So the past few days have been good. Chris and I are watching Zorro every night and really enjoying it. We bought most of the ingredients for an acorn squash soup I want to try. I hope it's good. We only need a few more things. I learned what a Shallot was. I thought it was like a leek. A white onion with a green top. But nope, it's a brown dried oinion kinda like a garlic. We went to Bed Bath and Beyond and Chris got one of those food slicer things where you push the top and it cuts vegetables. He's been wanting one for a while. Micheal's is in the same area so I finally got my turquoise pencil holder. Now when I go out with my art supplies that 's what I'll put them in.

suzidragonlady I got the tutorial you made for the tree. Thanks very much it is helpful. Hopefully I can start on that project soon.

I need to come up with a good name for that lime green budgie. He's turning out to be a good pet. He's not afraid and lets me touch him and grab him. All the other babies act like they are wild even though they are hand feed. But this one doesn't. He's getting better at flying and now stands by the door for me to let him out. I've got him, Protist and Peep all back inside. And name change again. Melon just wasn't working out. I wanted a sweet pigeon named Olney so I removed the name for the white bird and gave it to her. She was great today and jumped in my lap while I was typing. I petted her and she was sweet. But she didn't stay long. Still it's nice to have that in a pigeon again. As for the little budgie sometimes he does remind me of Phage. I do want to isloate him so he'll bond to me more and learn to talk.

And I recently went on a long job with Chris too. That was nice. Didn't get a chance to write this time though. Mostly I read. I was more in the mood for a passive activity.

EDIT: And yes. I switched back to my 80's Flexible Squares Look. Who knows. I might put the sidebar on the left. Not sure yet.
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Yesterday started off with too much excitment for my taste. Chris and I were outside feeding and flying the birds when a young male Cooper's Hawk showed up. He went after my birds and unfortunately I do have some weak flyers that recently recovered from an illness. I saw him grab one and land over by the neighbor's house. I ran after them and found them in the neighbor's front lawn. My bird was bigger than the hawk and still alive. The hawk had him pinned with his wings spread over him but the pigeon was struggling. I went up hoping I could scare the hawk without him taking off with my bird again. He did take off but luckily with the weight of a big pigeon and a brick wall I knew he couldn't clear he dropped my bird. But then the pigeon ran under the neighbor's shed. Now I felt bad because I was trespassing. Chris and I knocked on their door and told them what happened. They said it was ok to look around the shed. I had to get on my tummy and reach under there but I managed to grab my bird. Amazingly he only had a cut on his beak! I'm really very glad it wasn't a female Cooper's or it would have been over. My pigeons are probably to big for a small male at least to fly with. He probably would have eaten the pigeon on the ground and left a mess of feathers and bones. But the females can fly with bigger prey into trees. I know, I've had that happen too. So after putting peroxide on him he goes back in the loft today. But no flying for two days in case that hawk is sticking around.

I want to thank kaetarin for helping me solve the problem I've been having here on LJ with post listed as adult. For those of you that don't know for some reason I kept getting them as a cut even though I'm over 18 to see them. Turns out there's an option in the display profile for collapsed and non-collapsed posts. I had no idea that was there or that that's what it meant. I set it to only collapse explicit stuff. I don't have anyone on my list that makes those kinds of posts but just in case I don't to see them anyway. But now it's great because my friends list and the pumpkin community is visible to me. Usually if the subject wasn't an indication of what the post was about I tended to skip those and I was missing out on a log. I like to look at my friends page at a glance. Unless they've purposely made I cut I hated to bother with the way it was.

Ok, one of you said you wanted to see some of the stupid PM's I've been getting on Dragon Adopters. It's amazing how dumb kids are or how they think they can act ignorant when they already know. It's just a creative way to ask for clicks.

Subject: pls could you tell me?
November 11, 2009
what lvl my dragons must be for have 4?
2 adults and a teenager now
you look as a person with experience in this game, pls tell me

Ok ignoring the horrible lack of capitalization, aweful netspeak and begining sentences with numerals instead of spelling them I still read on. Ok this kid had three dragons. Don't you think after three dragons it would be obvious that you get your new one at level 30? How could he not know this? So I get singled out because I have six dragons. So surely I've been around a long time and know my stuff. Well true enough, but that's just plain stupid. I still helped him and warned him about getting clicks. Ok, not so bad at least. Next.

Subject: Thank-note
November 12, 2009

Thank you very much for coming to visit my dragon!
I've just come and visited your dragon. It's really A beautiful one. I'hope one day my dragon will become a dragon like yours.
I hope you'll come back and visit my dragon again. I believe We will be friend soon!
Once again THANK YOU

Much better grammar and capitalization. But this one is worse in my book and a very good way to make an introvert say, "AAAAHHH!!! SHIELDS UP!!" The It's really a beautiful one line makes me roll my eyes. Yes, as beautiful as the many other thousands of white furdragons out there. There's nothing special about it. Nearly everyone has one. Chris has gotten this too. "Cool dragons". Yeah, as cool as all the others. There's no difference and I don't consider that a compliment. Next I had no clue I'd clicked her since I went on one of my blind click sprees on the who's online page. To me she was just another number that would click me back to help raise my level. Nothing more. The emotional attachment she put on this is rediculous and over the top. She hopes her dragon will one day be like mine? Well she had just one. An ugly lizardus so no it will never be beautiful like mine unless she gets a fur dragon. Hehe. The I believe we will be friends soon soon statement was the part that made get all defensive. WTF? I don't understand how people think (extroverts mostly) that just because you greet someone suddenly you're best friends. NO! It is a long grueling process to become my friend or my enemy for that matter. I instantly distrust anyone that is that buddy buddy with me. I don't know them, they don't know me so why act that way? It takes time to get to know someone, even an extrovert that will tell you his life story in five minutes. So I ignored her. So she copies and pastes and sends it again. YARG!! I continue to ignore her. Thank goodness it stopped or I might have had to eat her dragon.

Lastly I had one kid that sent me a PM that all it said was "Hi." Yeah whatever. Meaningful conversation mean anything to you? I'd love to make some friends from Dragon Adopters but it's unlikely I'll make the first move. Especially since we no longer have profiles. All I have to go by is a user name, an avatar and what few names they may give their dragons. For me all three have to be interesting and so far that hasn't happened yet. So I have little hope of someone contacting me based on the contact I've recived thus far.

I've been playing Oblivion and lots of funny things have happened. I still have to set up pumpkins everywhere on my castle despite that my guards eat them. That was the main reason I started the game. But I also want to get to level 100 in certain skills like acrobatics so I can jump off anything and not get hurt. Some skills take a long time to build up. I have to do Mage's Guild quests because I want to use their school to make enchanted weapons. But I'm doing quite well with regular weapons. The creation engine in that game is decent. I made Owen as best I could. He looks best from the front. His side view not so good. But in some scenes he really does look like a prince. Alchemy is one of the primary skills I gave him along with blade so I'm keeping him in character. I also have all the fire magic that I can possibly use at my level. I can't wait to make a fire sword. That will rock. I've often thought that if Owen lived in those days he would have been considered a wizard. Notice I didn't say he would have been a wizard. Other's would have thought that of him because he still would have messed around with chemistry. I love how the word Alchemist has Chemist in it. And I think alchemy was just Chemistry that the majority of the population didn't understand so they thought it was magic. Potion making. I love the replicating cheat though. Since I'm not playing the game seriously it has helped tremendously. I got Owen a white horse too since white and blue are his favorite colors. There was a mage's white robe that was the closest thing to his labcoat, but it had too many fancy designs to look right. And unfortunately it offers no protection. Next time I'll talk about a crazy adventure I had as I was jumping off of a mountain.
EEP! Chris just showed me something really cool, but I have to go now. So I'll probably have more to post about this later.
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Poor Chris is sick. He's got a cold. We've broken the "rule" again that we can't both be sick or hurt at the same time. Only one at a time. Ha! I wish we could keep that "rule". My back still hurts but I can take care of him and I'm more mobile so it's up to me. I'll do my best to make him teas and hope he gets well soon.

Been thinking about my story again. Hopefully I will feel well enough and be in the mood to write more of it again. I'm starting to miss drawing too and keep thinking of the little Deathclaw I need to finish still. I've got a bunch more new Squibys now and I may post a few priority ones here that need help.

I have four budgie pictures to share this time.



Here's that strange baby I didn't know what it was. It's going to be lime green! The back is neon yellow so he'll be gorgeous! He looks kind a like his grandma though she was more of a green blue than a lime green. Still I love her and haven't seen such a bright budgie like her in a long time. I hope he'll blue up as he gets older. I have to decide which male I'll keep as a pet.

( Budgies! )

And I think I'm going to rename the pigeon Melon. Calling he Fat Girl just doesn't seem right anymore. I had her out today while I was lying down in the game room and it was awesome that she walked in hoped on my lap and sat down on me. EEEE!! She made soft cooing sounds the whole time and I petted her while she rubbed her beak on my hand. If she was a cat she'd have been purring. She's a lap pigeon! This is wonderful!! Oh I love her so much all ready! I had her on the counter too trying to show her how to take a bath. She wanted to I could tell but was a little afraid of how deep the sink was. She's not as confident as Punkin was and I hope I can inflate her ego with time. One thing I loved about Punkin was how she would just get into stuff without hessitation. She was a proud cocky pigeon but she wasn't mean. I like proud, confident extroverted birds. I think Melon can become that with a little work.
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I haven't felt well the last few days. My back has really been acting up and I have had to be down. The bad thing is it hurts most when I lie down which makes sleeping difficult. That's been the worst thing and one reason I haven't been on much. But other than that things are going quite well indeed.

Olney and I have not worked out as far as finding that pet to fill the voide of Punkin. BUT remember I mentioned the other pigeon Fat Girl? When I fly my birds she'd always land by me and follow me around and even let me pet her sometimes. She was a baby I hand raised because on a cold night her parents kicked her out of the nest. I found her on her back, cold and naked. I thought she was dead and brought her inside. But then I saw the life in her eyes just barely there. I rigged up a little critter cage. A heating pad would not have worked so I wrapped up the whole thing in an electric blanket in my bed and put her in there. She started to respond right away. I didn't know what would happen and didn't have much hope but I was amazed when the next day she was moving around and took the food I gave her. It was like she came back from the dead.

As she grew up she was always a sweet bird but not pretty. I always thought she was a bit ugly because he had black and white patches on her feace instead of being solid black or solid white. Back when I was deciding on which bird to keep I picked another hen because she was beautiful. But that didn't work out because I could tell she wasn't happy being in a cage. So I put her in the loft with Fat Girl and the other flyers. I always knew Fat Girl had a great personality but I wanted personality and looks. Then I brought in that white flyer that also followed me around. Turned out he was a male and got mean. Back out he went. Then I got Olney who's half sibling to Punkin. I thought this had to work. Turned out he was a male too and got mean. I've been reluctant to let him go but yesterday when Fat Girl followed me into the patio from outside I decided to give her a try. I was fairly certian she's a female.

I put Olney in a budgie cage on the patio. Poor thing. And I put Fat Girl in his cage. I'm cautious about getting close as I've had so many set backs. I tell Chris that birds for me are like relationships with people. I want a pet to love that also loves me back and I want another bird like Punkin, Gaus, Phage or Joel. It hasn't been easy to find "replacements". But when I let Fat Girl out I was amazed. She didn't fly away and WALKED like Punkin. I could pick her up on my arm which I could never do with Punkin. She's softer than Punkin was and she's already kind of cuddly. She followed me into the game room on the first try and she responds to my cooing to her. Oh my gosh I think I FINALLY found my pet! I hope so anyway. I hope she won't get mean. Here are some pics.



She walked everywhere. I had a hard time getting a good pic. I'll have to hold her and have Chris take one. But see her colors? I still say she's kind of ugly. Also I want to change her name. I don't want her to imprint on Fat Girl. I'm open to suggestions but I'm considering Melon.



She's half homing pigeon and half wild pigeon so she's not as big as my other birds. The reason is I have some rescued wild pigeons that I keep mixed in with my Homers. I need to find them homes but I don't know anyone that would want pigeons so I'm stuck with them. She was also very healthy. No mites at all, but I do still need to spray her and disinfect her. I don't know what I'll do with Olney. He's on the patio for now, but I can't put him with the Homers because he never learned to fly home. And it's too late for that now. I could put him in the aviary with the wild ones but it's half open and I don't know how he'll get used to the wind, cold and rain. But that's likely where he'll end up. I'm just glad I don't have to clip the wings on this pidge.

I completed my checklist last night on Dragon Adopters. I just bought the cheapest level 10 stuff and sold it to the factory. The colors I was missing I made at level 10 with no failures and also sold most to the factory. I kept a few 3% reptile scale stuff because my next dragon will be another dino and since I thought I was done I sold all my dino stuff of the earlier levels. Now I need to get it back.

Being that I'm not well it's likely I'll start playing xbox again. I've been watching Chris play Oblivion. It's not the kind of game I'd get into all the way. Too much RPG like for my taste and I know I have no interest in doing everything. BUT there is one thing I really want to do and may start a game to do this one crazy thing. There's a castle you can download as your home. There's this one cheat code you can use to replicate almost any item, but not weapons. Well there are pumpkins in the game. And any game with pumpkins is cool in my book. I freaked when you could replicate the pumpkins and watermelons. So I had Chris place some as decorations around the castle. Of course I want to take it to the extreme and literally have pumpkins EVERYWHERE! I'm already foreseeing the gaming having a hard time loading and screwing up with what I want to do. But we only placed a few at the entrance of the castle.

Then the pumpkins and a leek that was in a display case mysteriously disappeared. What the? Then we found out what happened. The guards were eating them. We saw it happen three times. The guard walks up and eats the whole thing in one bite. GULP! NNNOOOOO!!!!! So that's going to be a problem if I do this with my castle. My stupid guards eating my decor!

Chris and I went to look around at Lowe's yesterday. He bought me a Birds and Blooms magazine. I still need to read last month's. But I found some neat dragonfly clips that are for holding up orchids. I'm not into orchids at all but I liked these clips and mentioned that I wanted them for my hair. Chris bought me the set.



Aren't they cute? I think I'll wear some for Thanksgiving. Hee hee. I have a huge collection of clips made of sunflowers like this that I collected back when they were the rage in the 90's. I knew things would go out of style so I bought a bunch. I'm always sad when they break though because they aren't replaceable as no one makes them now. I'll take a pic of that later. But these dragon flies are similar to that. The blue and pink are my faves but it's too bad there's only one green, yellow and purple. I'd like two of each which is how I have my other collection.
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I'm doing a little better today. I had a very nice day yesterday with Chris. Today is officially a day off and I guess this will be our late anniversary celebration. We're going to go to the sponge docks and see if they have any new Inca CD's for me to pick up. It's been horribly hot in the low 90's here. I haven't felt like doing anything artwise. I'd get as far as opening my drawings in photoshop then I'd just stare at them a good while.

I have realized some things about dragon adopters. I think there is a cap on the lotto and feeding. That's good for food. I think after a certain age they don't eat more than 50. Talon and Prophage both take 50 and they are in their 60's and 70's. So eventually food will cost 250 if you let them all empty at once which isn't bad. But it's too bad there's a cap on lotto and it seems to be 296. An even 300 would have been better but I haven't seen that number change in a long time. Lastly I do believe that gold and silver have ruined the market. Chris and I were talking about it and I decided to make a post about it on the forum. Seems others agree with me. Before normal offers would be taken within 24 hours, especially even exchanges. But now people put up all five gold and silver offers and push everyone out. The normal offers get ignored to the point that if you want them to move you need to take a hit and offer and extra one for what you want. Alocating resources is now a pain if you want to buy an item and you don't have the thing they are asking for. It really does suck and I haven't put up any golds because I don't want to add to the mess and build up my resources. I think when I do get around to that I'll do even exchanges or a rate of 1 to 2 to try and lower the darn value of the stuff. It really sucks right now. Gold and silver should have their own market or something. I don't know I haven't given it much thought yet.

Well I have some nice pictures to share.

First up:



A daddy pigeon feeding two babies at once. Haha, I loved how cute this was and what skill this male has. Also he's so roundular and fat and the babies are heart shaped.

( More bird and garden pics )

Shoot, I do have more to say but I need to get ready to go.
Note to self: Talk about the "prince" in the next post.

I didn't post last night because I was too tired to. I lost one of my pigeons to a big female Cooper's Hawk last night. I had let the birds out for their evening flight around 6pm. Chris was weed wacking in front of the loft and I can't believe the nerve of this hawk. She came around the big oak tree and grabbed one of my young males. I yelled at her and she wasn't afriad that both Chris and I were right there or that the weed wacker was making so much noise. She flew with it over the fence so we drove to the neighborhood behind us. We saw her sitting on the street with my pigeon. It was heavy for her to carry and she had to land. I got out but she got away and flew off with my bird into someone's backyard. DARN IT! Even if he was dead which I wasn't sure of at the time I wanted his little body so I could bury it. Then her mate came down and tried to grab another of my birds but by now the flock had scattered and the bird he was chasing was older and more experienced and easily out flew him. Whenever there's a hawk attack my birds scatter and don't come home for hours. I have no idea where they go but they go out of sight.

I didn't know which of my birds had been taken. I hoped it wasn't one of my breeder or my 2007 birds which are my best flyers. And since so many were missing I couldn't know until they came back. Waiting is the worst part because I want to know right away. They all finally returned before sunset and I found out that luckily it wasn't one of my good fliers or breeders. It was actually one of my older 2009 babies which surprised me. I also have three babies that have only flown three times and I thought she'd gotten one of those or that they would get lost because they hadn't gone far from the house yet.

So I'm not flying them today so the hawks don't get trained to come on the schedule. I'll wait one day then fly them later in the morning and earlier in the evening. I really didn't feel anything at the time other than I just wanted to know who was taken. I was rather indifferent about it. It wasn't until this morning that I'd had time to think about it that I got a bit sad. It was a pretty grey and white male. I'd named hime Oreo. But at the same time I guess it's good because I can't breed those and I really shouldn't have any colored pigeons. I need to give away the ones I have and that hasn't gone well. I am very glad it wasn't wone of my whites. Of course you think about stupid things like not flying them. But you can't do that. I can't keep them locked up. These birds are meant to fly and flying means risks and losses. I hate those thoughts when they creep in. I accepted these things would happen long before I even got my first pigeon.

Luckily there are lots of babies now. But I noticed one being neglected. I brought it in and set up a brooder to hand feed it. I wasn't thrilled about it. I don't want to be handfeeding babies right now. It takes up so much time. But it was too little too late and he died anyway. Hopefully the other babies will make it. I'm keeping a close eye in case I do have to pull some for handfeeding.
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Wow a post! I'm so obsessed with my game that I just haven't had much to say. Lots of funny things have happened but I really need to make the screen caps first. I also need to lable my DVDs better beause I don't remember what everything is just looking at the thumb nails. I am going to be writing a story about Deathclaws very soon. My mind is so creative and coming up with stuff for them now. But at the same time I have lots of gaps that need to be filled in. Once I beat the game and start it over I'll try to make Cope and play through as a good guy. I have the worst Karma possible right now but I love being a bad ass.

I got a chance to work on the next Deathclaw drawing today. I've started the digital inking for Sleeping Death. Oh thanks to all of you that reported that guy. All my art was taken down. I managed to track down where he got two other pieces and reported those as well. I told them to just investigate him because none of his gallery is his. I hope he gets banned. So victory dance.

I have all the Equilibrium albums now as I got the first and demo disks the other day. Finally. I'd been waiting for a week for them to arrive. So I know share with you.

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In good quality. It's up for a week so grab it while you can. Angry budgies! This song is so funny yet wickedly cool.

I have decided to make ProPhage on Dragon Adopters gold. I have enough aura to do it right now, though it would break me. By the time Talon hits 70 I should have more than enough. This should help out with buying the higher level items and I should make the aura back fairly quickly. So please click Talon and Nagaina so they will grow fast. Talon needs to hit 70 and Nagaina 30 so I can get my last egg.

Ok and now for a bunch of naughty budgie pictures.



BUDGIE SEX! I was worried that this female's eggs might not be fertile, but now I know that they are. She hasn't thrown any more out and currently has two. So hopefully I'll get the next generation of Phage Babies. But what's funny about these pics is that Peep and Protist were out and watching the show intently! So funny. They like to watch porno. So the rest are behind a cut.

( Budgie sex and it's love bug season unfortunately )

I'm happy to be raising hornworms again!! I have two in a cage that I'm feeding tomato leaves too. I hope they'll all be healthy and turn into beautiful moths.

I cliped the first three feathers on each wing of Olney's today. She was just flying too much and taming her hasn't gone well. But it's amazing how a trim has changed her personality. Now she walks around the floor almost as well as Punkin. I hated to clip her but now I know it was the best move. She can fly down so she won't just fall off of things. Punkin was so awesome. I never had to clip her or train her to do anything. Olney will be a little more work to get her to be pet material.


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Yeah I know I can't stop using this icon. I will soon have my very own. But more on that later.

I think after all this time I may finally have a pet to fill Punkin's place. Remember that pigeon I was going to keep but she didn't work out because she wasn't happy as an indoor pet? Well I just had the opposite happen. Remember the white homer I had in with the runty dove? I was very attached to her and she was a sweet heart. Well, I couldn't get attached. I said I need all white pigeons to be flyers. I can't keep a white one as a pet. So I tossed her in the loft with the others. I could tell she never liked the loft or flock life. She never accepted the flock and when I would let them all fly she would come down first and follow me into the garden. The others don't do that because they're now independent free birds. Trust does it from time to time but not like this. Well I have a baby that wasn't learning to eat on his own. I remembered the homer was sweet with the last baby. I figured I'd bring her back in and put her in the cage long enough that she could teach the baby to eat. They learn from example. So two days would do. I brought her in last night and asked her, "Remember this place?"

I put her in and made sure she didn't hurt the babies. I tried that with Punkin once and a sweet as she was to me, she killed one of the babies. But this one was still sweet. She didn't hurt the babies and if the one baby bugged her too much she'd peck it gently. Well today I kept watching her and I let her out to streach her wings. She was a good girl. That did it. I decided to keep her. She doesn't like flying and she doesn't like the flock. She's happier indoors. It's amazing how different birds are. Besides I've got three little ones that will replace her and I have no feelings for them so all is good.



Here she is with the babies. The plan was that then I'd put her back out and the oldest baby would teach the last two how to eat. It's hard to believe she was that little at one time.



She has that angular female head. She's much heavier and denser than Punkin was. That's because she was a flyer and got excersize. What's great about this bird is if she gets out she'll come home. I always worried about that with Punkin. She never learned to home. In fact I can take her outside to play if I want to. What a wonderful freedom that will be!! But I won't do it too often.

She needs a name though. I'm open to suggestions. I'm picky so don't feel bad if I shoot them down.

I'm ready to start inking the next Deathclaw drawing. I have revised the sleeping drawing because I felt something was missing from it. I've added a mole rat to the bottom of it and she's trying to sneak by on her tips. Last thing she needs is to wake the Deathclaw. So that should give it some nice emotion. It's no longer a placid scene of a sleeping monster. Now there's an element of danger to it. I found out Fallout 3 mole rats are very easy to draw. I like the two hairs that come out of their heads.

Anyway, I have made something amazing today. Remember the video I put up of the Deathclaw fighting the Super Mutant Behemoth? Well it really inspired me and I drew this.



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This is a victorious Deathclaw after defeating a Super Mutant Behemoth. It wasn't an easy fight and he took some damage for it but he won. Deathclaws are nine feet tall. I think Behemoths are twenty feet tall. And they are glossy so he'll be fun to color. I've had this idea for quite a while now. When it's done I'm going to PM the guy on Youtube and tell him his video inspired me. Chris was very impressed with this. That always makes me feel good. I'm very proud of it because it's almost exactly how I imagine it. I'd say I got 90% of it. The only thing that didn't come out right was I wanted to have the Deathclaw hunched a little more and looking at the camera tired but pissed. The title of this is what he's thinking and conveying with that expression, "Who's next?" But this looks more like he's just looking over at his kill about to walk away. Well he will do that but I wanted him looking out. His eyes gave me a hard time so I didn't want to mess with them anymore to force him to look that way. But yeah, can't wait to color this one. So the sleeping one is next, then the running one then this one. And I thought I wouldn't be able to top the running one. Wow. Sigh, I'm going to restart the displaying one. Whole new paper because I need to repose both the male and female. Too bad, but I think I can do it better now with a fresh start. Oh, I need to find a reference for the Behemoth's boots. That's why they don't have detail. I don't know what they look like.

Ok and since I'm obsessing with Equilibrium too I'm going to put up some songs so you all can hear what makes me think of this guys. They're only up for a week so get them while you can.

Wurzelbert

http://www.sendspace.com/file/55k6pj

Snüffle

http://www.sendspace.com/file/d5owk5

Ruf in Den Wind

http://www.sendspace.com/file/3rzdea

Dämmerung
http://www.sendspace.com/file/1vatlt

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I want to post nearly all the stages of the Christmas Wyrm. So far I really like this one a lot better. I'm only missing the level 0 egg with no cracks. I tried to fix it in Adobe Image Ready but that didn't work. I just suck with animated gif editors. If someone could help me make the egg look new that would be great. I can't find one since they are all probably level 1 and higher now.



Aren't those pretty? I was hoping the Valentine's Wyrm would look like that but red and white with hearts. I may try to make one provided the program lets me. Perhaps I can just color all the sprites and have one of you put it together for me. These are tiny like 4kb. I don't know why mine end up huge.

I'm going to put the rest of the post behind a cut because I'll be putting up lots of pics that will streach the tables. So onto candy, giant fruits and pigeons!

( Candy, Giant Fruit and Pigeons )
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I've had a wonderful day today. I slept well last night. I had another funny dream and woke up laughing though now I don't remember much about it. Something to do with Nelson Muntz from the Simpsons. Anyway I'm happy to see my Arvyre pets again. I found this awesome icon on the forum but I can't use it on LJ because it's huge file size wise. It's 315 Kb.



I do want to make an icon like this showing the growth stages. I'm just not so good with animated icons.

I still need to get a hand and tail bracelet for Talon. A tail one FINALLY went on the market but it's a darn happiness one. ARG!! I want a normal 12% one same for the hand one. The only two up are specials and I don't think I want to go with another hunger reducer. Since I'm the only one on my F list that got a dino first and I have the oldest dino I don't think any of you can help me out. Sigh. I refuse to make one. Things are too expensive to have it fail at this high a level. Speaking of dinos I have decided to go with another dino as my third egg. I want a water dino this time. Yeah I'll be missing out on fur production but I can always trade for it so it's ok. That means I'll be producing lots of reptile scales. I saw someone on one of the click forums that had three fur dragons and asked her if it was because she liked furs or because she wanted to produce lots of fur to trade? She said she just loved the furs and the extra fur was a nice side effect. That got me to thinking. She's right. Screw getting one of each type. I love dinosaurs and from here out I'm just going to go with dinos of different colors. That settles that. So a water dino it will be for my third egg. I can't wait. Hurry up ProPhage!

I'm very excited too because I got a commission for some budgie art today. I've already started the line work for it in Illustrator. I should be done with that by tomorrow then I can start to color it. This is very nice and welcome news. I'm really happy with how good my art is getting and am proud of myself to be tackling such difficult subject matter and pulling it off rather well. I'm still quite impressed with what I've done with Solan in his office.

Well I went and did what I wasn't supposed to do. I got attached to the baby pigeons I'm raising. I still haven't called the guy back to see if he wants to buy them. I will because I really don't need to keep non white birds. BUT I did pick out one that I'm going to keep as a pet. After losing Punkin I don't want to be without a pet. I picked out a little black and white female. I'm pretty sure it's a female anyway. If I'm right she's got some HUGE shoes to fill. I hope she'll be just as sweet a pet and cuddler as Punkin was. I don't have a name for her yet. I'm still getting to know her personality.

The other three babies I put into the loft today. I cleaned out the loft real well. Threw out the old shavings, and hosed everythind down and scrubbed with soap. My back hurts of course. I'm taking it easy now but I hope my back won't go out on me. But it needed to be done and now the loft smells so nice and the three new babies are in it so they can settle for a week. Yeah today's definitely been awesome!!
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I have a feeling this may be a long post. Yep it turned out long so I'm putting it behind a cut.

( Jack Horner, Drawing, Writing, Garden, Spring and pigeons )

Note to self. Talk about Punkin and Seagrass next time.
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I'm behind in my posts and responses hehe. Blame it on video games. I was gaming a lot last night and neglected a bunch of stuff on the computer. 'Twas worth it though. I'm really enjoying Marble Blast Ultra. I have beaten all the beginner levels in par time and found all the Easter eggs. They are literal Easter Eggs. I LOVE THAT! Also I found out where you change the appearance of your marble. There are about 40 different marbles to choose from. I like this one swirly blue one, a mirror one, the silver earth on and my fave is the swirly rainbow that looks like it belongs on a techno album. I've beaten all the intermediate levels now and got the achievement on that. I'm dreading doing them all over again to try and get the par time achievent. I'm not bothering with that at the moment. I'm going through trying to find the Easter eggs. I can't believe how challenging it was to get some on the beginner stages. EEP. This game is so colorful and just fun to look at. Only one complaint and it's really minor. I wish they'd had more than one techno song. I like it and I won't ever get tired of it, but they could have rotated between three at least.

I'm delighted at the reaction I've been getting to my new Owen story. It always makes me feel so good that my stories can move people emotionally. That is one of my goals and when I hear people write to me about it I know I've done a good job.

For those of you on Dragon Adopters. You can go spam your dragons on dragonahelpers to make them grow faster.

There are three pigeon nests in the loft. Two have babies in them and I'm waiting on the third one to hatch. I noticed the eggs were cracked yesterday and I could feel the babies kicking. Today I went to check and there are more cracks and still lots of kicking. I hope they babies can get out. It's gone on a bit too long so I'll have to keep an eye on that. These will be true whites so I need them to survive and grow up healthy.

Speaking of birds, that new Cooper is something else. Talk about brazen. I heard the cockatiels screaming again so I went out to look. I didn't see anything but the birds were looking out so I know they could see something I couldn't. I heard a crashing in the bushes and thought the cat was back. But cats down swirl around. It was the Cooper chasing a yellow rumped warble through the bushes. Now I don't care about him eating wild birds. But I don't like him so close to the loft. The small bird escaped I think and he landed on the ground. I was literally about five feet away. He wasn't scared of me at all. I could really see his pretty yellow eyes and stripes on his tummy. It was so cool how when I'd go near he'd just kind float five more feet away keeping the same distance. He wouldn't flap, but just open hiw wings. He's a good flyer. But finally I forced him off the fence and made him leave. He'll be back. They always come back. I'd really like to feed him some mice.

OH back to pigeons. This nest of babies? I can't believe it but WINGER is the father! I didn't know Winger and Thrust were a pair! I thought Winger could never mate because he couldn't balance on a hen, but he proved me wrong. Now if he could just teach his moves to that darn purple pigeon of mine we could get more babies.

My thoughts are all over the place today. I'm in a good mood. I can't help it. Back to games. Last night Chris and I played SR2 again and it was so darn funny. We beat all the Samedi missions. Then we went into one of the safe houses and started fighting each other. We shot each other, beat each other up and blew us up with explosives. Nearly all the furniture was destroyed. We can revive each other in like 30 seconds I think by pouring beer. So we had to do that so we wouldn't be teleported to the hospital which is annoying. But the best was throwing the sticky bombs. Cope was on a balcony and Owen tossed one and it hit the cieling. He then deontated it and fire went everywhere. Cope fell off screaming and flaming in a perfect swan dive. It was halarious and it looked like Owen had used his fire on him. We were laughing so hard it hurt. Then Cope got stuck on the chandelier and was dead up there. We couldn't get him down and time was running out. So Owen threw another bomb at him and that blew him down. It was so funny to see him fly around all limp. HAHA!! I have all of it on dvd now. It would be cool to get another DVD recorder then I could record the craziness from Chris's point of view and make it into a neat movie with cut scenes to different camera angles. That would rock!
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Today was a weird and funny pigeon day. I took them out to the five mile point and let them go. All of them came back except Pushy again. Of course I went through the thought process of her possibly being nabbed by a hawk and worrying though she's done this more than once now. She finally did come home a few hours later. I nearly strangled her. I don't know why she can't stick with the flock and does her own thing. But I love my bad pidgy girl.

I worked on the raised beds today. I added the pigeon fertilizer to it and raked it in. I pulled out the weeds. So it's ready for the new growing season now apart from may-be adding four bags of soil.

Well I was looking through the games to download on xbox and was thrilled to find a game called Marble Blast Ultra. Back in the days of NES I was a big fan of Marble Madness. I still have the game. And it really was madness because the game was so damn hard and infuriating. I go to the last level but was never able to beat it. Thanks to youtube I finally was able to see it a few months back. Well this game is basically Marble Madness 2 but with beautiful backgrounds and levels. Chris bought me some gamer points and I downloaded it. I played the trial game first and fell in love with it. The music is ambient techno and it makes me think of Cope. This is the type of game he'd love for the music, the colors and how mathmatical it is. There's geometry and trig everywhere if you know where to look for it. The marbles are very pretty and the best thing is if you jump a tiny ledge you no longer crack and die. You only die if you fall of a ledge. I've taken some major flying leaps and landed on other platforms and survived. BRILLIANT!! So this is the game I'll be playing and obsessing over for a while. There are 60 levels for me to beat. The next game I want to get or try is Pirates vs Ninjas dodgeball. It looks funny. But too bad it's not an action game. I'll play as the pirates first.

Chris and I went out to look for a memory card or hardrive for my xbox, but there weren't any of the small ones left anymore. My xbox has an internal hardrive that's almost used up so I can't even transfer my old saved games. Right now all I can play is SR2 and Marble Blast. But that's ok. Marble Blast will keep me busy.

At the end of the day I went out to work on the garden again. We bought some baby red onions to plant. I wanted to work in the garden while I let the pigeons fly. They all went to the roof and didn't want to leave. So I threw a plastic pot in the air and they all finally took off, excpet for Pushy. ARG!! Her crop was so full of food I don't think she could fly or she knows I really wouldn't hit her with a pot. I tell you she's so much trouble. Never does what she's supposed to. Anyway, Chris and I started to plant the onions when I saw a huge flock of large birds. I wondered what was going on. It was a flock of egrets and slightly in the foreground was my flock of pigeons. WTF? My pigeons were chasing the egret flock. I wish I had had my camera. They literally were in the flock. The egrets flew across the street and Chris was worried they'd take our pigeons away, but as soon as he said that the birds broke off and flew towards the house. Nope, they'r homing pigeons. But I couldn't stop laughing. Those poor egrets!! But I've also had ibises chase my pigeons. It's so weird. I wonder if the ibis think the pigeons are smaller ibis. Everyone is confused if they can't tell their own species apart.
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My gosh. You guys remember the pic of the Cooper I posted? Well, I don't feel sorry for him anymore. He's a nasty tough bird. Man I miss my old Cooper from the city. He was a great bird. Anyway, I flew the birds today and all went in the loft but two of my blues. I was facing the loft shaking the gourd trying to get them in when I noticed one looking behind me and wiggling his wings like, "OMG SHOULD I RUN?? AAAAHHHH YESSSS!!" I knew it was hawk coming up behind me. Before I could turn both pigeons took off. I turned and saw the Cooper coming in low. I threw the gourd straight up, almost hit him and he nearly crashed into the tree. He had to completely break and reverse direction or he would have. I could tell he was pissed as he took off not able to follow the pigeons. I chased him across the street. I don't know why I bother. Those birds can fly 60 mph level flight. I'll be lucky to reach on mile per hour. Chris was with me and he didn't even see the Cooper until the last minute and he said I just vanished. He walked over to the loft and by the time he got there he saw the gourd fall. He didn't see me throw it so that show how high I tossed it.

I stayed waiting for my birds to come home. I knew they'd be gone a while and what I hate is how cautious they are upon the return. Cooper was still around. He hovered right over me and I tossed the gourd again. He just kinda floated up not scared at all. I could just feel him laughing at me. Yeah you laugh buddy but you still don't have my birds!! Well the two pigeons came back but they were stupid to not stay in a flock. They kept circling in opposite directions. A bit obvious don't you think? I yelled. I was shaking the gourd trying to get them to hurry up and land. They don't understand that if they stick close to me I will protect them. BUT The Cooper came for a second pass. AAARRGGG that means they'll be gone longer now! Both split but he followed one down into the trees, the other went up. He didn't get him and I saw my birds in the distance again. FINALLY they came in and this time landed straight on the loft. They were panting hard and I caught them and threw them in the loft. Woo!! That was rediculous. So tomorrow I'm flying them much later so Cooper won't get used to a consistent schedule. That was nerve wracking, tiring and exciting all at the same time.

I have got to find a way to make peace with this bird!

EDIT: OOPS almost forgot. New icon.

I needed an icon for Sick/Not Well. I originally had text on this that said "Not Well" but perhaps this is one that doesn't need text and could have other meanings. What do you think?
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It's gorgeous today in the 80s. Unfortuantely it will drop down a little into the 70s during the day. It's at night I don't like it when it's cold between 50-60. I wish it would just stay 80s all the time. But that's why I got my new icon. I love a tropical Christmas, although things are a bit brown and ugly right now from the frosts we had a few days ago.

I'm very happy that I'm feeling better. My back and my knee have be doing very well. I think they will never be 100% but I'm feeling pretty good today. I need to get well as the garden and the birds really need me. Chris does a nice job but things just tend to fall apart if I'm not doing my job. I cleaned the paito today which really needed it. I stopped once I started to feel a little pain. That's why I'm here now typing. I called Chris and told him that hosing down would be what he could do then we'd be done with that chore. It's one of my least favorites. I REALLY need to clean the pigeon loft too. That requires some back strength since I have to go inside and the height is five feet. I'm five-five so I have to be bent a little when I'm in there. It's amazing five pigeons can make such a mess. But now that it's winter I want to save their dropings and put them in the raised beds. They produce lots of great fertilizer that technically I shouldn't have to buy anymore. The beds are low on soil. It's amazing how the plants take it up.

I'm also getting the urge to garden. The garden is a disaster with weeds. The vegetable garden needs to be tilled where there are no raised beds. I've gotten some new seed catalogs I'd never heard of before and am really excited and want to order things out of them for the next season. By mid February I should be able to start planting again. They are Totally Tomatoes and Pinetree Garden Seeds. Totally Tomatoes isn't just about tomatoes. They have peppers, cucumbers and a small variety of other veggies but those three are the main products. I want to order all my tomatoes from them. Pinetree Garden has other veggies I like, some new pumpkin variets like Bat which is half black half orang. But what's cool is they also carry some rare books, and soap making products. I really want to make my own soaps. I first read about it in Birds and Blooms. I always want to do that. I love going through these catalogs and circling everything I want. Of course if I ever get around to ordering it's nowhere near everything I circled. It's usually much shorter.

I'm still new to perenials. I have to remember they come back. I'm so used to annuals. My black and blue sage "died" and I was upset and thought I had to buy a new one. But yesterday I noticed new leaves coming up. It's not dead. It's a perenial and it will return thank goodness. I can't wait for the return of the blackeyed susans and purple coneflowers. I want more purple coneflowers.

Going back to the pigeons. The breeding hasn't gone well indoors. One pair that finally laid eggs kicked an egg out accidentally. I know because they were still trying to sit on it, but it was broken because it was on the grating. Another thing ALL my pairs are doing and I just don't get it is throwing out all the nesting materials I give them. I give them pine shavings and hay. So with no nesting material in the bowl the other egg broke too. I know those eggs were fertile so that's definitely a loss. The male is experienced but the female is not. I have seen them mate a lot so hopefully if she lays again the eggs will still be fertile.
What I want to do is put them all back in the loft, but there's a problem with that. The old males are from my old house. If they ever got out they would fly away and never come back. I can't aford to lose white birds especially breeders. The only option is to clip their wings. But two problems arise with that. One is I'd have to build shelves in the loft for nests. How would the clipped males get on the shelves? Two, clipped wings grow back. I'd have to be REAL careful to check everyday that they aren't molting and I don't accidentally let them fly out. I don't know if it's worth the trouble. I'd like to get all pigeons off the patio, but I'm not sure what to do. Perhaps it's time I built a new loft. One just for breeding. It would have to be the same dimensions as the current one. It would be cool to make an addition to the existing one but I don't know how. So I really don't know what to do.

Oh gosh I'm being a bad student again. My friend is supposed to call me for another Photoshop lesson today. He's going to help me with the sunfish drawing, which I'm now thinking sucks. It was my first time drawing a sunfish. Anway, I should have had it finished in illustartor at least. Well I haven't even scanned the darn thing!! OY!! I wonder if I can have the illustrator line work done before he calls in a hour and a half!!
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Today has been an interesting day. We went out to Wal-greens to get some supplies and I saw a great deal on these ceramic pumpkins. Chris bought them for me because I want to decorate the house for Halloween and Fall.



I like how white pumpkins are becoming more and more common each year. I remember when the mutation was new and only could be found through seed catalogs. Now I see them in decorations and at pumpkin patches. I love these since they are so well made.

We flew the pigeons this evening and Instantly I knew they'd brought home a stray. I could tell because she landed on the backyard neighbor's roof. My birds are very good about only landing on our roof. Not only that I could tell by her color she wasn't mine. Most people would never have known. Chris was with me and I go, "Who's that? That's not one of mine!" She looked like a racing pigeon but had no leg bands. I was hoping she'd go in the loft with the others but she didn't and flew away. That was neat and it's never happened before. I'm hoping they'll find her again tomorrow.

I've been having fun and frustration with Spore. My computer is too old and too bug ridden to handle this game properly and I'm waiting more than I'm playing this stupid game. It's quite annoying. The space stage is the worst. Anyway, I've replaced my old "Out of My Fandom" icon with the Brain Gremlin with my Spore version of Sorath. I hope it displays right as I can't tell on my old crappy monitor that won't display clear PNGs. I hope you can read what it says, but the pose is perfect for this and better than my old pics. I'm posting this for all those "hardcore" gamers out there that are whinning about Spore on the main forum. I'm not a member there, I only lurk but it's so stupid. Everyone's whinning about it being too simplistic and the creators sold out to make money by aiming to the "casual" gamer. Hello!! Video games are business and last time I checked business is about MAKING Money. DUH!! This is my first real indepth PC game I've ever played. So it's people like me and there are probably lots that are the target audience and I think they hit them. The only ones complaining are a handful on that stupid site. The ones they're making money off of are too busy playing Spore to listen to them complain. Some parts of the game are hard so I don't see what their issue is. And besides look at all the characters. It's a KID'S game. You can't make it that hard. For Pete' sake! They were also saying it's not like the Sims. That's because this is SPORE not SIMS!! If you want Sims then buy Sims, but Spore is something different. Get over it and leave us alone that love the game. One moron went so far as to say, "I hate casual gamers." Well good because I hate him too and they already got my money so, ppptthhhuurrbbb!!!

The only thing I'm really upset about probably has nothing to do with the game. It's my computer screwing up. If it wasn't for that I'd probably REALLy enjoy it. And I do think it has wonderful replay value despite what those "fans" say. When you see how many videos are up on youtube you'll know there are tons of people that out number the nay sayers. You know why I really love Spore? Because it's so personal. MY characters and my favorite characters from fandoms I like I can make and put in the game. How many games let you interact with Kaiju monsters, Peeps, Budgies, macaws, Gourds, Orange Birds, ancient gods and my own original characters? That's why I love this game!

I have done more halarious things in the game lately. I played through with a varition of Sorath I named Solar Dieties. I played ultra friendly only killing people that attacked me first and I ended up being a religious culture in Civilization stage. I wasn't pleased a first but I QUICKLY grew to love it. For one a giant budgie attacked our city. Our cars shot it with magic and music and charmed him. The disadvantage was that it wears off and the budgie made a mess. Unfortunately the city's automatic defense killed him. I didn't want him killed, but I couldn't stop it. But when you "raid" a city as the cult they project or summon their god which is a giant ghost version of themselves. This was perfect since they are sun gods! So this giant Sorath is chanting to press on the attack. If you succeed the cities aren't taken over but converted. The ultimate weapon is called something like Fanatical Uprising where the largest version of the god comes out of the town hall. My town hall is a dark pyramid so it was awesome to see a giant sun god come out of a pyramid and let out all his power. This wins the game as it instantly converts all your enemies. I built this awesome spaceship that's a wicked Aztec looking flying pyramid that I named The Eye of Ra. Heavily inspired by Gamma Ray of course.

In tribal stage my favorite thing is to round up animals for egg farming. I LOVE the old cowboy music they use. I played just that stage as Godzilla and rounded up a Florida Orange Bird, a Costa's Humming Bird and a Budgie. Previously as the sun gods I had a gourd, a peep and a budgie. SOO cute. I've made tons of movies. I have to figure out which ones I'll upload to share. Or if you are on aim I can just send you the files directly. I loved watching Godzilla collect food. He looks like a waiter carrying it on a plate over his head. And when you collect eggs them come out cooked and sunny side up! I've killed two Epics already, those are the giant monsters in the game, but I haven't gotten the achievement for that yet. I don't know why. OH! And I found out there are blackholes you can use to teleport to other parts of the galaxy. That and you can find our solar system, the Sol system. I don't know how. I didn't want spoilers but I did see someone blow up the Earth. That was great. My only gripe was that there's no lunar lander on the moon. I know if they made the game right that our sun is on one of the very outer bands of the galaxy. suzidragonlady, your Spindoos were in my game and my Godzillas hunted them for food in their tribe.

I will share pics next time. I'm wondering if I should make another Youtube account for my Spore vids as I'm sure my friends there must be getting tired since I've strayed from posting nature and how to vids. I hate logging out and can barely keep up with Roundularman's account. I don't know. I need to think about that but I definitely want to upload a bunch more.
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Well so much for the Tropical Storm. Nothing happened. I brought in the outside pigeons just in case. I'll probably put them back out tomorrow. I didn't even see any rain yesterday. It's just been cloudy. But today is a very ugly day. Ususally the storms out here are beautiful and relaxing but this one sucks. If I don't get enough light I get really slowed down and crabby. I'm definitely solar powered. The good news is that the temperature has been beautiful. Not hot and not cold.

I have now collected eight versions of the Popcorn song. I've been going through youtube and just snatching them up. I found many bad ones before I selected the good ones. So I got to play music critic yesterday. Oh you guys know that jerk that had stolen my Frink pic? The one that makes the Wave editor software? I don't remember if I mentioned this but when Alex whipped the memory on my computer we took off the version 7 I think it was of that that I had. I hate upgrades and refuse to change because the upgrades are worse and I like things the way they are. When Alex reinstalled it it automatically upgraded to the new version 15. The bad thing was that that now had ads and when the ads switch it clicks loudly defeating the purpose of recording from stereo mix. I wrote the guy and asked if he could give me the down grade. He was a real jerk about it saying no that why would anyone want an older version with bugs in it. There weren't any bugs and best of all no ads and it was easy to switch between stereo mix and microphone. That's the program I use for my speeches on youtube. So I wrote him back and told him he should make all version available to users. It's free software so it should be their choice. AOL does that with AIM and they totallys suck. Yes basically I told him he was worse than AOL hehe. Well Chris had version 11 on his computer. It's pretty much the same as mine was only the control to switch between stereo and mic was more hidden. I guess I can live with that. I managed to find all the file and now I have a good version on my computer again. YES!! I put it on a CD too so I can install it on any computer.

With that in mind I'm going to make that guy's life miserable by giving out the older better version to anyone that wants it. So if you guys want to record yourselves with no time limit like on the default Sound Recorder or want to record anything you hear coming out of your speakers let me know. I can put it up on sendspace. Well as soon as I figure out how to upload a whole folder. I have winrar to compress but I don't know how and I don't want to compress my current file that's in use so I'm not sure how to go about that. But I'll look into it.

Youtube is being stupid again. It's not letting my posts go up even on my own videos. I hope they fix that bug soon.

Last night when it got dark we went out to look for butterflies. I was very happy to see a tiny Tersa Sphinx moth. I got a good picture of a Carolina Sphinx too. Chris said he saw a Five Spotted Pink but I wasn't able to get a pic.

The other day I had Punkin walking around the house. She went into the bathroom and hopped on the sink. She was telling me she wanted a bath. So I put her in the sink and gave her a bath.



Here she is after her bath. All cute and wet. I thought she was too wet to be walking around the house and didn't want her to get cold so I dried her off a little.



This is the only good picture I got. In all the others she was biting my hand and biting the towel. Hehe. I guess she didn't like being wrapped up. But I think she did like the warmth of the towel.

And yesterday I spent most of the day inking the drawing of Cope in Illustrator. I'm having a hard time making the seats for the car in Illustrator. But the hardest most annoying thing and I really don't want to do it is, all the windows on the buildings. They have to line up perfectly and I don't know how to make them other than the hard way and make each one by hand. ARG!!! I thought I told myself to not draw anymore cities! So that's been stressing me a bit. I'm so ready to move on to the coloring phase. I don't want to do it but I have to. It's almost done. Someone help please!
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I've got some mixed feelings right now. I'd let the pigeons out for their afternoon flight like usual. You guys know the side neighbor doesn't like us or so it seems. Well something scared four of my birds and they decided to dive bomb them while they were sitting on their lawn chairs. I was on the other side of the yard when it happened but I saw the whole thing. I thought it was halarious and serves them right. I gave up waving at them and being nice ages ago but that got their attention. So I ring the door to my front door and Chris asked me why I did that instead of coming in the back like usual. I told him what happened and that I didn't want the neighbors to see me walk through the backyard. He thought it was halarious too. I'm just worried they'll think I did it on purpose and sent my birds after them and try to pull something. I will fight but I'd rather not. And I make no appologies for what my birds did. Would have been funnier if they'd all pooped on them at once.

Ok so now that that's out of the way I've had a great day otherwise. Hummer Girl's been coming to my garden every evening. I made more hummingbird nectar today and put it in the feeders. I've never seen her use the feeders. I hope she'll figure it out. I need to get more flowers to make her stick around. One thing that was funny she did today was fly through my tomato bed. I think she liked the red tomatoes and thought they were flowers. I had to rip out one of the tomato plants that was diseased and I planted some scarlet runner beans which are for hummingbirds.

I'm also quite happy that I've been getting lots of nice comments on my INTJ videos on youtube both my personal ones and the Tesla one. I need to finish the personal one and talk about the J axis still. I've also gotten a little more writing done. I wish I could talk about it. I really do. But Chris has enjoyed reading them so I'm glad about that.
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I've had a great day today. I got to watch an ahole get his arse totally kicked online. It's been quite amuzing. I also got a person on DA interested in my story. Pity about what will be happening there soon too.

The most exciting thing that happened today was this evening when Chris and I went out to work in the garden. We walked toward the aviary and he goes, "Uh." The moment he said that I saw a blue bar with white wing tips in front of the aviary door. All kinds of stuff rushed through my mind. At first I thought it was my bird White Tip, but I knew I'd locked him up in his loft. Then I thought it was one of mine which would be a nightmare come true. All the birds in the aviary are prisoners because they would either go back to the old loft or they've never flown and if they got out they'd get lost and be gone for good. It is something I worry about especially with hurricane season now. Well we slowly walked up to the bird and I looked at his colors. "That's not one of mine!" I yelled. He looked like White Tip but the order of his feathers wasn't right. Yeah I know my birds that well. Also the leg band were different from the ones I use. She was trying to get into the aviary. Amazingly I reached down quickly and caught her with my bare hands.

I brought her inside and gave her food and water right away. She had a small cut on her leg which told me she'd probably been attacked by a hawk. What are the chances of that bird finding me? She couldn't have chosen a better place to touch down and I felt I could return the favor if indirectly for the pigeons that had been helped by unknown people. I got the leg band number and part of it was "HI". OK ,I know this bird did not fly all the way over from Hawaii. I looked it up on the American Racing Pigeon Union's site and tracked down the club. It's the local club in town. I'd spoken with the president before. He's the guy that blew me off because I only had white pigeons. He said he'd call me back but never did. I knew he wouldn't. So I told him about the pigeon then go, "Yeah I called you before. Back in October you told me you'd give me some info. I'm the one with..." and at the same time we said, "The white pigeons." Yeah he remembered me. I think I caught him there. He gave me the owner's number and I called him up.

Very interesting story and kind of sad. The guy's been sick in the hospital and his wife was taking care of the left when she accidentally let a bunch of babies out. I'm guessing untrained babies. He told me his birds have been lost for a week. That would explain why this pigeon was so thin. They came over within a half hour and picked her up. I'm so glad that had a happy ending and I hope his other birds will be found but after a week and that many it's not likely. This one was lucky. I'm amazed at the good eyesight this pigeon had to find my aviary. She couldn't have landed at a better place.

Garden wise we got a little bit of weeding done before Chris had to go on a job. Onions, zuccinni, summer squash, butternut squash, cauliflower and broccoli have come up in our other raised bed. I hope we'll have a nice harvest this year. The luffas are doing well too. The one has gotten bigger and the ball luffa vines should start to climb up the fence soon. I also have some normal luffas that sprouted. I hope to cover that whole fence with different types of luffas.

EDIT: Oh silly me. How could I forget this? I actually got some writing down today. Not to the stopping point I would have liked but it's about a page worth of progress at 10 point font. So probably two pages normal sized. I was writing an Owen section and I had to try to imagine what it would be like to be an extrovert and need people. It was rather hard to get into that mindset and also the fact I've just come to realize that Owen's a neat freak. So that's two things I can't relate to. I think I need to tweak what I have some more. I hope I can make this part realistic but it will be hard since I'm totally not like that.
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I think I'll put this post behind a cut because I'll be putting up at least four videos and several quotes.

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I checked my voicemail this morning and was so happy to hear a call from a man named Darrell. He said he's the one that found Push Pigeon and tracked me down through the American Racing Pigeon Union leg band. I'm so glad he was able to figure out the code on that. So I called him and thanked him profusely for saving her. He said he found her in his barn and was badly hurt. Her legs were all cut up and she couldn't walk. He had to cut off the band because it was cutting off her circulation. Him and his wife fed her and took care of her. They liked how sweet she was and kept her in the barn. Then one day when she was well she flew off on her own and came home. He just wanted to make sure she made it. I let him know I was so glad to see her two weeks later. What a great story!!
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