Cats are like this

The cat has taken over my shoulders while I use the bathroom. She is purring like mad, but I still don't know if she actually likes me, or just wants fresh kibble!

Health potion!

Almost done!

Second ornament on the tree

:3

YAY SNOW

The middle picture in particular is awesome if you click to view the full size. You can actually see the snowflakes.

"Kappa Eggs"

A friend from Peru and I did an art trade, kappa themed of course, and along with his sculptures, he sent along these amazing little things:


They are water-absorbing gel pellets that start out hard and teeny tiny!


Put them in water, and after a while you can see their outlines are very strange looking.


They start to unfold!


And become perfectly round and clear! The ones without the dye are invisible in the water, unless you hold it up to sunlight so that you can see the shadow of their contours in the water. The ones with dye are very strange in the water, because you can see their colored middles, and when you reach in to grab them, your fingers contact before you think they will, because the outside of it is perfectly clear.

@_@

Adventures in Advertising:

Today, I copy-pasted in some text about a community college into a city newcomer's guide, and noticed something funny.

Spartanburg Community College¹s Cherokee County Campus

See that apostrophe?  No, you don't.  It's a superscript 1.

Go Dinty Moore

Soooo EZ Open

Oatmeal Raisin Caramel Cookies

Wow, doesn't look nearly as good as it does in person.

That, my friend, is the most perfect cookie I have ever made.

Standard oatmeal raisin cookie recipe from the oatmeal box, with double the vanilla, but I added Kraft Caramel Bits, which are little bitty balls of caramel. SO. DELICIOUS.

<3

A few photos

Firstly, that sunflower I put in a bud vase is still doing well!



Yesterday we bought local! We went to a Farmer's Market, and bought teeny tiny VERY FLAVORFUL tomatoes:

(I ate one -never mind the itching- and it was SO tasty!)


We also bought a big jar of local honey for five bucks! I've heard that eating local honey can actually improve allergies. Who cares if it doesn't -- I LOVE HONEY. And a jar that big at the grocery store would actually cost more than five dollars! Next time we run out of eggs, we'll get them there, too.


The loaf of bread came from Scratch Brick Oven. It's a very strange place -- just read their description on the website. Anyhow, that loaf of bread weighed easily 2 pounds when I bought it, and I've eaten over half of it already. They make a bunch of varieties - that one is honey oat. <3

Sushi photos!

Nori is so pretty! I didn't know until I pulled the sheet out of the package and the light shone behind it. I had to take a picture.

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My first attempt was kappamaki (cucumber). I think I didn't put enough rice in, or roll it hard enough, as the roll was a leetle squashy.

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And, because I'm 'MERRIKUN, Spam Lite sushi. I have to admit, it was the tastiest of the bunch.

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All three of my lovely efforts - kappamaki, krab maki, and Spam maki. At that point, I ran out of rice, or I would have used the tuna salad mixture I made for the purpose. I sadly do not have access to really fresh, sushi-grade salmon.

Finches!

There were a pair of small yellow and black finches on my sunflowers this evening; I presume they were eating the seeds! :D

I got a terrible photo, because I turned off the flash because it was through glass, but oh well!

You can see good photo of these birds here.

Skunkling

I did not take this picture. It has been the background on my phone for a little while, and it is so cute I had to share!

Reminder to self: track relevant

Reminder to self: track relevant pollens.

Platypups!

Look, I sent this photo to Cute Overload, and it made it in!

The simple pleasure of a sunbeam

Nature: Rain, Birds, and MEAT

Two things are being shown in this picture above.

Firstly, JUST as my grilling was coming off the grill (on the left), it started to pour. I'm glad it held off just for my cooking!

Secondly, Speed put in a nice shepherd's crook for me to hang my hummingbird feeder on yesterday. And today I saw a leetle hummingbird on it already! :D

This photo below demonstrates the deliciousness I grilled up this evening. Chicken, which was brushed with olive oil and salt-and-peppered, and steak kebabs which were marinated overnight in a really tasty red wine (and various other things) marinade.

Heaven.

Take 2

The second attempt at pork pies turned out better. I used more spices this time.

I has a sunflowers!

Breakfast Surprise

Lovely!

We are eating at a chinese buffet that has been newly renovated and in glass as dividers is this really pretty 3d scenery!

YOU

Because you really can't tell, the slogan says, "Baked while you sleep..."

Never had a sunflower plant before!

My sunflower is beginning to bloom!

It's a mystery to everyone

I looked around to see where I had left my book. Can you tell me where my book is?

Greeeen

Gosh, I love Tennessee!

Goodnight

from the Hampton Inn

We have crossed the Mississippi

We have crossed the Mississippi river into Tennessee at about ten pm. I wanted a photo, but it is quite dark.

On the road again

We have left Booyah hause at 2:45 EST.

Beep boop

GAEMAN GAEMES

Crispy!

Some of the guys like their marshmallows on fire.

Flame Lord Everyone

We had a nice fire going while we swam tonight.

>u<

lulz

Yummy!

Last night we went to IHOP, and Kippa couldn't quite finish her plate of pancakes.

He winks at joo...

Do joo see them too?!?

CLIMBAN GAEMES

Today we went to the park and most people climbed stuff!

Waahoooo!

And then Replay showed up!

wind is bliss

lol Jeff

Singan gaemes

Even the car rides are in no way boring.