Success!
The new router works - we have successfully touched base in England with the Owlvark's parents via Skype!
Voluntary experimentation-
Going through softcore mutation...
The new router works - we have successfully touched base in England with the Owlvark's parents via Skype!
I already did a review for Horror Hotel, but we feel the need to revisit it and say that never has a film needed Solomon Kane to step in and fix all the crap as much as this one. With a large sword, and no tolerance for the whining and cringing of the leads. He'd be completely bored with the lame-o evil guys, though- he's faced Cosmic Horror without flinching, and a repurposed Wild West set full of mopey middle-aged immortals aren't going to give him much exercise.
So Fi was all cuddly and nibbly again, which was entertaining, and she stood stock-still for me putting the diaper rash cream on the remnants of her mud fever, which was unexpected and nice. Usually she picks her feet up for me to hold when I'm putting junk on them, but today she just sort of hung out and waited for me to be done. The knock on her left front from the overreach is healing nicely, and is quite a bit smaller than it was before she knocked it open again, and from the look of her bell boots she's been turned out in them, which is good- it'll help keep her from knocking it open yet again.
#watching the 2005 Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy. Trillian and Arthur are talking at the fancy-dress party#
Fi was really funny today when we went to go see her. It’s blowing snow horizontally and colder than blazes out there, so I had decided not to ride, and figured if she hadn’t been freelonged I’d turn her loose in the arena for a while. As it happened, they’d all been fl’d, so I contented myself with picking her feet and checking on the remnants of her mud fever. When I went in her stall, instead of the normal brief breath exchange (horses breathe into each other’s nostrils to greet each other) she decided she wanted a protracted sniffy session, swapping sides of her nose against mine, and eventually she started acting as though she was going to start nibbling my face, which is not a terrific idea. Still, she wasn’t being aggressive, just silly, so I laughed at her and pushed her nose away. When I was picking her front feet, she started nuzzling my back, and nibbling ever so slightly on my jacket. It was very funny. I kept laughing and pushing her nose away, since I do not have a horse’s tough skin and if she had swapped to the nibbling horse friends do to each other I’d have lost some hide, but it was funny to see her so affectionate. It reminded me of Windsor and this game we used to play; I’d hold my fingers up to his mouth and he would lip them in between his teeth and just hold them there for a while.
So we hit the junk store and the secondhand store in a nearby town today, and came away with some excellent prizes! The Owlvark scored a 1940 Philco tube radio for four dollars, we found an old folding wooden chair, and I found a runner sled in excellent condition! Exploration of the secondhand store gave us three jigsaw puzzles, a Fisher Price boat toy (still saving up old Fisher Price toys for the eventual children; they're the best toys ever :) and a book of photos from the Alhambra.
The Lair of the White Worm
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February has not been a good month as far as injuries go. I pulled most of the muscles in my right leg rather badly from working in the mud, then once that had healed got a sinus infection, and now that that's relented I've wrenched my shoulder. It is frustrating to have a job in order to pay for my mare, only to have it leave me either too sick, too tired, or too injured to ride her.
Interestingly, the overreach Fi hit on Tuesday is healing well and is in fact smaller now than it was before she knocked it open. So it's a good thing, I guess. I'm still riding her in bell boots, though, at least until it heals. Luckily Cam's boots fit her, even if they are a little big.
So since we tend to get a bit behind on the chores around here in the wintertime, we've joined Chorewars to try and make it a bit more fun. Frankly, even if we weren't a bit behind, gaining D&Dlike experience points for doing chores would appeal anyway :)
Something I whipped up for the Tumblr Famblr, in hopes it would make their Valentine's Day a little easier.