We finished clearing out Bailey's old office in Town Hall yesterday and moved Arthur in. He claimed that he didn't *need* an office in the Hall, but I told him straight out that his office here is already packed solid and he needs someplace to attend to council business. After some quiet discussion, he saw reason. (And Jonah, ha very ha on the ( Read more... )

Lovely day yesterday - warm and sunny - perfect day for hill-climbing. Some of my friends and I packed a picnic lunch and took off on a ramble, planning to hit places where we'd had good luck aillse watching in years past ( Read more... )

As it turns out, Arthur had some insight into why BhaileHoo might be wanting protection. I ... had forgotten, but when he reminded me, I recalled the incident.

A few years back, some girls visiting near the Valley happened to catch sight of our lovely aillse. They told their parents and relations, but the adults didn't believe them (naturally ( Read more... )

I told Arthur about my encounter with the Hoo aillse, Cindy Lou, and mentioned my confusion about her companion. He had me describe the nasty little creature as completely as I could. When I finished, he said that it might have been bòcan beag (a small bogey or goblin) but that it sounded more like an ùraisg (a type of Highlands brownie) to him ( Read more... )

Interesting - the egg that Fasgadair an Taibhsear turned yesterday was claimed by a colony of aillse, in the person of a charming little tot named (of all things) Cindy Lou. She showed up in a sled pulled by a miniature ... dog, I think. It had an antler on its head, though, so ... And she was accompanied by another .... No. He was NOT aillse. ( Read more... )

Oh dear. Fasgadair an Taibhsear was making fun of Baobh Shith na Bhreislich over her little ... incident ... yesterday. So she dared him to bite an egg ... and she provided the egg for him to bite because she knew full well I wouldn't let her bite any of the ones in the hatching pens. (If I could keep them from biting *any* eggs, I would!) ( Read more... )

Arthur has been asked to fill the vacancy left by Bailey when she fled the shire! I can't think of anyone better qualified to serve.

Still watching for the aillse. So far, I've seen any number of aillse sheillich down by the burn, but only one aillse shiris and two aillse àmoin, which is remarkably few for this late in the season. I suppose ( Read more... )

Larry, Mo and Curly it is. Papa Griobh heard Jonah's suggestion and he thought it was a good one! Jonah's walking around with his head twice normal size, he's that chuffed. Luckily for the rest of us, the hatchling pens need to be mucked out. Just the job for him ( Read more... )

All three griffin eggs hatched, although it was touch and go with one of the grifflets. It had stopped shaking, leaving us to think that it had exhausted its reserves and lacked the strength to break the shell. That would have been the end of it, but Jonah ... took a hand. Papa Griobh was still not letting anyone near, but he was distracted by ( Read more... )

Some happy news. The griffin eggs are hatching. Definitely shaking and we can hear noises inside. Papa Griobh is keeping us all at a distance, but ... they are hatching ( Read more... )