K_tigress's The Scratching post

Time for a catch up and pic posting!

2012-02-04T16:19:00.000-05:00

Playing catch up again. Thought I post these up already. Its of the new baby doves that hatched during early summer. June that is. One is a male peach colourd, the other is a speckled with white female.
Sadly the female died recently after the holidays of the dreaded egg binding. I discovered the problem too late to really save it. I tried cracking the egg and she seemed to improve for a while but the stress and probably the bacteria got to her. Had I discovered the problem early on I would have saved her like I did with another female in the same situation. The new male is happily wooing the females especially my one handicapped dove who can’t really walk but can fly just fine. He is always bringing her gifts of twigs for her favorite hanging nest, cooing and nuzzling her with affection. Its so cute.

My oldest dove who is about 30 years old is showing signs of sore joints mostly in winter. Going to have to figure out what natural thing I can feed him to make him more comfortable.

Going back to the pics, these were taken in June in their outdoor summer cage.
Enjoy!

Female in the background while the male is in the front.

2011-07-31T17:06:00.000-04:00

Boy its been one those of the busiest summers in a long time and that’s not counting the current book project I’m currently working on. That’s priority number one. People and even one new friend pulling you in all directions. Its sort of like juggling a bunch of balls and you have to make sure you don’t exactly drop one because they happen to be eggs.

Anyways yeah been more busier then normal and have virtually no time to really be on line not even to do the little things. Well I am trying to write this latest blog and post it that’s an exception but haven’t really been diving in to the internet, just scanning it quickly among other things.

Only made one batch of strawberry jam and the rest of the local strawberries I had to freeze for future jam making when I can. Going to have to buy a few baskets of local peaches this year if I want to make jam out of that since those darn squirrels took every last peach off of our tree this year. Greedy little things and yet they still go and eat all of the bird seeds I leave out for the wild birds. I’ll probably freeze some of those peaches as well so that when I get the time I can jam with those as well.

Also have some personal things I’m trying to get over with since my mom has been really bugging me to do so. Yet another gorilla to get off my back but it also feels like beating a dead horse too. The personal things, well I really want to keep that between me my self and I because its well a bit embarrassing and it at the same time causes me much anxiety. But it does have to do with a test and the giver of the tests. Me and tests have never been friends. They are my enemy that I would rather shoot and avoid like a plague. Sort of going to the dentist and or doctor or any annoying thing.

Speaking of the dentist, that’s yet another thing I have to get over with but since I have all these things I had to postpone it. Not like I’m disappointed though. My teeth are in pretty good shape any how other then the cracked teeth I have as a result of eating extra hard roasted chestnuts I ate at one time. Haven’t had a cavity in years. Knock on wood.

My birds have been busy as usual and they ended up sneaking in a pair of fertile eggs under my radar. I didn’t catch them right away because of my business and anxiety over coming events. But because I found out too late I let them go. Now I have two healthy roly-poly babies so far. I just hope they don’t end up with splayed legs. That’s when the legs go all funny and they can’t walk like they should. Not fun for any one.

Last but not least I gained an new friend of the furry kind which is pretty unusual in its self. I thought I never see the day unless I got my own place. Yeah I still live with my parents and my dad has this quirky thing about him which make him hard to get him sometimes. But none the less he gave in I guess. The Meowy wheel gets the cat nip. LOL

Any how a few weeks ago well it was the last week of June on a Friday night my mom heard a noise outside. So I went outside to confirm it and find out what it was. It turned out to be a really loud kitten crying. It was apparently coming from across one of our neighbors yard and in the direction of the alleyway. I could have sworn that little kitty was caring a blow horn/mega phone or something cause that’s how loud the mew was. But boy does she have a strong voice box. So I called the little kitty and out she popped out from under some bushes. So yeah I get her and she’s all covered with leaves, burrs and some dirt. So we tried to take her in but she meowed all night in the house so at some point I had to place her back out side. We also had to explain with the neighbors but they seem to be understanding about all the noise. Luckily she still hung around and now we still have her.

So we brought her back in and then she finally quieted down. She still mewing loudly even when I gave her some food I had lying around. LOL It was the funniest thing and at the same time the most pitiful thing you herd.

I kepped an eye out for lost ads at the store and what not but didn’t see any. So since my dad gave in, we as in mom and I got to keep her or is that a he. I still can’t decide since its still sort of hard to know for sure. One the genital aria is small since she still a kitten and also she’s a long hair. So for now she’s a she unless I find out otherwise. She has long hair as I said and has both stripes, spots and is white and orange. On her back legs it looks like she wearing orange striped leg warmers which makes perfect since she’s a real jumper when she plays and looks like she’s dancing. As for her name she’s called Meetsa. Not exactly spelt that way but for your benefit spelt like that on purpose. To me she looks like a butter scotch sundae so I probably would have called her with that relation or many other names I have in my mind but this time it was my moms turn. In my parents language Meetsa is a common name meaning Kitty. So if Meetsa ends up being a male all I have to do is change it to Meetso. No problem. Now I don’t know the exact history of little Meetsa, but to me someone had to have abandoned her. Their lose.

She’s a great and really smart kitty. Sometimes intelligence can get Meetsa in to trouble so I always have to ware her out with playing with her so I had to change my whole schedule just for her. LOL But she is totally worth it. Oh and she follows me around all over the place like a little puppy dog. Makes it easer to keep her where I want her for her safety. Also she loves to go below my butt when I squat, like a chick to a mother hen. I'm not sure why she/he does that but its so cute. Anyways here’s a few pics of her in all her or his beauty. I love to get a few pics where she has her mouth open or in some funny antic.

The following are pics taken in the first week we got Meetsa before the dreaded bath.

These were taken a few weeks ago while Meetsa was in her favorite spot for bird watching.

I think the last one makes her look like a sphinx statue don't you think?

2011-05-27T00:01:00.000-04:00

Ok, lets play catch up. Wanted to post about these awhile back but you know when you’re busy you just can’t.

This first one was meant to be posted sometime in April.

That darn egg man

I feel I need to get this off my chest. Not as teed off as I was a few days ago but none the less.

Last Friday my mother and I were on our way home walking after taking care of some errands.

We were walking home minding our business and out of no ware some jerks in a van thought it would be funny to throw an egg at one of us. Unfortunately who ever threw that egg threw it pretty hard that the force hit my mom’s shoulder, it then luckily bounced off of her shoulder and flew at the telephone pole that was just in front near our garage and got smashed. Now my mom sports a nice sore and now probably bruised shoulder. Thanks a bunch, losers. I would call you chicken but that would be too good of a word since chickens are too smart for you. At least chickens are smart enough to know that you either eat eggs or you sit on them. No, the only word that’s good enough for them is coward and losers. My mom takes medications and this practical joke does not help her. What if she really had some kind of heart and or other inflammation issues that might affect the brain in some stroke way?

Luckily I have a photographic memory since I’m an artist after all and memorized the back of their van. It was an older model van. The back window had lines on them. There was lots of chrome that surrounded things and the colour of the paint was a cream colour. Sort of like a beige with a bit of peach. Like a skin colour. Next time I will memorize the license plate. I also believe they live some place in the neighborhood since every so often the houses get egged. On my next walk I will look more carefully.

Over all yeah ha, ha, I know it’s a joke but its no joke when it hurts some one.

Also I know what its like to be severally bullied as a child so who ever did that better be ware.

Still over all I hope that the guy who thought it was funny to waste food like that, gets in to a situation and finally earns some smidgen of an IQ point. Maybe instead of using his so called skill for causing trouble, he might want to instead use it for playing baseball or go to comedy school and actually learn how to be funny.

*steps off of soap box*

Just a crazy quote I came up with at the time with all the disasters and rain at the time.

Radiated "April" showers "May" bring mutant man eating flowers.

This one was suppose to be posted the other night.

Fudged the fudge.

Well I’m a bit teed off with my self. I already had one of those days where the whole world just irritates me to no end. Well I just found out that you should never make certain things when you’re upset since there’s no real way of it still turning out even if you goofed on the amount of ingredients for a dessert.

To cut to the point, I fudged making fudge. I added too much evaporated milk since I was distracted and did not pay attention. Well I ended up with goopy fudge and there was no really way if fixing that mess since I already tried doing so. I gave up trying to make a dessert that you can pick up with your fingers and put the mess back in to the freezer. I think tomorrow I’ll reclaimed it and make it in to an ice cream topping which is what I should have done in the first place. Sigh…………

And now we’re done.

Still have to find the time to turn that fudgy mess in to some nice ice cream topping.

The work never ends. Kind of like these storms not to mention the cold. The cold air bothers me more. The rain, not so much.

2011-03-14T23:57:00.002-04:00

Well-p finally that mattress arrived. But not before waiting for a few more weeks. Boo to Teppermin's for over a month it took and I never even received any thing for free for the troubles.
Oh and the service was rather car sales man-ish too. I was also suppose to receive some cash back as well because of the original wrong order but where is that check in the mail?
Probably won't be shopping there again which is too bad since they had a lot of neat stuff.

Other then that still currently working on illustrating the book and oh I saved a little female sparrow several weeks ago. I found the little bird acting strange and flopping around the yard like it was drunk or something. It either hit its head on the window and or ate bad fermented seeds.
So I caught the little bird, which wasn't so hard to do, placed it in a cage outdoors with some food and water. It got loose several times since the chicken wire holes were a bit large and easy for the bird to come out of. But I guess the bird got the hint that I was trying to help it and after awhile it stayed put. Luckily it ate and slowly recovered. Then one day the bird was gone for good. I figured it recovered since there were no signs of it becoming a predator’s lunch. Over all it took 3 days to get out of that drunk like disorientation.

2011-02-15T22:42:00.003-05:00

Been rather busy with working on another book in the same line of Sunny the lion cat, some vector art work and a bunch of other things. But since I'm in between things like waiting for my new mattress which was suppose to come last week but had to send it back since it was the wrong size, I like to introduce a neat little forum for fellow localvoures. http://www.wannaknow.ca/ Right now it only features three local areas in Ontario but with more interest it has the ability to extend possibly at your request. Its a perfect place to share all kinds of helpful information and beyond which can be most important to the people living in around your neighborhood. It has a nice family feel to the whole place.
New people are always welcome.

And the mattress, well I really hope I get the right one this week or else, I'm going t be one cranky kitty who didn't get that proper beauty sleep. ;)

2010-12-26T23:10:00.003-05:00

As I wished in my other blog....Merry Christmas.
And yes as mentioned in my other blog Christmas technically lasts beyond December and a bit into January.

None the less, hope every one got lots of presents, got what they wanted and had a nice peaceful one.

Note to self; Got to get around to taking the latest pic of our nativity scene. Its always a work in progress since we as in me and my dad always add something new to it every year. ;)

2010-11-30T17:03:00.002-05:00

Did you ever have one of those weird Twilight Zone moments?
Last weekend I went to the grocery store after being out at some place in the evening. I went there originally to buy a newspaper like I usually do and for what ever reason I decided to look at the stuffed animals in the gift area. I picked up this little Himalayan kitten toy and immediately that "what's new Pussy cat? woah ohoo whaohooo" followed by the words "pussycat, pussycat, I love you" song came on the store's radio. I really thought it was funny, amusing and weird all at once. But boy it really doesn't help in my panging for a new kitty in my life and a lack of. Meow!

2010-11-11T00:17:00.003-05:00

New project that you can do your self featured in my web site. Also featured at Instructables.com. Its basically a repair job that you can do your self to replace those old worn out foam covers on your headphones. Its not much to look at but its really suppose to be practical any how and for your info.

2010-10-27T01:17:00.000-04:00

Rescued a little bag of bones kitten yesterday. She was stuck in a garage at a foreclosed home. I really don't know how she ended up in there but I know there was no way for her to get out. She must have been stuck there for weeks.

I was just passing though when I heard a noise and didn’t think much of it at first. But I ended up changing my mind and came back to the property to have another look and listen. This time it was really loud. A really loud distinctive mew, mew, mew is what I heard. I looked around to figure out as to where it exactly it was coming from. Apparently it was coming from a garage of an old house. I looked around the house to see if any one was home and I noticed a few papers stuck to the windows indicating foreclosure. Before I did any thing I contacted the nearby neighbors living next door of the houses but they really weren’t much help. So I when back to the garage with the crying kitten and looked around the little building for some kind of advantage. As I did that, the little kitten followed my actions, hopping on to a window ledge and pawing at the window pane. At least I knew now what the little rascal looked like. I gave her a few pieces of cat treat from my pack and shoved it though some tiny cracks. She pawed at them hungrily, scooped them up with her tiny paws and nearly taking out my finger as well. I then went around the building looking for a weakness and managed to find a place where the wood paneling was rotting. I yanked off the rotten piece of paneling and out came the hungry all black kitten. I gave it the rest of the cat treats I had in my pack and I again felt the full force of her little hungry teeth She was desperate for more and the little silly thing was wearing the bag on her face for awhile.
I had a pack since that's what I use when I'm biking to the mall or grocery store. I tried to go on with my business but the little black kitten followed along side me as I crossed the street. I wasn’t sure as to what to do. Should I take her home and upset the fragile peace of the family house hold or just leave her to her own devices. Luckily neighbor 2 houses down saw the goings on and directed me to another neighbor across the street who was apparently responsible for the little kitten. I came up to the door of the house with a slightly cracked open window so that her dog could get some fresh air and I yelled hello. Very convenient for me and thank goodness the dog apparently was friendly to cats and people too. The owner came to the door, was very thankful and gave me a big hug. I gave her the little bag of bones black kitten and explained the whole situation. She proceeded to give her explanation too about how she has another kitten like it and was looking for a home for both of them. Well it did save me from a disruption of peace at home but I still would have loved to have been able to give those 2 little cuties a great home with me, that is if I had a home of my own.
Life so sucks for me but at least it will be a good one for the kitten.

2010-10-24T16:56:00.003-04:00

What would you do for a Klondike bar?
Or what would you do for 5 bucks?
Some people would and will do any thing.
Take your pick. Make a little extra cash at this cool new site called; Fiverr.com

2010-10-17T17:13:00.003-04:00

Anyone get something stuck in they're throats before?
Nothing more annoying then a seed stuck in your throat for several days. At least I think its still there? I really hope its not there since its really freaking me out. Ever since I heard about that story about this woman a few years ago I always get that uneasy feeling when something gets stuck in my throat for far too long.
There was this woman who got something caught in her throat from eating either steak or was it fruit, I can’t remember exactly. But what ever she ate a piece of it got caught in her throat and the membrane in her throat or what ever its called grew on top of it. It later pussed up and gave her all kinds of problems and I think she almost died. Since that article, it really freaks me out.
I am really going to avoid eating the seeds in grapes for now on. No matter how and what they say about grape seeds being good for you. Besides, I bet I can get the same thing from other things too only with out the worry. I’m also avoiding cherry pits too. Looks like I’m going to be in a bad mood for the next few days if this darn feeling doesn’t go away soon.

Oh yeah a small update in my hobby part of my web site. A new avatar for any one that’s interested.
As always you can find that part of my site in my links area or you can take this short cut. KTTSTV

2010-10-04T15:09:00.003-04:00

Just a small update. Nothing fancy. I updated a link in my web site so that you may know where to purchase the new children's book I illustrated. You can also click here.

http://www.blurb.com/books/1607146

2010-09-26T23:55:00.001-04:00

Yippy! Looks like I fixed the scroll.
Still not sure why it did those weird things to begin with.

2010-09-26T23:38:00.002-04:00

I’m not sure as to what’s going on but my scrolling marquee seems to be messed up. Every time I try to fix the code for what ever reason it reverts back to its screwy self. Then again it may be a Google thing. A new policy maybe?
Its not like it was true advertising but more of a giving credit to the place where I got the content from. In other words, just a link along with what’s coming up on the calendar.
It really boggles the mind.

In the mean time I thought I mention or give you a heads up on this really cool find I have been exploring for the past few months. I found this site where you can get thousands upon thousands of streaming radio stations from around the world and you don’t even need a player to stream them in although the owner of the site does have one that you can download. But I can’t make heads or tails as to get it to set up on my computer. Oh well, its still excellent source of streaming radio goodness.
Please note that for what ever reason, from time to time some radio stations do not work.

http://radiopump.com/v1/

2010-08-26T16:06:00.006-04:00

Boy, what a difference half a year can make. LOL As I said yesterday I finished Illustrating that children’s book a few months ago and the resulting fruits of my labor were very pleasing to the author. I’m almost done with my “to do” list and since a few weeks ago I upgraded to a new internet service. What a difference. So far so good. It also helps to be wireless. No more annoying cords all over the place for people to trip on and or damage. I also mentioned that I finally got that long elusive package I was expecting in the mail. Who knew it would take that long. So I finally get to upgrade my photoshop.

Besides all that, this year no new peach jam. I guess hot and humid summers are not a good mix for peaches. It was mold and then the darn resident squirrel that did all the peaches in. It was bad enough that he was talking them and then he brings his family along for the feast too. A gray female and two little black kittens or what ever you call two little annoying black squirrels.

Oh and then there were the grapes. These are the kinds the kind that ripen just after my peaches. They’re these super sweet little green grapes with out seeds that are more on the yellow side if they get to that point. But nope. The resident robin that comes back to our house every year decided that they were too delicious for us people to eat and would promptly get rid of them before we had to taste them.
He also brought his annoying family too. So I ended up making this fake hawk out of foam and paper, painted it up and my dad placed it just above the grape vine. Unfortunately it didn’t work since he didn’t hang it properly and it ended up all tangled up on its fishing line est. None the less I still managed to sort of save a few bunches of grapes by placing a few plastic bags with little holes on a few of them. It worked some what since now when they got close to fully ripening but the insects started to have a go at them.
I had to pick them more sooner then I would have liked to.
Next year I’m going to stick those plastic bottles (the kinds used for water)with the tops cut off on to the bunches of grapes with the plastic bags. Maybe that’ll work.

Oh yeah the author and now friend has asked me to post this for any one that is interested and looking for a adventurous and beautiful getaway, also here's the rest of those zoo animal pics. ;)

http://www.homeaway.com/vacation-rental/p294825

2009-12-30T23:50:00.007-05:00

Well here I am on the last day of the year. It has been a pretty productive year too. Apparently my doves have been productive as well. LOL The little buggers caught me off guard. Thinking 3 days out of the nest is all the eggs need to be infertile but noooooo. Obviously that little dove really has some strong genes in it. Yep you guessed it they managed to make another baby. This time they as in little Energizer bunnies with wings won't get away with it. Oh in case your wondering what took me so long to make any kind of peep, well I was just doing a bit of living outside the world why'll it was still nice. Well now its no longer nice and warm and so I hibernate in the indoors till spring of course. Besides I really didn't have any thing interesting to say which would bore the daylights out of you anyways. But at least more recently I have been working on illustrations for a children's book as noted in my creative log blog. At least that's something to write about. Oh and recently I discovered this really cool website where you can make and or learn how to make things. You can also share the things you make with others and if popular win occasional prizes. You can also give out constructive criticism and of course if you have a pro account you can give a patch of approval too. Makes you feel extra special. Feel free to check it out in a few days since its a bit dirty right now. Someone very naughty has spammed it with a naughty code but if your like me your anti-virus should block it. http://www.instructables.com/

Oh yeah, here's a few more pics from two summers ago.

LOL Enjoy and Happy "Mew" Year. Hopefully 2010 is a better year for all.

2009-06-17T23:32:00.007-04:00

Well what can I say I been preoccupied with things. 1.Its nice out and I'm spending more time outdoors. 2. I'm doing a lot cooking and baking lately and if you kept track of my other blog I actually got a small gig designing a graphic of an angry snail for a guy's truck. Its done and on display. Go see it, its cute with a don't mess with me attitude. Yeah its actually good.

Oh and these guys have been busy on and off for many months now. They don't seem to get tired of it or hurt them selves either. In case you don't know what those crazy birds are up to, every day they come over to our house, go up to the windows near the fire place and take turns drumming the windows with their beaks. These days they seem to take brakes in between things and feed their offspring. I wonder what they see in the windows in order to want to peck at them so badly?
The pictures were taken earlier in the year.

2009-03-29T23:00:00.007-04:00

And I'm back....... For now that is with all the March madness happening. Had a bunch of issues to take care of like my computer which is one of the reason you have heard less of me around. Had to get a new one. The old one was driving me crazy but of course the new one was doing the same thing with the learning curve as well. I still managed to get the old one to work for now since I thought my dad was going to use it but then he sort of chickened out as though it seems. I guess he's too proud to let me teach him the computer and internet basics. Maybe I'll try again this summer since were thinking of getting high speed though his phone company. Its a lot cheaper that way and hay its high speed internet. Can't wait. Getting my new computer not to mention again was also a real pain. First the sale service was less then stellar and then there was the expense. The price was actually pretty good for a 250 hard drive, x2 core, 4 gig computer but to me it was pricey. Oh well, at least I was able to pay it off. I only hope every thing is going to stay ok if you know what I mean, hence April fools. And now for some more pics.

2009-01-13T23:27:00.005-05:00

Do you guys ever have strange encounters?

I was doing some bank errands last Friday and when I came out and this old lady whom I don’t really know asks me for a ride to a local shopping center? I was a bit flabbier gasted because normally complete strangers just don’t do that around here. I had encountered the woman before in various other places but never really paid attention. She wasn’t hag like but looked to be in her late 50’ early 60’s like the same age as my mother, give or take a few years. A few days before my mother and me went to the shopping center to do some shopping and there she was sitting on a bench. My mother and me were in a middle of a conversation (can’t remember what we talked about) but any ways she piped up and commented about how cold it was outside. So any ways back to the bank eps, she mentions that she has a cold and would it be alright if I give her a ride. I thought about it a moment and proceeded to tell her that I had my dad with me and if she would like I’ll tell my dad that I know her from church so that my dad would not get weirded out. I also pointed out where the car was parked out and things like that and then for some odd reason she changes her mind. All I can say is, that’s just weird. I wonder if this is just one of those odd moments, or is it a lonely person and or do I have a strange stocker? Yikes!

Nope these penguins are not stocking any one but maybe for food. Fish any one.

2008-12-30T17:01:00.004-05:00

And now for something not completely different. ;)

As promised more pics.
I hope every one has had a non boring Christmas and hopefully a non drinking one at that.
As for me I've been hard at work at my old company making some extra cash so haven't had a whole lot of time online.
Hope every one has a great New year. We can all use some new hope.

2008-11-25T02:41:00.005-05:00

Normally I don't do late night blogging but this is one of those rare times I guess. Not much to post about other then that I really should get around to posting those zoo pics I already promised. Got to drive to a few short destinations with out an experienced driver but I still had a back seat driver if you know what I mean. :p But that's ok. Also lots of odd things happening with the utilities lately, the satellite seems to be acting strange like it would in a storm but at the time there wasn't a cloud in the sky and still is but we are expecting some snow. The electric also bit odd and even went out last morning. We even lost our water on Friday but then it came back. So strange, could it be aliens? LOL

Not aliens but animals, enjoy.

2008-10-21T22:48:00.004-04:00

Yeah, it’s been awhile again.
I do have some legitimate excuses though. First of all my old company I use to work for called me back for some work and on site. The girl who replaced me btw is the boss's niece. She was apparently in a car accident and got whiplash. She is going to therapy but that's none of my business. I really have no qualms about it and fact I was glad leaving and or not being there full time. After all who wants to be there all day and get gassed by poisonous fumes via airbrushing large balloons and get meagre pay for all your sacrifice, but its still good for some extra money part time work. But working there all day really takes all your energy out of you so at the end of the day all you want to do is take your shower, eat and go to bed.
Other then that, I finally passed that test. Yay! After the forth attempt, I finally nailed it and now I have a license to kill……well no not really. LOL

2008-09-12T23:03:00.005-04:00

Wow that was fast. Earlier I had ordered these two books with the help of a gift card I earned with Air miles and the next week they're already here. And then come labour day I won some software at Ebay at an phenomenal price of around 61 dollars which would normally cost around 700 when new. How lucky is that. I so appreciate that since I really needed those things but I wasn't expecting to get them so fast. I guess when opportunity knocks, it knocks fast.

Unlike fish tanks, you should never knock on them. It gives the fish headaches. ;)

2008-09-01T23:40:00.006-04:00

It’s been awhile I know. I spent most of August making peach jam from our tree, which had less peaches compared to last year. But because I didn't can any this year, we had just enough. Some thought maybe, too much. They got tired just watching me apparently and yet no one offered to at least help me prepare them. Turned out really nice n tasty. I had a combination of hard and soft jam but I prefer the soft more liquidly jam since its multi purpose. Good on ice cream, good on bread and yummy in desert. I gave a big jar of it to my favorite hairdresser who in turn gave me a jar of rich green pesto. A few weeks later I decided to try out the pesto in some pasta. I was unsure how this extremely green glop was going to taste like, but I have had weird things to eat and weirder looking food still so I thought what the heck. I cooked some pasta in the shape of shells and when that was done, I poured in half of the pesto and after mixing the now green pasta I took a taste. It really didn't taste like much but only looked ferociously green. So added some garlic powder, some margarine and some salt to taste. Did I mention it was green? I guess it was ok now. It was edible but my dad seemed to like it more then me. Most recently went to a green house and then a zoo. The green house is not what it use to be but is more of an arcade with lots of kid games and crappy imported souvenirs made from China. But there are still plenty traditional things you see and experience like the plants, organic food and the petting zoo, but it was better when my aunt came to Canada to visit. I took a few pics of the petting zoo so I’ll be posting you some little picture moments and yes even some of the zoo in the next few posts. As for today I enjoyed the last of the rotisserie barbequed chicken with my homemade stuffing. Every one seems to think it turned out really nice, hence the lack of leftovers. Darn, I’m hungry oh well. I hope every one had a nice n happy Labor day.
This poor gal wanted so much attention she would make such loud squawking and wing flaps to get us to come back.
This guy was looking for some lady fingers. ;)

2008-07-14T18:06:00.005-04:00

Before I forget, yet more belated spring pics. Should be the last group of these. Next up, my trip to a green house/petting zoo/cafeteria.

2008-07-08T22:59:00.004-04:00

Man, after all that rain we've been having, and it was the rainiest June since the 60's. It seems we have loads of insects this year especially ants and mosquitoes. The carpenter ants have made them selves at home in our kitchen. You can see them running around on the counter. First one, then two then, fore more. Escorting them out the door doesn't seem to help either. Oh well, if you can't beat them, join them. I left them a small stick of honey on the counter and they seem to appreciate it. They haven't brought their wrath against us humans. Yet ;) I would rather only have a few ants on the counter then to bomb the whole house with unneeded poisons, and or have those long legged centipedes come and join me in the bathroom any day.

More belated spring pics.
A little behind on things. Oh well.

2008-07-01T18:24:00.007-04:00

Happy Birthday Canada. I hope every one had a pleasant one today. I really need to make some Canada themed art work in the future. Any how, mostly spent it working on some artwork in my dungeon like basement. I took a few pics but I sort of have to crop some things out before I show them off a bit. You can check out the latest stuff I'm working out in my Creative blog. Just go to the link in the scrolling events. In the mean time please enjoy these belated spring pics of Blue wasteria vines. LOL

2008-06-04T23:41:00.008-04:00

When it rains out today the snails all come out to play.

Careful, don't step on them, fore they are having tea. ;) :p
Actually I think they have something else on their mind. ;)

2008-05-28T23:28:00.004-04:00

Thought I make a comic based on one of my cartoons. I'll probably make more in the future. I'm posting it in here since I would imagine more people visit in here. Not sure why but I feel like putting it in here that's why. To see more on my character, visit my site and look under character designs est. I will eventually post my short that I did a few years ago, but for now....Enjoy.

2008-05-13T23:15:00.002-04:00

One step forward 2 steps back

Great news, my small illustrations got accepted at this one illustration place. Yay and that means I’ll be making some much needed cash.

Bad news, my little baby doves died. Sigh….. :( I suspect it was because it might have been the cold night we had yesterday. I found them squashed in the nest, with one of them barely alive. Probably the male as usual tried to keep the other doves out other then his favorite female but then I guess he gave up. They were so close to coming out of the nest, just opened their eyes and had already grown some of their feathers. Sigh….. what can you do. :`(

I think next time I’m in that situation I’ll try to find the surrogate dove parents their own place and hopefully they can succeed.

2008-05-12T21:45:00.004-04:00

The fruit thats says I love you, that is, if you had some one to give it to. I found this weird strawberry a few nights ago while fixing my self a fruity bowl of cut up strawberry's for a snack.

2008-05-07T16:18:00.005-04:00

Oh Baby!

The parent doves near my mom's bathroom window successfully raised a family, which has since flown the coop. I still see them occasionally in the bushes below.

Another successful family of baby doves was raised in the front nest. Mom or dad is close by waiting for the opportunity to feed them.
I think they're just about ready to leave the nest.

The third nest closest to my summer doves cage was unsuccessful. Well almost.
I think what happened was he or she lost he or she's mate so was left to fend for its self and the nest.
He/she eventually got off the nest to feed and I thought would never come back. I haven't seen it all day so I thought the nest was abandon. The eggs were intact, so I took the eggs and let my own doves give it a try. I thought " what the heck its worth a try. They sat on them with no problems. I heard that the dove might have come back, but for me to put the eggs back, it was too late.
A few weeks passed and to my surprise they both hatched a few days ago.
So far so good. The babies are currently healthy and are feeding great. The babies seem to be getting allot of attention from the rest of the doves so much so its really upsetting my main boy Mr tangerine. I put him in charge since he is the best and most experienced at those sort of things. I hope that the babies will continue to be healthy and grow so that eventually I can let them go. In the meant time, I shall not touch them as much in order to keep them wild.
I'll try to take some nice pics.
As for the robin nesting near the garage, still sitting :D .............

2008-04-30T23:06:00.004-04:00

Magnolias
Some lovely pics of white magnolias taken just a few weeks ago from my mom's window.
If you look closely you can see a female cardinal in a tree. Enjoy.

2008-04-26T16:19:00.010-04:00

"Hear a nest, there a nest, every where a coo, coo, chirp!"

Wow everywhere I look on the yard this year there are nests. Looks like there are about 3 doves nests and one robin nest as well, not counting the sparrow ones. I guess some bird spread the word on how bird friendly are yard is. And who would blame them, it has water, constant sources of food and plenty of hiding places that's pretty sheltered from the wind but apparently not enough nesting spots. Kind of like a mall with a lack of parking spaces. LOL

Looks like our resident robin came back from his vacation down south. This time he built his nest above our garage on a grape vine.

Some doves took over the old nest out front where our resident robin made a nest last year.

Then there the dove couple that made a nest near my mom's bathroom window.

Last but not least, theres the one near the summer cages for my doves. She is nesting on the honey suckle tarris on some grape vines. You can see her head just peaking from above the whole mess. :D

I hope the nest time I can get some pics of the babies with out scaring them.

2008-04-13T17:09:00.005-04:00

Looks like one of the female doves has joined the nest party.

2008-04-01T22:22:00.004-04:00

One of my male doves decided that a potted spider plant makes a great nest.
I might have given him the idea for that since that's where I threw in the old eggs.
I replaced those and gave him some fake ones.
I usually make the fake ones out of clay but these ones are made out of some small Easter eggs.

2008-03-25T22:55:00.006-04:00

Happy Easter every one, even if it’s a late one. Well maybe not too late for all those Orthodox Christians out there. For me it was a bit of an odd one. On my way to church, I noticed a basketball that some kid probably lost, all alone on the corner of a street a few blocks down from my house. I left it alone since there are lots of children in the neighbour hood that might of lost it. Thinking nothing of it I went to church and on with my day. One or two days later there it was on my yard. It was underneath my dad's trailer. Weird, it’s like it followed me home like a lost kitten or something. :o Clue in Twilight zone music. Haha. Oh and here’s a few pics of a surviving Easter egg a former neighbour gave us. It was one of three. I wanted to take pics of all of them but sadly some people have no restraint. Sigh. :p The eggs were naturally coloured using leaves, onionskin for the colouring and a silk stocking. Not exactly sure as to the exact colouring process. :\

2008-03-19T23:32:00.000-04:00

Yeaeee! Spring is here. Soon the colour white will disappear and the many colours of spring will take over. Just like my white sweater, which I had no choice but to colour red. It had a bunch of stains that I just couldn't get out. I already tried the colour remover but the stains just didn't budge. The stuff usually works and even worked with ancient stains too. Most annoying! Oh well, at least now I got a brand new looking sweater. I look better in red anyhow.
Speaking of spring, my doves seem to be in the mood as well and a bit ahead too. One of the male doves took to sitting in one of the large spider plants. I guess he saw the old eggs I threw in there earlier. I removed them and placed some fake ones when I found out. He's enough of a stinker as it is anyways. ;)
I'll show you the pics soon.

2008-02-29T00:17:00.002-05:00

Oh boy, another snow storm coming. Ha! did some kill the groundhog?
This cabin fever is getting to me.

2008-02-10T23:41:00.000-05:00

Ugh, where are you spring. Too darn freezing. Getting cabin fever. :(
Below zero, go away.....

2008-02-04T23:17:00.000-05:00

Awesome find.

A few weeks ago, well maybe a month ago I heard about this really cool link about this web site. It’s a really cool search engine. What’s so neat about this search engine you say? Well each time you do a search on it the searching and or clicks equal to donations to your favourite charities. Sadly its not for international use but that will soon change or so they say. Its only for U.S users. You lucky people you!

Good Save

Description;
GoodSearch : a Yahoo-powered search engine that donates money to your favorite charity or school each time you search the Web.

2008-01-17T23:22:00.000-05:00

Here are those blurred pics I was talking about in the other post.

Here's a lovely blurred pic of a swimming pool.

Here's a lovely blurred pic of a lobby fountain. And yes I was in this picture but I really didn't like the way I looked in this pic. because of the blurriness, it made me look like a pin head with hair so I eddied my self out. :(

Oh what's this? could this be a Bigfoot?
No, its just a blurred pic of a gorilla.

2008-01-09T23:48:00.001-05:00

I hope every one has a good start to the new year.
As for me ohh boy. For the most part the holidays were pretty boring. We don't have any family here, they'er all over seas. Friends are out of town too and so you know the obvious.
Anyways, I tried to back out the car from the garage and I put a nice little hole in the front bumper because of one of my dads machines lining the walls. I knew, I should have listened to my instincts and not bothered to get off my butt. I was sick that day and the fullness of the garage does not help either. I felt bad for days and I still have a bad feeling over it. It was still after all only a few months old. Sigh.....

Humm the blogger is acting strange again since it won't let me link my user pic as usual. Then again it could be the pic it self thats having the problem since its a pic with a clear background and not black. Yeah, I downloaded it again to check.

Oh and heres a few vacation pics, this time from my dad's camera. Its the old style of camera that actually uses film. It takes great pics, that is when the battery is full. I think the battery was at its end since in most of the shots turned out blurry.

2007-12-26T23:53:00.000-05:00

I like to wish every one a peaceful, prosperous and joyous Merry Christmas.
It’s never too late in my book for that. After all Christmas lasts right up to some time after new years for Christians.
Oh and check out the newly renovated Nativity scene.
My dad used some paper bark for the walls and pond grass for the roof. Something he’s been meaning to do for a few years now. It looks really great. Can’t wait to make some sheep to add to my collection.

2007-12-13T22:59:00.000-05:00

All I want for Christmas is my two red shoes. LOL
Here are two links to the story, Red Boots for Christmas.
The first link is to a script to the story in case any one is interested and the story.
I'll try to see if I can find the cartoon too.

Play
Story

Enjoy.

2007-12-08T00:07:00.000-05:00

Oh look what I found. The animated version of The happy Prince. I've been looking for this, for along time and here it is. Part one. The rest can be seen at YouTube.

2007-12-05T19:25:00.000-05:00

Oops I forgot to put in the link to the MP3 version of the Happy Prince.
Enjoy.

2007-12-02T23:50:00.000-05:00

Who say’s Christmas has to be expensive?
It’s the season of giving so its time to share some link goodies based on some pretty rare Christmas stories and or cartoons I remember from child hood. At the time I found them somewhat corny but then I saw the beauty of the stories. Very unique and un-cookie cutter like compared to the usual fair of Santa Clause related stories.
These are great Christmas stories for the young ones in your life and the kid at hearts such as your selves out there.
First link and story is called the Happy Prince. It’s about a statue that is really not so happy.
There are several ways of downloading this story and bonus it’s free.
It was first introduced to me as a traditional animated story in grade school.
The Happy Prince

Another bonus; there are a few more interesting stories by the same author as well.

2007-11-27T16:46:00.000-05:00

I hope my American friends have had a great Thanks Giving?
As for me got my hair done the other day via my mom’s friend, friend. She runs her very own hair styling place out of her basement. The thing I like about it, is no gum chopping smart “a” talks about her latest boyfriend and charges you an arm and a leg because she or he is obligated to make a profit for the salon as a whole. I was even allowed to bring my own colour kit, which I bought at the store earlier. Turned out to be a good experience hair wise too.

2007-11-06T22:19:00.000-05:00

Tuesday I conquered quince. My mother conquered buttermilk biscuits.

She mixed all the ingredients by heart after she watched a program from a cooking show.

I was trying to figure out which recipe I should use in making quince preserves.

She kneaded out the dough. It was the right consistency.

Me, I asked my dad for help translating a quince recipe from a Croatian cooking magazine.

My mom was searching for the right cutting tool cause the earlier one didn’t seem to cut it.

My dad went off to taking care of some other business else where in the house. I looked at all the ingredients and equipment and I thought, “What have I got my self in to!”

Finding the right tool for the job, my mom cut fancy biscuits and placed them on a pan. She placed them in the hot oven, went downstairs and watched TV.

Getting my composer, I cleaned the quince under the tap, cut and took the seeds out. I placed the cut up fruit in a pot, poured in a liter or two of water and turned on the heat.

My mom got up from her seat to check on the now rising biscuits. They were rising nicely.

I simply stirred and stared at the boiling pot. I later covered it and looked for reference from my collections of images to pass the time.

My mother went back to check on her biscuits. They were done and a little too done. Luckily she took them out in time or she would have had some newly acquired hockey pucks.

I stirred and stirred some more. It was about 5 hours worth, too much for me. My dad when to check on my progress, it wasn’t very much progress.

My mom brought a sample biscuit downstairs where I was cooking. It wasn’t bad.

I was getting frustrated. My dad and me decided it was a good idea to blend the stubborn mash of fruit. Finally something resembling preserves, I think. After blending, the mixture was placed back in to the pot and boiled some more with some sugar. My stomach was growling so I fetched a freshly baked biscuit. It was already 7pm. Oh joy the time was finally right, I poured the mush in to hot jars and closed them tight. I boiled the jars for the finishing touch of ceiling for freshness.

I think I conquered applesauce and my mom conquered almost hockey pucks.

2007-11-04T22:08:00.000-05:00

Did you ever have one of those days where you say..."boy am I an idiot" as a result of being uninformed or mistaken identity? It was one of those " hit my head, face was red" moments. You can add another embaracing moment in my life to a long list of embaracing moments. Doh!

Oh and I got these "sugar babies" in the email. I guess you can put these on cakes. There made from marzipan and hand painted est.

2007-10-19T19:56:00.000-04:00

Hehe. Check this out. I got this in an Email.
It’s a mural in a smoker's lounge.

I wonder what that artist could create for a bathroom.
;)

2007-10-12T23:19:00.000-04:00

At the Zoo 7

This is either a pygmy hippo or a rhino. Can't remember but it was in some kind of animal tarentum thingy along with all kinds of other Asian animals.

And here's a lazy father Siberian tiger. The mother is in a separate incloser with two cute little cubs.
I guess they wouldn't be so small now. Just off the pic there was this big yoga ball toy. It had all sorts of nice large gashes in it You can just imagine what that would be like on flesh. Yikes.

2007-10-05T00:12:00.001-04:00

At the Zoo 7
And this was the reason why I missed out on the photo opportunity with the meerkats.
What human would miss out on these colorful and shiny things. People love colourful n shiny things.
This is my most favourite set of pics. I kind of wish I had one of these in my bed room.

2007-09-26T20:05:00.001-04:00

At the Zoo 6

Ha, its Lion king all over again.

Geez , what is with these cats, always perfectly timed so that you just miss there face.

2007-09-25T21:03:00.000-04:00

At the Zoo 4

More lazy animals. Or possibly really bored of us weird humans. Or perhaps they want us to think of them as bored, but are secretly planing on taking over the world. Hummm

2007-09-19T20:29:00.000-04:00

At the Zoo 3

Some sleepy flamingos. Probably not feeding time. ;)

2007-09-17T21:22:00.001-04:00

At the Zoo 2
Some animals or inmates as some of them reminded me of, just don't like to cooperate but still saved the pic anyhow since I hate to waist a pic of an interesting animal.

2007-09-14T22:24:00.000-04:00

Sometimes there are days where you don’t know exactly how to say things cause your having one of those “bla” days. It can go on for a few days sometimes a month. I have a feeling it has to do with the change of the seasons. Less light not to mention a lack of sunny warm or as I prefer hot days, really makes a persons brain feel like jelly. Sigh, I’m really not looking forward to being back at the fall n winter seasons. I wish I could just hibernate though it all or just sprout wings and fly south. Those Canadian geese got it all worked out. Ha! Still at least I got away for 2 days in Toronto. It was a good distraction and a reminder that summer was not yet over with. Personally it would have been better to go south to Florida for at least two weeks but this was still good too. Got a room at a hotel with a pretty cool view. You could see a really nice pool from the window. It had a kid section, a traditional deep end and a hot tub area. There were a few extras like a mini side in the shape of a frog and a conventional cork screwy water slide for every one else. The pool was pretty empty since the normal crowd of families with children was in school. It was tempting to have a swim the first day but I was pretty exhausted and a bit car sick, which made it harder to eat as well at dinner. I nearly upchucked at the restaurant. Luckily I didn’t but felt relieved anyhow when I found the bathrooms. The next day we went to the zoo, one of my favorite places to visit. If I lived close to one, I’d be there almost every day providing that the day was nice and warm and or if I had the cash. Even an arboretum/aviary with a small about of animal life would be nice to be at. It’s a great place of inspiration and a stress reliever not to mention great exercise too. I got to see the usual exotic animals, rhinos, elephants, large cats, gorillas, small monkeys, fish, assortment of birds and insects. Some of the animals even had babies. Some of the cutest babies were the little golden monkeys. Such a tiny little animal with an even tinier baby clinging to the back. I took a good amount of pics with my camera and my dads since he still had some film on his. It was feeding time for most of the animals so I got some pretty good shots but still missed a few as well. There were 2 to 3 mierkats just waiting to have they’re pics taken but I got distracted with this totally cool display of colourful fish covering every inch of the aquarium window. You had to be there. I finished the zoo day with a hotdog, a sore body and souvenirs of memories and pics, maybe just in time since it started to rain. In the mean time please enjoy these pics I’ll probably show a bit at a time since not all pics are available yet. Don’t forget to check out my Creative log, I have some new artwork in there.

2007-08-28T13:18:00.000-04:00

Hay did any one watch the lunar eclipse?

Bonus question……….
Also did you notice any unusual happenings, like nuttier then usual people, animals really getting love sick est?

As for me I know the moon was out last night. It really lit up the night sky and yard only I really didn’t have a good angle or rather place to watch it unlike my old house. There was this old shed I love to climb on, stretch out and watch the stars. The only way I can visit that place now is in my dreams and fantasies. Some other dude owns my former place and totally changed what use to be there. Other then the fact of the moon supposedly turning red while the earth shadows it, there seemed to have been plenty of unusual activity. One of our neighbors had to be sent to the hospital via ambulance. A cat, probably an unfixed male roaming around the outside of my bedroom was making soft and tender meows to I guess woo a female. The only thing, it’s making me wooed. Ever since I lost my last cat Missy to old age, it’s all I can thank of, to get another furry friend and save one from the human society. My father is really giving me a hard time on this. Why now? We had cats before but then again he really never like the ones we had but tolerated them. Ugh! I’m too old for this. Too old to be living with parents and the stupid for the child rules of the house. Yeah I would leave to have my own place, but space, freedom and apparently being treated like an adult costs money, which I have a lack of considering there is a lack of work too. If I could just get some freelance work and for the right people to notice me, I’ll have it made. I mean I already have the skills and the will. Like I said so many times before some people have the silver platter of life while others have the dirt.
End of partial rant.

2007-08-19T20:10:00.001-04:00

A little hug for a rainy cool day.
I had this little guy since I was a baby. He was always there to keep me company even against the scarcest child hood monsters. He even had a little brother but he’s with my uncle in Croatia along with a stuffed Mickey stuffed in a drawer. My little teddy still sits today beside my bedside; still guarding my bed and being all cuddly as usual no worse for wear.

2007-08-14T22:28:00.000-04:00

Well, all finished with storing the last of the peaches for this year. I actually have some more still in a basket but no more jars to store any more. Oh well so I guess we’ll just have to eat those in a hurry before they go bad. The few peaches that were left on the tree were squired away by my friendly local neighborhood gray squirrel and a house finch. A small bird that’s a bit bigger then a common sparrow, that has stripes on its stomach and the male has peachy red hood. I kind of think that they plotted the whole thing and shared it with the local robins and yellow jackets. The yellow green grapes are just coming into season and I believe that soon it will be there turn to be visited by the local admirers. Oh and here’s a few pics of the canned and jammed peaches along with our new car.

2007-08-04T16:38:00.000-04:00

Been so busy with those crazy good peaches to do really any thing else. Surprisingly enough, I’m still not sick of them; only maybe I’m sick of doing all the work of canning and making the jam by my self. I really wish could have a little help but no one bothers. I kind of feel like the “little red hen” the story about the chicken that tries to get the other farm animals to help in the bread making but gets snubbed and in the end she and her chicks get to eat the fruits of her work only it doesn’t seem to work for me like that. I do the work and every one else helps them self to the fruits of my labor. Oh well at least it all tastes good. I only hope there will still be something to enjoy during the winter.

2007-07-30T22:57:00.000-04:00

Pretty typical of me not saying anything for a while but I'm back for a while or maybe not. Who knows? Any ways some of my recent highlights, a few weeks ago the family van broke down. We had that thing since 88. I kind of think it has seen its last road. It was as old as my cat that also recently died. Because we really needed a new ride we got one. A new black Buick with all the extras, like a years worth of GPS and 3 months worth of Sat radio. I'll probably take a few pic when I actually get around to it. My dad put the licence plate with my name on it on to the car. It’s really nice and all but I know it’s really not my car. If I could afford it mine would have been a cute Volkswagen Beetle, either a yellow or a green one. Of course I wouldn't mind a nice scooters, you know one of those Vespas you see in Europe. I saw a cute pink one a few years ago in a parking lot. But for the most part I would rather have a new kitty any day over any of these things.
But one thing that really upset me at the time and made me kind of depressed was that he said that it would probably be the last car he would ever purchase. :_( What a big downer to an otherwise supposedly happy experience. Kind of like adding salt to your jam instead of the sugar. He was always a bit of a downer for the most part.
Its no wonder why my mother went off the deep end like that several times in the past.

Any how, since its once again that time of the year when our peach tree is full of luscious peaches, its time to enjoy them. This year I tried my hand at canning and making jam out of them. I only hope that they turn out tasty and don't turn in to botchelisim. I'm pretty sure I sealed the jars OK I'm using a few of those old-fashioned jars with the flip top lid that later get sealed by means of that clamp. Can't wait to try that peach jam. I'm sure with in a few days, I'll probably be sick to my ears with them.

I opened a Cafepress store just for fun. Good for a side thing and still have to put up a few links to it. I have a few things in there and will add something else for Christmas since I already have it. I only hope people will be interested in my stuff.

Last but not least, went to a cat show yesterday. My first one. I only wish my mom was a bit more understanding since she sort of got me to go at an earlier time. Oh well I told her so. I only wanted to be there for a while like a half an hour but we ended up staying for hours. Totally unnecessary. Oh well, it was cool any ways since we got to see all kind of breeds, some of the judging and the souvenir venders. Pretty well disciplined cats if I do say so my self. I think the most interesting cats were the hairless ones and the Persian. The little white persians had eyes like owls. There was this black a white Scottish fold that reminded me of penguins. Sadly I was not able to take pictures since the room had low lighting and I try to avoid using the flash out of the respect of the animals.

2007-06-16T17:06:00.000-04:00

Maybe he’s just a guy that has a little too much of time on his hands or just a creative thinker, but I think the whole concept is really cool.

This guy, he took a cheapo key chain camera did a bit of tinkering and put it on his cat. Now you can see what its like to be a cat. See the wonderful exciting adventures via his web site.

WebWorld of J.P: Mr. Lee CatCam

2007-06-13T18:35:00.000-04:00

Wow I thought these articles were pretty amusing and I thought I share them with you.

Are the aliens invading Canada? check it out here.

Green Blood

A guy takes a road trip....the hard way.

Crazy wheels

2007-06-10T00:07:00.000-04:00

Went to a small park-et called Colchester harbor last weak after a drive with my dad. A nice little park-et with a marina and small beach. Really nice, clean and quite private. I managed to take a few pics of the area but not exactly the ones I was hoping to get. They had this fox snake with the thickness of my big tow sunning its self on a rock but wasn't quick enough to capture it on film, the same with the cute family of mallard ducks with there babies because of people shyness. Sigh... Oh well here's some boring pics I took.

BTW last week I just installed some new software so wasn't online for a bit. But now at least it let me know who was trying to attack my computer. Here are the following IP's;
85-89-97-254 kbpauk.ru.
254.139.153.61 dial.jx.zj.dynamic.163dada.com.cn
ool-5471a756.dyn.optonline.net
61.153.224.108
218.106.91.25
219.148.1.66.
211.157.33.40.
To the following who are trying to break in, don’t bother cause I do not keep personal info in my computer only my artwork, so BACK OFF!!! I can report you.
Thank you.

2007-05-22T22:43:00.000-04:00

Empty nest
One by one the kids left the nest. One didn't make it though. The little guy/gall flew across the yard to the street and sort of stood there for a moment but luckily it made a run for the yard of our neighbour’s house. I was worried that some car would go by and make road pizza. So thinking it was safe and sound me and my mother went to the mall and took care of a few things. We came back home and took out our things that we bought and put them away and decided to look out the door to see for any babies. Unfortunately we saw one as road pizza close to our yard. I'm guessing that was the same bird that we saw earlier and unfortunately made the wrong choice. Poor little guy/gall.

2007-05-15T21:44:00.000-04:00

Mama bird went out to look for lunch in the park so I got an even better photo opp today. I wonder where is papa bird though?

As you can see the babies eyes are just starting to open. I hope though that I could possibly get even better pics of the mama and babies feeding but I don't want to go to far because of the possibility of spooking them too much.

I also remembered that I had a bunch of grapes that have been in the fridge for a while. I took them out and placed them on the porch near the railing. I think mama bird really appreciated them. It was kind of funny when she and the grapes she was pulling at fell of the ledge. Yep I guess she really enjoyed them. I only hope they’re a little more considerate when her and her family start to attack our fruit tree and grape vine when the season is right.

2007-05-14T22:06:00.000-04:00

Well I managed to get some pics of the robins. Didn't get too close since those birds are kind of skittish. Luckily they're close enough for me to take pics. Would like to take some better ones if the opportunity arises. I think they're about 4 to 5 days old and I think there's about 2 or 3 of them.

Made another nest for my doves today. Its for my little sweetie who is a bit crippled on one leg. She tries to nest with the others, only they give her a hard time about it. So now she has her very own nest in a private part of the outdoor cage. I only hope the others don't take too much notice and let her be. None the less she was quite pleased with it, even excepted a fake egg and some bits of straw and twigs. I could just see her happy face and a sparkle in her eye.

2007-05-10T00:06:00.000-04:00

Looks like we got some new neighbors. You know the birds that I guess pooped a smile on Pretty boys rock? Well they made a nest in the tree near the porch a few weeks ago, lade a few eggs and yesterday I noised two cute yellow and big mouths so far in the nest. Yep their robins. I'll try to take a few pics when of course no one is around. Its too distracting otherwise.

2007-05-07T00:50:00.000-04:00

Well I failed again. What else is new. What I failed at only my cousin knows.
Sigh.. i really could use a cat. Still not ready for it yet. Still getting ready for a new buddy though.
Maybe by the time I'm ready hopefully this crazy pet food recall will be done with and resolved.

2007-04-18T22:55:00.000-04:00

Oh yeah

I was looking out the window earlier today why'll drinking coffee and I notice the rock I buried my pet cockatiel Pretty boy under just a few months before. I know that birds like to sun them selves in the morning on it and they sometimes tend to leave things behind if you know what I mean. Well I guess either a dove or some robin was really being a Jackson Paulic and kind of enhanced the rock with a bit of artistic licence. You be the judge.

2007-04-18T21:35:00.000-04:00

As you know I haven't been spending a whole lot of time on the net lately. Unfortunately I have been spending it as in life doing a whole lot of worrying about things. Well I can't help it and some how I still manage even if I'm sometimes just hanging on my rope. When I am online, its just checking up on things and just a bit of surfing. On a lighter note I found some cool things that were of special interest to me not to mention very helpful. That is software. Its from an open source and hopeful very useful. I think what I'll do is post the ones that I have already tried that I think are cool and useful that others might find useful as well.

Here's a nifty one that you might like and best of all its free.
Its called CamStudio and what it does it basically records what ever is currently on your computer screen. It has some nice controls as in you can adjust things like pan speed, it records in AVI or flash format and also records the sound just like you would here on the computer.
Its definitely a nice find for Window users. They might make it for Mac's as well but not sure but its cool none the less.

2007-03-03T15:11:00.000-05:00

Origionally written March1 07
Things that I’ve been up to. Well I’m still morning the lose of my best bud Missy. When ever I have something really tasty I kind of think of her, I miss sharing it with her. Sometimes when I have left my jeans on the floor it looks a lot like her at night. It kind of reminds me of her lying asleep near the radiator. It really does look like her at night. My mom comes in my room time to time looking for her so she could give her a nice scratch, but then she remembers that she is no longer there. The other day I watched some doves sunning them selves on the mound of dirt where Missy is buried. I wonder if that’s significant.

We just had another I guess you would still call it a winter storm; only this time we didn’t have any snow but a whole lot of water. In fact it’s still raining and I think it’s suppose to eventually turn to snow. I really hope not. I only hope it warms up soon. It really sucks being indoors all the time. I’m really getting that cabin fever thing.

I had a weird dream last night. It had this old chimp in it. It was kind of ugly. He some how got into our porch at the house I use to live at. Anyhow he was just going around trying to get attention but all every one did was run away from him. No one wanted any thing to do with him because he was old and ugly. So I bravely came up to the chimp and gave it what it wanted. A nice scratch on the head. It was just a lonely soul that needed some one to make him feel a little less lonely in the world. It’s too bad there are actually real people in this world who are just like that chimp and all they ask is for a bit of friend ship with out strings.

2007-02-14T23:52:00.000-05:00

In honour of my long lived and best buddy Missy and mother of Tiger and Goldy. 88-07 Feb 14

2007-02-13T23:00:00.000-05:00

Wishing all the loners out there like me a Happy valentines day. Yeah remember its only one day that some greeting card company made to make them selves happy and the rest of us either guilty or lonely.
Please enjoy this rose until some one out there actually gives you a real one for once.

2007-02-12T23:48:00.000-05:00

I though you might like to see the latest pics of my old cat Missy who is around 21 years of age. I don't know her exact age because my mother got her for me when I was sick with the chicken pox in 88. Missy was part of a large pride of cats from a farm. Little did we know she was also pregnant and had two cute kittens in my closet on top of the socks in April of 88. Who would know since she her self looked kittenish. Anyhow kind of took these around the time as the bird show which I talk about a few posts down. It will probably be the last pics since she's really sick now. I don't think she has many days left. :( I'm really going to miss her very much. She was one of the most loyal cats I knew of since her daughter kittens and I know many would not agree that cats could be loyal but they can if you really get to know them. She understood the word no and yes and she obediently listened. She knew her name quite well and the word treat. She always cuddled up next to you when you were feeling sad, read a book and or read a newspaper. Always loved to be cuddled like a Teddy. :_( These pics were taken with out the flash so that she would not blink and the colour and brightness were enhanced with Photoshop.

2007-02-07T23:04:00.000-05:00

I'm sure most of you heard about what happened to that woman astronaut and how she went over the deep end about that fellow male astronaut and the whole nine yards with the diaper and all. Its one of those "what in the world were you thinking" kind of moments. Heh they couldn’t make a stupid soap opera out of this, then again maybe they could. But I probably wouldn’t watch it since I hate soaps. Its just shows you that love can sometimes make people do stupid things.
She sounds like someone who at child hood went though a lot of rejection probably was a nerd, teased and made to feel inadequate. So possibly filled the void brought by rejection with the dream of being something big when she grew up to show all who treated her badly. Her thing was obvious science and she took advantage of it, thus becoming something big as an astronaut. It’s really too bad she blew it big time.

Personally if I could have a talk with her in person, that is if I could, I would put my arm around her shoulder and say, “What in the world were you thinking?” Then I would say “why ruin your whole life for what, some guy?” Some guy that was only interested in that other woman to begin with, someone who probably would have backstabbed you any way. On top of that you ruin your marriage over this one guy? So not worth it. No human is worth fighting over and ruining your life as a result.

Over all no guy should fight over a female and no woman should fight over some guy. It’s just not worth ruining your life and making your rival happy. Besides if anything the rival should feel the guilt and other crap. Why should you? If the relationship is not there or if you feel some one is backstabbing you, just walk away. It’s just not worth it. Besides if some one is a disappointment to you, trust me it will come right back to the perpetrator.

None the less I hope that women gets the proper therapy that she really needs. She sounds like she could really use some emotional support.

2007-01-29T02:56:00.000-05:00

I just converted my blogs to the Google blogger thingy. I'm not sure how this is going to turn out. The only reason why I did that is so that I can also use the Google talk, which was recommended by my cousin. I also just put that particular program on my comp and I going to have to do some testing. I only hope that in the end that all this messing around is not going to effect or infect my computer in any way.

Thanks for being patient with me cousin. Just been really busy lately.

2007-01-17T02:42:00.000-05:00

The special for today is sautaed meatballs in a light vergin human oil

If this isn't scraping the bottom of the garbage can I don't know what is.
I don't care what artistic statement this dude was trying to make, that's just wrong.
There are better shocking ways of making money with art but this is not one of them.
Nasty!

Some chimps taste their pee but even a chimp wouldn't do something this gross.

2007-01-15T23:12:00.000-05:00

Things that been happening lately. Kind of been busy with things so haven’t had the time to blog n stuff. Plus when your feeling like crap it really doesn’t help.
Anyhow, when to the mall 2 weeks ago with mom and she ended up buying me another one of those Artists and Graphic Designer’s Market books. Usually I only buy those every other year cause they kind of cost more then they should. Really I think they really should cost less since they come out every year and really they’re just a type of a directory. Essentially a phone book of media companies with some good tips. On the way home I met a friend and classmate who I haven’t seen in years, which was really nice. I always think about the former animation students and some of the teachers. I miss them so much. Anyways he gave me his e mail so that I could give him any e mail I had of the former students and teachers so he could say a hello long time no speak. I only hope they still work since he still hasn’t e-mailed me back yet.

A few days later we got a package in the snail mail. It was a bunch of wedding photos and a European video from my cousin Anna once removed. Last time I saw her in person she was yelling “boneca, boneca” at a head of cabbage. That means candy in my language. She was only 2 years old. LOL Any how we eventually got the video converted to North American standards and viewed what were constant drinking games. Geez its about all they did though out the video. You wonder how they managed to even still stand up. I’m thinking that this is really going to affect their future children in terms of brain cells. There was also this game that I don’t believe they ever play here in Canada. All the young women had to grope around the men’s, well you get the picture, looking for hard boiled eggs. I guess the woman who found the raw egg, won something, or lost I don’t know.

Well today was Monday and well me and mom when to the mall again today. She was going to get some things over with and I wanted to see if I could find something nice at Ricky’s since I got this coupon for my birthday in the mail a month or so ago. Didn’t end up finding any thing so after my mom got her things we ended up looking around. We ended up buying a small package of truffles that were discounted at the chocolate store there. Yum! We also got this small recipe book of chilly, also discounted and handy. It has this cool dye cut that reminds me of something that a child’s book would have. I only hope the food is good.

2006-12-27T12:11:00.000-05:00

A tribute to my little buddy.
RIP my little buddy Dec 27 06 Had ya since 1987
Even with your nippy personality I've seen your sweet little side.
See you later Pretty Boy.

2006-12-21T00:09:00.000-05:00

I kind of went to bed last night. Really late. It’s a bad habit of mine, I know but then again I have lots of bad habits that I kind of have to break. Its just so irresistible to stay up late since no one bothers you and its really peaceful and you can think about things and no one comes in to gawk and say that's dumb or don't be ridiculous or do the most annoying thing roll there eyes. I hate when people stick their noses in things they don't understand and then try to steer you in another direction because they think it’s the right thing. Well its not, not always. If famous artists and or scientists always listened to what others had to say which they thought was right where would these people be today.

Anyways like I said I was going to bed late last night and was in the middle of prayer and out of the corner of my eye I saw a large shooting star I have ever seen out of the bit of sky that I saw out of my window. I've seen little shooting stars before and sporadic but this one was a real wow! It definitely distracted me for a moment and it sure was cool to see. Nope definitely not a UFO.
I know last weekend there was suppose to be a meteor shower but mostly missed it because it was too cloudy to watch the sky around here. You were suppose to be able to see it in the North West sky and there was suppose to be allot of them. At least I got to see this one and a bit late in the week. Cool. I hope to see more cool things like this. I only hope I don't see the dangerous kinds though.

2006-12-19T23:12:00.000-05:00

Just a little more Christmas cheer and using my Christmas tree. How nice!
Merry Christmas!
Don't forget to click on it to see different fazes of it.

2006-12-18T14:49:00.000-05:00

A few of my favourite things. I got these out of my calendar that I got a few years ago and I thought I add them to the rest of the Christmas cheer stuff.

2006-12-16T13:53:00.000-05:00

Lets try the Christmas cheer thing again.
But don't forget to click on the pic to see more Christmas cheer.

2006-12-15T23:54:00.000-05:00

I thought I share a little Christmas cheer. I'm sure lots of people could use some so here you go.

Ok maybe not. It looks like there's some kind of issues with phishing. Humm Yeah Boneheads. I don't keep any think important like that on the computer. I keep it all in my purse...HA!

Anyways in other news I took the last test from my training a few days ago that I'm not telling any one about as to what about. I passed but it wasn't really satisfying. I was kind of hoping to at least accomplish something really good in my life. It seem to never work out the way I was hope it would. I never seem to pass with flying colours with any thing. It really sucks cause no mater how hard I work at it I always end up with second place or third, never first. Its just so unfair, why can't I just shine and be first at something. I always end up being last. Sigh......
If only there was a prize for me........

2006-12-02T15:39:00.000-05:00

Any one else a fan of Sponge Bob Square pants?
I’ve been watching it also since it came out and steadily I’ve noticed that the quality of the show has gone down. My guess is that they as in the people who are in charge must have got newer people working for them because the originals probably got tired of working for the company for whatever reason. Then again you can only come up with so many ideas for eps. It’s a real shame but I guess eventually all good things must come to an end. But until then I’ll still be watching, I guess.

For all you people that think they’re gay, you are wrong. First of all Sponge Bob has a girlfriend named Sandy. Patrick star is Sponge Bob’s best friend. You know like you guys probably had when you were 10 years old? Basically the cartoon is geared toward a child like personality so there for it will have child like goofy antics and cliché and not some twisted gay personality, kind of like Bugs Bunny and the Loony Tunes. Some people just need to get their head out of the gutter, lighten up and enjoy a fun happy cartoon.

2006-12-02T03:28:00.000-05:00

I watched Avatar The Last air bender Friday night. It was quite an interesting season finally. Not as good as last years finally but still interesting. Been watching this cartoon since it first aired which I think was two years so far. So far been really enjoying the cartoon, which is sort of like an anime only was made in North America. It has really great story writing with plenty of plot twists n turns with interesting character arcs, interesting character designs and the backgrounds are really nice too. The animal creature designs are interesting too only some are not as creative as it could have been. The flying bison and the lemur are really nice but most of the other animal designs could use some work. I mean what’s with all the pig/animal things? Some one a little obsessed with pigs? A little too much bacon for me thank you. Another thing that doesn’t really appeal to me is the Eastern philosophy, I don’t believe in that reincarnation stuff but other then that an over all enjoyable cartoon.
Now over all the season finally was really good only the ending wasn’t really as satisfying as last years. It sort of left me flat. Also when that Aang dude went in to that last state part you know the part where it kind of looks like he just smoked something and he encounters his spiritual self was a bit disturbing as well. I mean why is that thing all dark and evil and looking like some kind of evil genie. Shouldn’t that spirit thing have a more in the light image if it’s suppose to be pure light and goodness? If you ask me something is really messed up. Something to think about……….

Find out what it’s about encase you don’t know what I’m talking about.
Airbender

2006-12-01T00:47:00.000-05:00

Nearly finished with my training of that secret thing I told you guys about a few posts down, or a least they say. Sometimes people like to hurry along with me because I tend to annoy people after awhile but fine. What ever.
I'm done with the first test but now I have yet to pass the pre final test to pass and finish with all the major training. Yeah nice!

2006-10-25T00:19:00.000-04:00

Another reason why most people suck.

I made a visit at one of my favourite message boards and I happen to go in to this one thread about some magician wanting to buy doves and what this one magician said in one part of his post just made me want to beat him up. Sheeh, now here's part of the thread.

Mark Mitchel

10/23/2006
20:57:10
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I am currently a close up magician, and i am looking to get into dove magic. 1. Which type of dove is ideal for magic.
2. Is it safe to buy from unknown people from this sit. Any help would be appreciated.

randy

10/24/2006
10:29:34
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I am a magician and have had to work with doves on a regular basis. While on the road I keep my doves in their cages, with plenty of food and water. I never grew an attraction to my doves, so if one does in fact become ill or unable to perform its magical duties, I humanley break its neck and purchase new doves. And helping with economical matters, doves that are hungry enough will in fact eat their own fecal matter and the remains of other doves I have sacrificed.

Grimaldy

10/24/2006
10:53:09
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That is very interesting Randy. But why use doves? Why not crow or magpie, or some other species that does not bond with humans like a dove. The dove is not known as the "bird of peace" for nothing, you know. I assume that in using doves, the magician is trying to pass the message to his audience that he or she has some humane qualities other than simply breaking the dove's necks when it is convenient to be rid of them or feeding them their own fecal matter to save a few dollars. Or is that too simply a part of the illusion that a magician foists on his audience?

Mark Mitchel

10/24/2006
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Well, I am not yet old enough to go on the road as a traveling magician. I do not even make a career as a magician. Mind you, i do want these doves for magic, but i also want them as companions. I will take very special care of them and give them the proper attention that they need.

regarding my questions, Where have you bought your doves before?

Grimaldy

10/24/2006
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Well it certainly speaks very well of you Mark that you see a dove as something more than a disposable creature to help you earn a few dollars. I get the impression from some of the postings on this web site from other magicians that none of them would share your willingness to take any sort of care of doves. Or perhaps any other animal as well. You may be wanting to break into the wrong line of work.

Mark Mitchel

10/24/2006
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I am not sure what you mean by the wrong line of work?

And, have you ever bought a dove from this website? If you have, is it safe?

And if not, where did you buy your doves?

What the heck is the matter with these people. No matter what line of work, you don't treat living things like some throw away garbage. If any thing that is garbage are people who don't treat living things with the right kind of respect. Most likely they also treat their fellow man like that too. Like garbage. Geez can you imagine what those bone heads do to bigger creatures like chimps and things like tigers. Another reason why magicians are evil. Well that line of work is evil. I bet most are devil worshipers.

Heh and if they’re so concerned about saving money, that means that they also suck at being a magician. Because they don't have much of an audience they're obviously not making much money.

None the less what those idiots are doing is truly evil.
I hope some how and sometime in he future they will learn a good life-changing lesson to nock some sense into them. Gosh its no wonder why even circuses are being harassed by the PETA. Can you blame them considering that maybe all of show biz is like this to animals?

Yeah people suck.

2006-10-17T19:36:00.000-04:00

Almost didn't feel like posting today. I probably should have posted this at least on a Sunday but then I really didn't feel like it. Been to occupied with other things and worrying about things that are also stupid. But what else is new. Its been raining all day but at least it wasn't too cold. Anyhow I took a few pics of the birds from the bird show that I went to on Saturday. It was a small bird show and some of the judging was still going on when I got there so they still had some of the cages turned in a certain way I guess to mark the ones they still have to judge. I also got a sample of cockatiel food out of the whole deal. Its some peletted food with an interesting smell which reminds me of bubble gum. Now I thought that birds don't have a good sense of smell so why would they need to do that. I still don't know if my birds will like the food. My 10 or so doves and one cockatiel that is.

Now here are a few of the best pics for your viewing pleasure. They're not perfect considering I really didn't have any peace when I was there but oh well.

The white cockatiel is my favorite.

2006-10-06T03:37:00.000-04:00

On a whim after coming home with the rental for the trip to Frankenmuth for this Sunday, he goes, any one want to go to Colasante's? So we all went, just for the heck of if. If you’re wondering it’s a green house slash petting zoo slash entertainment center. I haven’t been there for a while so I guess it was kind of nice. I was better though when I was little. I had more animals and plants. Now it just has more commercialism and less warm family. Anyhow we decided to have a bite to eat and so I ended up having some of their famous fried chicken. Great I’m making my self hungry and I already brushed my teeth. Anyhow we looked around a bit and then went to the petting zoo area. They had the usual fare of barnyard animals. Lots of cute mini goats, birds and one lazy donkey. I saw the sweatiest little thing a mother hen and her chicks. I wish I still had chickens. Before that I went in the section where they have all these tropical birds and did a little bit of viewing. I also did a bit of imitating. My favorite thing is to mimic the sounds of the squawking and whistling parrots and seeing how they react. Always a barrel of laughs. I don’t think my family was impressed though because they seemed to move too quickly though the displays. I kind of wanted to take some pics but who can find the cool shots if your being rushed. In the end we ended up picking up some wild birdseeds for my doves and something for my cockatiel since the seeds were a really nice price compared to the local pet shops that I usually visit. I hope that I can get some nice pics at the bird show in the next weekend though.

2006-10-04T19:53:00.000-04:00

I just did another one of those psychological games. Well it’s really not a game but more of a brain trainer I guess but I hate doing it. I have no choice as I mention before from that secret thing I'm doing. I'm not bad I guess, well at every thing else that it tests on, all except for short-term memory. I really hate the fact that this thing is making me feel like and idiot. I really don't need another reminder. I mean its bad enough that I have a terrible time at remembering peoples names and that I'm lousy at spelling. I'm really sick and tired at being reminded of those things. I like going beyond those areas. I feel reminders like those are kind of distracting to the things that I'm really great at. Sigh…
13 more agonising sessions to go though….

2006-09-29T23:25:00.000-04:00

Pondering a weird dream

I had this pretty strange dream a few nights ago and only managed to muster a bit of courage to post about it.

Anyhow it starts like this. I was in animation class (haven't been in one for a few years now) and I was editing some animation using my computer and a large screen that was in the classroom.
A teacher was lecturing on something and the teacher happened to be LOL Patrick Steward.
Now I know that guy doesn’t have a lick of knowledge on how to animate but I know the guy loves animation.
Anyways he continues to lecture the class and why'll the lecture is taking place the students are passing around notes. The note describes him as being a real jerk, a bonehead and other nasty things. What ever else happened I don't know cause I woke up.
Maybe someday I might dream it again and see a conclusion. Who knows.

I kind of made me wonder do you think that Patrick is a jerk in real life?

2006-09-29T03:23:00.000-04:00

I answered this interesting thread at some message board and I thought it would be pretty important to put this in here.

why are good looking people treated better in general than 'average/ugly' looking people?

theres another site i go to which requires you to put your photo up, and i noticed there all the good looking people get tonnes of attention and kind messages by people, and these good looking people only devote their attention to beautiful people, ignoring the less visually appealing. there was this one 'ugly' girl on the site who expressed her frustration when she wasnt getting any replies (and the occasional 'thanks' message, nothing more) by saying out loud 'why wont you talk to me? not too pretty for ya or something? shallow bastard.' needless to say, she got flamed by all the pretty women who was getting attention from the guy.

i heard its like this in the workplace too, as well as in tv and media.

though i no doubt anticipate criticism against the whining vented by the frustrated unfortunates, my main purpose of this thread is to simply ask an answer to the question of why does this happen. why do good looking people get better treatment in general than the 'average/ugly' looking ones?

Here was my answer....

Yeah it's a sad fact that people who are blessed with beauty in the eyes of the beholder are treated better. It's a primitive response of society. People who are ugly could possibly be sick, stupid and or possibly might want to harm you according to their looks. Like I said it's a primitive response a subconscious thing that people don't necessarily think about but some how do.
But really it's all a sham. People who are ugly really are most likely smart, nice and do not want to cause you any harm but just want to be treated as an equal. In fact some of the most beautiful people can be the sneakiest people or what ever and take advantage of an individual or what ever. Most take life for granted having lived life mostly on a silver platter and do not want to be seen with a less attractive individual. Yet another sad fact. I've seen it so many times before.

Best thing any one can do is look beyond a person's look and treat every one how you would want to be treated because below our skin we all look the same underneath, gross, full of blood and full of poop.

Oh an if any one dislikes my looks can kiss my @ss. :kiss:

Thank you.

2006-09-08T23:58:00.000-04:00

I thought I post these pics up of a spider I took a few days ago. One of them was taken with the flash and the others were not. There not perfect since I don't have a professional digital camera. But it does the job. One thing is that I do notice a lot of insects this year no to mention lots of animals in the last year. I really think they like our small humble yard. Not to mention our food. >:( Anyways in particular there seems to be allot of spiders. Every where I go it seems that I'm accidentally bumping in to one and sometimes I get several spiders hanging on my clothes. I'm sure glad I'm not a fly. All the spider webs remind of some dreams and possibly some scary movies where there are spider webs hanging every where you turn. The pics that I took of are showing the grand daddy of all the spiders that are hanging out at our yard, the one with yellow stripes. I don't know what these spiders are called but I haven't seen these in my back yard since I was little and living at our old house with the large cool yard with the bush in the back. I was surprised to see this thing at our current location so I took its pictures. It was right after a storm so I'm sure you guys can see the water droplets on the web.

2006-09-04T20:21:00.000-04:00

Wow another post.

I heard the crocodile hunter died in a freak accident. It could have been avoided I do believe.....if he had a bit more respect for the wild life. I know he really, really loved the animals but there is a limit for that and now he's gone. It was obvious that he would go like that eventually.

I'm kind of worried about tomorrow and yeah it has something to do with my secret but I guess its just more crap I have to go though. Ever since I loaded that CD with that "must used software" because I have no choice, me thinks my computer now has a virus. I think that person who burned that CD with the software was the one who had that virus. >:( And I just had my computer free of that garbage. I'm usually very careful of that. Its just really annoying.

2006-09-03T23:01:00.000-04:00

A sleepy Sunday

Sadly its starting to get annoyingly cool. Sadly its something a thing to come. I think it came a little early this year compared to last year. Of course I was working at my crappy job at the time and trying to get though the day by blocking out all the things I had to tolerate, thus also ignoring the weather as well. In case you can't tell I really don't like winter and fall. They depress me and make me sick as in getting colds. The food is not as good as it is in the summer time and if you ask me there are more verities of colours n smells in the spring and summer. Remember quality and not quantity. That is the key.

There really isn't much on TV and or the net for that matter. I could play a video game but I'm kind of staying a way from those for a while in order to concentrate on my art est. I really need to get to my sketch book but some how I have too much on my mind lately with that secret in all. Tomorrow I'm going to make that zucchini snack cake. I hope it turns out. The last thing that I made kind was not to par.