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more like Saturday sky, taken Sunday posted Monday. but close enough. Saturday was my Bridal Shower and that took up most of my energy for the day, but on Sunday Bill and I went out to the Mina Anthony Common Nature Center out on Wellesley Island so he could work on the Blogger Bio Blitz.While there I got this wonderful shot. That's an Osprey, there were two but I could only get one on camera, and a mating pair is know to nest near where we were. They were spectacular! ( osprey! )Saturday Sky, taken Sunday April 22, 2007 around 2:00pm, Beaver Pond in the Mina Anthony Common Nature Center on Wellesley Island. Tags: critters, glamour, nature, outside, peektures, saturdaysky
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Thanks to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) mactavish's suggestion, and the realization, that even though Nyjer seeds can be a bit expensive, only finches will be eating it, so we shouldn't go through it too fast, we decided to get ourselves a finch sock to compliment the seed feeder and suet feeder we already have. At first it got placed in the tree near the window, but after a week with only a nibble from a brave little chickadee we decided it needed to be moved a bit further away. A day after I moved it to the front of the tree the finches are all over it!! :D We have decided that there are two house finch couples that frequent the tree outside our window. And while I haven't seen any yet, I'm hoping that there will be some goldfinches soon as well. I'm a little sad that they don't sing as much when in our tree, but I can often hear them off in other parts of our yard singing away so beautifully, so it's not too bad. Tags: critters
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For Yule Monica got us a suet feeder that spent all winter beign ignored by the birds, then spring came and it got pecked at every now and then. Then for my birthday Bill's mom got me a hanging seed feeder which was loved by the birds as well. Then the Grackles came. Don't get me wrong, I like grackles they are pretty and stuff. But when all I ever see (and hear! What a raucous noise!) at my feeder is a mass of blue headed piggy birds eating the thing empty in a day, and I hardly ever can see the other birds I get a little disheartened. But today it's rainy and the feeders were empty for several hours. I just refilled everything, and now not a grackle to be seen! It's awesome, I've already seen three chickadees, with there pretty little songs and several house sparrows chirruping. And I even spotted a newcomer! A song sparrow!Oh oh! And now another!A dark eyed "slate coloured" Junco!I haven't heard him sing, and the song sparrow is not happy about him being around, but he was here! Ohh ohh! (again)There's TWO juncos! It looks like a male and a female. They haven’t gone to the feeders yet, they seem content to hop around and eat the seeds off the ground. Tags: critters
Current Mood: chipper
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Bill and I went to the Jefferson County fair last night after he got out of work. We had a nice time; we wandered around, checked out the bunnies and chickens. Mooed at the cows, said hi to the oddly named "meat" and "dairy" goats (I guess the fair doesn't believe in goat breeds) baah'd at the sheep and said hello to the pigs. Oh yeah, and we checked out the craft entries, and I got first premium on my doily and second premium on my teddy bear. (Premium is kind of like 'place' but depending on the quality, there can be more than one first and second etc.) I'm so excited! My work is so good that they gave me first and second! Awesome!! I mean yeah, it's no grand prize, but that is what next year is for ;) I'm a little bummed that when I called my parents to let them know they sounded surprised, as if they didn't really expect me to win anything. Monday when we were out together mom asked what I would do if I didn't win. :: sigh :: thanks for the vote of confidence guys. The prize money is only about $3.00 but I don't care, it's more about the recognition and the quality of my work after I pick them up on Sunday I'll post pictures with the ribbons! Tags: critters, crochet, knitting
Current Mood:  ecstatic
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I snagged a few lilacs from the bush in our yard today. They are quite strong and lovely smelling, the whole apartment smells of delicious spring. Lilacs are my favorite flowers. In other springy news, the robin eggs have hatched. We noticed the Robin momma leaving the nest more frequently the other day and today Bill pulled the shrink wrap off the window and opened it a crack while she was gone, as we cannot see directly into the nest, and were unsure of the egg status. Sure enough we could here the little peep, peep of hungry little nestlings. It will be about two more weeks until they are big enough to leave the nest. Hopefully we will be getting a glimpse or two of them as they grow bigger. I have decided to enter a few things into the Jefferson County Fair this year. My work hours let me out in plenty of time that we will actually get to go, and I've wanted to submit something for judging for quite some time. I have a large oval doily in mind to crochet; I should have plenty of time to finish it if I work for at least an hour after work, and a little more on my days off. The only thing I'm missing is thread, so I'll be picking some up tomorrow while we are out. In the mean time, I've been practicing on a small pineapple doily like the ones I made everybody for Yule. My only problems now are the fact that the entry rule booklet available online is a tad confusing and riddled with typos and mistakes. I'm not quite clear when my deadline to get items to the fair office is. Well actually, I'm not quite sure when the office is open to accept submissions, and if I can only make them on a specific day/time or if I can do it at any time before the deadline. This may be my only sticking point, because as far as I can tell, the fair office closes every day before I'm even out of work. And while I could go in on my day off, one of the sections referring to my submission category only lists two day as available days and nether is my day off. I'm going to try and remember to call the office at some point before I get too far into this doily, but I can't find their regular non fair office hours anywhere, so I am unsure weather they are actually open, let alone when to call. Tags: critters, crochet, glamour, knitting, nature
Current Mood:  calm
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We have a stray dog in our neighborhood (I think he's stray, he doesn't have a collar, is running around free in the pouring rain, and there's a nasty looking sore on his nose, that I would hope would have been looked at be now if he owned somebody) Our dog is in heat. This is not a good combination. He routinely comes around and pees in her yard, which gives her conniptions, where she tries to pee on every blade of grass between here and town when she's out. When he passed the house before and she was around she would run around the house barking and generally being bitchy, so she can hopefully get out seeing him. And now he's taken to walking up to the door, wining so Cayenne can her him, and then sniffing at each other under the door. Cayenne is going NUTS! And taking me with her! ARGH! I really don't know what to do about the situation. I can't keep her locked up in another room all day until Bill gets home. And I don't know how to get the boy dog to leave her alone. *sigh. {edit} now he's taken to sitting out in the middle of our driveway staring at the house. I think that Cayenne's wining and yipping scared him a bit (he seems jumpy, and Cayenne can be overbearing at times) Tags: critters, pets, rant
Current Mood:  frustrated
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and he likes to sit on my back stoop. At least I think he’s a boy, I thought I saw the proper equipment when he was walking away. He’s white, and kind of big (muscle/fatty, not furry, he had a sleek coat) with some largish orange spots around his hind end and an orange stripy tail. He may have a few extra toes on his front paws, but that could have just been an optical illusion. (white paws on snow) When I got home from class tonight Boogs was sitting on a cinder block in front of the garage door, and the new guy was crouched on the back stoop between grandma’s and my doors. When I walked up he ran to the right hand corner of the house (closer to the Hailey’s) and watched me while I coaxed Boogs inside. When I opened the door he came closer, like wanted to come inside too. But I told him mom wouldn’t like that, so he ran over to the cinder block where Boogs had been and meowed at me. We had a nice little meowing conversation for a minute then he ran off to the side of the garage and disappeared into the trash pile. Interesting. I hope he has a good family, he looked healthy enough. Meow. Tags: critters, pets
Current Mood: calm
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Wow, I'm slow about getting around to type stuff up for LJ. Well last night after spending the day in Oswego (thank you for the presents Rachel!) Dave and I headed home. It was rather uneventful until right outside of Pulaski. You see just as we were slowing down for the speed zone a young deer ran out in front of us. *SMASH* We ran right into it, it went flying then tried to get up but we hadn't finished decelerating yet so it went rolling into the hood and bumped the windshield before rolling of, getting to its feet (holding its back right leg up, with a large gash in it) and running into a nearby field. Dave pulled the car over and we sat there for a second catching out breath and trying to get our hearts out of our throats. I got out my cell and called my parents while Dave got out to inspect the damage, then he got back in to call his parents. All that was broken was the left hand headlight cover. That's it, no dent, no scratch, nothing. Dave handled himself beautifully. He stayed calm took charge and did everything right. I was really impressed. He didn't swerve which would have either put us in the oncoming lane right under the crest of a hill, meaning oncoming traffic wouldn't see us till it's too late, or we would have gone into a HUGE tree. And also would have caused more damage to the car because we wouldn't have hit the deer head on, which would have resulted in crumpled corners and a dead deer. And he didn't swear or cry or shout or carry on, he kept calm and cool. We got home and Dave checked the car out one more time then came in and relaxed a little bit and got hits wits together before heading home. Wow. Tags: critters, family, friends, outside, stress
Current Mood: impressed
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I had a nice day today with my family! I slept in until about 11:30 when mom and dad came home (dad had gone to puck mom up from church) We went to Borders and wandered around looking at books, dad pointed out this nifty book called "Bitch in the House" its about how a lot of successful women/wives/mothers who should be very happy and content by society's standards are actually quite miserable and bitchy and moody, and why. It really doesn't pertain to me, more my mother (since it describes her to a tee) but it is really interesting and maybe it will help my understand mom a little more. After browsing around the store with my dad we gathered in the café and drank coffee (I had chai tea) and ate pastries (I have a cinnamon scone, pip, pip, cherio!) and just chilled and talked and read our books. (Mom really liked a cook book I pick out) After we finished at borders we wandered over to the pet store, where they have the CUTEST baby Basset Hound!! Mom and dad didn't want to get him (and I can understand why, we really can't handle a new puppy right now) but we still browsed around a little more before leaving (their kitty toys are way to expensive and not cool enough by kitten standards) After the mall we headed to the Burville Cider Mill, it was totally cool, it was all pretty and autumn smelling (it reminded me of Keats's "to autumn") we got a bunch of fresh cider, some cider doughnuts, cheese curd, and I picked out a nice round pumpkin for carving. It was funny, the guy said if dad guessed the weight on the pumpkin we could get it for free, so dad hefted it a few times and guessed 9lb, but he said he thought that might be too high. So the guy weighs it and it comes out to be 22 lb!! My dad has been lifting iron and heavy stuff for so long on the job, he's quite strong, and the pumpkin felt that light to him! :D After the mill we headed back home, it was such a nice day, I hung out downstairs while dad watch his baseball and football, and helped mom with dinner a little, then I went up to grandmas to work on some cloth pads to use as back up for my Mooncup. The kitten followed me up and spent the whole time crawling under the beds and dressers and getting scared by the sewing machine. :) All in all it was a really nice day. :) yay! Tags: bookworm, critters, family, food, outside, vagina
Current Mood: cheerful
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{edit} It seems I have exceeded my allowed band width, if you see red x's try back tomorrow. In the mean time I'll be trying to fix this problem. {/edit} Ok, not that I'm all rested up I can go on and on about the wonderful time I had at Ren Fest w/ Lindsay, Brandon, Monica, Aaron, Chelsy and Mel! Chelsy and Mel stayed over night at Monica's place and my parents picked them up in the van to go meet everybody in Oswego in the Culkin parking lot, and then we would convoy to Sterling. But Aaron didn't show, apparently there were some key troubles, so he met us in the park. As soon as we got there it started raining! But it wasn't that bad, we wandered around for a little but looking for Aaron. Then we decided that Lindsay and Brandon and I would save a place for everybody at the jousting field while they went to search for Aaron some more. So we got some cinnamon roasted nuts (YUM!) and waited. Lindsay ( petted the pretty horseys ) who loved all the attention and then we sat down and waited. The rest showed up just in time for the equestrian show. ( Aaron wore his kilt! ) It was a lot of fun, they scared the crap out of a little kid and did some ( neato stunts )After the show we wandered a around a bit and then Lindsay got distracted ( by a neato instrument ) so we all decided to split up and meet back at the ( Well wench show ) at one. It was a funny show. Then afterwards we wandered a little more, and then decided to head for the hey nunny nunny show, but first Mel wanted to get a cool ( Henna tattoo ) and after that we went through the really confusing ( maze ) I got lost a lot but so did everyone else, it was a lot of fun! Then it was off to more shows, we wanted to see the ( Hey Nunny Nunny show ) so we headed over that way, but before we got there we were interrupted by the parade! It was really neat. We got to the stage a little early, so we listened to the ( Empty Hats ) they played some really funny Irish songs. It was getting pretty late by then and we hadn't seen Don Juan and Miguel yet, so we headed that way to meet my parents and watch ( The Weird Show ) and it was hilarious, I was having trouble standing I was laughing so hard! :D After that we headed home, 'cus it was getting late and we were all tired. Here are ( A bunch of cool costumes and people we saw during the day )and Here's one more, ( a pic of all of us ) we had a great time! Tags: critters, extrovert, family, food, friends, glamour, happyears, outside, peektures, ren fest
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W007 ! Had soooo much fun yesterday! We were supposed to meet Brandon and Lindsay in the Culkin parking lot before we headed off to Darin Lake, but they had it blocked off. But it was ok, we still could see Brandon waiting for us, and Lindsay almost ran us over while we were waiting. :) The trip there was mostly uneventful. Except for that time in Fulton when we missed our turn and one of the cars ended up getting into an accident with a big truck, from Oswego. Don't worry no major damage, just a shaken driver, a large dent, broken door handle, and a little paint. Once we got to Darien Lake we had a nice little picnic out in the parking lot. My mom is so awesome, she brought a cooler filled to the brim with sandwichy and snack stuff for us to eat so we wouldn't have to pay the HUGE amount of money that the park was asking for food (one small bottle of water = $2.75!) then we lathered ourselves up with sun block and headed in. We had a great time just hanging out and walking around the park, and the rides were awesome! My favorite ride is still the Boomerang. But the predator is pretty cool, a little too rickety for the last ride of the day though. If you ever have a bag or something and want to go on a ride be extra super careful, 'cus I would drop my bag off before I got on a ride, and Linds would pick it up when she got off, and nobody said anything about it. We even did a little shopping while we were there, I got myself a Marvin wind chime, and Mommy found me a new and SUPER cool Marvin watch!!!!! To thank my mom for being so awesome and putting up with us through the trip (we could get a little weird while we were talking) we decided to get her a gift from all of us. So we went into one of those dress up old west photo places and got our pictures taken, it was sooooo fun!! We got one of them framed and gave it to Mom. She really is great for coming along with us and driving us around and listening to our silliness. Thanks Mom! (Even though she doesn't read this :) And now for the pictures: ( Read more... )and now for some quotes of the day: "I just realized how weird carrots look when they are blue." ~Momo "Synchronized soda lifting" ~Abby "I need my glasses." ~Momo "I know that, that's why I keep offering you my butt, but it's not working." ~Lindsay ok that's it, every body go home. I'm still exhausted from yesterday. Tags: critters, extrovert, family, food, friends, glamour, outside, peektures, sillyweird
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Momo, Toto and I went to the zoo today! Momo came over and we walked over Toto's, Haley street changes names 3 times! It's weird. And after getting Toto, who was wearing 2 ace bandages on his ankle, we walked up to the zoo. We had a lot of fun, we saw the dead (ok maybe not dead, but really sleepy) lynx and hiding bobcats, and one of the mountain lions is named George. :D and then Momo chased Toto around with sun block, but didn't put any on herself and got a bad burn. (oh yeah, so did I, but its not nearly as bad ad Momo's :P ) I took lotsa pictures, especially of the escape roosters and all sorts of other things; maybe I'll post some here when I get around to putting them on the computer. Then we went and played on the playground a little, and walked home, I was sooo tired! That was a lot of walking for today, especially after walking lot yesterday. But I had tons of fun, Toto is super cool, even if he does need two ace bandages for his mysterious swollen ankle. Tags: critters, extrovert, friends, outside
Current Mood:  tired
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We went out and put flowers on Sam's and Poppi's graves today, it was sad; Sam's grave was gross, grass and bird crap, and dirt all over it. It's like Aunt Grace and those people don't even care. And because of the wet and warm weather we've been having, Poppi's stone is growing moss in the engraved parts. So mom said she's going to go see if she can find some good marble cleaner for Sam's stone and moss killer for Poppi's. We drove by Grandpa Stone (Grandmas first husband, Floyd Welbourn, died before I was born, we would always go and take care of his grave though, and I would call it Grandpa Stone when I was little, and it stuck.) The bushes we planted are dead again (this is the third pair), the cemetery soil is too sandy for most plants, and it looks like the cemetery is suffering a blight anyways, because the shrubs they had planted are all dead too. So mom bought these beautiful white rose bushes to plant on either side and a bunch of red geraniums to put in front, and we have tons of potting soil and miracle grow to keep them alive. I just realized how depressing this post must seem, talking about 3 dead people and their grave stones. oh well. I loved Sam he might as well have been my brother, Poppi (Grandpa Lambert, Grandma's second husband) was one of my best friends, he taught me how to play poker. And Grandpa Stone has been something the family takes care of as a whole for as long as I can remember. So these things are important. Also, while at Brookside I realized how beautiful cemeteries can be, the old grave stones and monuments, some of them are real works of art. And Brookside has several very large duck ponds filled will all sorts of ducks, swans and geese, and a heron or two. When I was a little kid we would always take a loaf of old bread with us when we went to take care of Grandpa Stone, and feed it to the ducks when we were done. I'm thinking of someday taking my camera up there and taking pictures, it really is quite pretty. Tags: beyond the veil, critters, family, gardening, memories, outside
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