Midmoot! and the Little One Is Seven.

[dawn_felagund]

Yesterday was a very fun day: "Midmoot," or a gathering organized at the midway points between Mythmoots for local Tolkien fans affiliated with the Mythgard Institute. Bobby and I both went; participants pooled money to fly Professor Olsen down for a day-long seminar and dinner. (Professor Olsen is awesome: so down-to-earth and hilarious and

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[indy1776]

I'm glad you had fun at Midmoot (and I'm training to rein in my jealousy). It-- and the full Mythmoot-- sounds wonderful. Even better is the meeting with a fandom friend.

when the rain subsided enough for me to let them out, they pretty much did a U-turn on the patio and gave me ugly looks like I was crazy for sending them out in the first place.

Haha! I used to have to literally shove Magic outside if it was even so much as sprinkling, she hated water that much.

Happy birthday to Phil! Those photos of him are adorable.

[dawn_felagund]

I absolutely loved Mythmoot. I had so much more fun than I thought I would. I knew it would be cool, but I also expect hardcore Tolkien fans to be a little ... stuffy? close-minded? un-fun?? I've hung out with lots of nerds where there is more pontificating going on than laughter. That's probably not very charitable of me, but I was so pleased to be proven very, very wrong where this group is concerned. When MithLuin messaged me that she was going, the deal was sealed, three-hour trip or no!

Perhaps you will make it over to Mythmoot someday. You'd have a place to stay if you ever wanted/needed it! :)

I used to have to literally shove Magic outside if it was even so much as sprinkling

Awww, poor Magic! I'm kinda with her on that one. My parents had a dog when I was very young called Buffy, and Buffy would abstain from eating or drinking when it rained so that he wouldn't have to go outside. But the Sevens are waterproof! They have no excuse.

Those photos of him are adorable.

Thank you--I totally cherrypicked the cutest ones! :D

[indy1776]

Charitable or not, I tend to assume the same. I'd rather have the laughter!

Perhaps you will make it over to Mythmoot someday. You'd have a place to stay if you ever wanted/needed it!

Aww, thank you! One of these years I'll be able to afford it. Maybe I'll win the lottery or something. (Of course, that requires buying a ticket. :P)

Wow! Buffy was smart. Magic never figured that out. Thankfully, once shoved outside, she'd do her business and then practically fly back into the house.

[lindahoyland]

Goldens are my favourite dogs.Our pets do age too quickly, but my neighbours' Golden reached 14 and my cats 17. The Midmoot sounded fun.

[dawn_felagund]

I have loved Goldens since I was a kid. At the risk of sounding even weirder than this post already makes me sound, when I was 11, I made up my mind that I wanted a Golden. I asked my parents and, well, that wasn't happening. So I got the strange idea in my head that if I made myself a fake Golden, then they'd feel sorry for me and get me a real one. So I stuffed this old, hideous plaid shirt of my dad's (because Goldens are totally plaid?) with an old bathrobe and called it Golden and carried it everywhere. I still have Golden but never got a real Golden until Bobby and I adopted Alex almost eight years ago, so clearly my weird tactic didn't work.

Pets should live so much longer. Bobby and I were reminiscing how it seems like just yesterday we were walking Alex in the housing development down the road from us, and a little ball of fur ran into the road, and his breeders were like, "Do you want him?" It took us all of about 15 seconds that night to make that decision. :)

[samtyr]

My dogs have varied opinions on the rain -- depending on how much, hard and/or fast it's coming down. Sometimes they just look at me, stare out the door, look at me again and bark at me to turn the water off. LOL! And when they put the brakes on like that, the outside cats zoom in and hide all over the porch...

[dawn_felagund]

The Goldens will usually go out into it but then make a U and come right back in. Which is kinda dumb. I mean, they can surely tell it's raining without having to walk out into it? So they get wet and track water into the house without actually accomplishing anything potty-related.

bark at me to turn the water off.

Priceless! :D

[dawn_felagund]

However, you cannot just put kids out in the yard when they annoy you! From where I'm sitting, that is a very important difference! :D :D :D

[engarian]

Happy birthday to lovely Phil. There's nothing like those sad eyes looking for another treat or some attention from you or Bobby. Too sweet!

- Erulisse (one L)

[dawn_felagund]

Thank you! I admittedly cherrypicked the two cutest pictures of him that I could find from among the almost thirty that I pulled off the camera yesterday. Phil is really good at Big Soulful Eyes, usually when he's asking for the ball to be throw for the 101st time ...