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Maro2Bear

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Hey Ben....I’m still not sure why you would worry so much about where your tort has decided to it’s business? Let alone, go to the trouble of blocking access? This might really get your tort bothered since they don’t like change in their environments/habitats.
  • Marge likes to poop in her bed time cave. It’s fun for her but not for me, so I put a barrier over the front of the cave and remove it at her bed time. Today she decided to climb to the top of her cave and push down the barrier.
Our Sully does almost, if not all, of her business in the nice cozy nightbox, aka her cave. Sounds like similar behavior. Id never think of blocking it off.
 

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Oh... Locusts ... it’s amazing what you don’t know:)) . I had never heard Cicada until you said that, but when I googled to get you a locust picture, it’s everywhere.. lol - and apparently the same thing:)
As kids, we would play with the “sheds”... I ran across one just a couple days ago on a fence post..

They’re not locusts either. They’re their own thing. Locusts are more closely related to grasshoppers. Cicadas are technically more closely related to crickets.

According to Google, cicadas have mistakenly been called locusts in the USA for centuries (probably due to the periodical swarms)
https://www.cicadamania.com/cicadas/when-is-a-locust-not-a-locust/

The variety of cicada in Europe isn’t periodical like the one Mark mentioned.
 

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Good mornooning all.

Yesterday we went birdwatching in the Camargue ... a huge are of coastal salt marshes which is also a nature reserve and wetland of international importance designated by Ramsar (part of UNESCO)

It’s famous for its white horses (and black bulls - forgot to photograph those)
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And Greater Flamingoes (we saw thousands but my phone photos of the big flocks didn’t come out)
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Coypu, locally known as Ragondin, are not native but are all over the place. This one is quite small.
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And for lunch we had cuttlefish with razor clams... it looks like some magnified microbe [emoji23] It was served with rice... lots is grown in the area and it’s famous for the red grained variety. Also to accompany it another local dish - ratatouille: stewed tomato, courgette (aka zucchini), aubergine (aka eggplant), bell pepper and garlic with mixed herbs.
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Hey Ben....I’m still not sure why you would worry so much about where your tort has decided to it’s business? Let alone, go to the trouble of blocking access? This might really get your tort bothered since they don’t like change in their environments/habitats.
  • Marge likes to poop in her bed time cave. It’s fun for her but not for me, so I put a barrier over the front of the cave and remove it at her bed time. Today she decided to climb to the top of her cave and push down the barrier.
Our Sully does almost, if not all, of her business in the nice cozy nightbox, aka her cave. Sounds like similar behavior. Id never think of blocking it off.
The substrate in her cave is coco coir, really deep coco coir at that. Before she goes to bed I spray the coir so it’s nice and humid. Poop easily gets lost in coco coir I find and you can imagine all the bacteria. She clearly has shown she wants to poop in there though.
 

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I get my GCSE results back next Thursday..... not looking forward to it. I did the best as I could so I guess we will see what happens.

Fingers crossed for you Ben.

A Level results this Thursday (the public exams taken at age 18)

I shall be nervously awaiting the outcomes of both for my governor schools
 

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Hi All,
Sorry I have been AWOL lately. Work has been super busy and what with me going to gym in the evenings after work, and Jarrod's sports schedule over the weekends I have been too tired to come on. I am not going to read all the posts that I have missed, as there are way too many. My torts are all doing fine - just waiting for spring and summer to come, so that the little ones can spend more time outdoors.
Heather I did see that you got the results from your MRI and I am so sorry to read about the bulging disc. I really hope that the Doctors can help you, and welcome to the "Body wear and tear - Where can I get a new body"Club!
 

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Good mornooning all.

Yesterday we went birdwatching in the Camargue ... a huge are of coastal salt marshes which is also a nature reserve and wetland of international importance designated by Ramsar (part of UNESCO)

It’s famous for its white horses (and black bulls - forgot to photograph those)
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And Greater Flamingoes (we saw thousands but my phone photos of the big flocks didn’t come out)
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Coypu, locally known as Ragondin, are not native but are all over the place. This one is quite small.
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And for lunch we had cuttlefish with razor clams... it looks like some magnified microbe [emoji23] It was served with rice... lots is grown in the area and it’s famous for the red grained variety. Also to accompany it another local dish - ratatouille: stewed tomato, courgette (aka zucchini), aubergine (aka eggplant), bell pepper and garlic with mixed herbs.
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MMMMM. That really looks yummy, although the razor clams look like weird spiders. Love the pictures of the birds.
 

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Well, I'm back on a very limited basis.

Less than 4 weeks after Pete died, I found myself in Eisenhower Med Center. I had an extremely high fever. Turns out I had bilateral lower lobe pneumonia, very involved and serious, with right mid lobe involvement. I had serious colitis, then I went into Atrial fib, then my kidneys failed.

Ended up with 1 kidney dialysis treatment, cardioversion for afib,
and a long road ahead to get over the pneumonia. On day of discharge, after 12 days, I found out I was not expected to survive...BUT I DID!!

Now home, alone but with an excellent support church family, struggling to do even the little stuff, like breathing. LOL!

I will read, but probably l will post only occasionally...please be patient with me.
Oh Karen, Wow, you sure have been having a hard time lately. So sorry but I am very glad to see that you are still with us.:<3:
 

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Hi All,
Sorry I have been AWOL lately. Work has been super busy and what with me going to gym in the evenings after work, and Jarrod's sports schedule over the weekends I have been too tired to come on. I am not going to read all the posts that I have missed, as there are way too many. My torts are all doing fine - just waiting for spring and summer to come, so that the little ones can spend more time outdoors.
Heather I did see that you got the results from your MRI and I am so sorry to read about the bulging disc. I really hope that the Doctors can help you, and welcome to the "Body wear and tear - Where can I get a new body"Club!
Yay Carol!!!

How are your lovely bowsprits :tort:
 

CarolM

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Good morning all and happy Monday.. if @CarolM and @Kristoff don’t show up soon, we are going to have to send out the extraction team! My ferrets have been practicing for just such a mission...:) Hope everyone is well this morning and has a great day!
LOL, I thought I saw two pairs of eyes checking me out this morning!! Was it your two who were responsible. As soon as they saw me looking at them they disappeared.
 

CarolM

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Just want to give a little update for the day..
Finished up my oddball aquarium stand.
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Love the way the finish turned out.
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fastened it to the wall with these and put the couch up to it like was the plan..
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I'll get the aquarium setup on it soon and then I can start putting in the substrate filters and plants. I still have to pick up a few things for the aquarium.
I plan on having too small bubble filters rated for up to 15 gallons on each end. And I'll have a bubble wand probably about 30 in long in the middle. The tank is somewhere around 30 to 32 gallons the best I can figure.
I still have to buy an aquarium light to go on top as well.
This tank will feature a school of tiger barbs which currently resides in one of my other tanks and a school of cherry Barb's including some of the Cherry barbs in one of my other tanks. I may also add another small schooling fish such as the black neon tetra or do a couple of small cichlids such as Bavarian Rams.

Takota the husky puppy is getting friendlier and friendlier with my other two dogs. Here I tried to take a couple pictures of them playing with a toy but they did not turn out the best.
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Takota is beautiful. Congratulations.
 
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