Plan B Forum

The Hen wrote:You'd have to have had pay TV (in some form) to see that here. We aren't that interested in paying for telly yet.

@meric@nwom@n wrote:Humbug. Getting old sucks. If you can't realize that then dementia already had you by the throat.

Gob wrote:Today has been made even more exciting, by seeing my first ever wild turtle!!!

(Not running over it was a bonus.)

oldr_n_wsr wrote:I see wild turtles all the time. Up at teh lake house we have eastern painted, snapping, mud and musk turtles. Here on LI we have some of the same in addition to the Box turtle (which is actually a tortoise). We have a box turtle in the neighborhood who visits my yard every couple of weeks.

loCAtek wrote:San Ho still has turtles in it's creeks and reservoirs. It's very heartening to see them floating or sunning themselves, in some of the most surprising man-made places. I take that to mean, we haven't polluted the natural waters to the point that it's stopping the turtles from coming back, no matter how often we try to push them out.

oldr_n_wsr wrote:

loCAtek wrote:San Ho still has turtles in it's creeks and reservoirs. It's very heartening to see them floating or sunning themselves, in some of the most surprising man-made places. I take that to mean, we haven't polluted the natural waters to the point that it's stopping the turtles from coming back, no matter how often we try to push them out.

You want to know the number one predictor of pollutions/man made screwing with the environment? Look to the frog. It has been my experience that in the last 20-30 years the frog population has plummeted. I used to routienly see toads in my back yard and I haven't seen one in years. Up at the lake where bull frogs, lepord frogs and common green frogs (let alone toads) were once so common you could barely avoid seeing them, stepping on them or running them over with your car, they all but disappeared. Where once the summer night was filled with teh bellowing of large bull frogs it is now almost silent. Now our lake is no where near polluted (the association has it tested every two years) I think the overall environment is decaying.

and it's not just the frogs. Where we used to have an overabundance of water snakes and garter snakes, I have not seen one of each in two years and the one I did see I had to go looking for. Time was where you came across at least one a day without even trying to find them.


Have to disagree...we have an overabundance of frogs and toads here. Cane toads are vile things and should never have been introduced here. Green Tree Frogs are soooooo cute and we have atleast one on our windows and doors each night. Snakes.....well anything without legs IMHO should be made into handbags and shoes.....but Pythons we have here most are over a coupla metres (they stretch accross the entire road) and there have been so many dogs and cats bitten by Brown's this year its not funny. meeb the Eco systems is doing well here in the rainforest but apparently its the first place to suffer when its all screwed up!

I don't know what it all means, but I have been going to this lake since I was 4 yo (we got the house in 1987 and before that we stayed at a B&B straight across teh lake for at least a week every year from 1962 til 1987) and I have seen the changes.

Haven't seen many baby turtles lately either. Usually we find a nest hatching on our property in the spring. Been two years since then. I have seen more than one couple doing the "mating swim" so hopefully there will be babies this spring.

SisterMaryFellatio wrote:I have to concur.......

I have hollowed a pumpkin, made dead man finger biccies and meringue ghosts, my son who was going to be a skeleton has now informed me hes going as Shaggy and the dog has to pretend to be Scooby Doo. The therapy bills are gonna be huge!

What happened to the girl who would have been in some kinky witch or slutty devil costume slinging back witches brew, snorting free nose up, and dancing the Time Warp on a table somewhere and scouting the place for the cutest vampire.

Have to disagree...we have an overabundance of frogs and toads here. Cane toads are vile things and should never have been introduced here. Green Tree Frogs are soooooo cute and we have atleast one on our windows and doors each night. Snakes.....well anything without legs IMHO should be made into handbags and shoes.....but Pythons we have here most are over a coupla metres (they stretch accross the entire road) and there have been so many dogs and cats bitten by Brown's this year its not funny. meeb the Eco systems is doing well here in the rainforest but apparently its the first place to suffer when its all screwed up!