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CarolM

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Good mornooning all from a very soggy corner of the UK. (Not that there’s much unity in our kingdom given what’s going on politically at the moment :( )

The weekend involved sport. Needless to say we couldn’t watch all of it!
  • 4 Rugby world cup quarter finals to keep up with... England beat Australia (Yay!) and will play New Zealand in the semi final who beat Ireland ( :( ). Wales beat France (Yay!) and will play South Africa in the Semi Final (Yay for Carol) who beat Japan. Carol and I will be on opposing sides next weekend
  • JoesDad and I went to see his football team, Luton Town FC, beat Bristol City on Saturday
  • And Andy Murray won his first tournament since 2017 and hip surgery this year :)

We also visited the in-laws yesterday which was a bit stressful, but we survived.

I am going to leave this graphic with you which I think is rather horrifying. Halloween costumes alone in the UK equate to 83 million single use plastic coca cola bottles being discarded. Think about that and then add on all the other plastic things that get bought and discarded the same month: fake web, fake pumpkins, decorations, etc. Then multiply it up by all the other countries on this poor polluted planet. Is the way Halloween is currently celebrated really worth killing the planet for?

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And may the best team Win!!! Well done to England by the way.
 

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Whew! Thank goodness I was able to afford that little toy riding mower a few years ago. I never would have been able to mow the desert tortoise yard without it. It may be little and funny-looking, and have only one mower bank, but it works like a trouper!

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Yesterday I ran the weedeater all around the edges of the yard to prepare for mowing:
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But I can't get the mower into the Texas tortoise yard - no gate, so I have to chop their grass with the weedeater. Their yard is next door to the right:
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So glad to have at least one yard finished:

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The leopard yard is left to do, but that's for another day!
 

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Ray--Opo

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Whew! Thank goodness I was able to afford that little toy riding mower a few years ago. I never would have been able to mow the desert tortoise yard without it. It may be little and funny-looking, and have only one mower bank, but it works like a trouper!

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Yesterday I ran the weedeater all around the edges of the yard to prepare for mowing:
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But I can't get the mower into the Texas tortoise yard - no gate, so I have to chop their grass with the weedeater. Their yard is next door to the right:
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So glad to have at least one yard finished:

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The leopard yard is left to do, but that's for another day!
Nice work. You have a lot of property there.
 

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Good mornooning all from a very soggy corner of the UK. (Not that there’s much unity in our kingdom given what’s going on politically at the moment :( )

The weekend involved sport. Needless to say we couldn’t watch all of it!
  • 4 Rugby world cup quarter finals to keep up with... England beat Australia (Yay!) and will play New Zealand in the semi final who beat Ireland ( :( ). Wales beat France (Yay!) and will play South Africa in the Semi Final (Yay for Carol) who beat Japan. Carol and I will be on opposing sides next weekend
  • JoesDad and I went to see his football team, Luton Town FC, beat Bristol City on Saturday
  • And Andy Murray won his first tournament since 2017 and hip surgery this year :)

We also visited the in-laws yesterday which was a bit stressful, but we survived.

I am going to leave this graphic with you which I think is rather horrifying. Halloween costumes alone in the UK equate to 83 million single use plastic coca cola bottles being discarded. Think about that and then add on all the other plastic things that get bought and discarded the same month: fake web, fake pumpkins, decorations, etc. Then multiply it up by all the other countries on this poor polluted planet. Is the way Halloween is currently celebrated really worth killing the planet for?

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That's too true. One of the things I really enjoyed doing with my kids was a taffy pull at that time of year. My kids were inviting their friends back for next year during the pulling because it gets crazy. You have a sticky kitchen when you're done though if you didn't cook it right.
 

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Hi Ya Anne. Glad to see that you are okay. All good on my side as well, especially for the torts. They are enjoying summer time.
I'm trying to get Saphire out as often and for as long as I can during fall. Winter is coming quickly. December, January, and February is usually the worst of our winter. But Ohio is weird. You can go outside without a jacket on Christmas day and need a sled a few hours later.
 

CarolM

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Whew! Thank goodness I was able to afford that little toy riding mower a few years ago. I never would have been able to mow the desert tortoise yard without it. It may be little and funny-looking, and have only one mower bank, but it works like a trouper!

View attachment 282515

Yesterday I ran the weedeater all around the edges of the yard to prepare for mowing:
View attachment 282513

But I can't get the mower into the Texas tortoise yard - no gate, so I have to chop their grass with the weedeater. Their yard is next door to the right:
View attachment 282513

So glad to have at least one yard finished:

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The leopard yard is left to do, but that's for another day!
Wow, Well done on an awesome job.
 

CarolM

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I'm trying to get Saphire out as often and for as long as I can during fall. Winter is coming quickly. December, January, and February is usually the worst of our winter. But Ohio is weird. You can go outside without a jacket on Christmas day and need a sled a few hours later.
LOL, sounds a bit like here, maybe not so extreme, but you can dress for summer in the morning and then later will need to add on clothes as if it is winter. (well in winter time that is.) In summer time it is just plain hot and a person cannot take off enough clothes to get cool. It sucks being a woman in summer time here. I prefer winter.
 

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Okay, finally able to post some pics for you guys. I forgot to take a picture of the place we were staying in, but I got some nice pics of The catholic church St'Jsoeph's Catholic Church, the beach, an unusual flower (I don't know what it is called) and a lizard and bird (Which I presume is a common one )

Sunset from the balcony of where we stayed:

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Kommetijie beach:

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The pretty flower:

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St'Joseph's Catholic Church. This is where My Mom's ashes are kept. I haven't been here in years and it was nice to see that she was finally put on the wall of remembrance:

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The lizard was visiting the wall of remembrance and having a nice snack on the ants on the wall.

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The bird on the beach:

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Good morning everyone, one more day and my mother in law returns to the Philippines until Feb. She has been such a great help for my wife and I. Hopefully she will return but all her family is there. She says she is returning but I said to her I wanted her to be happy and don't feel obligated. She doesn't drive so her life style is quite different here.
 

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Yes I would love to send him a card. I would love a way to just say thankyou! for giving me a way to help my tortoise through real info.
Maybe the administrators would agree to be go betweens to preserve their privacy. We add a stamp to the card and send it in a second envelope that has its own. The administrators could then address the envelope and put it into the mail! It is extra work for them though
 

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I had planned to mow two tortoise yards that had been growing all summer with no mower attention from me. The grass is a little over a foot tall in both yards. Not a big deal, because I have a toy riding mower, but I have to go over it once with the mower set on high, then over it again maybe two more times at lower settings. So I go outside and WHAT??? Foggy????? My weatherman never told me it was going to be foggy today. No way I'm going to try to mow wet almost 2' tall grass!
Toy mower or Tow mower. Growing up my family moved to the country and had a 1 1/2 acre lot. I used a push mower the first then my dad got me a riding mower. He thought it was hilarious that he got me a riding mower that had a cutting deck the same size as the push mower. Not to mention I could walk faster.
 

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Good morning everyone, one more day and my mother in law returns to the Philippines until Feb. She has been such a great help for my wife and I. Hopefully she will return but all her family is there. She says she is returning but I said to her I wanted her to be happy and don't feel obligated. She doesn't drive so her life style is quite different here.
Shame. I hope she has a safe trip.
 

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Okay, finally able to post some pics for you guys. I forgot to take a picture of the place we were staying in, but I got some nice pics of The catholic church St'Jsoeph's Catholic Church, the beach, an unusual flower (I don't know what it is called) and a lizard and bird (Which I presume is a common one )

Sunset from the balcony of where we stayed:

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Kommetijie beach:

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The pretty flower:

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St'Joseph's Catholic Church. This is where My Mom's ashes are kept. I haven't been here in years and it was nice to see that she was finally put on the wall of remembrance:

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The lizard was visiting the wall of remembrance and having a nice snack on the ants on the wall.

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The bird on the beach:

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Some great pix there! Nice .
 

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Maybe the administrators would agree to be go betweens to preserve their privacy. We add a stamp to the card and send it in a second envelope that has its own. The administrators could then address the envelope and put it into the mail! It is extra work for them though[/QU
Okay, finally able to post some pics for you guys. I forgot to take a picture of the place we were staying in, but I got some nice pics of The catholic church St'Jsoeph's Catholic Church, the beach, an unusual flower (I don't know what it is called) and a lizard and bird (Which I presume is a common one )

Sunset from the balcony of where we stayed:

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Kommetijie beach:

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The pretty flower:

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St'Joseph's Catholic Church. This is where My Mom's ashes are kept. I haven't been here in years and it was nice to see that she was finally put on the wall of remembrance:

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The lizard was visiting the wall of remembrance and having a nice snack on the ants on the wall.

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The bird on the beach:

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Lovely postcards. Thank you Carol
 
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