To everyone celebrating it. And because it's fun, some LJ trick or treating! My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haul wuglet goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as Dragon Slayer. chili_das_schaf gives you 7 blue grape-flavoured jawbreakers. droewyn tricks you! You get a rotten egg. exilkobold gives you 17 brown lime-flavoured nuggets. finsterstern gives you 8 green mint...

Brett found the world's smallest snapping turtle in our yard yesterday . It's standing on a regular-sized maple leaf in that last picture.

Up top tonight, the Eternal Earthbound Pets service, which offers to have genuine atheists take care of your pets in case you should be Raptured . Peace of mind, y'know. Elsewhere in the world, Taliban forces looking for medical treatment for one of the leaders took over a clinic, which then was surrounded and sieged by NATO forces . In a piece to help contemplate the costs of life, and possibly...

I've been really bad at these, so here's one massive birthday greeting! Happy Belated Birthdays to: braid_my_mer   scathedobsidian   asatomuraki   lightbringer42   britishcowgirl   ewok_626   goddess_of_art   setfiretolife   mummo74   leifvignirsson   pjhandley   cartoonmayhem   sanity_cheque   sparklymoon   amywedll...

Happy birthday, greyweirdo !

Happy Birthday, greyweirdo ! I hope you have a great day, lots of nice people around you, and of course a fantastic coming year. :)

The boy did a camera dump over on his journal yesterday. Vienna and the Strawberry. We were trying desperately to get an in-focus shot of V with a berry in her mouth. Alas, it was not to be. MAD KITTEN! Kittens don't like to sit still for photos. At least this one doesn't. This is why most of the clearest pics of her involve her being asleep. The Many Moods of Fancy. Fancy in the backyard...

These are seriously awesome, thanks greyweirdo for the link Pete Hoekstra is a Meme Posted using ShareThis

Welcome again, to the now-in-two-places Daily News Post. After poking about in the bug reports and feature suggestions of the Dreamwidth service, they’re working on improvements that I would like to see and think would be really awesome. So they’re not ready in yet, but when they are, I should have a much easier time of being able to read all the protected stuff and friendslists from other services...

Earlier this spring, we noticed a pair of robins building a nest in the tree in front of our living room window. It occurred to me this morning to go take a peek and see if anything was inside yet. Notice the tiny hole in one of the eggs? An hour or two later... I haven't been back -- I don't want to keep shooing the mama bird off the nest -- but given the cracks in...