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Sunday, January 1st, 2012
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1:06 am - Yay 2012!!!!
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Happy New Year and thank goodness 2011 is gone!
I have so much I need to report here and hope to get to some of it soon. This is just the first week since things went topsy turvy in October that I feel Ai kan haz owt of hamzter bal nou!!!
I spent the morning of the last day of the year reading some of FotR, going to the doctor and getting a pretty clean bill of health, except for the achy finger, reading some of TH, running errands, then had a yummy ihop breakfast that Thomas BringsTheFire would wax poetical over. I had an afternoon coffee date with a lovely woman, then stopped by the thrift shop, did some chores, IMed with my bb's![[personal profile]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) mererid and delux_vivens, and snuggled with my kitties to bring in the new year. So I saw this year out well and am hopeful for 2012.
Meanwhile, here are some Chanuka Chobbits from earlier this week, bringing in light for the new year . . .
I hope to be a better flistmate in 2012. I hope I get to post more dollustrations and picfics. I'm so glad you're all here, dear flisties. *HUGS*
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| Saturday, October 8th, 2011
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1:41 am - A birthday Saki
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| Thursday, September 29th, 2011
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2:05 am - A Ranger, A Hobbit, and a Birthday
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| Sunday, September 25th, 2011
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12:58 am - Pics From Greenbelt Lake for 2 Birthdays
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| Thursday, September 22nd, 2011
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4:41 pm - Happy Bagginses Birthday!
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| Wednesday, September 21st, 2011
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12:35 am - A Birthday
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| Monday, September 19th, 2011
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11:54 pm - It's Meow Like a Pirate Day!!!
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| Tuesday, September 6th, 2011
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2:11 am - A Birthday Nazgul
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| Monday, September 5th, 2011
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12:05 am - It's Saki Day!!!
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| Sunday, August 28th, 2011
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10:35 pm - Power's back!
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Yay--we just got our power back--it was out for 18 hours starting at 4:30 this morning. So all's good here now. I hope all you folks north of us who were more in the eye are OK.
I didn't get to bed until after 5 am when the winds were settling down, and it took me a good hour or so to get to sleep, but I slept through until 2 in the afternoon--I was pretty exhausted. So then I got up and went hunting for ice, tried several places before I was successful, and came back with my quarry an hour later. The power was out in all of Old Greenbelt through to Greenbelt Road, and lots of branches and leaves were down on my drive, but I saw no downed trees. We're not very flooded because, until last week, most of the storms in the area have missed this immediate area, so we haven't had as wet an August as most of the area has and our water table needed all that Irene brought.
The fridge was up to 50 degrees F, so I think I got the perishables iced up just in time as they had several more hours of power out to go. I still have my perishables in the coolers, so I'm going to clean out the fridge tonight before I put them back in. I don't know if the freezer would have really made the 48 hours they say freezers can go, because, though the freezer was full, the ice cream I just checked seemed pretty soft. However, no ice had melted. Still, I don't think the frozen foods in this freezer should be considered safe after 24 hours. So that's good to know at least for next time.
I went out later this afternoon to check on the strays--they were fine. I gave Ostra her massage and pet down. I don't think I mentioned before but she's fully pettable now and shimmies her tail straight up in the air mewing all the while as I approach--it only took 2 years. (-; I can pet Brigit fleetingly, and she's just started mewing to me, but it's going to take some more months, I think, depending on how jealous she gets of Ostra, and if Ostra lets me pet Brigit; Ostra's trying her best to keep us from touching by swatting both of us. Cats. (-; A. keeps saying she's going to try to trap them and bring them to a fosterer, but I'll believe it when it happens--she's been saying it since spring.
Then I picked up some more ice and batteries on the way home, as I sure made use of the battery powered fans and lights last night. So it's good--I'm almost stocked up again for next time. I made use of every bit of prep I did. I'm sure glad I won't need to get more ice tomorrow--the cost of this stuff adds up, and I'm glad I won't have to truck my frozens to L tomorrow, although I'm very grateful for her offer. And I'm glad I didn't have to buy dry ice--I looked up where I could get it locally and that stuff is expensive--I'm not sure it's worth the expense if you don't keep expensive fish and meat in your freezer. Tomorrow I'll walk down to the lake and see how it looks there.
What an exhausting week! Be safe everyone!
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12:09 am - Goodnight, Irene . . .
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The wind and rain are very loud out there right now. I'm just to the east of Washington and I-95, so we're on the line between hurricane and tropical storm as the eye is along the coastline. Hopefully when the eye runs into NJ and NY it will be quite a bit weaker, so you won't have worse than what we're getting here. There have been a dozen aftershocks from the earthquake into today, but I don't think I've felt any of them--poor folks in Mineral and Louisa.
We lost power for a couple of hours this evening, and I got to break out all my battery operated lights, fans, and radio, and kept doing chores without a hitch and threw a couple of catnip parties to keep the kitties calm. I'm happy to say it came back on after 2 hours, and it's been flickering a lot, but still holding. We're coming into the roughest couple of hours we're supposed to get, so I'll be thrilled if the power stays on through to morning, but I wont' be surprised if it goes out again. Not bad so far, Pepco--keep it up!
I debated whether to park my car in the coop supermarket parking lot a little away from trees, but opted to park it here under the trees where I could keep an eye on it, and have a short haul if I need to get out the 12 gallon cooler I got on sale at Kmart yesterday if the power goes out for more than 4 hours. I did pick the spot I think is safest where I think the trees would most likely fall away from it and branches don't look dead and loose above it. And heck, stuff could blow into it in the parking lot and it could flood there, so I feel better at least being able to check on it and I'm counting on it's sturdy roundness to make things roll off my round, blue, steel vessel.
I'm going to put fresh washed sheets on the bed, give the kitties one more nip party, take another shower, and try to go to bed. Aaand the power just did a big flicker, and there was a big bump sound, so I'd better send this when the modem resets. A safe night and tomorrow to all of my flisties still in the storm's path.
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| Friday, August 26th, 2011
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12:44 am - A Birthday Ent
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| Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011
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6:40 pm - Aftershocks
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3:36 pm - VA Seismic Zone
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1:54 pm - Earthquake!
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We just had the hugest earthquake I think we've ever had here. The hugest I've ever been in. Much bigger than the one we had in 2001. Things have fallen all over the place in here. One glass candle stick got smashed, but all else is OK. Kitties are all OK.
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| Wednesday, August 17th, 2011
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1:19 am - Gollum's lovechild
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Hey ![[livejournal.com profile]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif) ancalime8301!!!! Check this out!
On our way back from seeing RotK in June, Cali and I saw a strange gray creature running across the road in my headlights. My best guess was it was a hairless fox who maybe lost its fur from mange. Or maybe the love-child of Gollum and the fox that saw the hobbits as they journeyed out of the Shire.
Anyway, I just saw this video on the weather channel site, and this has got to be the very fellow, unless there's more than one of them. It was found near a hospital in our county, and the nearest hospital from where we saw it is about 4 miles away. Obviously, it's trucking its way over the area, trying to find the portal back to its home dimension. Seeing it here, it looks a little chubby to be a fox.
What do ya'll think it is? Weird, huh?
Edit: Just found an article on it with a pic and the video here.
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| Saturday, August 13th, 2011
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12:09 am - Happy Froday!!!
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Since Bingo's busy doing photo shoots for a gen story, Sam climbs into bed with him whenever there's time between shoots. Sam's all dressed for his first scene. Oddly enough, they're just chatting right now. As always, click to embiggen (which is not a spam subject line yet, as far as I know).
Hope you're having a happy Froday!
I had fun this week putting together a Flour Dumpling doll--he's a riot to look at--painted some doll furniture, made some tiny foods, and found some more building materials for sets at the thrift shop. This weekend I hope to get Elrond doll all ready for the camera, hopefully locate my sculpty clay, and find wherever I put some paints and some materials for Rivendell sets. I am blessed with very patient cats.
I owe many comment replies, and I will get to all of them, eventually, I promise. *hugs*
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| Saturday, August 6th, 2011
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2:50 am
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| Monday, August 1st, 2011
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5:33 pm - Rain, Rain, Yay!!!!!
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| Friday, July 29th, 2011
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4:36 am - A birthday and Fic: "More Sand"
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