That looks like a good escape, since it's probably too cold to be outdoors by now

Walls can be helpful: they do retain heat, can protect from hot afternoon sun, depending, protect from wind and extreme rain, many plants do well next to East or South-facing walls. West or North-facing,

Sounds familiar... And by now all oversight bodies have been dismantled

Damn, that would just have started my hangover early

I don't know how you bear the noise and it is weird seeing those big beasts flying really low. I'm nowhere near an airport although we are under a flight path but they are high when they pass and we

Oof, be careful of the snake, at least my residents are harmless, I took one out of my tenant's bedroom the other day and I'm sure it was the same one I saw in the vegetable patch later

Yes, jets with engines catching fire is not an aviation accident you'd expect from USA. Things have changed a lot

What an awful disaster. Thought of you when I saw it on the news

There was something of a house-building boom here the 1930s and 40s so many older suburbs have Oregon pine floors and pressed ceilings. The old pine is pretty yellow

I once did Oregon pine floors. The boards were all rotten, never again! Yours looks great now.

There are quite a few species in this family, they are found all over the world

Sounds good! I have had neutered males move in with me that were aggressive outside but after a few months, they ended up being the laid-back cats that got picked on

There are lots of fauna and flora that have Cape in the name but are found all over South Africa and I have a lot of those little geckos at my place. They are also hunted by Rain spiders and my cats make

We call the makers of the salivary houses Spittlebugs and they are larvae

Could just be hormones, that takes a few weeks and a form of cat PTSD from living as a stray and within a few a months he'll be a different kitty. Perhaps keep him separated for longer to avoid negative

Oops! Maybe talk to the vet about calming meds? How has he responded to the other cats?

What can I say, I am just a mixed up collection of wanderers, fortune seekers, doctors and African slaves, like many other of my other "European" countrymen. Christmas feels ridiculous, the customs

None, it's not a thing here. I like the plastic pumpkin arch

Animals bring gifts. Always. My kittens brought me some understanding too

What's interesting to me is that both parents were around and given family dynamics, it was clear that he had the bad badge. It was only later when I started to understand how much worse my mother was