Its oh so quiet Shh Shh

[Stefan-A]

Originally Posted by adamanteus

I once had a hand in building a sauna.... well, I did the construction of the room and all the joinery (carpentry) work, as part of a house renovation in Scotland. It was actually pretty complicated from what I remember.
They can be dangerous if they're done wrong!

Yes, very, if they aren't properly ventilated.

But it also depends on the stove and sauna type. They don't have to be complicated, most Finnish saunas are very simple constructions.

[adamanteus]

The one I worked on was a gas-fired-water-heating-system-thingy... I didn't get involved in the actual 'sauna' bit.... they had a specialist firm do that... as I say, I just built it.

[Stefan-A]

I see. We don't use those saunas here.

[drache]

I think the sauna thing is gonna take some planning

here's a link to the frog story

Live frog in lettuce stuns mom

[adamanteus]

It's official... there's no alcohol left in the house.... I may as well bo to ged.
Nood gight, guys.

[Stefan-A]

Good morning, folks. It's 3:52AM and I just woke up.

You wouldn't believe how hard it can be to find live mice. The only ones I've found so far, are females of some dwarf form of the common mouse, that can't be bred to normal sized males. Wouldn't be a problem if I could find a male with the same gene, which I can't.

Not a single normal sized mouse within at least 50 kilometers.

edit: Aren't there hairless mice too, by the way?

[anji1971]

I don't know, but if I ever wake up at 3:52 in the morning with mice on my mind, I'll be just a little worried............
You're a student -- shouldn't you be worried about papers and reports and stuff??

[Stefan-A]

I should, but I'm not. I have school for 8 hours per week right now, because of how they organized our courses, and the only thing that needs to be worried about, is a report on an environmental impact assessment that's is to be handed in next thursday. It's not really a major concern.

The mouse thing has been bugging me for weeks.

[anji1971]

Yes, it's funny how our brains focus on one thing, and it'll bug us forever, even if nobody else can figure out why that is the one thing keeping us awake at night!!
Hope you get your mouse issues all sorted out soon so you can get a decent sleep. 3 and 4 am is not a good wake-up time, Stefan!

[Stefan-A]

"The large garter snake which you saw, my dear lady, is comparatively
harmless. It lives on toads and frogs, and robs the nests of young birds,
and also pilfers the eggs. Its long forked tongue enables it to catch
insects of different kinds, it will even eat fish, and for that purpose
frequents the water as well as the black snake.

The snake will swallow her young ones," said Mrs. Frazer. "I have seen
the garter-snake open her mouth and let the little ones run into it when
danger was nigh. The snake also lays eggs: I have been and handled them
often. They are not covered with a hard, brittle shell, like that of a
hen, but with a sort of whitish skin, like leather: they are about the
size of a blackbird's egg, long in shape; some are rounder and larger.
They are laid in some warm place, where the heat of the sun and earth
hatches them. But though the mother does not brood over them, as a hen
does over her eggs, she seems to take great care of her little ones, and
defends them from their many enemies by hiding them out of sight in the
singular manner I have just told you.

In the Forest - Or, pictures of life and scenery in the woods of Canada
by Catharine Parr Traill, 1802-1899

Originally Posted by anji1971

3 and 4 am is not a good wake-up time, Stefan!

The hell it isn't.