tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1848745717379585902024-03-13T06:24:14.513-05:00The Goddess of Crickets Hear Me ChirpGwen Grimmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11666937771658014632noreply@blogger.comBlogger48125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-184874571737958590.post-27855360851658804992016-12-27T19:25:00.000-06:002016-12-27T19:25:03.341-06:00Hi Fun Kou Gai, ひふんこうがい<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Hi Fun Kou Gai: (n.) describes a righteous, miserable anger, a frustration and despair over a situation that seems terrible but cannot be changed.</div>
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Here we are, the passing of the year, a point in time, a place in space. We <a href="http://gwengrimm.blogspot.com/2016/03/i-say-hello-you-say-goodby.html" target="_blank">start each year with such high hopes</a>, right? As I sit here, typing this, I've just heard Carrie Fisher died a few hours ago. Another name from my childhood, gone much younger then is right. and there are still four days left to the year, before we get "a blank slate" as they say. But we all know there no blank slate. </div>
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I have no witty comments, no Years End celebrations, no Sayonara suckers for 2016. On a personal level 2016 was good in many ways. Dad got his knees operated on, we seem to be doing better with the animals, were finally getting the house finished. </div>
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But 2016 was horrible. It was horrible to many of my friends. It was horrible to the world. It was horrible for many of my childhood heroes. May who have passed away are younger then my parents are right now. Scary thought. </div>
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I've spent all year having great minds tell me the worst can't happen, so stop worrying, and then the worst did happen. And now things will be set in motion and choices will be made that will hurt people I care about, and I can't stop it. </div>
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I'm not gonna make any resolution for 2017. No "I hope for in 2017 wishes". I already know that it will be bad, just don't know how bad. I'm feeling tired and low tonight. I was hoping for maybe a bit of a boost over the holidays, but that didn't really happen. I honestly just want to forget 2016. and I don't want 2017 to try and outdo 2016,</div>
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I'm at the point with my mental backlog that it not worth trying to do a long journal entry detailing everything that has happen last. SO, I'll just ramble till I find a flow and go from there like I always do.</div>
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2016 is starting off on a more promising note then we've had in years. We have the garden tilled and prepped. We've CLEANED the massive amount of junk and such we've let build up over the years. Now, instead of spread all around the house ts contained into one field. But still. It contained, organized, and AWAY FROM THE HOUSE. I no longer feel embarrassed when people come to visit. This is coming of the repair of the one of the roof in the shop last fall. It is amazing how DOING huge projects you've talked about for years is so... rewarding.</div>
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We cleared brush and shrubs away from the living area too. It's one thing to live in a forest. its another to let the forest invaded your living area. We've put lime down in the garden and in the worst of the cow fields. I'm really excited to see the results from that.</div>
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I'm keeping busy sewing. Or I'm trying to. I'm trying really hard this year to Keep Doing Things. I'm not always succeeding at it (and some night my exhaustion is too much to combat) I should at least do a post about that some time.</div>
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On a less positive note, the last few months have been marked by Deaths. Not just celebrity death (which are all in the same age bracket as my parents) but of the personal kind. My mother's sister died this past November. Cancer, apparently. </div>
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Crat the Rat Cat died last fall right at the beginning of October of last year. My dad found two black female kittens, and now we have Trick and Treat.</div>
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Cookie the dog passed away just last week. She was 17 years old.</div>
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It's strange having pet that were around when you were still "a kid" pass away. I turned 32 this week. I was 14 when we got Crat. I'm still having trouble processing this. Sometimes I feel like I didn't get my card , or badge, or pin that says "you are an Adult". *le sigh* </div>
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I got a new camera from <a href="http://inkibus.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Inkibus</a> for Christmas. It's a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Nikon-COOLPIX-Digital-Optical-Built-In/dp/B00T85P56C" target="_blank">CoolPix L840</a> and I love it.<br />
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Dad knees are giving out rapidly. He can barley get up and down the stairs now. It appears that he have to get knee surgery soon, and the right knee is now bone on bone. It's horrible watching hi move around, when we use to call him "the ferret" and he was know to walk and walk and walk. Hopefully we'll know soon.<br />
In the good new, it apreas mom dose not have rheumatoid arthritis, but osteoarthritis, which is much more treatable and less life threatening (dad has that as well, in his back, so something to worry about as I get older) </div>
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Gwen Grimmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11666937771658014632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-184874571737958590.post-882010065037116482015-06-08T20:08:00.000-05:002015-06-08T20:08:24.845-05:00I still remember my first time...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
A resent trip town had us driving in on a cool spring day with the windows open and the sweet breeze blowing in. The air was wet and smelled strongly of spring rot and growing foliage. I was enjoying the ride, and the cool air since the air condition is shot in the pickup. Then I smelled it. Honeysuckle, the bane of my existence. Boy does that bring back memories. Painful, itchy memories. I was about 5 years old when we first discovered I was allergic to poison ivy. I didn't just one itchy patch as a warning. I had to go for the full body out break.<br />
We use to live in a little house in town (if you want to call the small collation of houses and one church a town). It was up on a hill, with woods to the back and a road out front. There was a wall of shrubs along the road, providing some measure of privacy. There was tiger lilies in the ditch and a snowball tree down at the far end of the yard. And out back there was the shallow puddled that existed over the septic tank after it got dug up one exciting month (Visiting family and freezing weather were involved.)<br />
I remember that spring was wet, and for some reason it cause a wall of vine that hadn't done any thing for year to erupted in to the most intoxicating wall of honeysuckles I've ever seen. Me and my sister spent all day playing in the wall of flowers... Unfortunately that wasn't the only veining plant growing there. The details of how fast it took for the blisters to form are lost to me, but the next few weeks I was covered in chalky pink calamine and oozy sores. I'm sure there are photos of me a swollen up and blistered somewhere in a box.<br />
After that I was banned from going anywhere near the honeysuckles, or anything that had three leaves and grew on a vine. Over the years I've had plenty of run ins with the horrid stuff, some almost as bad as that first day. Still, forever in my mind honeysuckles will be tied in with poison ivy. I haven't picked a honeysuckle since that day.</div>
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So, I had a idea a while ago, and haven't had a chance till now to try it... But today I made a few <a href="http://www.learnpysanky.com/supplies.html" target="_blank">kistkas</a> out of the tips of an old pen and a broken automatic pencil. </div>
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I wanted to see if I could make this out of just stuff I had lying around, without spending any money. Having a well equipped work shop makes that easier, I don't know how much of this stuff the average person will have lying around. </div>
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Look at the tips of these, they look just like the real deal!</div>
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Ok, the tools, Wire (no idea what gauge) wire cutters and pliers, wooden dowels, super glue, drill gun. </div>
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So, first thing. I used the base of one of them to make the loop.<br />
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I made the first loop too small, but didn't get pics of the bigger loop.<br />
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Rince and repeat for the other.<br />
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Now, a couple of points. These tips are the solid metal tips. You can't use chrome plated plastic tips and expect anything good when you heat them up to melt the wax. I have no idea how the superglue is gonna behave when heated a few times. I might have to switch to something else if they fall off. But this cost me nothing, and took less than an hour to make, so I thought it was worth the try. I will update this when I have the chance to use them.<br />
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Gwen Grimmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11666937771658014632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-184874571737958590.post-85812285275752232042015-01-01T19:04:00.000-06:002015-01-01T19:04:06.497-06:00Thanks for the memory <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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2014 is gone, and I couldn't even be bothered to see it leave. </div>
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I'm not gonna say 2014 was the worst year, ever, that isn't true. But it sure felt like all we did this year was break even or keep our heads above water.There were some good. my mom got the foot surgery she so badly needed to stay on her feet, we have two lovely healthy calves, we got the new kitchen up and started. But we setbacks. The one cow we've been trying to get bred won't bred, and the vet finally told us he thought she was a lost cause. The rabbits are stressing me greatly with their healthy and breeding. We need to get the shop cranking up more. Ling to replace, here, there, unexpected expenses. The bull we bought died. It goes on and on, little thing like that. </div>
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It was a depressing year death wise too (thankfully for me none close, but). For artist and entertainers. For equality and right. And for death of the trust and respect some of those people commanded before their true self came to light. Death of the people my parents called friends growing up, 4 or 5 in a row. One could argue this was the year of many little deaths.</div>
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I never really found a gear work wise with my craft this year, and that is depressing me. I haven't been as motivated to DO what I need to do, which is a poor excuse not to do it. But a covente one if you're looking for one. </div>
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Perhaps it's fitting then that we spent the last month of 2014 locked in to clouds and sick. Not the flu, but damn it, I hope this isn't going to be a tradition of me spending Dec 26th in bed sick and puking. Thankfully I was the only one who got that, everyone one else just got achy and tired and choughs. </div>
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I will probably do my yearly "the year in photos" blog in a few days. </div>
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Any way, 2015... Just be gentle. I'm not gonna ask for the moon, not for the stars, not richs. Just enough to breath. </div>
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Gwen Grimmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11666937771658014632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-184874571737958590.post-74091567962693914482014-11-04T18:39:00.000-06:002014-11-04T18:49:44.635-06:00 I say we feed it Father Potts. Unless it eats shit, it'll choke to death.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Following the Halloween tradition, we watch a new horror every year on Halloween. This year, my mom pick the movie. It's called <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1525366/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1" target="_blank"><i>Grabbers</i></a>. Here is the synopsis and a trailer... </div>
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<i>Peace officer Lisa Nolan comes to Erin Island, Ireland, to take charge during a colleague's two-week holiday. Simultaneously, blood-thirsty, sea-dwelling aliens arrive at the quiet island to propagate. As dead whales wash up on shore and people start mysteriously disappearing, officers and a few locals slowly discover their peril along with one sure defense - high blood alcohol levels, which the aliens can't stomach. As a storm approaches, enabling hungry hatchlings access to the locals, an open bar kicks off a desperate bid for survival as inebriated police and friends stagger to remain cognizant long enough to thwart the alien invasion.</i></div>
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I have never heard of this little Irish gem before, and truth be told, that synopsis had me a little worried. It sound like a recipes for disaster, but review compared it to <i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100814/?ref_=nv_sr_1" target="_blank">Tremors</a>, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365748/" target="_blank">Shaun of the Dead</a></i>, and <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1465522/?ref_=nv_sr_1" target="_blank"><i>Tucker and Dale VS. Evil</i></a> all of which I liked. So. Worth a shot. Worst thing that will happen is it get tossed in the bin with <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101474/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1" target="_blank"><i>Blood Massacre</i></a> never too see the light of day again. </div>
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Right. So, the story really is summed up in the synopsis, and yes that could have been so fecking dumb. Well, it is, but you forget that while watching it. Or, maybe not forget, but it sure didn't bother me while watching it. Interestingly, the actors, while doing funny drunk, do very realistic funny drunk. The is a decent amount of deaths for a horror, a few heads rolling around, but it's no worse than an old <i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087469/?ref_=fn_al_tt_5" target="_blank">Indiana Johns</a></i> movie. I'm happy to have this movie in my collection, and would recommend it to anyone who like there horror light and funny. </div>
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Gwen Grimmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11666937771658014632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-184874571737958590.post-22143576706118220662014-08-27T21:16:00.003-05:002014-08-27T21:19:54.127-05:00Stone Rabbits <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Many years ago, when we would go to town, we'd drive past a little low stone house, and on two stone pillars in front of the house were two stone rabbits. For years, they were there, facing the road, just sitting there.I never saw who lived there, never saw how many there were....<br />
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One day, while driving to town, mom pointed out the rabbits. "Look!, Look at tbe Rabbits!" Instead of both facing the road, one rabbit faced the house, another faced the road. The unmoving stone rabbit had moved. It continued like that for months. Every time we drove past, mom would slow down the car and we'd look at the stone rabbits. They were always moving now. Sometimes they both faced the house... Sometimes the were staring at each other across the driveway, and once they were both back to back. It was fascinating. The stone rabbits were alive, after years of sleeping. Then one day.... They were gone. There was a moving van, and the house was striped bare. The house sold, and the new owners have a wind chime out front. There is nothing on the stone pillars.<br />
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I'd like to think the stone rabbits, one night after being moved around after years of sleep, woke up. And they stretched their legs, and they ran. And ran, and ran. And in the morning, when the homeowners woke and found the rabbits gone, they went looking for them. Hence why they moved.<br />
Of course I'll never know the story, but I'm sure it not as interesting as that one.. It probably involves a new job, or family, or kids going to college. But when my mind wanders, and I think of that house, I hope, somewhere out there, there are two stone rabbits on pillars, and that they never face the same way each morning. And that somewhere out there there is someone who notices. </div>
Gwen Grimmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11666937771658014632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-184874571737958590.post-84896728485780037522014-08-21T21:21:00.000-05:002014-08-21T21:21:30.197-05:00tell me a story to keep me form thinking. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Not been around much. Lots to say, not sure where to start. So, a random post to break the ice.<br />
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Decide to o a list of the online comics I've been reading<br />
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<a href="http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1932" target="_blank">El Goonish Shive</a> This one really has gotten better as it's gone along. But if you are uncomfortable with gender fluid characters, this might not be for you.<br />
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<a href="http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/" target="_blank">Girls With Slingshots</a> I kinda wanna beat the main character with a broom sometimes, but I keep coming back. Lots of side character that are interesting on their own. This comic talk a lot about drinking, sex, gay and straight relationships, and BMS... It also has a talking cactus and a ghost kitty.<br />
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<a href="http://questionablecontent.net/" target="_blank">Questionable Content</a> I wish I had Fey's sass. Because.<br />
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<a href="http://www.skindeepcomic.com/" target="_blank">Skin Deep</a> This one is neat because it is set in my area! Plus I love the idea of "not normal" live next to the "normal"<br />
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<a href="http://www.zombieroomie.com/" target="_blank">Zombie Roomie</a> just what the title says.... Life living with a zombie, his live girlfriend and his roommate and his werewolf girlfriend.<br />
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<a href="http://www.grrlpowercomic.com/" target="_blank">Grrl Power</a> I like the official write up, can't sum it up better than this. Grrl Power is a comic about a crazy nerdette that becomes a superheroine. Humor, action, cheesecake, beefcake, 'splosions, and maybe some drama. Possibly ninjas.<br />
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<a href="http://www.drewrausch.com/comic/its-alive/" target="_blank">My Blacks Don't Match!</a> I really hope this one start updating again, I'm hook on the creepy story. What going on in Autumn Grove? What real, what madness?<br />
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So, I got talked in to see the latest update of <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0831387/?ref_=ttqt_qt_tt" target="_blank">Godzilla</a> Saturday. My littler bro has been a huge Godzilla fan since he was... 6? 24 year a fan of the big green guy, stuck through it even with the<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120685/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2" target="_blank"> horrid 1998 version</a>. He been talking about it since the first trailer aired in 2012. </div>
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First, I really loved the opening credits. We get a nice intro into Godzilla and the Monarch organization and the tie in with the atomic bomb "tests". Then we jump to about 15 year in the past, to the Philippines. Here we get introduced to Ichiro Serizawa (Ken Watanabe) and his assistant, Vivienne Graham (Sally Hawkins). These two are here to examine a collapsed uranium mine.... The head of the mine informs them that they had thought they had a huge uranium mine,but when the moved in to dig everything collapsed in to a huge cavern. So everyone gears up and crawls in.... Huh. Guess these guys don't watch too many horrors. </div>
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Cut to Japan. We get introduced to the Brody family. There is dad, Joe(Bryan Cranston), mom Sandy (Juliette Binoche), and son Ford (CJ Adams). Nice, typical workaholic dad, shy kid, and loving mom. I will give them credit, this is the only scene where we get the whole family together, and it really works. I liked em anyway. Hard to pull that off when you get 5 min of them interacting as a family and that it. Now, the trailers on TV did give a major hint that mom dies horrible, and boy does she. See, its not a typical day... Mom and dad work at a nuclear power plant, and something's going wrong... Really, really wrong. There are unexplained tremors, and Joe is incredibly worried about what it could mean. AS soon as he get to work he send his wife to check on the core, and he tries to figure out what the hell is going on. What going on is hell in a handbasket. Not 15 min in to it and there is a core melt down? Earthquake? all of the above? Oh hey, it's also Joes birthday. Sandy cashes out in a cloud of radioactive steam while Joe watches helpless, and poor son Ford get to see the three cooling towers collapsed from the school. Needless to say therapy is probably in both these guy futcher. </div>
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Anyway, before we get to lovey dovey Ford gets a call that he has to go bail out dad for trying to enter the old quarantine zone in Japan.. again. Yeah, dad never recovered, and for 15 years he been spouting crazy theories and trying to prove it was a cover up. Fords pissed that he has to leave home so soon, and he pissed at dad for not letting go. I''l cut to the cashes here... Dad covision his son to go to the old site with him... He want to get some old floppies he made the day of the accident that he is convinced have proof that the earthquakes weren't normal. WHile sneaking around the old abandoned city Joe discovers that the radiation is completely gone. The city should light up like a glow stick. </div>
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While sneaking out they get caught and hauled off to a complex that was build over the site of the old reactor..... in the center is a another of those cocoon we saw earlier, but is is clearly not dead. it glowing and pulsing and just being very alive and scary. and we run in to are old friends Dr. Serizawa and Vivienne. See the runaway mine wreak was what caused the reactor to collapse....Apparently these guys eat radiation for food, hence why the radiation is gone. and now it appears to be hatching? They decide that 15 years of just watching it is enough, and now is a good time to fry the sucker. So they pump a huge burst of electric though the thing, and is appressed to die. Ok. ok, it doesn't. It just get really pissed and trashes the place. </div>
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At this point I gotta be honest... I got a little bored. Ford wasn't really connecting with me. We send the next 30 mins or so explaining the science on Muto, but it lost me. Normally I love that stuff, the back story, the legend, but here. Meh. It really didn't pick up for me till we got back to the monsters in Hawaii... Oh yes, it's monsters now. See, When you have Muto, you have the thing that hunts Muto.... Godzilla. Godzilla only does one thing apparently. Hunts Mutos. maybe this movie should have been called Godzilla doesn't care. Dad just died? Godzilla doesn't care. Building full of people in the way? Godzilla doesn't care. Happened to be too close to the beach when the tsunami hits that Godzilla created coming on shore? Godzilla doesn't care. </div>
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Of course the cat is out of the bag now, and the whole world know that there be monsters. Of course the Muto gets away, and Godzilla give chase. Where is Muto going? WHy, to find a date, of course. See, remeber that other cocoon that was dead back in the Philippines? Seems it was so radioactive that they stashed it with all our other radioactive junk in the <span style="text-align: left;">Yucca Mountain.... Yeah. </span></div>
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Again things don't go as planed, and the male Muto ends up snatching the now armed and ticking nuke..... And carrying it to the female it what can only be called the most dynamite gift a bug critter has ever given his mate. Now they have to defuse the bomb. </div>
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The great thing was though, that wasn't the overriding theme. We fuck up. Guess what. Something worse is out there, and it will eat your lunch. They really could have gone overboard with the we're evil, were destroying everything. But they didn't. These thing have been fight since before we were here, and fuck if they are gonna let us get in the way. </div>
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So. So much has happened. We've blast straight into spring, and are racing off towards summer at a breakneck speed, with barely a chance to settle in. I'm still choking on the fact that the year is almost half over. We just got half the garden in, had the tiller blow up, slaughtered about 20 pigs and one goat, had 7 more baby goats since I last posted. To top the stress off, tomorrow mom goes to surgery to fix her terribly arthritic feet. She'll be in bed rest for two weeks, then she'll get the other foot done in six weeks. Just another layer of stress to throw in there. mom will be off her feet, which means one less hand to help on the farm, which is madding right now, but if she doesn't get it don't she'll be in constant pain, so it's a must do. I know, I'm whining.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #f9cb9c;">So, I got Inky <i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1925435/?ref_=rvi_tt" target="_blank">Frankenstein's Army</a></i> for her birthday, and we watched this weekend. I had show her the trailer when I stumbled upon it some time last year, and she was immediately intrigued. I can see why, the monster design in it is VERY reminiscent of the <a href="http://bioshock.wikia.com/wiki/BioShock_Wiki" target="_blank"><i>Bioshock</i> trilogy</a> (her favorite game), some of <a href="http://www.bromart.com/" target="_blank">Broms</a> work, and steampunk meets Evil Dead. Which is a really good sum up of the movie. </span></div>
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Dude! Freaky! But that is what I like about this movie, and really the only reason I'd watch it again, because I honesty HATED all but one of the caricatures in it. I don't know if it was intended or not, but damn they were the biggest bunch of assholes. </div>
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Oh hey, here <a href="http://www.john-howe.com/forum/smf/index.php?topic=3386.msg282699#msg282699" target="_blank">Inkibus review</a> of the movie!<br />
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Gwen Grimmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11666937771658014632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-184874571737958590.post-51793829462853039682014-02-14T19:38:00.000-06:002014-03-09T17:53:52.731-05:00Chill out. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I am ready for winter to be over. I'm physically and mentally exhausted form it. Yeah, yeah, I know I was complaining about <a href="http://frocktarts.blogspot.com/2013/06/and-days-grow-long-and-nights-get-hot.html" target="_blank">summer last year</a>, now I'm complaining about winter. It been very three very long three months, basically starting right after Thanksgiving. </div>
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Where to start? Well, let me describe a typical day here in this winter. </div>
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Everyday you get up and get dressed. Getting dressed for a typical day involves putting on long underwear, work clothes, then an armless shell, then a sweater, then overalls.</div>
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This is just what I wear when I'm working in the shop (if it's REALLY cold that day, I will throw a vest and hat and gloves on over that) . When I have to go outside I add on a huge overcoat, scarf, thick hat, mouth cover, and thick gloves. After gulping down breakfast, it time to get ready to take care of the animals. First we fill buckets with hot water to haul out, and then go out and take care of the cow, Inky milks while mom dad and me move hay, clean stales, change water, feed the three other cows that are in the one field closet to the house. Two of them were pregnant and the other is a bull we are nursing back to health. after we are done that we get food, and go to feed the other three cows , a bull, a young meat bull, and and older cow and goats. While we are doing this Chris (my brother) is taking care of the pigs and hulling hot water and feed to them. Then we feed the goats, Tamworth pigs, and cows, chop the ice off the water, refill the water, restuff the hay rack, check the health of the animals, and then Chris takes care of the chickens and potbellies while we head back and thaw out for a sec, before Inky and I head out and take care of the rabbits. We fill there waterers with hot water, then stuff any cages that need hay, and feed them. Then it back in to thaw out. This takes about an hour and 45 min every day. In the cold. After grabbing some tea or coffee, we work in the shop. Which, due to the fact we didn't get a stove hook up in time this winter in the new extension, has been mostly below 42 F. I have been drinking hot drinks and eat like a hourse and not gained any weight due to the fact it's burning off in that temp. So, that goes like that all day till about three, then we go out and do all if it again. After that it various chores in the house, then at five we milk the cows for the night (get dressed in layers, hule water again if they need. I bring in the rabbit bottles, and lock up for the night. Then we are done for the day. </div>
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Every day, for the last three month almost. There have been a few break in there now and then, nice warm weather, but not much. There have been frantic excursion for firewood because we didn't have a enough stocked up. </div>
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Granted, if we were READY for this winter it would not be this hard. We'd have enough firewood, we'd have heated water over AT the barns, we have better shelters for the animals.</div>
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The last time we had a winter like this was.. year ago. All we had were some chickens we had to worry about. that was easy. </div>
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Throw on the fact this winter has been really fecking cloudy to boot, and nerves have really fried. </div>
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On top of that, financially we haven't been exactly great. The cows are eating more then calculated, and we lost our first three calf (first one was a deformed bulldog calf we had to have pulled, seconded died form septic arthritis, and the the was aborted 3 months early) All of those involved trips to the vet and bills. </div>
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Add on to that the fact we had to get another bull. Our current bull is a <a href="http://www.dextercattle.org/adca/adca_article_chondrodysplasia.html" target="_blank">chondro positive Dexter</a>, and so are two of the cows we have. The other is a long leg dexter, and the last is a guernsey/jersey cross milk cow. He can only breed the long leg dexster with out a chance of a bull dog, and he is too short to breed the cross. so, he is good for only ONE cow. We are currently trying to sell him, but the market is limited, since he can't breed most bigger breeds, and he is an older bull. We may have to beef him out if we can't sell him. </div>
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We found a long leg bull someone was getting rid of that had a awesome bloodline for cheap. But there was a reason it was cheap, he is VERY sorry shape. It gonna take a lot of feed to get him to shape. So basically right now we've LOST money on the cows. On the bright side, we just had to heifer calves born with out problems that if we can keep alive and healthy will be worth good money. But that a ways off. So meh</div>
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Work in the shop has slowed way down. We are currently finishing out last order of furniture and then that's it, nothing slated to be built. No orders lined up. We have some ideas for some new pieces, expansions, but we really need to get our marketing back on par. Which is even harder to focus on when you are running as hard as we are right now on the farm.</div>
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On top of that, my rabbits have been giving me fits. I have not gotten most of my rabbits to breed, and the few that took all lost their litters in this horrid cold. I've been trying to breed them since December, and NOTHING. I have tried every trick I know, combed the internet.. Nothing. The only consolation I have is my other rabbit friend in oklahoma isn't having much luck either, so we are both hoping it is the weather, that it has been too cold to breed. I have 8 months worth of feed money saved up form past rabbit sales. If I don't get SOMETHING by then, I can't afford to keep the rabbits. That has always been the criteria for me. They pay for themselves. </div>
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And last.... there has been some stress on health. Mom and dad desperately need help with knees going bad, rheumatoid arthritis, and surgery for crippled feet. They have been putting doing anything off becuse we couldn't affored it under our meager health plan. But it look like they would be able to get help as soon as the new health plan kicked in. Well, guess what. We may <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/02/10/3271151/arkansas-medicaid-expansion-fight/" target="_blank">lose our coverage July 1</a> if it get voted out. </div>
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I am fucking sick to my stomach right now. My parents have been hard working independent small business owners for 30 years, they don't fucking deserve to be used a bargaining chip for political gain. Just... Fuck it. Hell, if I break a leg we'd be in the poor house if we lose our coverage right now (not really, but you get the point). Yeah, is all up in the air, it could pass, but it's close.</div>
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Which leaves me to the final point. I've been told by no less than two friends lately I've been less then sociale. </div>
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They're probably right. </div>
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I'm sorry. Hell, I don't really have a right to be, but there, the post above is my apology, or explanation. Please don't take anything personally, cause I sure as hell don't mean anything presnal.</div>
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Right. So. I like to say think have greatly improved since my last post, but I'd be a bloody liar. At least it's had it's up and downs.</div>
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Last week, we lost all the ducks and guineas to was was probably a mislabeled bag of feed. Bro opened the coop door that morning and they were all dead, dead, dead. Like they laid down as if going to sleep and never got up. Of course we had nightmare scenarios going though out head of bird flu and the like, but after going over the fact (the chickens were all healthy, it was only the "exotic" birds, ect. so, we have no ducks this year. Right now we are thinking we will hold off getting new ones, and replace them next year.</div>
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One of my rabbits had a litter, but then lost it a few days later when I think she peed on them in the cold, and they chilled and died. Just feck.</div>
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And it snow again. We're lucky there, they promised ice. I got to experience my fist thunder snow too. so that was cool. But, still. Can winter fuck off, please? The only good thing is since we are stuck inside, we are cleaning the shop like it hasn't been cleaned in YEARS. old jigs, wood, everything is getting sorted and moved. that is nice. really nice.</div>
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Oh, and one more to add to the stress! As of today, we had our last order get lost in transit, and spent several hours calling around trying to find it. Thankfully it was found, though not one the pallet it had started on :-/ . The thought of having to rebuild an order because the shipper smashed part of it makes my stomach churn.</div>
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On a lighter note, my twin and I turn the big three oh tomorrow. We're not going to really do anything, we'll just wait till this weekend, seeing as we are so busy.</div>
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Gwen Grimmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11666937771658014632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-184874571737958590.post-7455131489467576142014-01-20T20:36:00.002-06:002014-01-20T20:56:33.606-06:00Well then. Short version. Not dead. Bit mean, springing it on you like that, I know. Could have given you a heart attack, probably still will. In my defense it was very funny. okay it's not a great defense<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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So, last night I got to see the season premiere of sherlock. I've been really careful about avoiding spoilers for this season. Unless you've been living under a rock, you know that last season ended with Sherlock jumping to his apparent death, goaded on by his obsessive enemy Moreiry to commit suicide to save all those he held dear from being murdered. It was a gut wrenching scene, and one hell of a cliffhanger. Of course, everyone know he didn't die (This show IS called Sherlock, not Watson), but how he survived that fall had fun coming up with all sorts of theories ..</div>
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This season open with one of those theories being retold by a very haggard Anderson to the detective DI Lestrade. If your remember from last two seasons him and Donovan were among Sherlock most vocal opponents, and instrumental in( although unknowingly at the time) in Sherlock jumping from that building. Apparently, 2 years later Sherlock name has since been cleared and declared innocent, and it obvious that the guilt of knowing has eaten away at it Anderson. He's apparently lost his job , and now spends his time following every theory Sherlock is alive.. He's even runs a club dedicated to coming up with theory's on how Sherlock survived the fall. Some of them are pretty stupid, boarding more on fan porn than solid theories. But he KNOW Sherlock must still be alive. Of course he's right, </div>
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And what of John? Well, he's had a rough go of it by all accounts, going so far as to cut off most contact of him and Sherlock s former friends. But he ready to move on.. Or at least he's telling himself that. A visit to his former landlady Miss Hudson is nicely moving, and illustrate how hard it was for John to get over the whole ordeal. He come to tell her he's getting married. He moving on, and leaving the past behind. </div>
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Of course, his past is about to pop up like a freaking diabolical ghost in a funny coat. Sherlock isn't in England No, he off in some hell hole, dismantling Moriarty emperor.. But he is need in the real world, and he brother decides it time to bring him home. Yes, his brother knows he's alive, as do a handful of others. Sherlock ovuiles can not wait to get back to life in London and old friends. This is a nice touch of Sherlock "growing" IN the first episode I really doubt that Sherlock would have cared if he came back or not. But this Sherlock not only can't wait to interact with the lesser folk again, he gets in a couple of sharp jabs at his brother about not having a social life. Plus, the new Sherlock has developed a... sence of humor. His idea of a great way to tell John he alive is to sneak in to the restraint that he's dinning at that dressed as a writer and sneak up on him. He so fucking excited he don't ever bother to do his usual analyzing of the sitions.... cause he totally misses that John don't recognize him because he's so nervous about asking his girlfriend Mary Morstan to marry him. But he's persistent (He REALLY want to tell John how he faked his death), and finally John recognizes him. It doesn't quite go as Sherlock hoped though, and John flips his lid (Which it probably a really healthy reaction) Like, punches him flip out. Sherlock then spends the rest of the evening trying to mend thing disastrously Now... it interesting.. . the whole thing is played for laughs, but John is dead serious the whole time. He's HURT. They don't part on the best of terms, but in a nice touch, Mary Morstan comes to the rescue. Her and Sherlock some how to have bounded over their dislike of Johns new mustache, and she seems to like Sherlock, despite the fact he's basically an ass. </div>
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Now, there's a whole subplot involving a bomb under the subway and Parliament, and terrorist, but really that not the center of the story. </div>
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I really like that Sherlock has finally found his soul or what ever. He not the uncaring prick with terrible timing. He is the caring prick with terrible timing. He tries to make up with Molly Hooper, he is genuinely happy to see Lestrade, Hell he even plays Anderson a visit, and while he scolds him, he don't heap the insults he use to on him. He wants to be friends again with John, but surprisingly he seems ready to accept that John IS hurt, and might not want him around for a while, in fact, he respects John space.... Until someone trying to kill him, and then he takes Mary on a frantic motorbike run to save him. This is obviously part of the set up for who the next villain will be, as why John was attacked remains unresolved. </div>
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Gwen Grimmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11666937771658014632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-184874571737958590.post-91420291235671994112014-01-17T21:10:00.000-06:002014-01-17T21:10:00.972-06:00If this is to end in fire, then we will all burn together!....... Or why the fandom hasn't completely fled the room yet. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
So.... after a freaking MONTH, I FINALLY got to see <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1170358/?ref_=cht_mvm_4" target="_blank">The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug</a>. It been a rough start to the year.<br />
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This is NOT the Lord Of The Rings movies. Granted, the book that PJ had to work with was way thinner than LOTRs. It was basically a childrens book. It's lighter in tone and less descriptive than LOTRs. So he could take a LOT of libraries. And boy did he take them.<br />
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Time for the year in review post. The year isn't *quite* over, but it close enough to start reflecting on it. It wasn't a horrible year. But it definitely had it moments. We literally started this year with the traumatic event of our new Dexter heifer going into labor with a <a href="http://dextercattle.proboards.com/thread/2889/any-suggestions-on-delivering-bulldog" target="_blank">full term bulldog calf</a> .... Plus side is we had wonderful fresh milks for 10 months. We got goats, and Tamworth pigs, we had a beautiful dun calf..... which we lost severely month later heartbreakingly. The garden was.....<a href="http://frocktarts.blogspot.com/2013/09/august-was-like-fog-in-my-brain-but.html" target="_blank"> Underwhelming at best.</a> I lost a <a href="http://frocktarts.blogspot.com/2013/10/in-three-words-i-can-sum-up-everything.html#more" target="_blank">very dear friend</a>, (Still getting use to that one. It's funny how small thing will remind you of someone when they are gone). I got to meet some new friends, and <a href="http://frocktarts.blogspot.com/2013/09/august-was-like-fog-in-my-brain-but.html" target="_blank">got to meet the team from </a><a href="http://theonering.net/">TheOneRing.net</a> (THAT was fun!) this year. We had the <a href="http://frocktarts.blogspot.com/2013/05/mother-nature-you-must-be-bipolar-one.html" target="_blank">strangest Spring weather wise</a> I've ever seen .<br />
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Still, looking back, the theme this year was hectic, barely keeping up. We'd finish one thing, and then plow in to another with barely any time in between to catch our breath. It was exhausting, and frankly I feel like I've aged a lot this year mentally (and physically). Dear gods, please let the next year be less...hectic. </div>
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I should have know last night when I couldn't sleep that today would be shitty. And that thud wasn't ice falling off the roof, cuse the cat never flew off my bed at the sound of ice falling before. Well, life is never boring around here, that's for sure. Let's see... last time I posted here, I was worried we'd lose power. Thank goodness that never happened, but we did get an inch of sleet and 7 inch of snow. And it been COLD. No melting all week. and no getting of the Mountain either. At least, not with the vehicles we have. Yesterday dad and bro attempted to meet the FedEX man to drop off some pagajest...And promptly went in to the ditch half way down the Mountain which then took all day and the bulldozer to get out of. Yeah, that sucked. But today was even better! </div>
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All that ice had to come off for us to get up there and fix it. That took most of the morning. It was slow, it was dangerous, and nerves were shot by the time it was over.<br />
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Gwen Grimmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11666937771658014632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-184874571737958590.post-32566892166483745232013-12-05T21:57:00.000-06:002013-12-05T21:57:48.285-06:00Sheeter buri ashchhe dheye<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Well, winter just can't wait to get here it seems. As I'm typing this, we are in the middle of a nice winter storm that is currently sleet, but might turn to ice or snow depending on just how the front move through. We have an inch of sleet on the ground right now. Sleet and snow, I can handle. Freezing rain, and it all goes to hell in a handbasket. </div>
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The weather blew in rather dramatically this morning. It was cold when we got up, then it got colder, then it started raining. thankfully that only lasted a short spell, and turn over to sleet. </div>
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Thankfully we had a weeks warning that it was going to get bad. So we scrambled to shore up our meager firewood pile and secure the animals to where they were comfortable. We were working so hard, I was so tired for the last few days, I couldn't even get to my usual bed time of 10, I was asleep by 8:30! </div>
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And the cold, so cold. It is 19F (-7C ) right now, but thankfull no howling wind. There is talk of getting to -4 F (-20 C) tomorrow night. Ech. This will go on for at least a week. Not much to do but stay indoor and sit tight. I'm really hoping we still have electric in the morning. </div>
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It really blew in some dramatic sunrises and sun sets the last few days. That was nice. </div>
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One other little treat. This morning a dozen <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-crested_Cormorant" target="_blank">Double crested Cormorant</a> blew in and settled on the pond all day. I could see them swimming back and forth through the shop window. Didn't want to scare them off, so I didn't get too close, but got some pic and a video. I rather hope they stick around for a few days. </div>
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Gwen Grimmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11666937771658014632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-184874571737958590.post-77149121977296042092013-11-28T19:32:00.002-06:002013-11-28T19:32:59.408-06:00Goin' whole hog................<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Happy Thanksgiving. The poor holiday everyone can't wait to get past so they can forget about the uncomfortable fact we basically screwed the Indians over and get on the the Christmas orgy. I never got Thanksgiving, nor Black Friday. Right now, I still feel like I'm waiting for Halloween to come. How can it be Thanksgiving? How can it almost be Christmas? Meh.<br />
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Even if Thanksgiving is a mystery to this spook, we make a big meal and make the most of it. This year we decided to try somthing different. We took one of the small pot bellies pigs we raised and cooked it whole, using <a href="http://georgiapellegrini.com/2010/12/22/recipes/how-to-cook-a-whole-hog/" target="_blank">this recipe</a>. We left off the bacon, just cuse that seemed overkill. Sadly moms oven was just small enough we had to cut off two of the leg to get in in there. There was also a small deer roast<br />
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It took a bit longer to cook than planned, but OMG it was worth it. It may have been the best Thanksgiving meal I've EVER had.<br />
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Other than food, it was a very quiet day. After the last few months, I was happy for that. Looks like next week it gonna suck balls weather wise, to have to crunch it on the firewood. The last two days were nonstop firewood or shop work, so I feel rather rung out. On the bright side, I'm almost done my Christmas shopping. I think I got everyone something that counts, so yay. I suppose I <i>should</i> change my blogskin. I donno, I rather like it. I'll always be a Halloween girl.<br />
I guess I should sign off with the things I'm thankful for.<br />
I'm thankful for all the thing I take for granted that I shouldn't. I have a roof over my head, friends I can count on, and food on the table. I'm thankful that gravity still works, and that the sun and moon have kept it together and stayed in the sky. I'm thankful cat have put off world domination for one more year, and that my right and left haven't switched places on me. Same with sour and sweet food. I'm thankful that my reflection in the mirror hasn't started talking back to me first thing in the morning.<br />
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Gwen Grimmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11666937771658014632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-184874571737958590.post-58231725652676836002013-11-24T20:24:00.001-06:002013-11-24T20:24:17.260-06:00And the chill will seep to your bones. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It's winter out there. The high was 30 F (-1 C all day, it was thick cold fog, and I could hear geese flying high over the colds to warmer grounds. We may have a low of 18 F (about -7 C) I'm worried it will be a cold long winter. We're way behind on firewood, and most everything do with getting ready for winter. I think the greens will bite it this time, I can't see how the kale and mustard will not freeze, especially if we keep drizzling/foggy all night. </div>
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That was the temp I woke up too. <br />
There was ice on the inside of the windows behind the curtains<br />
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Walking up to the garden , and all the leaves on the greens shattered like glass.<br />
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There have been hugeVs of geese flying over all day, flying fast.<br />
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Meh, getting this up later then I wanted. Ok well. Here are The Halloween costumes as promised. </div>
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You have, from the far right<a href="https://www.facebook.com/InKibus.Art.and.Photography" target="_blank"> Inky</a> as a <a href="http://bioshock.wikia.com/wiki/Rosebud" target="_blank">Rosebud Splicer</a> form the game BioShock, Bro as<a href="http://bioshock.wikia.com/wiki/Jack" target="_blank"> Jack</a> form Bioshock, Mum as Martyn Jacques, the lead singer form <a href="http://www.tigerlillies.com/" target="_blank">The Tiger Lillies</a>, Dad as a baby dwarf (his idea) and me as <a href="http://alice.wikia.com/wiki/Alice_Liddell" target="_blank">Alice Liddell</a> form <a href="http://alice.wikia.com/wiki/Alice:_Madness_Returns" target="_blank">Alice: Madness Returns </a>. The only two costumes I sewed were the splicer and Alice. The splicer was a last minuet idea on my sister part, and I'm really happy with how it came out, all things considers. Ink found an out of print pattern, <a href="http://www.pagesandprint.com/butterick-5037-size-6-10-sportswear/" target="_blank">Butterick 5037</a> for me to modify, and I went form there. It's not 100% right, but it's close enough. </div>
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Alice I had been working on for almost a year. I didn't get some things I want done, like the boots. And I mess up the embroidery a little. To be fair, I was working on that when Rocky died, so I may have been a little distracted. The horse head was made by Inky . Awesome, isn't it? </div>
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Speaking of rabbits. I have 13 new rabbits to take care of. We went out at the beginning of the month to picked them up. It was a long trip through Tulsa, which it a bout 3 hours away. </div>
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It was a pretty drive, thankfully, but still. We didn't stop for food, so by the end of it we were HUNGRY. Caved and bought a can of gross Pringles on he way home >>.</div>
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I really have to thank my best bud Jason for help me though this. It been a rough few months. </div>
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It almost winter. We had one hard freeze, and another due the Sunday. There is not much left in the garden<br />
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Gwen Grimmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11666937771658014632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-184874571737958590.post-33925684194161478082013-10-31T12:15:00.001-05:002013-10-31T12:15:35.042-05:00Happy All Hollow Eve!<div style="margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.6em;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gwengrimm/10594270525/" title="Halloween copy"><img src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5488/10594270525_e9ef5e5ed0.jpg" alt="Halloween copy by Gwen_Grimm" /></a><br/><span style="margin: 0;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gwengrimm/10594270525/">Halloween copy</a>, a photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gwengrimm/">Gwen_Grimm</a> on Flickr.</span></div><p>My wittle kwitty and my dolly. :B</p>Gwen Grimmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11666937771658014632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-184874571737958590.post-44956641713017029232013-10-30T20:49:00.001-05:002013-10-30T21:24:41.147-05:00And tonight at midnight, the dead rise and walk the earth. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Halloween is tomorrow. I'm finding that hard to believe, though I don't know why. It finally looks like Fall out there (though a touch warm), wish leaves changing color and overcast skies. There is a call for rain tomorrow. I like rain, cloudy Halloweens. Sunny ones just don't seem right. </div>
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The meager decoration I have are up. </div>
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And, since tomorrow is mum and dads wedding anniversary, I got them a bottle of wine while I was out<br />
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I know NOTHING about wine, but the art on the front just seemed so appropriate! Owls! Spooky Tree! That how one picks wine, right? Cool art? <br />
Right.... Well, I'll hear back tomorrow how the wine was, they stole the bottle away and I doubt it will make it through the night.<br />
I have my costume mostly finish. As finished as it can be. Pic will come, I promise. <br />
Meh. I wish Halloween was further away. After the is Christmas. I don't want to deal with Christmas. </div>
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Gwen Grimmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11666937771658014632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-184874571737958590.post-36178068236976926232013-10-20T18:35:00.001-05:002013-10-20T18:35:31.095-05:00In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Internet credits the blog title to Robert Frost, I have no idea if that is true. Fits my frame of mind right now, so there.</div>
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I need some mental sunshine right now. Ever since my last "life" post back in the <a href="http://frocktarts.blogspot.com/2013/09/august-was-like-fog-in-my-brain-but.html" target="_blank">beginning of September</a> It seem like life has been a series of small kicks in the gut. Follow cut to read on about tales of little tragedies and insignificant woes. </div>
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I lost my dear rabbit breeding mentor and friend Rocky Altic back the first of October. It was sudden, but to be fair it was not unexpected. I saw him 6 weeks before he died. Looking back on it, he was obviously putting on a show that I wouldn't suspect anything more then his health was poor as ever. No, it was failing. Fast. I'm both extremely sad, and relieved he's no longer in pain (and he was in MASSIVE pain I've come to find out, more than he ever let on to me). I went to his funeral... It was nice, as nice as a funeral can be. I tend to believe it is very hard for sudden funerals to be "nice"</div>
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<i>The cages... He could barely take care of them anymore, but there use to be HUNDREDS of rabbit here. It was magical when it was full of rabbits back when.</i> </div>
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<i>The barn. I hear they are going to tear everything down now.. Probably for the best, it is rotted.</i>.</div>
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But he left me with half the rabbits form his herd, which I'm scrambling to make room for. Thankfully his best friend is taking care of them for me, but still.... Stress, and a financial burden. I've got a plan for temporary cage for over the winter. *le sigh*</div>
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<i>Look! The start of temporary cover my ass cages! I have a PLAN! </i></div>
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Then second kick in the gut., the calf we've been nursing For the past month? Well, the leg turn out to have a huge abscess, which we had drained . The vet told us to keep it open and let it heal for the inside out. It never healed. It just got worse, and worse, and finally we had to put her down. Our first calf. She was five months old. We decided to do an autopsy, and were horrified at what we found. She had septic arthritis in ALL her leg joints. ALL OF THEM. Her joints were rotting away, being replaced by pus and bial. Even her heart had pockets of pus. It was fucking awful, and I hope never to see it again. Of course like fools we stuck in all in the ground before we had the brilliant idea we should have sent a sample off to get tested and see, oh, WHAT CAUSED THAT. Brilliant. </div>
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We are WAY behind on getting ready for the winter, no firewood, animals that need cover, weather changing, roofs that need fixing. It's overwhelming at times. </div>
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Top it off, I've been having health issues the last two months with a recurring burning rash on my face. The doctors diagnosis is "Unknown environmental allergic reaction". Which is just basically bull shit for "I don't know". I DO know he has me slated for blood work and to check my blood sugar and cholesterol on my yearly exam next month. Hopefully I'll get answer, because, frankly, it depressing and a bit scary. My skin had been peeling, burning, I had splits on either side of my mouth that made it almost impossible to open it, and my current rash has my eyelids swollen and sore. And the Prednisone they gave me is messing with my sleep. Googling the symptoms brings up everything form diabetes to HIV to Lyme disease... Which, when you are slightly OCD about your health like me, it is a recipe for disaster. </div>
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<i>Didn't photo well, but this is when I started glowing like a glow stick. When I went to pick up my med, the pharmacist wasn't paying attention and making small talk. She grabbed my meds, and said, "Hello! Let's see, today you are "looks up at my glowing blotchy face"....... O_O Having a allergic reaction!". </i></div>
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I had been really happy till now about my health, I haven't had a lot of issues like I have in the past. Basically my OCD stems from the fact I'm a bundle of slightly over sensitive nerves. I have scoliosis, get poison ivy at the drop of a hat, can't drink store bought milk, can worry myself sick (like, passing blood sick), *and* I tend to get colds more easily than my siblings, I've been very prone to yeast infections and major sinus infections and such, but this year I haven't had those problems. Bad allergies, yes, but I can handle that. So I was feeling really happy about it till now. Meh. Maybe I'm allergic to stress (and I've lost about 6 pounds in 3 weeks....I've cut coffee and alcohol out of my diet except on weekend... I'm hoping that's it. I HAVE been trying to lose weight, but to have lost it like that and I haven't been trying lately is.... Meh. </div>
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And Halloween is just around the corner. I can't get in the mood. I WANT to, but I can't. And Christmas is after that. Where the hell did they year go? So yes, sad whiny post. I'm going to go sew for a while. </div>
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