
 

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I was wondering the same thing, Maggie. The chat room has been very lonely lately.
 

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Good afternoon!!
It has been quiet!
I have been cheating on you all with Weight Watchers:(
I gain almost 8lbs this summer and I'm at my heaviest!
I'm a Lifetime Member and this time around I'm doing the online membership.
The community app is great and motivating!
Everyone is in the same boat so we whine and celebrate accomplishments together.
I need to take care of myself while I'm taking care of all these kids and pets!
 
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Maggie Cummings

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I eat nothing but chocolate covered cheesecake, seriously, and I weigh 115 lbs. Down from 125........yum!

@Jacqui ....I figure everyone here knows how I feel about Bob and when I wrote about his death anniversary yesterday, I figure most people, are either tired about hearing about the 'great' Bob, or just didn't know what to say. You gave me hugs, and that's what counts.
I actually want to dig up his shell, but I'd not want Bob parts still connected to it, that would be too sad, and my neighbor says she thinks it would be disrespectful to him, to dig up his shell.
Anybody have an opinion on that?
 

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Hello everyone.

Got to love the Torts friendly city i'm in right now. It is a hot and humid close chamber for sure. The day time highs: 97 F, night time lows: 92 F.
 
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Maggie Cummings

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Hello everyone.

Got to love the Torts friendly city i'm in right now. It is a hot and humid close chamber for sure. The day time highs: 97 F, night time lows: 92 F.

ugh, you have my sympathy. We are having 96 degree weather, in a land that is usually in the 70's, so it's kinda yucky here too......
 

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I eat nothing but chocolate covered cheesecake, seriously, and I weigh 115 lbs. Down from 125........yum!

@Jacqui ....I figure everyone here knows how I feel about Bob and when I wrote about his death anniversary yesterday, I figure most people, are either tired about hearing about the 'great' Bob, or just didn't know what to say. You gave me hugs, and that's what counts.
I actually want to dig up his shell, but I'd not want Bob parts still connected to it, that would be too sad, and my neighbor says she thinks it would be disrespectful to him, to dig up his shell.
Anybody have an opinion on that?

I took in a 120lb sulcata a couple years ago. A fellow who worked with California's Department of Fish and Wildlife took it home with him when someone turned it in to them. He didn't know anything about tortoises and didn't recognize that it was sick for quite a while. By the time he brought it to me it was beyond saving. It was so thin and weak it couldn't even hold its head up, let alone walk. I had the vet out and she euthanized it for me.

My property is sitting on hard pan. In some places there is only 8 or 10 inches of top soil. I tried to bury that big sulcata body, but couldn't get it very deep, so I just piled up dirt over it. This summer I noticed that the dirt on the highest part of the shell has eroded away.

@maggie3fan - the reason I'm telling you this is because Bob's shell is no longer in one piece. From my own experience I can tell you that the scutes have all come off the skeleton. Leave Bob alone and keep him whole in your memory.
 

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Hello everyone.

Got to love the Torts friendly city i'm in right now. It is a hot and humid close chamber for sure. The day time highs: 97 F, night time lows: 92 F.

Do many folks there keep tortoises?
 

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Do many folks there keep tortoises?
I join a Tortoise forum in Shenzhen, We have about 150 members. But I know there are still many out there, do keep Tortoise as pet but not joined in this local tortoise forum.

China is the largest illegal exotic animal treading market. Very sad to say...
 

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I took in a 120lb sulcata a couple years ago. A fellow who worked with California's Department of Fish and Wildlife took it home with him when someone turned it in to them. He didn't know anything about tortoises and didn't recognize that it was sick for quite a while. By the time he brought it to me it was beyond saving. It was so thin and weak it couldn't even hold its head up, let alone walk. I had the vet out and she euthanized it for me.

My property is sitting on hard pan. In some places there is only 8 or 10 inches of top soil. I tried to bury that big sulcata body, but couldn't get it very deep, so I just piled up dirt over it. This summer I noticed that the dirt on the highest part of the shell has eroded away.

@maggie3fan - the reason I'm telling you this is because Bob's shell is no longer in one piece. From my own experience I can tell you that the scutes have all come off the skeleton. Leave Bob alone and keep him whole in your memory.
I suggest this also: Leave Bob alone and keep him whole in our memory.
 
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