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Dear Members and Friends: Our next meeting will be held on Saturday, January 17th at the Robbie Waters Library (7335 Gloria Drive, 95831) beginning at 4 pm until whenever we are done enjoying being together!! I'd like to have a presentation on weeds, the good and the bad. I personally don't have much expertise about weeds but I have noticed that in my yard, the good weeds are readily eaten and anything that might be poisonous is ignored. I do know that torts like 'sweet' tasting foods (don't we all?) and perhaps the troublesome weeds are bitter? Sometimes mushrooms pop up but nobody touches them so I assume these are the bad ones and I get rid of them. Feel free to add your 2 cents and bring some samples if they weren't destroyed by our recent freezing temperatures. Also, try to bring a turtle shaped food item (cake, cookies, jello?) to the meeting for all to share and enjoy. (I won't bring the inedible potatoes again). The club will supply the Pepsi (tell me what else you like and I'll get it). A turtle or tortoise for show and tell is always welcome at the meetings if any are awake.... The SPRING MEETING will
be held on May 2nd this year due to the fact that the
library had all of Saturday's dates in April fully booked. And
it will begin at 4 pm and last until you get tired. We have
the room for several hours. By the way, our Fall meeting was
great at the new library. Father Dimitri did a fabulous job
examining one turtle and tortoise after another, making sure
it was healthy enough to hibernate. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR
YOUR TIRELESS CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE CLUB AND OUR MEMBERS AND THEIR
PETS!! The meeting room is much easier to set up which will
be excellent news for those of you who broke your backs dragging
and lifting those tons of chairs at Belle Cooledge not to mention
the heavy tables - everything is already set up and there is
a lovely kitchen area in the back of the room for snacks and
drinks. The room has a good 'feel' to it. Everyone was very
relaxed and had a great time and thanks to all for the wonderful
food you provided for our 'pot luck' and feel free to bring food
to each meeting since they occur later in the day.
WINTER HINT: PREPARE FOR AN EARLY SPRING!! AT THE BUNKER: All was fine until the big freeze hit and the tortoises who refused to go into hibernation ended up being placed into the greenhouse for their own good. Sitting out AT NIGHT with ice on their backs is definitely not a good thing!! They are back outside now and acting normally. These were a Hermann and two Marginatas and a few box turtles as well, including Loekie who is quite well after health problems for two years. I couldn't take a chance on letting her roam around in the very cold temperatures. Darwin, the terribly deformed leopard tortoise was seen doing her dead act in the greenhouse again, sitting there motionless and stiff and partially off of the Stanfield heat mat, I do believe she knows I will bring her indoors to live the life of luxury (altho she is rather smelly at times) ......The three newly hatched Asian or Chinese box turtles (Fong, Fong and Fong) are living a wonderful life in the upstairs bathroom in either one container or the other as I switch them back and forth every morning, a worthwhile activity for me to watch them looking so healthy and growing. I don't have successful hatchlings that often as everyone knows. So this is a real treat! The few Greeks and Hermann's who are refusing to hibernate seem fine outside, I just make sure they have gone back to 'bed' when the sun goes down. I'm following my own advice, "Let Them Be Turtles" I am so hoping that we
have a nice warm January like we had last year. And I do hope
all of your turtles and tortoises come out of hibernation healthy
and happy and ready for another season of life and love.
For Sale: Beautiful baby redfoots $75 each.
Please contact me before the meeting and I can bring them there.
Corrine 707-648-1037 or turttort16@sonic.net |
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