@msolga,
I know, I know.
On the ditch, I was thinking wall, even a short one, or a fence, but the foundation or concrete footings would have to go pretty far down, and it all looks sorta soft - though if the elephants routinely stumble down it and back up, it can't be that soft. I figure there is an engineering solution - hard to see enough of the ditch to posit ideas like terracing. And it probably isn't soft, it might be concrete with rocks in it. Hmmm, then why not footings behind that and a fence.
@ossobuco,
Quote:On the ditch, I was thinking wall, even a short one, or a fence, but the foundation or concrete footings would have to go pretty far down
Yes, surely there's some workable solution to protect these special & beautiful animals?
Maybe they are simply in the wrong place?
More of a heavy sigh than a grit & grimace, really ...
I travelled down to the country today, to visit my 89 year old mother in her nursing home. She's a bit down in the dumps, saying she wants to go home. Though there's no home for her to go to, even if she could look after herself ... her home has been sold. Apart from that, she says many of her personal items have gone missing. She says she thinks they've been stolen. I have no way of knowing for sure, honestly.....
And, at least 3 times, she introduced me to others as her "sister". Though she was reminded each time who I really was. I mean, she does know who I am ... & is really pleased to be able to have a discussion in Ukrainian, for a change. I just think she's lonely (most of her friends are now dead) & plain bored. Sigh.
@msolga,
BUT she's
still showing interest in the (quite ancient) men! Old devil she is! I'm shocked!
@msolga,
I should point out this is very harmless flirting. Just in case you're wondering ....
Well, that should distract her a bit....
@caribou,
It seems to, caribou. I wish there were more interesting distractions in that place, though. <sighing again>
@msolga,
Quote:. . . Apart from that, she says many of her personal items have gone missing. She says she thinks they've been stolen. I have no way of knowing for sure, honestly. . .
When my Mom was in the nursing home she was convinced of this as well.
@George,
So what did you make of this, George?
I sort of have my doubts (but can't be certain, of course), as the missing items would really have little value for anyone else ....
@msolga,
My mother definitely had items stolen. A friend was coincidentally administrator of the nursing home, and said they had trouble with that.
@ossobuco,
Yes, I've heard similar stories from a friend who works in nursing homes, osso. It's rather depressing that this happens to vulnerable, old people. But, as I said, in my mother's case the missing items would have had little value for anyone else. Though who knows ....?
@ossobuco,
We me, it happened after I bought and labeled a whole bunch of new clothes, underwear, etc.
And sometimes it's not the staff, but the other patients who steal stuff.
(big sigh)
@Eva,
I hadn't thought of that, Eva!
Well, sometimes they see things in others' rooms that click in their memory somehow, and they think it's theirs.
@ossobuco,
Hmmmm ... I actually wondered, osso, whether it was peoples' clothes getting lost & "redistributed" by the laundry service - after finding my mother in a nightdress I hadn't seen before ... then wondering what had happened to the (named) nightdresses & some other missing bits & pieces I'd bought for her. Anyway, these losses & a few others, had upset her.
