Re: Re: now turtles

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Subject: Re: [CHAT] Re: now turtles
From: &* T* A* <r*@midlands.net>
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 19:38:34 -0700
References: <20040616133306.30790.qmail@web81507.mail.yahoo.com>
Hi Jesse,

After 3 tours as a DI in the Army, I can almost guarantee that he will be
less rude and edgy when he comes home from boot camp.  Keep a stiff upper
lip, seems as though they grow up in spite of us.  Rich in Z-5
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jesse Bell" <silverhawk@flash.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 6:33 AM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Re: now turtles


> It's slow-going...but still going. Working full time and a houseful of
> kids makes it more difficult. I found a place here in Tulsa that sells
> the plastic pots and trays fairly cheap (three cents a pot) so I spent
> $82.00 on Monday and I'm working on growing some stuff. I have all kinds
> of veggies and cut flowers growing, just nothing I can sell just yet.
>
>
> How are things over in your neck of the woods? My son is still hell bent
> on joining the Marines...so I gave in. I know in a few months he'll be
> 18 and he'll go anyway. In the meantime...he is making life miserable at
> home by being rude and edgy all the time. Sure hope they end this mess
> over there before he gets out of boot camp.
>
>
>
> Andrea H <hodgesaa@earthlink.net> wrote:
> You could make stew................
>
> How's the 'Blessed Bee' going by the way?
> A
>
> Andrea H
> Beaufort, SC
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jesse Bell"
> To:
> Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 2:04 PM
> Subject: Re: Re: [CHAT] Bird nest, now swallows
>
>
> > Yes...we have HUGE snapping turtles in this part of the country. My
> > husband and son shoot them because they eat our fish, ducks, etc. I
> > personally don't like that, so they don't tell me until it's too late
> > and I here the guns going off. One of them was about 13 inches wide!
> >
> >
> >
> > wrote:
> > She's got some big ones down there - don't know what kind. Her computer
is
> FUBAR'd so I'll ask her when I talk to her next.
> >
> > Pam Evans
> > Kemp, TX
> > zone 8A
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Andrea H
> > Sent: 6/11/2004 8:48:28 PM
> > To: gardenchat@hort.net
> > Subject: Re: [CHAT] Bird nest, now swallows
> >
> > > Turtles will eat them too Jim. They are omnivores and will eat
whatever
> is
> > > handy (from my days with the turtle and tortoise society in
Charleston)
> Big
> > > snapping turtles will eat ducks, but don't know if they have big
> snapping
> > > turtles in Oklahoma. Jesse?
> > > Andrea H
> > > Beaufort, SC
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > > From: "james singer"
> > > To:
> > > Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 3:56 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [CHAT] Bird nest, now swallows
> > >
> > >
> > > > Probably catfish. Turtles, I think, are vegetarian. Tortoises may
not
> > > > be.
> > > >
> > > > On Friday, June 11, 2004, at 03:26 PM, Jesse Bell wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > wAY cool. To get that close to them..and just watch is so
wonderful.
> We
> > > > > had to save our last batch of baby ducklings from whatever (not
> benign)
> > > > > creature in the water was eating them. Most likely those big ole
> > > > > turtles
> > > > > or the big catfish out there. Until they get bigger, they are in a
> pen
> > > > > with their mother....who hisses if you try to get near her and her
> > > > > babies. Just trying to SAVE them.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > james singer wrote:
> > > > > When I lived on the Severn River [Maryland, not England] we [first
> > > > > wife, kids, and I] had a diving platform about 50 yards off shore.
> > > > > Swallows used to build their nests under the diving platform and
we
> > > > > [first wife, kids, and me] would float under it to watch. I think
> the
> > > > > birds must have thought we were some sort of benign water animal
> > > > > because we could get quite close to their industry and not spook
> them.
> > > > >
> > > > > On Friday, June 11, 2004, at 02:18 PM, Jesse Bell wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >> How cool that you get to watch the whole thing with easy viewing.
I
> > > > >> have
> > > > >> two nests that I'm watching right now...but NOT easy access. We
> have
> > > > >> some swallows who built up high on our back porch. All I can see
> are
> > > > >> the
> > > > >> little beaks resting on the rim of the mud nest. The other nest
is
> way
> > > > >> deep inside a honeysuckle vine that looks more like a shrub.
> Sparrows.
> > > > >> I
> > > > >> like to watch the babies grow up and leave. But, it is sad when
> your
> > > > >> plant gets trashed. Ever take a birds nest and watch it grow? If
> you
> > > > >> take the nest and sit it on top of a pot of dirt and water it off
> and
> > > > >> on....it starts growing "things". Whatever seeds the birds
> "deposited"
> > > > >> in there start to grow. Kind of fun for kids to watch.
> > > > >>
> > > > >>
> > > > >>
> > > > >> james singer wrote:
> > > > >> We have a pot of variegated shell ginger [Alpinia zerumbet v.]
just
> > > > >> outside out back door. A pair of sparrows have decided to call it
> home
> > > > >> and are building a nest in it. The good part is we'll be able to
> watch
> > > > >> their progress through a window as they create a family; the bad
> part
> > > > >> is they'll probably trash the ginger.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Island Jim
> > > > >> Southwest Florida
> > > > >> Zone 10
> > > > >> 27.0 N, 82.4 W
> > > > >>
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