Of #Tortoises, Sofas, A #Storm, And Other Random Things

It was Artemis' 3rd birthday - perhaps I should say "hatchday" since Artemis is a tortoise - on September 6th.

As you may or may not already know, we always get something for the petkids when it's their birthday.  But what do you get a tortoise for their birthday?Fruit, that's what.  At least, fruit is what I get for mine, and Artemis definitely seems to agree it makes a great present. So, Artemis got a couple of grapes, and was very pleased about that.

Here's a birthday photo of Artemis checking out a bowl full of lettuce, herbs, tortoise pellets, and grapes:

And here's a video of Artemis exploring and climbing on a throw pillow on the sofa:

  

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Remember how I said last week that we’d accepted an almost new sofa because after about two years of waiting we still didn’t have the rest of the corner one we’d been promised? Well, now we have both.

 

Within a couple of days of that post going live we had the other pieces of the corner sofa dropped off by the people who had been promising it to us since we moved in here back near the end of 2020.  Which means we now have the corner sofa, a smaller sofa, and the armchair that we’ve had since when we were living in the first place we lived in when we were in Hastings.

 

Interesting how we’re the people in our family least likely to want a lot of visitors, and yet we’re the ones with most space for them, since we now have enough seating in our living room to comfortably seat about nine people.  But, no, that doesn’t make me more eager to have lots of visitors.  LOL!

  

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It's been pretty rainy most of this past week.  The rain storm got bad enough early hours of Monday morning that the whole area had no power for about an hour.  And there's been a flood warning in our area since Tuesday.  Apparently Summer is over.  I could do without the power cuts, and the flooding isn't a good thing really, but otherwise I'm most definitely glad we're back to more traditional Welsh weather.

 

We had a terrific thunderstorm on Wednesday.  Unfortunately, since I was attempting to facilitate a call at the time, when we tried to film it we missed the fantastic thunder.  But we did get a video of the rain and wind that was part of the storm, so here it is:

 

  

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It's been an incredibly busy week for me, with meetings, social and crafting Zoom calls, reorganizing furniture (because how we had things wasn't going to work with the rest of the corner sofa pieces showing up) and the usual day to day stuff to fit in around those things.  But I still managed to find time to catch up a bit on some reading over the weekend, and add a few words to one of my neglected stories.  There wasn't much of the writing part, but it felt great to actually get to do any, even if it was very little.

   

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One of my teas in the monthly tea box I subscribe to is called "Butter Brew" this month, and it tastes like warm melted butterscotch.  I definitely approve.  I'm also glad to see more of the pumpkin spice tea, since I remember from last year (when it was in my box around this time of year, but with different ones in with it) that it was very tasty, and I was hoping for more

.  I love pumpkin-themed food and drink, and 'tis the season to gorge on pumpkin after all.  LOL!

   

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Well, that's all I have to say this week, so I'll let this do.  Hope you've had a good week.