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tortdad

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I need some ideas for making outdoor enclosure walls, i had cinder blocks for walls and my wife hated them. She said all the blocks in my backyard (sulcata pen, Redfoot pen and box turtle pen) made her yard look like a jail cell so I had to get rid of all the blocks. Now I'm trying to find something she likes. I liked the blocks because they weren't attached to anything and could move them and change shape as needed. I didn't know she hated them so bad until she broke down in tears and was yelling at me. She let me give the sully free range of the entire back yard so now I just need to find something for the Redfoots and box turtles. Luckily they are all still small and living in indoor enclosure but this spring is when I was going to start letting them out more often.
 

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I need some ideas for making outdoor enclosure walls, i had cinder blocks for walls and my wife hated them. She said all the blocks in my backyard (sulcata pen, Redfoot pen and box turtle pen) made her yard look like a jail cell so I had to get rid of all the blocks. Now I'm trying to find something she likes. I liked the blocks because they weren't attached to anything and could move them and change shape as needed. I didn't know she hated them so bad until she broke down in tears and was yelling at me. She let me give the sully free range of the entire back yard so now I just need to find something for the Redfoots and box turtles. Luckily they are all still small and living in indoor enclosure but this spring is when I was going to start letting them out more often.
What about landscaping blocks, landscaping timbers, or natural stone stacked?
 

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Or wood panels/boards painted? Even a colored metal roof panel.
 

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Yesterday we were talking about girl scout cookies. I had wondered if any of you tried those little bottles a milk Nestle I think it was, made based on those cookies.
 

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I need some ideas for making outdoor enclosure walls, i had cinder blocks for walls and my wife hated them. She said all the blocks in my backyard (sulcata pen, Redfoot pen and box turtle pen) made her yard look like a jail cell so I had to get rid of all the blocks. Now I'm trying to find something she likes. I liked the blocks because they weren't attached to anything and could move them and change shape as needed. I didn't know she hated them so bad until she broke down in tears and was yelling at me. She let me give the sully free range of the entire back yard so now I just need to find something for the Redfoots and box turtles. Luckily they are all still small and living in indoor enclosure but this spring is when I was going to start letting them out more often.
When we built Elsa's larger outdoor enclosure with cinder blocks my hubby and brother (who did the bock toting and stacking) were teasing me, calling it Tort-catraz (after Alcatraz) and trying to talk me into adding little tortoise sized rolls of razor wire to the top!!! :p. Cinder blocks are soooo versatile- but they do TOTALLY destroy any hint of beauty or aesthetics. :(
I agree that painting them might help. I considered that and was going to use stencils to add pretty embellishments to some of the blocks, as well as planting some things in the holes. But I got lazy, so we still have grey cinder block (but NO razor wire!) :p
 

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Lots of nice countryside on that route and a different stretch of banjo music between Columbia, SC and Charleston, WV.

Hey, I'm in SC near Columbia. What music do you speak of?

Also Kerryann when are you heading through the area?
 

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