Hello Friends, and welcome to the latest installment of the Critter Cafe.

If you are new to us, this is a place where Critter People come together to talk about whatever is on their critter-lovin minds.

All are welcome here. Nothing is "off topic" in the Critter Cafe, but I do ask that people be mindful of forum rules and conventions.

To start us out in our new thread, here is a picture of a couple of our snuggling critters - Joker and his sister Riddler:

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That is a beautiful picture. Frame-worthy.

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

That is a beautiful picture. Frame-worthy.

I agree Gordon very nice picture.

Grant, Is this your kin?

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~Sue~

yes it's that one.

Looks like the Raccoons are keeping out of trouble.

Baby raccoon loses mother to car accident – elderly dog adopts him as her own

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~Sue~

Baby raccoon loses mother to car accident – elderly dog adopts him as her own

That'd cool to see that happen

Baby raccoon loses mother to car accident – elderly dog adopts him as her own

Sweet!

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This is from Calvin & Hobbes. It's the last six days of daily strips.
I read the strip here.

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~Sue~

That's a good one Susie Q.

heck him out

Nature can be harsh at times.............
But, one has to accept 'the circle of life'.
When I came home from work last Thursday, there was a freshly squashed bunny on my road.
This saddened me.
However, on Saturday morning, I had the opportunity to watch a beautiful red tailed hawk feasting on the remains.
A very large bird of prey. When it got done, little was left but bunny fluff.
The Lord provideth the bird with his dinner. So, the circle of life came around.

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

Wouldn't it be easier to call "Roto-Rooter"?
Lol.

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I wouldn't think it is that funny to Vic at the moment, but he does like regaling us with personal medical details that we really don't want to know about. 50/50 here I think.

Moving swiftly on ......

I often wonder how much a pallet costs to make, can't be much as they are obviously classed as expendable having regard to the value of the goods on them. Must be the same as those cement, sand, and ballast canvas bags that get dumped or not taken back.

Not every shipper considers them "expendable." Some want them back or you pay extra.

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I wouldn't think it is that funny to Vic at the moment, but he does like regaling us with personal medical details that we really don't want to know about. 50/50 here I think.

Moving swiftly on ......

I often wonder how much a pallet costs to make, can't be much as they are obviously classed as expendable having regard to the value of the goods on them. Must be the same as those cement, sand, and ballast canvas bags that get dumped or not taken back.


Not every shipper considers them "expendable." Some want them back or you pay extra.

Where i used to work they saved the pallets and got money for the " emptys" same as metal swarf used to take that to sackers and get money for it .
There's 2 " main types" of pallets , there's some "weird sized" ones " but there are "euro" pallets built to ISO specs ( am being serious think there's 2 sizes of pallet ) the dimensions of them are so they fit into 20 / 40 ft containers for shipping maximising the space avalable inside the thing . more goods in a container more money earned etc

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Life is what you make of it :-)

When i'm good i'm very good , but when i'm bad i'm shi#eloads better ;-) In't I " buttercups " p.m.s.l at authoritie !!;-)

I hear there are 5 different sizes of pallets.
My work place uses the heat treated pallets. So no pests insects are spread across the globe. The boss charges $7.00 usd a pallet. Then whatever's on top of it gets added to the invoice.

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I hear there are 5 different sizes of pallets.

You're most probably right ain't going to "serch & look it up on google ;-) "
know you got different sises but most things were on large or small " Euro" pallets , engineering , we didn't have that much to do with them , but i've repaired ( welded up ) 20 / 40 ft containers for a job years ago now and remember there were mainly just 2 sises of pallet they unloaded before the sparks could fly ;-) .

Do know you don't see many "euro's" on a bonfires here come 5th of November but always loads and loads of the other pallets . Can't blame your boss for charging for em , gota make your money somehow , that's the same whatever country you're in ;-) .

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Life is what you make of it :-)

When i'm good i'm very good , but when i'm bad i'm shi#eloads better ;-) In't I " buttercups " p.m.s.l at authoritie !!;-)

I'm not ready to bite that bullet either yet. Still leary of leaks. I use a Noctua NH‑L12 cooler on my system.
I'm posting this on my iPad.

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Eric experimented with water cooling his computer system once. Given the number of algae strains he managed to grow in our garage, I was sad that I didn't know more about botany.

The following picture best expresses my opinion on water cooling:

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