My Boring Life
My one and only baby pumpkin:
Every other female flower has died before blooming…..
Cantalope:
As you can see, there’s more coming!
And the watermelon:
There’s more baby watermelons coming too….
Now if only Mother Nature would stop screwing with us…..we went from HOT and WET to nice and dry, at which point EVERYTHING took off skyward, which was awesome….but now, mid-August, and we’re having nights in the 50’s, and even upper 40’s…..*sigh*
I’ve already managed to forget who’s blog I saw this on, I guess I need more coffee….
NYSRPA is holding a raffle to raise funds to help in the fight against the SAFE act. The prize includes:
A private shooting excursion hosted by Manhattan Shooting Excursions for two shooters on a range near Scranton, Pennsylvania.
One night at a local hotel, double occupancy.
Professional supervised instruction on the use of all firearms.
Use of Full Auto Hardware including: UZI, M-16, AK-74, Glock 34FA, Razorback.
Use of Suppressed Weapons including: Sig Sauer MK25 with AAC Ti-Rant Silencer, HK USP Tactical with AAC Ti-Rant Silencer, Remington M7 .300 BLK. with AAC MK34 Silencer, Sig Sauer Mosquito with Tactical Solutions Cascade-Ti Silencer.
Tickets are $25 each, I bought two. The raffle ends Dec 31, 2013, and you must be 18 or over and able to legally posses firearms in order to get the prize.
Back at the end of January we had to put Janie down. It hurt, but she was miserable, and nothing was helping any more.
One thing I started doing, almost immedietly, was looking for a new cat. Not because I wanted a new cat so soon, cause really, I didn’t. But because in order to fit into this household a cat is going to have to fit some fairly strict criteria, and I knew it was going to take time to find a cat who did.
The problem of course is Arty’s prey drive. He understands that he’s not allowed to chase MY cats, but any cat he doesn’t ID as mine is fair game, and I’ve not been able to break that yet (and may not be able to ever). Any new cat that enters my house will have a period of time where, if it makes a “prey like” move Arty will attempt to pounce, it IS going to take me time to get him to realize this is MY cat. SO: No kittens, they’re to small and helpless and to likely to do things like scamper accross the floor in a mad dash…..I’d prefer a young adult cat, between 1-3 years of age. The cat needs to already be dog savvy. And a larger cat is probly a good idea. A laid-back temperment is also required, to put up with Arty.
Now I already knew that my local shelter had a strict policy of not adopting dogs into a home with an intact dog. The fact that the dog I’d been looking at was already spayed had no bearing on their decision. Apollo’s intact and thats that. But surely it was different for their cats…..
Nope. Intact dog, therefor no cat for me. I shook my head and started casting my net wider.
And repeatedly ran into the same policy. Apollo’s intact, therefor MULTIPLE rescues will not adopt an already “fixed” cat to me.
Guys, I promise Apollo has no taste for rape, much less cross-species rape, and the Tibetan Meow-stiff is an urban legend, I swear……
Its so bad that when I run across a new rescue I no longer email asking for more info on specific animals, and I no longer fill out the adoption application. Instead the first thing I do is email asking if they will adopt a CAT into a home that has an intact DOG.
I haven’t found one yet.
These same rescues constantly go on about not being able to find homes for all their animals. These same rescues can’t understand why people end up getting their next cat or dog from some BYB on Craigslist.
They do it to themselves.
About 3 weeks ago now I grabbed my camera to snap a photo…..and it rattled. When I attempted to take the photo it turned on, but locked up when I pressed the button. After trying new batteries, and opening up every easily accessable compartment I admited defeat and sent it off for an estimate for repair. Pentax being kind enough to offer free estimates on the repair of most of their current model cameras.
Turned out the motherboard had come loose, and unfortunetly since my camera is 7yrs discontinued that part is no longer availible.
So as much as I’d not really wanted to spend several hundred dollars on a new camera I have to admit to being delighted to have an excuse to buy a new camera with all the extra features that I’d been drooling over….
I ended up with the Pentax K-5. Technically also a discontinued model, but that just keeps the price down. Its a much higher end camera than my old one, and I’ve been having fun playing around with it.
I had to go back in and re-thin the carrots as apparently I didn’t leave enough room between them when I did it before. Oops. Oh well, the baby carrots were tasty anyway.
But in the process I found these two carrots:
I kept meaning to post it and kept forgetting, till today, when I read DIY Housewife’s post on her carrots. But I guess its a good thing I was thinning them a bit more!
The other day I pulled this picture off one of the trail cameras:
Hubby and I looked at each other, and both agreed that that seems awfully early…..either he’s going to have a big rack, or we’re going to have a bad winter……
Then yesterday while brushing down Apollo I noticed that he’s already growing back in his undercoat……..and he’s not the only one, every Tibetan Mastiff owner I’ve talked to has said the same, the dogs had a long extended shed, and now, before they’re even done shedding, they’re growing back in their winter fluff……
This does not give me warm fuzzies for the coming winter…..
Ok, the instructions I can find on growing corn state that once the silk dries the corn is ready to be picked. But, can the weather force silk to dry early?
To check on my corn I pulled this one ear:
The visible silk was totally dry. Now obviously I have a fertilization problem, I planted these to closely together and so I will be hand fertilizing the remaining ears, but the kernels don’t look fully developed either? Not that the screwy weather hasn’t helped….
In other garden news I picked my first two zucchini this morning, I forgot to take a picture but they made 3 batches of zucchini bread…..
There’s at least one nice looking baby cantalope, and at least one baby watermelon. Pretty sure there’s a baby pumpkin. Carrots are HAPPY, and there are at least a couple Hot Wax peppers and several Jalapeno’s. So far no sweet peppers, but SOMETHING is eating the leaves, and I think I found the culprit:
I put this camera up in an attempt to watch the Ceder Waxwings that are nesting in that tree, the feeder contains raisens. No luck catching the Waxwings, but look-it what I did see…..headed straight for my garden. Why she’s only munching on the peppers and nothing else I have no idea….
Two of the Waxwings:
I haven’t done this in forever!
Missing man found in front yard.
Just….EEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
We might be able to turn off Down Syndrome.
Body paint isn’t considered clothing.
Yet another reason not to use McAfee. It was bad enough when their SiteAdvisor was flagging sites based on one single review, or for software flagged as good on other sites. Now they’re flagging sites as RED for no reason!
Calibre-ebook.com is the free-ware I recommended back in my post on piracy protection on ebooks.
I took this screenshot of the listing on McAfee’s SiteAdvisor page just a minute ago:
See something, anything, that might be causing that red flag? Yah, me neither. Here’s a screenshot of the comments:
And Calibre is by no means the first this has happened to.
At least one site was blackmailed into paying $32,000 to get their listing fixed! (link may be a bit wonky, I think the Calibre folks have over-loaded it reading it)
