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Uprooting the stumps of trees & gardening in general

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Haven’t been on the NG for a while…. Guess what I did today…. The company had a summer picnic today ( ok, it was postponed until now to reasons out of our control ). They selected a recreational place nearby. It was great. Following the indications of a co-worker, I found a cliff nearby. And the urge of climbing it got stronger and stronger. So, defying the signs that said "no tresspassing.. violators will be prosecuted…" I proceeded to climb this nearly vertical cliff about 200 feet high. It is truly an activity that you can fully accomplish alone. No peer pressure ( actual or assumed ), no distractions… You can at any time decide that another path is better than the one you earlier selected…. Loneliness has its advantages… If I had a family and/or other responsibilities, I might have thought twice about this idea. But being a party of one, I didn’t have to think about it. Maby times, my thoughts were that God has my ife in his hands, and if it pleases Him to take it away, he really could. So I really climbed in faith. With no experience, a bad knee, and no equipment I passed some difficult overhangs, without too much trouble. God had strategically placed some trees growing in the cracks of the rock, that I was able to use to pull myself up a couple of times. So I am now officially a cliff climber. ( sort of ). Back at the party (2 hours later) , I finally jammed a finger playing basketball !!! So, how was your day ? "Eleonore Beaudoin" <bc…@FreeNet.Carleton.CA> wrote in message

news:8r7aga$qkm$1@freenet9.carleton.ca… – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Means they are sent cod;-):):) > Port,collis? > ;-) > Chloe

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Cool.. really cool.. and nope.. I would have had to have a safety cord around my waist for that one.. and they tell me I’m crazy.. giggle Pamela "dan, dhrm77" <___none…@hotmail.com> wrote in message

news:39dfe10a$1@muntnews.marshall.edu… – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Haven’t been on the NG for a while…. > Guess what I did today…. > The company had a summer picnic today ( ok, it was postponed until now to > reasons out of our control ). They selected a recreational place nearby. > It was great. Following the indications of a co-worker, I found a cliff > nearby. And the urge of climbing it got stronger and stronger. > So, defying the signs that said "no tresspassing.. violators will be > prosecuted…" I proceeded to climb this nearly vertical cliff about 200 > feet high. > It is truly an activity that you can fully accomplish alone. No peer > pressure ( actual or assumed ), no distractions… You can at any time > decide that another path is better than the one you earlier selected…. > Loneliness has its advantages… If I had a family and/or other > responsibilities, I might have thought twice about this idea. But being a > party of one, I didn’t have to think about it. > Maby times, my thoughts were that God has my ife in his hands, and if it > pleases Him to take it away, he really could. So I really climbed in faith. > With no experience, a bad knee, and no equipment I passed some difficult > overhangs, without too much trouble. > God had strategically placed some trees growing in the cracks of the rock, > that I was able to use to pull myself up a couple of times. > So I am now officially a cliff climber. ( sort of ). > Back at the party (2 hours later) , I finally jammed a finger playing > basketball !!! > So, how was your day ?

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Means they are sent cod;-):):) Port,collis? ;-) Chloe – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -"dan, dhrm77" (___none…@hotmail.com) writes: > "Wing Commander Sandcastle" <sandcas…@sandcastle.worldonline.co.uk> wrote > in message news:39d67796@news.server.worldonline.co.uk… >> Blimey, I didn’t know there was a thread about this. >> Siamese portcullis radishes! > What do you mean by "Portcullis" ? > I think I understand Siamese radishes… but "portcullis" ???? > Dan >> OTS

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Hi, Ollie! I did not know if your server was back on and did hesitate before deleting your words. But kept the wishes on of the reply I had made to yours:) How’s your Sunday? We ARE Sunday, right? Someone tell me what day we are? I started housecleaning yesterday and might find my turtle, never know, under some of the piles of papers and junk here and there…Doubt it, but never know. My feeling is she must be outdoors, or so is my hope anyway, as otherwise, she might starve to death. They can be a long time without eating, but it was mid July when she disapeared, so…My fear is to find her dead in the basement one day, where I yet checked a good 20 times under everythign and had Kiddo check too for more assurance she would be found would she be there. So I hope she is outdoors, found water, was not tortured by teens:(, and had time to build herself her protection house for winter….She actually left on time to do that, as apparently, those turttles are safe if out before mid July at the latest to have time to prepare for winter. That one had one of her paws frozen white two years ago, in the episode where the furnace motor burtn and the landlord did not replace it, when the house was condemned, and me in the streets. I could not sleep there but went there each day till 2 A.M. and back at 5 A.M. to put the oven on and the portable heaters to make sure the pets would not freeze. It was 50 below then:(. Cats were at the vet as their tail and ears would have fallen… Since the aquarium water did not freeze with my heating up the house as I could, I never expected her to have frozen a leg, but one showed white and lifeless. Gave her many massages to try and bring some life back into the leg, and it worked. But the leg must have stayed more sensitive to cold… I just hope she is okay… Chloe "Wing Commander Sandcastle" (sandcas…@sandcastle.worldonline.co.uk) writes: – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Blimey, I didn’t know there was a thread about this. > Siamese portcullis radishes! > OTS > dan, dhrm77 <___none…@hotmail.com> wrote in message … >>"Eleonore Beaudoin" <bc…@FreeNet.Carleton.CA> wrote in message >>news:8qua6i$rtm$1@freenet9.carleton.ca… >>> "dan, dhrm77" (___none…@hotmail.com) writes: >>> > This was a great thread, I don’t know why it faded so fast ! >>> Cause no one cares about turtles, boohoohoo;-) >>Don’t cry my prefered canadian friend….. >>I do, I do care about turtles, and squirels and rabbit, and chipmunks, and >>alouettes, alouette, je te plumerais… je te plumerai le bec… et le >>bec… et le bec…!!! ( sorry,  that was my minute of insanity ) >>> > "Eleonore Beaudoin" <bc…@FreeNet.Carleton.CA> wrote in message >>> > news:8m4oc1$sgc$1@freenet9.carleton.ca… >>> >> Oh, to have a piece of outdoors to call a yard… >>> >> Todaym, as I walked in the yard, I notcied soemthign at my feet, right >>by >>> >> the little gate, on then outside of the gate: two huge…shedded > turtle >>> >> scales…:( >>> >> Kills me to think maybe she tried getting back and I was not there…. >>> >> But maybe it is just somescales the wind blew my way for memories… >>> >> They were mowing the grass with that tractor type of thing….Gulp. >>> >> I asked them to please let me know if they ever see my turtle… >>> >> Went to check the basement for the 20th/30th? time lat evening. Not a >>> >> turtle trace… >>> >> If ever it was her that is still around and shedded that way, it wouod >>> >> mean she is lacking water and lookign for water…Missing the aquarium >>> >> most likely, and her friend…And perghaps me… >>> >> I waslked around,checking again outdoors under nbushes and fences and >>> >> things. Nothing…I called "To’tue". No answer…;-)… >>> >> Someome how today, I coudl entertain the thought that I woudol find >>> > her…. >>> >> Or that she would find me…That maybe some kids woudl be waiting ehre >>> >> with To’tue in their hands, all happy to give it back to me…. >>> > Did she finally come back, did you finally find her ? >>> No. Not so far anyway…. >>> I however caught the other on time that had also left the aquarium and >>> seemed to be going for a walk in the house, wehre that one never had done >>> that before and was freaking out to be in such a wider space than the >>> aquarium itse;lf. I had to *run* after it, and then calm her down once >>> bacjk in the aquarium where she had lost the notion of "space" and depth, >>> and seing her image reflected on the aquarium glass acting like a mirror, >>> would try and swim right into it thinking it was more space behgin that >>> reflection:(….She was running to hide under a secretary desk I have in >>> the entrance, where I ahd looked thousands of times for the forst one, > but >>> wehre lkooking again, I came to the same conclusion:L the other was not >>> there now either… >>>  >  >> I just never know when to give up hope;-). >>> >> I am sure she would love to be in that Olliatory Stumping Ground…. >>> >> Near that little pond…. >>> >> If you ever see her, just let me know…?;-) >>> > Well, I saw a turtle about 3 or 4 weeks ago, on a dirt path near an >>abandon >>> > rail road… >>> > Probably not yours anyway. I didn’t pick it up to see if it was male or >>> > female… I may not have been able to tell anyway. >>> I could only tell if two turtles of a same species and age were side by >>> side: apparently the male gets to have much longer claws (like double >>> lenght) when he is an adult. But of some species do not have that >>> aprticulariuty, they can be told apart by colors, marks on the side of >>> the face, etc, etc. >>> We thought for eyars ours would be a male and female. Then thought one >>> started growing longer claws (the one left) and had to be male then. But >>> hard to say for sure. I know that the other one would get out regularly >>> looking for a place to lay egs, which they do lay that they are > fertilized >>> or not, as the fertilisation happens only outside the tummy, as the male >>> covers the eggs in the sand. >>> Hm. Wondering now. Could then male sense eggs somwhere in the house and >>> try and get to them?? WShoots. I can imagine 300 baby turtles running all >>> over the place…EEEK!:):). >>> One lost, 300 found?;-):) >>I don’t know about 300 eggs …..!!!! >>One time, as I was doing some gardening, I found some eggs buried in the >>ground, there was about 10 of then, my shovel accidently broke 3 or 4 of >>them, I collected the rest and buried them somewhere else. The dirt was > very >>sandy there, and very close to a river. I assumed that there were turtle >>eggs, there were about 1/2 the size of a chicken egg ( volume-wise ), but I >>suppose they could have been some other eggs…. >>Later I found that the place I had buried the eggs was digged up by some >>other animal, maybe a fox, and the eggs were nowhere to be found… >>>  >  > If I see it again, should I ship it to you ? > >>> No, let the poor thing have its free life. >>> They are not legal to have in Canada anymore, to excactly stop the >>> importation that amde them be outside their element and live a boring > life >>> until someoen would send them in the lose and destroy entire echosystems > . >>> Those two I however had since before the law changed, and only got them >>> exactly cause a drunk was having them in a box that woudl ahve doen lotrd >>> knows what with them, wehre they were hurt and starved, their scales >>> falling off all over, etc. Had them since maybe 15 years now, wehre they >>> already were a good enough size when I had them… >>> >> Treue, people will soon not known how to read. But I think they will >>> >> forget how to handwrite before that, though… >>> > What is "handwriting" ? >>> Sorry, forgot since I last spoke the word… >>> > Dan. >>> Chloe >>> >> As for integrity….I need add nothing to your words on this. >>> >> And for work…Ever thought fo becoming a commissionnaire…?;-) >>> >> Salutations and best wishes, both for work and for liveliness this >>week! >>> >> Pampers and Huggies, >>> >> Chloe >>> >> "Wing Commander Sandcastle" (sandcas…@sandcastle.worldonline.co.uk) >>> > writes: >>> >> > 1. I get exercise >>> >> > 2. I get to see a definite PHYSICAL RESULT – I work for a definite >>end. >>> >> > Being a computer programmer, I get told to do all manner of "work" > on >>my >>> >> > program, but it all gets undone the next day, anyhow. Soon people >>won’t >>> > be >>> >> > able to read, everything will be pretty little pictures. >>> >> > And now tonight I am going over to my parents to uproot some more >>> > stumps. We >>> >> > are gathering the stumps to arrange in a strange sort of thingy that >>I >>> >> > invented a while back, that I call an Olliatory. You put these tree >>> > stumps >>> >> > in an enclosed area, and put various plants and rocks and stuff down >>in >>> > the >>> >> > area also…and it just looks really neat. >>> >> > Wonder when the SciFi channel will feel like showing a different >>series >>> > of >>> >> > MST3K…like, I’ve seen all of the current crop. In fact, I wonder >>when >>> > the >>> >> > SciFi channel will get anything new on AT ALL. It’s just a gigantic >>> > chiz. >>> >> > Why don’t I stop doing what I’m doing for a living and become, I >>dunno, >>> > a >>> >> > Cat Linguist, or some bloke who is paid to do research on people’s >>> > bubblegum >>> >> > preferences…there are so many scam jobs I could get into, why the >>hell >>> > am >>> >> > I even bothering to do an honest day’s work for an honest day’s pay? >>> > Soon >>> >> > the word ‘integrity’ won’t be in the dictionary… >>> >> > OTS

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"Wing Commander Sandcastle" <sandcas…@sandcastle.worldonline.co.uk> wrote in message news:39d67796@news.server.worldonline.co.uk… > Blimey, I didn’t know there was a thread about this. > Siamese portcullis radishes!

What do you mean by "Portcullis" ? I think I understand Siamese radishes… but "portcullis" ???? Dan – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> OTS

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Blimey, I didn’t know there was a thread about this. Siamese portcullis radishes! OTS – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -dan, dhrm77 <___none…@hotmail.com> wrote in message … >"Eleonore Beaudoin" <bc…@FreeNet.Carleton.CA> wrote in message >news:8qua6i$rtm$1@freenet9.carleton.ca… >> "dan, dhrm77" (___none…@hotmail.com) writes: >> > This was a great thread, I don’t know why it faded so fast ! >> Cause no one cares about turtles, boohoohoo;-) >Don’t cry my prefered canadian friend….. >I do, I do care about turtles, and squirels and rabbit, and chipmunks, and >alouettes, alouette, je te plumerais… je te plumerai le bec… et le >bec… et le bec…!!! ( sorry,  that was my minute of insanity ) >> > "Eleonore Beaudoin" <bc…@FreeNet.Carleton.CA> wrote in message >> > news:8m4oc1$sgc$1@freenet9.carleton.ca… >> >> Oh, to have a piece of outdoors to call a yard… >> >> Todaym, as I walked in the yard, I notcied soemthign at my feet, right >by >> >> the little gate, on then outside of the gate: two huge…shedded turtle >> >> scales…:( >> >> Kills me to think maybe she tried getting back and I was not there…. >> >> But maybe it is just somescales the wind blew my way for memories… >> >> They were mowing the grass with that tractor type of thing….Gulp. >> >> I asked them to please let me know if they ever see my turtle… >> >> Went to check the basement for the 20th/30th? time lat evening. Not a >> >> turtle trace… >> >> If ever it was her that is still around and shedded that way, it wouod >> >> mean she is lacking water and lookign for water…Missing the aquarium >> >> most likely, and her friend…And perghaps me… >> >> I waslked around,checking again outdoors under nbushes and fences and >> >> things. Nothing…I called "To’tue". No answer…;-)… >> >> Someome how today, I coudl entertain the thought that I woudol find >> > her…. >> >> Or that she would find me…That maybe some kids woudl be waiting ehre >> >> with To’tue in their hands, all happy to give it back to me…. >> > Did she finally come back, did you finally find her ? >> No. Not so far anyway…. >> I however caught the other on time that had also left the aquarium and >> seemed to be going for a walk in the house, wehre that one never had done >> that before and was freaking out to be in such a wider space than the >> aquarium itse;lf. I had to *run* after it, and then calm her down once >> bacjk in the aquarium where she had lost the notion of "space" and depth, >> and seing her image reflected on the aquarium glass acting like a mirror, >> would try and swim right into it thinking it was more space behgin that >> reflection:(….She was running to hide under a secretary desk I have in >> the entrance, where I ahd looked thousands of times for the forst one, but >> wehre lkooking again, I came to the same conclusion:L the other was not >> there now either… >>  >  >> I just never know when to give up hope;-). >> >> I am sure she would love to be in that Olliatory Stumping Ground…. >> >> Near that little pond…. >> >> If you ever see her, just let me know…?;-) >> > Well, I saw a turtle about 3 or 4 weeks ago, on a dirt path near an >abandon >> > rail road… >> > Probably not yours anyway. I didn’t pick it up to see if it was male or >> > female… I may not have been able to tell anyway. >> I could only tell if two turtles of a same species and age were side by >> side: apparently the male gets to have much longer claws (like double >> lenght) when he is an adult. But of some species do not have that >> aprticulariuty, they can be told apart by colors, marks on the side of >> the face, etc, etc. >> We thought for eyars ours would be a male and female. Then thought one >> started growing longer claws (the one left) and had to be male then. But >> hard to say for sure. I know that the other one would get out regularly >> looking for a place to lay egs, which they do lay that they are fertilized >> or not, as the fertilisation happens only outside the tummy, as the male >> covers the eggs in the sand. >> Hm. Wondering now. Could then male sense eggs somwhere in the house and >> try and get to them?? WShoots. I can imagine 300 baby turtles running all >> over the place…EEEK!:):). >> One lost, 300 found?;-):) >I don’t know about 300 eggs …..!!!! >One time, as I was doing some gardening, I found some eggs buried in the >ground, there was about 10 of then, my shovel accidently broke 3 or 4 of >them, I collected the rest and buried them somewhere else. The dirt was very >sandy there, and very close to a river. I assumed that there were turtle >eggs, there were about 1/2 the size of a chicken egg ( volume-wise ), but I >suppose they could have been some other eggs…. >Later I found that the place I had buried the eggs was digged up by some >other animal, maybe a fox, and the eggs were nowhere to be found… >>  >  > If I see it again, should I ship it to you ? > >> No, let the poor thing have its free life. >> They are not legal to have in Canada anymore, to excactly stop the >> importation that amde them be outside their element and live a boring life >> until someoen would send them in the lose and destroy entire echosystems . >> Those two I however had since before the law changed, and only got them >> exactly cause a drunk was having them in a box that woudl ahve doen lotrd >> knows what with them, wehre they were hurt and starved, their scales >> falling off all over, etc. Had them since maybe 15 years now, wehre they >> already were a good enough size when I had them… >> >> Treue, people will soon not known how to read. But I think they will >> >> forget how to handwrite before that, though… >> > What is "handwriting" ? >> Sorry, forgot since I last spoke the word… >> > Dan. >> Chloe >> >> As for integrity….I need add nothing to your words on this. >> >> And for work…Ever thought fo becoming a commissionnaire…?;-) >> >> Salutations and best wishes, both for work and for liveliness this >week! >> >> Pampers and Huggies, >> >> Chloe >> >> "Wing Commander Sandcastle" (sandcas…@sandcastle.worldonline.co.uk) >> > writes: >> >> > 1. I get exercise >> >> > 2. I get to see a definite PHYSICAL RESULT – I work for a definite >end. >> >> > Being a computer programmer, I get told to do all manner of "work" on >my >> >> > program, but it all gets undone the next day, anyhow. Soon people >won’t >> > be >> >> > able to read, everything will be pretty little pictures. >> >> > And now tonight I am going over to my parents to uproot some more >> > stumps. We >> >> > are gathering the stumps to arrange in a strange sort of thingy that >I >> >> > invented a while back, that I call an Olliatory. You put these tree >> > stumps >> >> > in an enclosed area, and put various plants and rocks and stuff down >in >> > the >> >> > area also…and it just looks really neat. >> >> > Wonder when the SciFi channel will feel like showing a different >series >> > of >> >> > MST3K…like, I’ve seen all of the current crop. In fact, I wonder >when >> > the >> >> > SciFi channel will get anything new on AT ALL. It’s just a gigantic >> > chiz. >> >> > Why don’t I stop doing what I’m doing for a living and become, I >dunno, >> > a >> >> > Cat Linguist, or some bloke who is paid to do research on people’s >> > bubblegum >> >> > preferences…there are so many scam jobs I could get into, why the >hell >> > am >> >> > I even bothering to do an honest day’s work for an honest day’s pay? >> > Soon >> >> > the word ‘integrity’ won’t be in the dictionary… >> >> > OTS

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"dan, dhrm77" (___none…@hotmail.com) writes: > "Eleonore Beaudoin" <bc…@FreeNet.Carleton.CA> wrote in message > news:8qua6i$rtm$1@freenet9.carleton.ca… >> "dan, dhrm77" (___none…@hotmail.com) writes: >> > This was a great thread, I don’t know why it faded so fast ! >> Cause no one cares about turtles, boohoohoo;-) > Don’t cry my prefered canadian friend….. > I do, I do care about turtles,

Oh! Well, okay, then, you can be my friend:)  and squirels and rabbit, and chipmunks, and > alouettes, alouette, je te plumerais… je te plumerai le bec… et le > bec… et le bec…!!! ( sorry,  that was my minute of insanity )

(Hiding my pigeon before you "plumerai" whatever feathers he has left;-):)). Odd memories flashing on that tune. Somewhere in time a bunch of visitors at the farm, young adults, anglo, (20?) were singing Alouette but singing it laughing at us French Canadians that warmly had them over as guests, which made their mockeries double rude. I then started singing with them, where they sang back whatever "bird part" -or so they thought- I woudl say I would "plumerai" in the invented strophes of the song I made up as it came. Little did they know, so filled with their arrogant self, what we made them sing we would "plumerai" them of, heheheeh:), while they went on singing sure they were laughing at us when the joke ended up backfiring on them all that time. Those were my big bad Chloe days:), where my parents tried to not giggle at how I made the thing be turned around while our guests were so sur they were not the idiots:). I remember mom then serving their plates and so on with a big smile replacing her hurt feelings at such mean and arrogant display, and dad, who had stopped cold at the bar-b-q, instantly opting to sing wholeheartedly and joyfully like everyone else around, with the arrogant visitors that acted so fresh in thinking they were laughing at the idiots they mistook us for that they thought were so wholeheartedly made mockery of, not realizing we were "singing back" all right:). Heheheeh:). Baaaad, Chloe, baaaad;-):). But mainly, my parents were happy that what could have been instigating host/guest unrest was made a joyful civilized moment where two nations could so joyfully share in singing in such exhuberant unisson. Trudeau (God save his soul) would have been utterly delighted;-):). <self-incisive snips> >> >  >> I just never know when to give up hope;-). > I don’t know about 300 eggs …..!!!!

Oh. Well… we would have to get married first, though…;-) > One time, as I was doing some gardening, I found some eggs buried in the > ground, there was about 10 of then, my shovel accidently broke 3 or 4 of > them, I collected the rest and buried them somewhere else. The dirt was very > sandy there, and very close to a river. I assumed that there were turtle > eggs, there were about 1/2 the size of a chicken egg ( volume-wise ), but I > suppose they could have been some other eggs…. > Later I found that the place I had buried the eggs was digged up by some > other animal, maybe a fox, and the eggs were nowhere to be found…

Racoons are also known to dig for eggs that way… I am now wondering if any other animal/amphibian/creature lays eggs in the sand like turtles. The eggs my turtle laid were about the same size as some chicken eggs, but much rounder. Exact same size and shape as a ping pong ball, maybe a touch bigger. I found over 100 left in the aquarium when I cleaned it once, where many had broken or decomposed, for having been laid under water:(. The smell gave it away:(. >> >> Salutations and best wishes, both for work and for liveliness this > week! >> >> Pampers and Huggies, >> >>Chloe

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"Eleonore Beaudoin" <bc…@FreeNet.Carleton.CA> wrote in message

news:8qua6i$rtm$1@freenet9.carleton.ca… > "dan, dhrm77" (___none…@hotmail.com) writes: > > This was a great thread, I don’t know why it faded so fast ! > Cause no one cares about turtles, boohoohoo;-)

Don’t cry my prefered canadian friend….. I do, I do care about turtles, and squirels and rabbit, and chipmunks, and alouettes, alouette, je te plumerais… je te plumerai le bec… et le bec… et le bec…!!! ( sorry,  that was my minute of insanity ) – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> > "Eleonore Beaudoin" <bc…@FreeNet.Carleton.CA> wrote in message > > news:8m4oc1$sgc$1@freenet9.carleton.ca… > >> Oh, to have a piece of outdoors to call a yard… > >> Todaym, as I walked in the yard, I notcied soemthign at my feet, right by > >> the little gate, on then outside of the gate: two huge…shedded turtle > >> scales…:( > >> Kills me to think maybe she tried getting back and I was not there…. > >> But maybe it is just somescales the wind blew my way for memories… > >> They were mowing the grass with that tractor type of thing….Gulp. > >> I asked them to please let me know if they ever see my turtle… > >> Went to check the basement for the 20th/30th? time lat evening. Not a > >> turtle trace… > >> If ever it was her that is still around and shedded that way, it wouod > >> mean she is lacking water and lookign for water…Missing the aquarium > >> most likely, and her friend…And perghaps me… > >> I waslked around,checking again outdoors under nbushes and fences and > >> things. Nothing…I called "To’tue". No answer…;-)… > >> Someome how today, I coudl entertain the thought that I woudol find > > her…. > >> Or that she would find me…That maybe some kids woudl be waiting ehre > >> with To’tue in their hands, all happy to give it back to me…. > > Did she finally come back, did you finally find her ? > No. Not so far anyway…. > I however caught the other on time that had also left the aquarium and > seemed to be going for a walk in the house, wehre that one never had done > that before and was freaking out to be in such a wider space than the > aquarium itse;lf. I had to *run* after it, and then calm her down once > bacjk in the aquarium where she had lost the notion of "space" and depth, > and seing her image reflected on the aquarium glass acting like a mirror, > would try and swim right into it thinking it was more space behgin that > reflection:(….She was running to hide under a secretary desk I have in > the entrance, where I ahd looked thousands of times for the forst one, but > wehre lkooking again, I came to the same conclusion:L the other was not > there now either… >  >  >> I just never know when to give up hope;-). > >> I am sure she would love to be in that Olliatory Stumping Ground…. > >> Near that little pond…. > >> If you ever see her, just let me know…?;-) > > Well, I saw a turtle about 3 or 4 weeks ago, on a dirt path near an abandon > > rail road… > > Probably not yours anyway. I didn’t pick it up to see if it was male or > > female… I may not have been able to tell anyway. > I could only tell if two turtles of a same species and age were side by > side: apparently the male gets to have much longer claws (like double > lenght) when he is an adult. But of some species do not have that > aprticulariuty, they can be told apart by colors, marks on the side of > the face, etc, etc. > We thought for eyars ours would be a male and female. Then thought one > started growing longer claws (the one left) and had to be male then. But > hard to say for sure. I know that the other one would get out regularly > looking for a place to lay egs, which they do lay that they are fertilized > or not, as the fertilisation happens only outside the tummy, as the male > covers the eggs in the sand. > Hm. Wondering now. Could then male sense eggs somwhere in the house and > try and get to them?? WShoots. I can imagine 300 baby turtles running all > over the place…EEEK!:):). > One lost, 300 found?;-):)

I don’t know about 300 eggs …..!!!! One time, as I was doing some gardening, I found some eggs buried in the ground, there was about 10 of then, my shovel accidently broke 3 or 4 of them, I collected the rest and buried them somewhere else. The dirt was very sandy there, and very close to a river. I assumed that there were turtle eggs, there were about 1/2 the size of a chicken egg ( volume-wise ), but I suppose they could have been some other eggs…. Later I found that the place I had buried the eggs was digged up by some other animal, maybe a fox, and the eggs were nowhere to be found… – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->  >  > If I see it again, should I ship it to you ? > > No, let the poor thing have its free life. > They are not legal to have in Canada anymore, to excactly stop the > importation that amde them be outside their element and live a boring life > until someoen would send them in the lose and destroy entire echosystems . > Those two I however had since before the law changed, and only got them > exactly cause a drunk was having them in a box that woudl ahve doen lotrd > knows what with them, wehre they were hurt and starved, their scales > falling off all over, etc. Had them since maybe 15 years now, wehre they > already were a good enough size when I had them… > >> Treue, people will soon not known how to read. But I think they will > >> forget how to handwrite before that, though… > > What is "handwriting" ? > Sorry, forgot since I last spoke the word… > > Dan. > Chloe > >> As for integrity….I need add nothing to your words on this. > >> And for work…Ever thought fo becoming a commissionnaire…?;-) > >> Salutations and best wishes, both for work and for liveliness this week! > >> Pampers and Huggies, > >> Chloe > >> "Wing Commander Sandcastle" (sandcas…@sandcastle.worldonline.co.uk) > > writes: > >> > 1. I get exercise > >> > 2. I get to see a definite PHYSICAL RESULT – I work for a definite end. > >> > Being a computer programmer, I get told to do all manner of "work" on my > >> > program, but it all gets undone the next day, anyhow. Soon people won’t > > be > >> > able to read, everything will be pretty little pictures. > >> > And now tonight I am going over to my parents to uproot some more > > stumps. We > >> > are gathering the stumps to arrange in a strange sort of thingy that I > >> > invented a while back, that I call an Olliatory. You put these tree > > stumps > >> > in an enclosed area, and put various plants and rocks and stuff down in > > the > >> > area also…and it just looks really neat. > >> > Wonder when the SciFi channel will feel like showing a different series > > of > >> > MST3K…like, I’ve seen all of the current crop. In fact, I wonder when > > the > >> > SciFi channel will get anything new on AT ALL. It’s just a gigantic > > chiz. > >> > Why don’t I stop doing what I’m doing for a living and become, I dunno, > > a > >> > Cat Linguist, or some bloke who is paid to do research on people’s > > bubblegum > >> > preferences…there are so many scam jobs I could get into, why the hell > > am > >> > I even bothering to do an honest day’s work for an honest day’s pay? > > Soon > >> > the word ‘integrity’ won’t be in the dictionary… > >> > OTS

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"dan, dhrm77" (___none…@hotmail.com) writes: > This was a great thread, I don’t know why it faded so fast !

Cause no one cares about turtles, boohoohoo;-) – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> "Eleonore Beaudoin" <bc…@FreeNet.Carleton.CA> wrote in message > news:8m4oc1$sgc$1@freenet9.carleton.ca… >> Oh, to have a piece of outdoors to call a yard… >> Todaym, as I walked in the yard, I notcied soemthign at my feet, right by >> the little gate, on then outside of the gate: two huge…shedded turtle >> scales…:( >> Kills me to think maybe she tried getting back and I was not there…. >> But maybe it is just somescales the wind blew my way for memories… >> They were mowing the grass with that tractor type of thing….Gulp. >> I asked them to please let me know if they ever see my turtle… >> Went to check the basement for the 20th/30th? time lat evening. Not a >> turtle trace… >> If ever it was her that is still around and shedded that way, it wouod >> mean she is lacking water and lookign for water…Missing the aquarium >> most likely, and her friend…And perghaps me… >> I waslked around,checking again outdoors under nbushes and fences and >> things. Nothing…I called "To’tue". No answer…;-)… >> Someome how today, I coudl entertain the thought that I woudol find > her…. >> Or that she would find me…That maybe some kids woudl be waiting ehre >> with To’tue in their hands, all happy to give it back to me…. > Did she finally come back, did you finally find her ?

No. Not so far anyway…. I however caught the other on time that had also left the aquarium and seemed to be going for a walk in the house, wehre that one never had done that before and was freaking out to be in such a wider space than the aquarium itse;lf. I had to *run* after it, and then calm her down once bacjk in the aquarium where she had lost the notion of "space" and depth, and seing her image reflected on the aquarium glass acting like a mirror, would try and swim right into it thinking it was more space behgin that reflection:(….She was running to hide under a secretary desk I have in the entrance, where I ahd looked thousands of times for the forst one, but wehre lkooking again, I came to the same conclusion:L the other was not there now either…  >  >  >> I just never know when to give up hope;-). >> I am sure she would love to be in that Olliatory Stumping Ground…. >> Near that little pond…. >> If you ever see her, just let me know…?;-) > Well, I saw a turtle about 3 or 4 weeks ago, on a dirt path near an abandon > rail road… > Probably not yours anyway. I didn’t pick it up to see if it was male or > female… I may not have been able to tell anyway.

I could only tell if two turtles of a same species and age were side by side: apparently the male gets to have much longer claws (like double lenght) when he is an adult. But of some species do not have that aprticulariuty, they can be told apart by colors, marks on the side of the face, etc, etc. We thought for eyars ours would be a male and female. Then thought one started growing longer claws (the one left) and had to be male then. But hard to say for sure. I know that the other one would get out regularly looking for a place to lay egs, which they do lay that they are fertilized or not, as the fertilisation happens only outside the tummy, as the male covers the eggs in the sand. Hm. Wondering now. Could then male sense eggs somwhere in the house and try and get to them?? WShoots. I can imagine 300 baby turtles running all over the place…EEEK!:):). One lost, 300 found?;-):)  >  > If I see it again, should I ship it to you ? > No, let the poor thing have its free life. They are not legal to have in Canada anymore, to excactly stop the importation that amde them be outside their element and live a boring life until someoen would send them in the lose and destroy entire echosystems . Those two I however had since before the law changed, and only got them exactly cause a drunk was having them in a box that woudl ahve doen lotrd knows what with them, wehre they were hurt and starved, their scales falling off all over, etc. Had them since maybe 15 years now, wehre they already were a good enough size when I had them… >> Treue, people will soon not known how to read. But I think they will >> forget how to handwrite before that, though… > What is "handwriting" ?

Sorry, forgot since I last spoke the word… > Dan.

Chloe – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->> As for integrity….I need add nothing to your words on this. >> And for work…Ever thought fo becoming a commissionnaire…?;-) >> Salutations and best wishes, both for work and for liveliness this week! >> Pampers and Huggies, >> Chloe >> "Wing Commander Sandcastle" (sandcas…@sandcastle.worldonline.co.uk) > writes: >> > 1. I get exercise >> > 2. I get to see a definite PHYSICAL RESULT – I work for a definite end. >> > Being a computer programmer, I get told to do all manner of "work" on my >> > program, but it all gets undone the next day, anyhow. Soon people won’t > be >> > able to read, everything will be pretty little pictures. >> > And now tonight I am going over to my parents to uproot some more > stumps. We >> > are gathering the stumps to arrange in a strange sort of thingy that I >> > invented a while back, that I call an Olliatory. You put these tree > stumps >> > in an enclosed area, and put various plants and rocks and stuff down in > the >> > area also…and it just looks really neat. >> > Wonder when the SciFi channel will feel like showing a different series > of >> > MST3K…like, I’ve seen all of the current crop. In fact, I wonder when > the >> > SciFi channel will get anything new on AT ALL. It’s just a gigantic > chiz. >> > Why don’t I stop doing what I’m doing for a living and become, I dunno, > a >> > Cat Linguist, or some bloke who is paid to do research on people’s > bubblegum >> > preferences…there are so many scam jobs I could get into, why the hell > am >> > I even bothering to do an honest day’s work for an honest day’s pay? > Soon >> > the word ‘integrity’ won’t be in the dictionary… >> > Bollocks, bollocks, bollocks. >> > I came, I saw, and I said "Bollocks". >> > OTS

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This was a great thread, I don’t know why it faded so fast ! "Eleonore Beaudoin" <bc…@FreeNet.Carleton.CA> wrote in message

news:8m4oc1$sgc$1@freenet9.carleton.ca… – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Oh, to have a piece of outdoors to call a yard… > Todaym, as I walked in the yard, I notcied soemthign at my feet, right by > the little gate, on then outside of the gate: two huge…shedded turtle > scales…:( > Kills me to think maybe she tried getting back and I was not there…. > But maybe it is just somescales the wind blew my way for memories… > They were mowing the grass with that tractor type of thing….Gulp. > I asked them to please let me know if they ever see my turtle… > Went to check the basement for the 20th/30th? time lat evening. Not a > turtle trace… > If ever it was her that is still around and shedded that way, it wouod > mean she is lacking water and lookign for water…Missing the aquarium > most likely, and her friend…And perghaps me… > I waslked around,checking again outdoors under nbushes and fences and > things. Nothing…I called "To’tue". No answer…;-)… > Someome how today, I coudl entertain the thought that I woudol find her…. > Or that she would find me…That maybe some kids woudl be waiting ehre > with To’tue in their hands, all happy to give it back to me….

Did she finally come back, did you finally find her ? > I just never know when to give up hope;-). > I am sure she would love to be in that Olliatory Stumping Ground…. > Near that little pond…. > If you ever see her, just let me know…?;-)

Well, I saw a turtle about 3 or 4 weeks ago, on a dirt path near an abandon rail road… Probably not yours anyway. I didn’t pick it up to see if it was male or female… I may not have been able to tell anyway. If I see it again, should I ship it to you ? > Treue, people will soon not known how to read. But I think they will > forget how to handwrite before that, though…

What is "handwriting" ? Dan. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> As for integrity….I need add nothing to your words on this. > And for work…Ever thought fo becoming a commissionnaire…?;-) > Salutations and best wishes, both for work and for liveliness this week! > Pampers and Huggies, > Chloe > "Wing Commander Sandcastle" (sandcas…@sandcastle.worldonline.co.uk) writes: > > 1. I get exercise > > 2. I get to see a definite PHYSICAL RESULT – I work for a definite end. > > Being a computer programmer, I get told to do all manner of "work" on my > > program, but it all gets undone the next day, anyhow. Soon people won’t be > > able to read, everything will be pretty little pictures. > > And now tonight I am going over to my parents to uproot some more stumps. We > > are gathering the stumps to arrange in a strange sort of thingy that I > > invented a while back, that I call an Olliatory. You put these tree stumps > > in an enclosed area, and put various plants and rocks and stuff down in the > > area also…and it just looks really neat. > > Wonder when the SciFi channel will feel like showing a different series of > > MST3K…like, I’ve seen all of the current crop. In fact, I wonder when the > > SciFi channel will get anything new on AT ALL. It’s just a gigantic chiz. > > Why don’t I stop doing what I’m doing for a living and become, I dunno, a > > Cat Linguist, or some bloke who is paid to do research on people’s bubblegum > > preferences…there are so many scam jobs I could get into, why the hell am > > I even bothering to do an honest day’s work for an honest day’s pay? Soon > > the word ‘integrity’ won’t be in the dictionary… > > Bollocks, bollocks, bollocks. > > I came, I saw, and I said "Bollocks". > > OTS

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Hi OTS ! Out of boredom, I thought I would answer this post of yours. So how is your Oliatory now, since summer is over in England. May I ask what language you proram in ? And how many tree stumps did you finally uproot ? Dan. "Wing Commander Sandcastle" <sandcas…@sandcastle.worldonline.co.uk> wrote in message news:3985aa9f@news.server.worldonline.co.uk… – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> 1. I get exercise > 2. I get to see a definite PHYSICAL RESULT – I work for a definite end. > Being a computer programmer, I get told to do all manner of "work" on my > program, but it all gets undone the next day, anyhow. Soon people won’t be > able to read, everything will be pretty little pictures. > And now tonight I am going over to my parents to uproot some more stumps. We > are gathering the stumps to arrange in a strange sort of thingy that I > invented a while back, that I call an Olliatory. You put these tree stumps > in an enclosed area, and put various plants and rocks and stuff down in the > area also…and it just looks really neat. > Wonder when the SciFi channel will feel like showing a different series of > MST3K…like, I’ve seen all of the current crop. In fact, I wonder when the > SciFi channel will get anything new on AT ALL. It’s just a gigantic chiz. > Why don’t I stop doing what I’m doing for a living and become, I dunno, a > Cat Linguist, or some bloke who is paid to do research on people’s bubblegum > preferences…there are so many scam jobs I could get into, why the hell am > I even bothering to do an honest day’s work for an honest day’s pay? Soon > the word ‘integrity’ won’t be in the dictionary… > Bollocks, bollocks, bollocks. > I came, I saw, and I said "Bollocks". > OTS

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Oh, to have a piece of outdoors to call a yard… Todaym, as I walked in the yard, I notcied soemthign at my feet, right by the little gate, on then outside of the gate: two huge…shedded turtle scales…:( Kills me to think maybe she tried getting back and I was not there…. But maybe it is just somescales the wind blew my way for memories… They were mowing the grass with that tractor type of thing….Gulp. I asked them to please let me know if they ever see my turtle… Went to check the basement for the 20th/30th? time lat evening. Not a turtle trace… If ever it was her that is still around and shedded that way, it wouod mean she is lacking water and lookign for water…Missing the aquarium most likely, and her friend…And perghaps me… I waslked around,checking again outdoors under nbushes and fences and things. Nothing…I called "To’tue". No answer…;-)… Someome how today, I coudl entertain the thought that I woudol find her…. Or that she would find me…That maybe some kids woudl be waiting ehre with To’tue in their hands, all happy to give it back to me…. I just never know when to give up hope;-). I am sure she would love to be in that Olliatory Stumping Ground…. Near that little pond…. If you ever see her, just let me know…?;-) Treue, people will soon not known how to read. But I think they will forget how to handwrite before that, though… As for integrity….I need add nothing to your words on this. And for work…Ever thought fo becoming a commissionnaire…?;-) Salutations and best wishes, both for work and for liveliness this week! Pampers and Huggies, Chloe "Wing Commander Sandcastle" (sandcas…@sandcastle.worldonline.co.uk) writes: – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> 1. I get exercise > 2. I get to see a definite PHYSICAL RESULT – I work for a definite end. > Being a computer programmer, I get told to do all manner of "work" on my > program, but it all gets undone the next day, anyhow. Soon people won’t be > able to read, everything will be pretty little pictures. > And now tonight I am going over to my parents to uproot some more stumps. We > are gathering the stumps to arrange in a strange sort of thingy that I > invented a while back, that I call an Olliatory. You put these tree stumps > in an enclosed area, and put various plants and rocks and stuff down in the > area also…and it just looks really neat. > Wonder when the SciFi channel will feel like showing a different series of > MST3K…like, I’ve seen all of the current crop. In fact, I wonder when the > SciFi channel will get anything new on AT ALL. It’s just a gigantic chiz. > Why don’t I stop doing what I’m doing for a living and become, I dunno, a > Cat Linguist, or some bloke who is paid to do research on people’s bubblegum > preferences…there are so many scam jobs I could get into, why the hell am > I even bothering to do an honest day’s work for an honest day’s pay? Soon > the word ‘integrity’ won’t be in the dictionary… > Bollocks, bollocks, bollocks. > I came, I saw, and I said "Bollocks". > OTS

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1. I get exercise 2. I get to see a definite PHYSICAL RESULT – I work for a definite end. Being a computer programmer, I get told to do all manner of "work" on my program, but it all gets undone the next day, anyhow. Soon people won’t be able to read, everything will be pretty little pictures. And now tonight I am going over to my parents to uproot some more stumps. We are gathering the stumps to arrange in a strange sort of thingy that I invented a while back, that I call an Olliatory. You put these tree stumps in an enclosed area, and put various plants and rocks and stuff down in the area also…and it just looks really neat. Wonder when the SciFi channel will feel like showing a different series of MST3K…like, I’ve seen all of the current crop. In fact, I wonder when the SciFi channel will get anything new on AT ALL. It’s just a gigantic chiz. Why don’t I stop doing what I’m doing for a living and become, I dunno, a Cat Linguist, or some bloke who is paid to do research on people’s bubblegum preferences…there are so many scam jobs I could get into, why the hell am I even bothering to do an honest day’s work for an honest day’s pay? Soon the word ‘integrity’ won’t be in the dictionary… Bollocks, bollocks, bollocks. I came, I saw, and I said "Bollocks". OTS

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