Q: How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck was Chuck Norris?
A: All of it.
So, today was interesting. I took a day trip with the family up to the Biltmore Estate in the Blue Ridge mountains. The place was absolutely huge, and after having read my Amelia Peabody books, which are set around the time the house was built, I felt I could appreciate it a bit more. Still, room after room of paneling and embroidery and mounted deer heads and the smell of terribly old things got a little wearisome after a while. So we went for a walk on one of the trails through the property.
Along the way we met quite a few cows, who blinked at us calmly for a moment or two before going back to their grass. There was also a hugely pregnant goat that my sister befriended. Then it tried to eat her shirt hem through the fence, and that was the end of that.
The trail was bordered by trees on one side and a sort of prairie with cow pastures on the other. I have this tendency, when I'm on a walking trail, to bound off in persuit of anything that catches my interest. So when I saw something scooting along beside the trail up ahead, I trotted up to check it out. It had looked like some sort of large rodent, but I wasn't sure, so I went poking around in the grass near where I'd seen it. I suddenly heard a sharp chattering noise about a foot in front of me, which caught me off guard. Peering past a tuft of grass, I was amazed to see, of all things, a hugely fat woodchuck halfway down its burrow, looking indignant. It made some sort of scandalized noise in my general direction and then disappeared down its hole. I got really close to it before it vanished, and it kinda made my day. Yay, nature. :D
Also, here. Have a meme from captain_elessar.
Post the first lines from your last 20 stories. Do you see any patterns?
1. "You're going, and that's final." --Teh Novel
2. "So, you're still awake, then." --Lemon
3. The tiger-haired boy is hunched over his desk, attacking a mass of metal and wiring with a screwdriver. -- Riley
4. This is a disassembly line. -- 2.18
5. There's a new guy in town, metaverse-wise. -- Adam
6. You know how crazy people in movies talk about having voices in their head? -- Soulbonding
7. She has managed to fit almost everything essential about summer into a small box. -- Summer Box
8. He's part of a certain group of kids who's describe themselves as militant for peace. -- Love and Peace or Else
9. Residing in a mythical city that's actually an alien spacecraft might seem pretty bizzare, but for a certain group of people, it's next to normal. -- Some Days Are Better Than Others
10. It's some ungodly hour of the morning, where all human beings should be asleep and oblivious to the cicadas outside. -- In A Little While
11. It all began with a speck. -- Of Mold and Men
12. Ronon leaned over John's shoulder to peer at the laptop. -- Slash
13. I'm in the power lines again. -- Industrial Strength
14. Tuesday's the worst day of the week. -- Tuesday Gray
15. There is a man sitting in his garden, writing. -- Dream King
16. For the past week, my house has been overrun by a trio of aliens. -- The Invasion
17. "Ouch!" -- Fruity
18. I love Iron Man. -- Why I Can't Write Tony Stark
19. My novel is a little -- how shall we say -- retarded, at the moment. -- 1:07 AM
20. Here, despite the haute couture, there's no such thing as fashionably late. -- Everything in Transit
They're totally not in order of recency, by the way. Also, they don't seem to display any particular rhyme or reason. If one of these looks particularly interesting and you'd like to see it, say the word. Except for The Novel, of course. :P
So, today was interesting. I took a day trip with the family up to the Biltmore Estate in the Blue Ridge mountains. The place was absolutely huge, and after having read my Amelia Peabody books, which are set around the time the house was built, I felt I could appreciate it a bit more. Still, room after room of paneling and embroidery and mounted deer heads and the smell of terribly old things got a little wearisome after a while. So we went for a walk on one of the trails through the property.
Along the way we met quite a few cows, who blinked at us calmly for a moment or two before going back to their grass. There was also a hugely pregnant goat that my sister befriended. Then it tried to eat her shirt hem through the fence, and that was the end of that.
The trail was bordered by trees on one side and a sort of prairie with cow pastures on the other. I have this tendency, when I'm on a walking trail, to bound off in persuit of anything that catches my interest. So when I saw something scooting along beside the trail up ahead, I trotted up to check it out. It had looked like some sort of large rodent, but I wasn't sure, so I went poking around in the grass near where I'd seen it. I suddenly heard a sharp chattering noise about a foot in front of me, which caught me off guard. Peering past a tuft of grass, I was amazed to see, of all things, a hugely fat woodchuck halfway down its burrow, looking indignant. It made some sort of scandalized noise in my general direction and then disappeared down its hole. I got really close to it before it vanished, and it kinda made my day. Yay, nature. :D
Also, here. Have a meme from captain_elessar.
Post the first lines from your last 20 stories. Do you see any patterns?
1. "You're going, and that's final." --Teh Novel
2. "So, you're still awake, then." --Lemon
3. The tiger-haired boy is hunched over his desk, attacking a mass of metal and wiring with a screwdriver. -- Riley
4. This is a disassembly line. -- 2.18
5. There's a new guy in town, metaverse-wise. -- Adam
6. You know how crazy people in movies talk about having voices in their head? -- Soulbonding
7. She has managed to fit almost everything essential about summer into a small box. -- Summer Box
8. He's part of a certain group of kids who's describe themselves as militant for peace. -- Love and Peace or Else
9. Residing in a mythical city that's actually an alien spacecraft might seem pretty bizzare, but for a certain group of people, it's next to normal. -- Some Days Are Better Than Others
10. It's some ungodly hour of the morning, where all human beings should be asleep and oblivious to the cicadas outside. -- In A Little While
11. It all began with a speck. -- Of Mold and Men
12. Ronon leaned over John's shoulder to peer at the laptop. -- Slash
13. I'm in the power lines again. -- Industrial Strength
14. Tuesday's the worst day of the week. -- Tuesday Gray
15. There is a man sitting in his garden, writing. -- Dream King
16. For the past week, my house has been overrun by a trio of aliens. -- The Invasion
17. "Ouch!" -- Fruity
18. I love Iron Man. -- Why I Can't Write Tony Stark
19. My novel is a little -- how shall we say -- retarded, at the moment. -- 1:07 AM
20. Here, despite the haute couture, there's no such thing as fashionably late. -- Everything in Transit
They're totally not in order of recency, by the way. Also, they don't seem to display any particular rhyme or reason. If one of these looks particularly interesting and you'd like to see it, say the word. Except for The Novel, of course. :P