Update in a nutshell

Ok, so we've moved from Louisiana to South Carolina, about 20 hours closer to Maryland, where I still consider "home."

Our bitch of a landlady has 2 days to give us back our security deposit or we're suing her. Oh how we need that money!

Fortunately both Alan and David have found full time jobs that they love. Unfortunately I have to go back to Louisiana for several weeks at a time. So I can't get my career-life going yet. This skunk project is becoming an anchor and a pain in the ass...

And I'm pretty sure I'll be a bad human mommy because my doggy children and my Henry child irritate me to no end recently. It seems like everything and everyone is needing from me and I'm running out of things to give.


Oh! So while I was taking Alan lunch one of the dogs (of course I don't know which one) chewed on a travel vial of ibuprofen (I don't even know where they got it from!). It was crunched shut so I don't think they really ate pills.

So I spent my afternoon trying to chase them down to squirt salt water down their throats to induce vomiting. The only thing I induced was Jockimo to spiral squirt diarrhea throughout a good chunk of the living room. I took me hours to clean it up.

But hey! I go swimming in the ocean every day!

I did it again...

I found this little darling running around outside a Walmart. She had a collar that had staples in it and was cinched too tight with zip ties. Of course no tags. Of course I took her home. Besides missing some hair on her throat from the collar that was way too tight, she was in relatively good condition. She took to our cats and dogs.

At first I thought about putting Found signs up, but then I wasn't sure I wanted to give her back to someone who did that with her collar. They probably couldn't afford a new collar, and thus couldn't afford her. I was also grateful that they left her at Walmart and didn't dump her in the woods.

The fantastic women at PAAWS (through whom we got Reeves and helped us with the litter I found) have a foster home for her. They'll get her vet care, spayed, and microchipped. We have a friend that when he gets back home next Monday, he wants to adopt her. If all goes well we'll be able to see her at the dog park all the time!

I would not hesitate every time I see a dog in need, to bring it home. We just can't keep any more...

My two favorite compliments

I think these will stay with me for the rest of my life:

1) I would like to be a temporary dictator of the US (really ideally the world) to fix some of the nonsensical problems and to fire most of Congress to start fresh. I say temporary because I hope to give power back to the people once we get back on track. History tells us I won't but I would like to believe that I would. A friend that I've made at the dog park, while I don't think she agrees with having a dictator told me she thinks I would be fair.

2) When I worked at the dinner theater, one of my friends and colleagues had his boyfriend there as a guest. The bf is a professional drag queen having won many a prestigious awards like Miss Gay Maryland. This man knows beauty. He saw me walking through the theater and asked his boyfriend who I was, that I was absolutely gorgeous.

Birthday

Alan and I made a day of it. We went out for breakfast and were just a few minutes late for breakfast. This is not a real diner, especially if you've been to the Nautilus. It's not open 24 hours, doesn't have a huge menu, and they don't offer breakfast all day. But whatever, I had a delicious salad.


Then we went to see the new "Pirates..." movie (in 2D). It was... good. Fun. Blackbeard was all wrong but hey, artistic license.


Then (using a coupon from the entertainment book) we went to Copeland's. It was really good, especially the cheesecake! Since we were paying $8 for a slice and it was my birthday I was determined to eat the whole things. Oh gracious...

It was a good day.

Motion camera pics

I thought I would share some of the creatures I have caught on camera. Everything but a spotted skunk...


Yes, that is a man's rear... I suppose a hunter wondering what the heck my track plate is.


Right in front of the track plate is blurry mouse jumping.


A raccoon kindly leaving some hairs on my glue traps.


Opossums work really hard to get in there. They scootch along on their bellies to get to the bait.


Coyotes are so awesome!


Armadillos are just too rotund to get in.


And yeah, a deer.

Another Sad-Dead-Brother Day

Oh my gracious how time flies!

Ever notice how time flies and stands still at the same time! I haven't written in awhile - if my small audience still cares - sorry! I've had this crazy project for a scientific illustration class. We had to put together plates for publication of photographs and line drawings of a part zoomed in. The drawings are made in Photoshop and Illustration (see below). They took a long time! But they are due today and done not matter what.

I think after class I'm going to take a nap. For three days.

My phone died. So I caved and got an iphone that was one of my upgrade options. I didn't want to like it. But I do...! I am hooked on Words with Friends.

Figure 1. Stinger of an Emperor scorpion.


Figure 2. Stinger of a common bark scorpion.

I can't get my roly poly head to load!