Don't look now, but the nor'easter that blew through our area has left a dusting of snow on the ground and it's still coming down! Our plastic jack o'lanterns and ghosts have little lace caps on their heads ( Read more... )

Our Hallowe'en Spook-tacular Spooktacular is officially under way! I spent much of the afternoon (after I came home from work) helping bring boxes of plastic jack o'lanterns (the kind that look real when viewed from about ten feet) downstairs while my dad ran extension cords for them all. We now have what amounts to a wall of jack o'lanterns across ( Read more... )

Eeesh, I need to lay off on the anime, as I am now breaking into Engrish from time to time ( Read more... )

Just back from the local pet shop (where we'd gotten Merry), and we have adopted (or maybe been adopted by) a teeny little yellow parakeet with a smidge of green near his tail. We're still working on choosing a name for him (current candidates are "Frodo" [again from Lord of the Rings: Hobbit names make good budgie names, in my opinion] and "Teeny ( Read more... )

None of us had seen him around for over a week, and I was starting to worry that something had happened to the wee fellow, or that someone else had caught him and given him a home. But as I was walking home from work yesterday, something startled a flock of birds on our neighbor's lawn, and I saw a little yellow and green widget flying up with the ( Read more... )

Been a while since I gave you all an update on my efforts to catch Pip the loose parakeet who's been hanging around our neighborhoood. I've seen him a number of times when I was heading out to or coming home from work, and each time he seems to get a kick out of letting me get juuuust right close to him before he flutters up into our neighbor's big ( Read more... )

Well... Yesterday, I nipped out to see if I could catch the loose parakeet. I spotted him on our neighbor's bird feeder, but he fluttered away. He flies well, so he's a healthy little fellow ( Read more... )