COLD DARK ROOM

[Yvonne G]

Joe has been having a problem with his eyes on top of being totally deaf. It's a form of glaucoma and he already had macular degeneration. He's on 5 different drops a day several times a day each lately. If you think of him will you say a little prayer 🙏 I'm using graphing paper to make sure I get the drops right.

Poor Joe. My son has to do the glaucoma eye drop thing and he says the drops sting like hell! I'm wondering how you manage to get it across to a deaf person that putting this really bad stinging stuff in your eyes is a good thing. How do you communicate?

 

[Yvonne G]

My family and I put up the tree on Thanksgiving...antique ornaments...

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and Dale Earnhardt!View attachment 364306
Merry Christmas from Dale Turlehardt and me....oh, and Mary

Bah, Humbug!

 

[Yvonne G]

Well, a lot has changed in my life since the last time I shared with you all. My tortoise partner was kind enough to come and get most of my tortoises, and I'm left with a more managable-to-an-85-year-old-woman groupl of animals. I have a nice breeding group of Geochelone denticulata, three groups that brumate (CDT, Russian, Texas) and a lone Manouria emys emys, three years old, that was born with no eyes. My food bill went from $150 a week to $30. I'm so comfortable with the less use of electricity that I'm able to actually run my space heater in my bedroom for ME! It takes me just a few minutes morning and evening to tend the animals.

I've never fully recovered from when I broke my knee cap and wrist, and haven't been able to take care of things outside needing care, so less animals to care for gives me more time to do outside chores, as I'm able. I just wish I could win the Lotto so I had enough money to hire stuff done!

 

[MaNaAk]

Happy Xmas Everyone!

 

[zolasmum]

Hello Natrah - my mum and dad have got me these two Christmas
plants for my room - not to eat, though !
How pretty your decorations look!
Love from Zola xxxxx

 

[MaNaAk]

Hello Natrah - my mum and dad have got me these two Christmas
plants for my room - not to eat, though !
How pretty your decorations look!
Love from Zola xxxxx



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❤️🐢

 

[Yvonne G]

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That's a beautiful bit of crochet work!

 

[Cathie G]

Poor Joe. My son has to do the glaucoma eye drop thing and he says the drops sting like hell! I'm wondering how you manage to get it across to a deaf person that putting this really bad stinging stuff in your eyes is a good thing. How do you communicate?

That time I had to write to him and ask the question ❓ do you want to be blind and deaf? So he's waking me up at midnight to get his last drops for the day. I'm glad he got it and is trying to help. He's also develomentally disabled but he understood that time.

 

[Cathie G]

Well, a lot has changed in my life since the last time I shared with you all. My tortoise partner was kind enough to come and get most of my tortoises, and I'm left with a more managable-to-an-85-year-old-woman groupl of animals. I have a nice breeding group of Geochelone denticulata, three groups that brumate (CDT, Russian, Texas) and a lone Manouria emys emys, three years old, that was born with no eyes. My food bill went from $150 a week to $30. I'm so comfortable with the less use of electricity that I'm able to actually run my space heater in my bedroom for ME! It takes me just a few minutes morning and evening to tend the animals.

I've never fully recovered from when I broke my knee cap and wrist, and haven't been able to take care of things outside needing care, so less animals to care for gives me more time to do outside chores, as I'm able. I just wish I could win the Lotto so I had enough money to hire stuff done!

You were so much worse than my situation. I only fractured my knee cap but you also broke your wrist. My heart was breaking for you. Maybe the "little bit of rest" will do you good.🤗

 

[Cathie G]

And well 😜 yes.

😉Cathie 🐢

And just to prove I Am the biggest procrastinator in the world I'll prove it 😁 I have a good excuse 🤗

 

[Yvonne G]

I sent Ray an email but haven't heard back from him yet.

 

[Blackdog1714]

Hope everyone is having a happy holidays! Sorry to the Christmas card group I had to sacrifice all my free time to work on my kitchen, but thank you for the ones I got! Kitchen is maybe 75% done- trim, gas line for stove, backslash etc need done. Happy with pennies I saved for sure since this is a hundred times better than before. The butcherblocks are great and look forward to them getting a used look. Nice to have some counter space to make tortoise loaf on! Bermuda grass pellets, hibiscus, plantain & agar agar. Stove would be functional if Amazon would have made the delivery like the advertised oh well!

 

[jeff kushner]

You know Y, I never really view you as someone who does what you do, I see you as a "guider & teacher" so to hear your home chores were taking up so much time/effort and now it's easier makes me happy for you. I am looking ahead and setting things up to be as simple as possible for "me in 20 yrs" to do.
Thanks for reaching out to Ray too.


Ms Cathie, from what year are those cards? Wait a sec.....that's not you from .....1-3-5-10-15-...(go ahead, stop me at any time) YEARS AGO???? LOL


Man I love those countertops! I have the "blond butcherblock" the fake kind and HATE them. I wanted to change them but in 17 yrs it didn't happen...sad isn't it? LOL I'm stoked for you though and love that you did it yourself...... looks like you got the last "unreg'ed" gas stove on the market too! Is that hardwood floors under the protection? Nice

 

[Blackdog1714]

You know Y, I never really view you as someone who does what you do, I see you as a "guider & teacher" so to hear your home chores were taking up so much time/effort and now it's easier makes me happy for you. I am looking ahead and setting things up to be as simple as possible for "me in 20 yrs" to do.
Thanks for reaching out to Ray too.


Ms Cathie, from what year are those cards? Wait a sec.....that's not you from .....1-3-5-10-15-...(go ahead, stop me at any time) YEARS AGO???? LOL


Man I love those countertops! I have the "blond butcherblock" the fake kind and HATE them. I wanted to change them but in 17 yrs it didn't happen...sad isn't it? LOL I'm stoked for you though and love that you did it yourself...... looks like you got the last "unreg'ed" gas stove on the market too! Is that hardwood floors under the protection? Nice

Yep heartpine floors underneath and it's an LG stove with blue interior

 

[MaNaAk]

Hello Natrah - my mum and dad have got me these two Christmas
plants for my room - not to eat, though !
How pretty your decorations look!
Love from Zola xxxxx



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Very pretty Zola ❤️!

Natrah

 

[MaNaAk]

Hope everyone is having a happy holidays! Sorry to the Christmas card group I had to sacrifice all my free time to work on my kitchen, but thank you for the ones I got! Kitchen is maybe 75% done- trim, gas line for stove, backslash etc need done. Happy with pennies I saved for sure since this is a hundred times better than before. The butcherblocks are great and look forward to them getting a used look. Nice to have some counter space to make tortoise loaf on! Bermuda grass pellets, hibiscus, plantain & agar agar. Stove would be functional if Amazon would have made the delivery like the advertised oh well!

Beautiful but is that the base of a Xmas cake in the plastic container @Blackdog1714?

Natrah

 

[MaNaAk]

You were so much worse than my situation. I only fractured my knee cap but you also broke your wrist. My heart was breaking for you. Maybe the "little bit of rest" will do you good.🤗

Ouch!!!!;

Natrah

 

[MaNaAk]

That time I had to write to him and ask the question ❓ do you want to be blind and deaf? So he's waking me up at midnight to get his last drops for the day. I'm glad he got it and is trying to help. He's also develomentally disabled but he understood that time.

Hope you're okay @Cathie G. I found time to phone my former employer today and I'm sorry to say this but she is not well. It was a difficult conversation where I had to explain old memories and current situations and I don't think she's hard of hearing. Several years ago she admitted that she doesn't have a good memory because of lead poisoning but I never noticed it before but she does have a carer who takes her out to lunch

Goodnight

Natrah

 

[MaNaAk]

That's a beautiful bit of crochet work!

Thankyou Yvonne but I am really feel for you having fractured your wrist and knee mind you one of my adult pupils will be having an operation on her ankle which involves smashing it!

Natrah

 

[Cathie G]

Hope everyone is having a happy holidays! Sorry to the Christmas card group I had to sacrifice all my free time to work on my kitchen, but thank you for the ones I got! Kitchen is maybe 75% done- trim, gas line for stove, backslash etc need done. Happy with pennies I saved for sure since this is a hundred times better than before. The butcherblocks are great and look forward to them getting a used look. Nice to have some counter space to make tortoise loaf on! Bermuda grass pellets, hibiscus, plantain & agar agar. Stove would be functional if Amazon would have made the delivery like the advertised oh well!

😉 You're fine. I still have the last one 😊😁