COLD DARK ROOM

[JoesMum]

I received an alert from by bank about a cyber incident but I’m assured that my information has not been shared and arrests have been made.. Hope this covers it!!! [emoji33][emoji33][emoji33]

Oh dear. It happens all too often. We had to get new cards last time it happened. Inconvenient, but no money lost thank goodness

 

[CarolM]

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A nice crunchy snack. A few years ago we went to Rome and on one particular day we went to the coliseum. We were sitting outside it on a wall just enjoying the sights when something crawled over my foot. It was a brightly coloured lizard. I know now that it is called a “Italian wall lizard”, the locals must of thought I was mad for showing such interest in it, they treat them like pests.

"One man's junk is another man's treasure" and in this case it would be "one man's pest is another man's wonder!!"

 

[CarolM]

We have 3 native lizard species: Common Lizards, Slow Worms and the extremely rare Sand Lizards (that live, as it sounds, on sand dunes)

You guys have Sand Dunes?

 

[CarolM]

Wow Carol, I never knew we had so much in common [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]

Whahahaha.

 

[CarolM]

Interesting Factoid: San Francisco Airport will as of today stop selling bottled water (in plastic containers) in an effort to cut down on waste by 2021. Reportedly, SFO sells about 10,000 plastic bottles of water PER DAY! wow... They are installing hydration stations to encourage folks to use and refill their own reusable bottles. Travelers be ware.

News clip - San Francisco International Airport is rolling out a ban to end the sale of plastic water bottles at its convenience stores, restaurants and vending machines. The ban, which begins on Tuesday, is part of the airport's latest effort to become the world's first zero-waste airport by 2021

Nice to know.

 

[CarolM]

Those darn immigrants! [emoji33][emoji33][emoji23] (I know, I know, naughty step, here I come...)

Are you referring to the human variety or the lizards?

 

[CarolM]

Good mornooning, roommates! I was having coffee in the backyard and got run over by a gang of black squirrels. They stole my almond cookies and then escaped using electric wires. Total nut jobs! Is that a normal sight for North America or is it just Ottawa? I have a break in my freelance work, so it’s a housework day.

Do you think that they have been taking lessons from the Meerkats and the Ghost Shrimp?

 

[CarolM]

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The breeder kept her as a holdback for a few weeks "to keep an eye on her" to see how her color and markings would develop. When we discussed wanting to breed Indominus (visual hypo trans Witblits) with the breeder, she recommended the little red lady, who has the right breeding to produce healthy baby dragons with our guy... Possibly as soon as next year, since the red lady comes from a line of females that tend to mature earlier than most.

oohhh exciting!!!

 

[CarolM]

Thank you! They are so tiny, but not as tiny in carapace length and width as the mud turtles started out. The spotted turtle hatchlings are flatter in shape, vs. the muds at that age and size. The muds definitely had/have bigger mouths!

What size to they grow up to be? Are they small or large?

 

[CarolM]

Hopefully Indy (Indominus) will develop a great affinity for a certain Lady in Red... When she's old enough, that is.

It will probably be several months before we introduce them in person. Otherwise... Australia is a lizard-eat-lizard world, and we don't want him deciding she's an entree.

We want a female Zero (white, no visual pattern / markings) to breed, as well. The breeder won't have any that are safely compatible with Indy's genetics until next spring or early summer. So we may be adding a little white lady dragon next year.

Oh I am so very jealous. When my baby torts outgrow their indoor enclosure and hopefully I have no new babies, I want to try either getting a small turtle or a dragon of my own.

 

[CarolM]

Come on Selma you can do it, almost at the 400 gram mark

Just give her some food, that should push her over the 400g mark.

 

[CarolM]

Yipes! I just went to instagram and my friend Google pulled up an account that I must've made a lot time ago. It says I'm Even Gomer or @gomereven. Hm-m-m. Now I wonder what the one I made today is.

Whahahaha.

 

[CarolM]

Good Morning All,
Some interesting posts today, what with lizards playing stowaway, and running over tourists (I mean what is this world coming to when the locals treat their tourists like they are common road ways? Tut tut tut). And dragons in the making - making roommates in South Africa jealous! And then there is the horror of our regular bird and postcard updater leaving us for 8 weeks in the near future. I am not sure if I can survive not not seeing a certain person post a post on a daily basis. OH the withdrawal symptoms will be horrible.

It is Hump day today, and I was wishing a colleague of mine a good one, and he asked me what that meant, so I of course told him that it was referring to a Wednesday being the middle of the week and therefore it was a hump that need to be gotten over to get to Thursday, I paused and then told him that of course there could be another meaning to it, if he wanted to think like that. whereby he then told me that in his community that was referred to as a pineapple evening. You guys can read that however you like, because that is all I am going to share with you.

 

[JoesMum]

You guys have Sand Dunes?

Doesn’t everyone? On the coast where the wind and weather rearrange the sands the dunes form and vegetation starts to grow.

They’re not massive like in the sahara, but they’re dunes nonetheless

 

[JoesMum]

Are you referring to the human variety or the lizards?

It’s a sore point in the UK. The Brexit vote to leave the EU was triggered by a section of our population who felt there were too many immigrants. The reality being that the migrants they feared weren’t from the EU and Brexit wasn’t going to change that. I didn’t vote for Brexit. (End of political commentary before I get told off)

Lena was being very topical with her joke [emoji16]

 

[JoesMum]

Do you think that they have been taking lessons from the Meerkats and the Ghost Shrimp?

Quite possibly! Let’s hope the wool spider, if she exists, can keep them distracted. I am sure she can knit plenty of challenges for them!

 

[JoesMum]

Good Morning All,
Some interesting posts today, what with lizards playing stowaway, and running over tourists (I mean what is this world coming to when the locals treat their tourists like they are common road ways? Tut tut tut). And dragons in the making - making roommates in South Africa jealous! And then there is the horror of our regular bird and postcard updater leaving us for 8 weeks in the near future. I am not sure if I can survive not not seeing a certain person post a post on a daily basis. OH the withdrawal symptoms will be horrible.

It is Hump day today, and I was wishing a colleague of mine a good one, and he asked me what that meant, so I of course told him that it was referring to a Wednesday being the middle of the week and therefore it was a hump that need to be gotten over to get to Thursday, I paused and then told him that of course there could be another meaning to it, if he wanted to think like that. whereby he then told me that in his community that was referred to as a pineapple evening. You guys can read that however you like, because that is all I am going to share with you.
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[JoesMum]

Good mornooning and happy Wednesday everyone [emoji4]

 

[CarolM]

Doesn’t everyone? On the coast where the wind and weather rearrange the sands the dunes form and vegetation starts to grow.

They’re not massive like in the sahara, but they’re dunes nonetheless

I just did not think that with all the rain you guys get that a dune would have a chance to form. Ha, you learn something new everyday.

 

[CarolM]

Quite possibly! Let’s hope the wool spider, if she exists, can keep them distracted. I am sure she can knit plenty of challenges for them!

Maybe she (if she exists) can knit some handcuffs so that we can detain them and put them somewhere where they will do no harm!