You really do learn something new all the time!
Today is a most momentous occasion, mine friends. For I have, thanks to Ayinsan, learned the official terminology for dragon poop.
Your word of the day, boys and girls, is "fumet." As in, Smaug ate a bunch of dwarves and then took a big steaming fumet. XD
(Apparently, according to Ayinsan, someone had toooooooo much free time on their hands to sit down and actually come up with an official word to refer to dragon shit. This amuses me to no end. 'Cause I'm immature like that. XD )
(Also guess what we watched today. XD To recap: Legolas is a tool, Thranduil is still a high-strung fancy-pants dick, Thorin is a big-mouthed twit and Gandalf is a wanker. Because O HAI GUYS who wouldn't want to go get stranded by a wizard in a forest full of GIANT GROSS SPIDERS while on their way to a mountain where a big bad firebreathing dragon that will EAT YOU lives. *snicker* )
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We finally found something good in all the trash that's been lying around this place. With the weather having (finally) improved, Mom's been out doing lawn work, raking up garbage and the like, and the other day she unearthed a Buddha lawn statue! It's a good size, about a foot and a half tall, and aside from some minor chips in fairly unnoticeable places and some peeling paint (from where somebody had the not-so-brilliant idea to slather it in this reddish-brown crap instead of leaving it its original white) is in surprisingly good condition. I claimed dibs, so Buddha is now sitting right outside my bedroom window and will be in charge of the mini-garden I plan on putting in there eventually. :)
The other morning we had some minor action: a couple of drunks plowed their truck into the muddy field at the south end of the property. I didn't see it, but my folks did. They said the idiots tried to get the truck out themselves but only succeeded in digging foot-deep ruts into the ground. Eventually the county sheriff showed up and towed everybody away. In the wake were the aforementioned ruts and several decidedly fresh beer cans that were not there before. Oh, country life. *eyeroll*
We've been letting the chickens and Boo kitty roam around now, and everybody seems to get along fine. The cat-bird policy is basically "I don't bother you, you don't bother me." I'm thankful that Boo seems inclined to stick close to home, as I haven't seen her wander anywhere else but on the property. I don't know how well K.C., had he lived, would have taken to that, being that he was fairly wild. (I still miss the little guy. :( ) Boo is almost doglike in that she'll come to me (more often than not) when I call her, and likes to hang around us if we're outside. She's a good kitty. I'm thankful she made it through this craptastical winter all right.
Speaking of K.C., I hope to save up enough money to plant a small tree or shrub over his grave. Mom wants to remove the pile of cut-up wood that's currently piled on top of it (the first was swiped by some guy Dad knows earlier this winter for firewood; I was NOT happy about that - not so much because of the wood itself but because LEAVE MY PET'S GRAVE ALONE DAMMIT). I told her to leave it alone, because I don't want anything digging up that area - it was turning into winter when we buried K.C. and the ground was just soft enough at the time for us to be able to do that; shortly thereafter it all went to crap so the...breakdown process, if you will, probably has not done very much with it being so cold and all. Now that it's warming up, well...yeah. But Mom insists on 'cleaning up' all the stray brush and stuff out here, so I will probably be overruled. :p
So I want to put something over the grave to keep it from being disturbed (any more than it already has been, anyway), preferably something that will last a long time, and a tree/shrub seems a fitting thing. (I'm not going to dig into the grave itself; I'm going to take some brick or something and build a small circle around the spot, then fill that with dirt and put the plant in it. Over time the earth will naturally settle as the thing grows.)
So those are the gardening plans. If I have to be stuck here, I'd at least like to have something nice to look at besides boring fields.
Your word of the day, boys and girls, is "fumet." As in, Smaug ate a bunch of dwarves and then took a big steaming fumet. XD
(Apparently, according to Ayinsan, someone had toooooooo much free time on their hands to sit down and actually come up with an official word to refer to dragon shit. This amuses me to no end. 'Cause I'm immature like that. XD )
(Also guess what we watched today. XD To recap: Legolas is a tool, Thranduil is still a high-strung fancy-pants dick, Thorin is a big-mouthed twit and Gandalf is a wanker. Because O HAI GUYS who wouldn't want to go get stranded by a wizard in a forest full of GIANT GROSS SPIDERS while on their way to a mountain where a big bad firebreathing dragon that will EAT YOU lives. *snicker* )
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We finally found something good in all the trash that's been lying around this place. With the weather having (finally) improved, Mom's been out doing lawn work, raking up garbage and the like, and the other day she unearthed a Buddha lawn statue! It's a good size, about a foot and a half tall, and aside from some minor chips in fairly unnoticeable places and some peeling paint (from where somebody had the not-so-brilliant idea to slather it in this reddish-brown crap instead of leaving it its original white) is in surprisingly good condition. I claimed dibs, so Buddha is now sitting right outside my bedroom window and will be in charge of the mini-garden I plan on putting in there eventually. :)
The other morning we had some minor action: a couple of drunks plowed their truck into the muddy field at the south end of the property. I didn't see it, but my folks did. They said the idiots tried to get the truck out themselves but only succeeded in digging foot-deep ruts into the ground. Eventually the county sheriff showed up and towed everybody away. In the wake were the aforementioned ruts and several decidedly fresh beer cans that were not there before. Oh, country life. *eyeroll*
We've been letting the chickens and Boo kitty roam around now, and everybody seems to get along fine. The cat-bird policy is basically "I don't bother you, you don't bother me." I'm thankful that Boo seems inclined to stick close to home, as I haven't seen her wander anywhere else but on the property. I don't know how well K.C., had he lived, would have taken to that, being that he was fairly wild. (I still miss the little guy. :( ) Boo is almost doglike in that she'll come to me (more often than not) when I call her, and likes to hang around us if we're outside. She's a good kitty. I'm thankful she made it through this craptastical winter all right.
Speaking of K.C., I hope to save up enough money to plant a small tree or shrub over his grave. Mom wants to remove the pile of cut-up wood that's currently piled on top of it (the first was swiped by some guy Dad knows earlier this winter for firewood; I was NOT happy about that - not so much because of the wood itself but because LEAVE MY PET'S GRAVE ALONE DAMMIT). I told her to leave it alone, because I don't want anything digging up that area - it was turning into winter when we buried K.C. and the ground was just soft enough at the time for us to be able to do that; shortly thereafter it all went to crap so the...breakdown process, if you will, probably has not done very much with it being so cold and all. Now that it's warming up, well...yeah. But Mom insists on 'cleaning up' all the stray brush and stuff out here, so I will probably be overruled. :p
So I want to put something over the grave to keep it from being disturbed (any more than it already has been, anyway), preferably something that will last a long time, and a tree/shrub seems a fitting thing. (I'm not going to dig into the grave itself; I'm going to take some brick or something and build a small circle around the spot, then fill that with dirt and put the plant in it. Over time the earth will naturally settle as the thing grows.)
So those are the gardening plans. If I have to be stuck here, I'd at least like to have something nice to look at besides boring fields.