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I have been posting this poem here for decades. Time to refresh and bring it out of storage again. Original post was Dec 24, 2005

The Night Before Christmas . . . .Budgie Version

'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the flight,
not a feather was stirring, not even a mite.
The hens were all nestled on top of their eggs,
While visions of clutches danced in their heads.
And budgies on perches, and keets with full crops,
Had just settled down, and puffed up their tops.
When out in the hall there arose such a clatter,
that I sprang from one leg to see what was the chatter.
Away to the bars I flew like a flash,
Opened both eyes and landed with a crash.
The light on the ceiling went on with a glow,
And we were all bug-eyed, adjusting too slow.
When what to my wondering eyes should appear,
But a hand with five fingers, a little too near.
With a motion that threatened, so lively and faster,
I knew in a moment it must be my master.
More rapid than eagles his curses they came.
And he whistled, and shouted, and called us by name.
Now, DUSTY! now, DEWEY! now, BROWNY now, JAKE! On, STORMY! on,
SUNNY! on, BALDY! and SNOWFLAKE!
To the top of the cage!
To the top of the wall!
Now fly away! fly away! fly away all!
As feathers that before the beating wings fly,
When they meet with the skirting, spread far and wide,
So up to the ceiling the budgies they flew,
Followed by the master with intent to pursue.
And then in a moment, I heard in the salon,
The prancing and scratching of each little talon.
As he put out his hand and was ready to bound,
Down from the bookcase we came with great sound.
He was flustered and stressed, from his head to his foot,
And his clothes were all covered with dustballs and poop.
A butterfly net he had flung on his back,
And he looked like a hunter about to attack.
His eyes -- how they wrinkled!
His forehead how wary!
His cheeks were all flushed, his nose was all sweaty!
His lips were all pursed, drawn up like a bow,
And obvious he was, not enjoying our show.
The stump of a broom on the walls he did tap,
Then behind the furnishings he waved an old sack.
He poked and he prodded with every odd tool,
But we were as quiet, as kids in God's school.
Closer and closer he came to our shelf,
And I chirped when I saw him, in spite of myself.
A blink of his eye and a twist of his head,
Soon gave me to know we had plenty to dread.
He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,
And filled up his net, in spite of our jerks.
And laying the net, beside our cage door,
We knew that we would be free, never more.
He sprang close the door, gave a sigh of relief,
Inside we then flew, expressing our grief.
But I heard him exclaim, as he turned out the light,
I hope you had fun, now please go Night Night!
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Hey guys. So sorry I have not been commenting. I am still here. My "stupid" dog takes up more time than I would have liked. She's actually doing a bit better. I found the channel Beckman's Dog Training and it's been helping. But I learned that you can't really start training a puppy til it's around 9 months old. Their brains aren't developed enough to understand and retain things. The hardest thing has been loose leash walking, stay not biting the leash and treating it like a tug toy. I so hate it when she grabs the leash when we're walking and starts yanking back on in. I force her into a sit to get her mind on something else. Can't wait til she's old enough for formal training. I've been ready for that from day one.

Some of you may know that I've also been taking care of a baby cardinal that's a total disaster in and of himself. I call it a "he" until I know for sure what it is once it molts. I named him Binky as it's a name that works for either sex. It was the name of the bird in the old anime Heidi cartoon from the 80s. And in a way another Megamind reference since that was his little power source thing his dad gave him. "Here is your Binky and here is your Minion." Funny I have a Binky and a Minion now. So Binky left the nest way too soon. He was headed for the yard full of cats and dogs. My yard has Olive which I don't trust around birds yet. There were no safe branches to put the baby on and I knew he'd be a gonner come morning. So I took him in. It's like the world wanted to kill this poor bird. So I'm taking care of him and then he gets his right leg caught in the bars and breaks it. I didn't notice right away til it was dangling. I thought I was going to have to put him down. He was really bad off for a time. I also feared come close to weaning time as that's when soft bills die on me. I don't know why. They may have done great but come weaning time they just keel over. Well I decided to make my own special formula since I had run out of baby food. I didn't know if this would work but I knew this bird needed high protein and calcium. So I took puppy food, mealworms, soldier fly larva and heaping does of calcium powder and mixed it into moist crumbles. I began to feed him this warmed up to 107 F. To my surprised he really turned around and began to recover. But then he bent his left wrist because he was compensating for the broken leg. So basically he was wrapped like a mummy. I know no vet would see him and to turn him over to a shelter would be a death sentence. I almost thought I had to put him down myself but then I saw he had so much life and fight in his eyes. I could not do that to him. I had to keep trying. So after having him all tied up for a week I unwrapped him and he's doing way better. I'm disappointed he'll never be releasable. I was hoping he'd be an outdoor pet like I saw someone else have in a video. I don't know why this bird came into my life but I will keep trying. I've got him eating pellets now and the next challenge is weaning. He takes food on his own sometimes but has a long way to go before he just feeds from a dish.

So between the crippled song bird and the demanding mutt I barely have time for anything else. And for those of you that may not know I was very sad to find out that Whitey has developed cancer. She has a tumor that's been growing in the exact same place between her legs as Bullet did. I'm pretty sure I'm going to eventually lose her. She's going down hill faster than Bullet. Bullet was a fighter but Whitey isn't as tough. As I said in the video I'm very disappointed that Minion never figured out how to mate and that they didn't have babies. I wanted to pass on the lacewing, get Minion's genes into the line and develope super talking babies. Minion can say 230 words and I'm thinking Whitey would be the guiness holder for female budgie with 40 words.

Late happy Father's day. We had a nice one. We took Olive to meet Chris's parents. They've been wanting to meet her. That went well. Olive was very good for the most part. A bit rough the way she loves. I need to keep working on manners so she can interact nicely with older people. At home Olive is constantly getting in trouble and put in time out for grabbing things she's not supposed to, the carpet, shoes, sheets just about anything. And she has tons of her own toys. I love to spoil her but I have a bunch of nice things I have never given her because she has not earned the right to them yet.

I'm sorry I haven't been around guys. I think about all of you all the time. Most of you have my text so we can always send photos there to each other.
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Happy Feb everyone. I love this month even though it's the suckiest as far as weather goes. This year we plan to celebrate Valentine's instead of anniversary. Both fall on crummy week days. Anniversary on a Fri and Valentine's Day on a Monday. Since our week starts on Wed, Valentine's is easier to celebrate as far as getting a day off or a day off early.

I should probably be using my Malcolm icon "Boy I hate being right all the time." I'll talk about icons in a bit. Well I was right. LJ are being commie jerks about and block DW when people mess up their passwords. I'm not going to go into detail you can read about it HERE. So I just finished manually backing up my posts to DW today and I can now make a post here. I'll have to manually transfer comments to by replying to myself. Extra work but I need to stay on top of it. It will be totally worth it. The ship hasn't sunk yet. I'm just bailing water. I also deleted and uploaded some icons on DW. There is a limit there for free accounts to 15 icons like it used to be here. I wish DW would give you a few free spaces every year for being a loyal user. LJ used to do that. Probably not anymore. But I was a paid account for a long time and was lucky enough to buy a permanent account when they would offer those about once or twice a year. That means I'd get extra icons on top of the free ones you got yearly and hence that's how I now have 192 icons of a possible 262. I'm spoiled and I'm a Livejournal veteran. I should probably prune the icons here and free up space. I should only keep the ones I absolutely use the most. That includes seasonal ones that do get used one a year for that particular month. I should probably lose most of the Ophidius ones as he no longer represents me other than my artistic side. Of all my characters he's my artist. I need to update the old icon of his to using my new tablet. It's a monitor so I should do something like him drawing a really bad tongue face. Anyway, so DW only allows 15 icons but I forgot you can buy spaces for a dollar each. To me that's totally worth it to build up my fave most used icons there without having a full paid account. The free account does everything else I need it to that this does. I need to figure out what icons I really use most now. Of course most of my Fear ones, though there is one I don't use anymore. I think it was the first one I uploaded because I just needed something of his at the time. Minion's icon for sure and some expressive ones. Funny enough I love how some of my Owen icons will always be around always have a use even though I don't draw or write about him much anymore. Owen is a character I'll always love very much as he is just an extroverted version of me and a much bigger jerk. But he's the kind of guy you always want on your side and not against you.

So here is an outdated Vlog of what's been going on.

Watch on YouTube

https://youtu.be/FB2iIv4rwWE

We had a second frost for two nights since this update. I have finished putting up the top panel of mylar on the garage. Here is a video of when I first finished my dart frog tank and when I moved my little frogs into it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjsJpb-HNmI

I'm working on rebuilding the greenhouse frog tank from last year. The soil went bad because my frogs ate the entire clean up crew. They are in a temporarily box right now. Hopefully the new tank will be an improvement. I plant to let the clean up crew establish and I hope I can offer better hiding spots for them other than leaves.
Savings for my dog is going ok. We hope to get our taxes done this week so hopefully we'll get a return. I don't know if I can put it towards the puppy fund though because we need to get the jeep paid off. We're very close to finishing and really want that over with. It would be a better move to do that despite what I want. I really need to get a new breeder stand (budgie appartment) for the over flow birds. Minion needs to be alone. I have him in with Nautica now. He's doing way better with her, but again she stands on his fave perch and he can't talk to his mic much. There's so much going on right now and it's all going very slowly. I really can't wait to move things around by switching my computer room with the bed room. But I need to finish the walls in the master bath first. At least the parts where the sink goes. I work a tiny bit on it everyday when I feel well. The cold hasn't helped with that as when it's been really cold in the house I haven't done much.

I think I'll stop here for now. If I remember something I'll just make a new post.
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It's Christmas Eve. I know some countries celebrate the 24th. I don't know why, makes no sense but yeah anyway.

I got a gift yesterday that surprised me. Someone sent a gift for my birds. Please tell me if it was you. There was no note from the sender. Just a thank you from the manufacturer Lafabers. I didn't order it so Minion and Co have secret admirerers or something. Here is a video I made.

Watch on YouTube

https://youtu.be/YdFl7XbMjOg

Wingo, is feather biting and mutilating himself. Sigh, I thought we were making progress. I've never had a feather picking bird. But I've bought all my birds as babies or raised them myself so I've never had a used, abused bird. He chewed his tumor and it was bleeding. I'm mad at him. I'm going to have to find some type of bitter spray once it heals to help with this picking. I did order some protein powder called Feather Fast that has good reviews. It goes on the food and helps with molting.
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Those of you on youtube might know that I have two new birds now. I think it was Dec 14 that I went to the vet to get a follow up for Minion. He's all better. The antibiotics cleared him up. Glad that's taken care of. I adopted the parrotlet that was there. I was told he was mean because he was abused and was wild. Also he has a benign tumor on his right wing but is healthy other wise. Also that he didn't eat veggies or pellets much. Also that he was a normal green. Not much else was known about him. I needed a male as a breeder after having lost Melville a few months ago. That sucked btw and I still miss my poor yellow parrot. Oh this one also had no name so at the vet's I named him Wingo because it's the first colorful green thing that popped into my head. You know the street racer from the first Cars movie. So I get him home and realize he's not green. Found out he's a green headed turquoise. Because he had plucked most of his feathers he looked green because of the head and had a grey body of down feathers and a few broken body feathers. Almost changed his name since he's a turquoise. But can't think of anything else. No one else suggested anything and for his bad wing I guess I'll keep him as Wingo. So he also proved that he can eat pellets and he does take veggies. YAY!! He's not wild and vicious. In fact he's grabbble which is great. He is pissy and fake bites but it doesn't hurt it's all an act. The only negative I found about him is that he is afraid of other birds so making him a breeder might be hard. I don't know how old he is. He has a leg band but it wasn't traceable. Would love to find the breeder so I can find out his birthday. So many unknowns, but everything I was told about him seems to be wrong. He's friendly. He knows how to step up. I'm training him to do the Turn Around trick. Also his feathers are growing back. My main goal with this bird is to get all his feathers to come back other than his wing that is permanently damaged. Sadly he and Nautica did not like each other. Nautica did like Melville. This part is not good. I keep accidentally calling him Melville also. I need to stop that.

Here he is in all his vicious glory the day I brought him home. Ha ha. He looks better than this photo already.

Meet Orbitz. The most expensive "normal" green budgie I have ever bought. She's a green opaline but pet stores just list these as "greens". Used to work in my favor but now with unnecessary inflation I paid $29.99 for her. That is stupid. I went to a pet store today that used to the the cheapest and budgies there were $36.99. WTF? This store used to have them at $9.99 during Trump. And the other stores had them as greens for 14.99 and "fancy" for 19.99. Budgies were cheap and easy to buy. It was great. Anyone could get them unlike other parrots. I'm tempted to come out of retirement. With my hand fed babies at $25 (always been my price) I should clean up nicely if word gets out. Everyone would be flocking my way.

Anyway, so Orbitz who I keep accidentally calling Optic. I miss that budgie. I named her after the 90s drink that had little floating balls in it. She a future wife for Blue Brother. Oh that's another problem. You can't find adult budgies in stores. This is my first time buying a budgie since I got Minion and I got him a whole sale. He was a cheap aviary budgie. So I'm taming her and already have her in with Blue Brother. I feel time's ticking though and hope he's still around next year when she matures. I hope they'll bond. This is all about passing on the lacewing gene.

And speaking of pets. I have decided in my mind I will get a doberman. Starting in the new year I will try to save all my money. Right now I'm focused on buying supplies. I've made an amazon list HERE. I've already got some things like bowls, leash and collar, a bed. I know I'll need more than one bed and puppies chew things up so I like the cheap ones I found. So hopefully next year I can meet this goal. I also hope to save for other big expenses like jeep mods. Also my jeep is almost paid off. I think it will be done in 2022. It is a year behind Bruce the truck.
Lastly here is a follow up on the ebay guy that yanked me around with the Arnold figure. If you didn't see or reply check out This post.
Ok have a good one guys. Oh and I'm going to be late with some Christmas gifts and cards this year. For the card I didn't finish the new design in time. So my icon of Bullet is this year's card in the wreath.
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New icon. It's from the SpongeBob ep Procrastination where he has to write a report about what Not to do at a Stop light. When he finally gets around to writing he spends lots of time making a fancy THE to start his sentence wasting more time. I love this episode so much and this is what I am doing typing on LJ right now. This is bad haha. I'm trying to work on this year's card. I've drawn the sketch. I'll just spoil what it is. This card features my four apartment birds. Minion, Whitey, Emma and Nautica. But sometimes just opening the file in photoshop is an accomplishment in itself. I'm also trying to make art for some business cards. Luckily those will be easier because they will have art I've already made. I'm trying to promote my youtube channel in real life. I don't make any money on my channel but you all know I always share interesting things and more people should know about it. Especially Minion and my art ideas. I want those to be known and loved by the world. So these cards will feature Minion and Scary Fear. Funny enough I had to find my old art on my hard drive back ups. I remembered the Minion was around my birthday so when I pulled out June it was too soon. It did not exist yet. Then I pulled out Nov and well it was half done as I colored him for Christmas. Half the layers were missing. Arg still wrong time period. It's like time traveling. You have to keep these things in mind you might think you have the right month and year but things might not be totally complete yet. So by March of next year I finally had the right files to work with. I need to add a mic to Minion's wing. It's something I'd been meaning to do since last year's Christmas for this very reason. Talk about procrastination. INTJs are bad about it too but at least we finsh most of our projects even if it takes us 50 years.

So I've been working on wreaths still. Making Christmas ones because the people I plan to make gifts for told me Christmas was their fave holiday. So you can imagine I've had a hard time finding materials as we're in Christmas right now. One of these people is my vet. I want to make something nice for her. She's been amazing.

So Minion and Whitey got sick a while back. Minion seemed poofy and less energetic and so did Whitey. I didn't like the look of his poops. They got antibiotics and are doing better now, but a follow up is in order. I don't think Minion got rid of his bacteria completely. But you know how it is. You can't just get in as soon as you want. I don't go back til the 14th. That was the soonest. The only good thing about that is I have time to save for the bill. Oh and I'm getting a new parrotlet to replace Melville. I'm taking in my vet's pet that is mean nasty and wild. I don't care, I just need a breeder. He's all green. A normal and has a tumor on his wing but is healthy other wise. Again I just need a breeder. He acts normal and the tumor is benign so technically clean bill of health for him. And if it doesn't work out I can bring him back. I love that because I tell that to my customers when I sell birds. I don't care how old or how many years they can bring my babies back for whatever reason whenever.

Speaking of new babies I really REALLY want a black female doberman. Been watching lots of videos about them. Been looking at dog toys and supplies. But what's holding me back is two things. The lack of fence and that we can't put a dog door anywhere the way the house is set up. Though I'm home all the time I know I won't be at some point and then who would let her out to use the bathroom? Also right now we don't have room inside because we're still getting rid of stuff. I might do some major rearranging in the living room today to make room.

Well I've goofed off long enough. I better get back to working on something.
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Chris got Forza Horizon 5 on opening day for our xbox. Just like before we've been having fun. I've been trying to make all my characters so that our world is populated only with our guys. My main account is Scary Fear but we have some of the others too like Owen, Davon, Solan etc. But looks like we need to make more accounts still. Even though it's single player the game adds random people if you don't have enough friends. There are 12 spots in the races and I'm getting sick of having strangers in 2nd and 3rd place on the podium. The old characters from Foza 4 didn't transfer over either so it's stupid to see some as the default girl character. I need to remake everyone which means playing all the intro missions over and over. I hate that you can't skip the cinemas. They are beautiful but when your only goal is to make a character and not drive around and get achievements then it's super annoying you are forced to play for two hours just to get started. But yes I do need to create new accounts to fill all 12 slots. I think between Chris and I we have 8. I can think of two characters I haven't created yet. Even if we got 10 it would be annoying that we would probably have those two strangers place. You'd think the odds would be in our favor.

Unfortunately playing hurt my hands again and set me back. Thanks for the prayers btw. I was getting better. I was writing a lot which is what started this flare up and it's almost as bad as when I first got fibro. I could not game or hold anything. I shouldn't even be typing but it's time to update. Chris as always is an amazing husband and has been helping me open things like ketchup packets, squeeze bottles and last night made George for me as I talked him through how to play that account for me. Tonight we will make Ophidius. We have no desire to play online with other people. We're against these multiplayer games really. If you want to play with someone else it should be a 2 - 4 player in the same house on the same machine and tv. Invite your friends over for a video game party like it used to be. Eh that's a rant for another type and I'm too hurt to type it all out right now why all these things that I have been warning you guys against for over a decade are now proving me true. See I told you so. So anyway, I probably shouldn't play for a week which I'm not happy about. This game takes place in Mexico and I'm loving that. It's so beautiful and way better than boring ugly England where it took place in Forza 4.

Nov 10th I took Whitey and Minion to the vet. I was afraid something was wrong with them. I'm so worried about cancer now that it's in the line. I also told the vet about Whitey's crop gas she still gets from time to time. Luckily everything was ok. Minion just had bacteria again so we were given antibiotics for their water. I'm so thankful it wasn't worse.

I have more to say but gonna stop here. So other than my health issues things are going well. I'm rather happy. Looking forward to getting today started.
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Bad stuff first. I'm hurting again. I hurt my elbow pretty bad working in the pumpkin patch. I haven't worked out there for days now. I can't, but damage is done. It's been hurting for like four days now. I hope it will be ok. And today is a bad day as far as fibro and pain goes. It started yesterday with the storms. Seems I react to weather changes at times. And my leg is hurting. I guess I sat at my desk too long. No more than usual and I've done that for years so it's annoying it decided to act up. I changed chairs and it's helped a bit. So please pray for my health to improve. I've got too much stuff I need to be doing to be down because of health issues.

But despite that things are great. Minion is talking right now and he's saying some funny things. One day he said, "Not again chickain." He made up a word to rhyme. So funny. I've been reinforcing that so it's becoming a new phrase. I've made a cute little custom mic stand for Minion. So far he hasn't used it. But it goes with the T stand when he was talking in the last video.

So the organizing and decluttering of the house continues. Chris is very happy with how I made a custom drawer insert for him and how I fixed up his spice cabinet. I'm so glad he's liked that. Things are looking better but still not what I would really like. I hope we can get there. I cleaned up my desk which is how I manged to make room for Minion's Mic stand. Chris's birthday is the 29th. I'm very happy about that. Well in a way one thing I got for both of us that can be like a Bday gift (it is coming on his birthday) is a new bed frame. Remember a few years back I bought new mattresses for us and set up our Jurassic Park bed. But the frame I got from my mom's house though it's nice I've never liked. It's too big. The head rest is too far from the wall. We can't reach the outlet back there. I don't like the dark color. It's heavy. And no room under the bed. The new one is metal, white and has a 12 inch clearance for underbed storage. That will be great. Yesterday on our day off we got back to work on the art in the master bathroom. The bamboo wallpaper fell apart in there because of the humidity and the horrible orange peel texture of the walls. But I'm going to be painting the bamboo on the walls. I'm drawing the black spaces first. But I can't do it myself. I could not hold up the level and trace at the same time while standing on a ladder. So Chris helped me with that. We can only work on it on his days off. But now we've figured out how to make perfect straight lines down an 8 foot wall. YAY. Then I will paint those black and start to shade and form the bamboo itself. I need to finish two sections of wall so we can put our sink back in. So I'm working hard to get that done before the end of the year. Then I can take my timing drawing on all the other walls. Once that bathroom is done I can start to work on the bedroom and make that into JP. I'll start with the ceiling and try to draw a sky. I've also organized a bunch of small tool boxes in the garage. I'm very proud of that. The garage is looking so good. I can't wait to finish it. I want one more plastic closet in there and I think we'll be good on the storage in there.

Speaking of Jurassic Park. I'm having quite a fun time playing with my new Mattel toys. So I searched up the scale of toys. The Legacy Collection is 3.75 inch and that's 1:18 scale. The Amber collection is 6 inches or 1:10 scale. I love my Mr. Arnold and the desk I got him from the wrestling toys which is 1:18 toys too. The wrestling toys are great because you can buy all kinds of accessories in scale for Amber collection. And I found out that there is a 1:12 scale for doll houses that can work with the 3.75 inch Legacy toys. I've been having a blast adding props to my JP Amazon list that I hope to use with my toys. I think all of you have seen the movie so you can see how a lot of these thing will work as scenes from the movie. I also found out there a military toy called Click N Play that their props will work for this. Here is the list. I don't think I ever posted my review of Mr. Arnold. Well here it is.

https://youtu.be/2XASVhXlmoM

And here is a funny scene I made in Chris's room.

The garbage can is the wrong scale, but close. Chris found that at a Dollar Tree. I removed the logo that was on it. It's meant to hold pencils. He wanted trash bags so I made these and then added my Toxic Waste candy barrels. It's so funny. I think the simple DIY bags are what make this scene. It's so mundane and everyday and that's what makes it funny. I'd love to make more things like this and make some play sets and backgrounds.

I also want to make some custom figures by modifying others. I hope to make a jacketed Malcolm. I need to get a Nick Fury doll and take his jacket. Plus I have some other ideas. I saw how to make a Genaro figure. Well that's what the toilets will be for.

I've been thinking about RipTalon a lot. I need to finish his drawing and also make some new art. With the way the world is going I think he'd be a big hit with his origin story of him trying to resist a world that forces you to be a cyborg. I can relate to him so much now than ever before. Ok so lots of stuff in the works.

EDIT: I forgot to mention. I ordered a SDCC Final Scene Ray Arnold figure on Ebay. The guy said in the description Same Day Shipping. I ordered on the 20th. I sent him a PM and haven't heard back. I gave him the weekend thinking he'd ship today, Monday. Nothing yet. I PMed again and nothing still. He's supposed to be here in Florida which is why I ordered from him thinking it would be fast within the state. Well not if he doesn't actually do anything to start. I'm already quite mad and ready to leave negative feedback and file a complaint to get my money back so I can order from someone else. Last year it was Nedry I had issues with. Seems like each year the SDCC figure gives me a hard time.

So today Oct 26 the guy canceled my order without a word. At least I got my money back but still here's what I wrote him.

Why did you cancel my order? Did you not even have the item on hand? You have lousy customer service to not even respond to my questions in a timely manner. I know you got my last messages, and no you cancel without an explanation. You place false information by saying you ship on the same day. And apparently you also send used goods. At least you gave my money back. I shell find a more reputable seller.

You guys know I hate lack of communication more than anything and I let people have it for that. The one thing I hate about canceled orders is I can no longer leave feedback. I would definitely have left negative feedback. I just ordered another figure. Wish me luck this one makes it to me.
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Yesterday was a low energy day for me. I wasn't able to do much but I tried to tidy up inside the house. My room has been a mess since the roof project was done earlier this year. I love my clear white cieling and because of that I have not wanted to poke holes in it and put back all the stuff I had hanging. This includes my beloved blue wind chimes (did I ever show those?) And also my lovely stained glass sun catcher of Phage the budgie. I'm going to post that pic now because it tells three stories in one photo and I didn't realize til I was resizing it just now.

You guys remember this budgie? This was made using my artwork. I'm very proud of that. Since I didn't want to hang him back in my room I'm glad he finally has found a place on our east window. I had thought about putting him on the sliding glass door. That's where I had that little yellow bird. But it's a north window behind a patio so light really does not come through. In my room it's a south window but my back is turned to it most of the day so I don't see the sun catcher. I'm very happy to have him here now. It's too bad I don't have other windows that would work, so I'm limited on place to put things that can be back lit. So, anyway I have been seriously thinking, if this is my own art and a beautiful one of a kind why not make more of my own art this way myself. These things are expensive. I was looking into buying some ravens. I know certain types of glass are expensive and that drives up the price especially on bigger sheets. One thing I never used to care for with stained glass was that patterns always seemed so simple and basic. Sometimes down right bad like a child drew them. Yah you can tell when something is a bird, a rose or whatever, but something always seemed weird about it to me. I know you can't get super detailed to get realism in this medium but this just didn't seem right to me. Eventually I found out that you could get more details and hence this budgie was made. The other thing I found boring about all this was the same subject matter, flowers, butterflies, birds (the birds were the only thing that kind kept my interest) and maybe so me marine creatures or landscapes. Ehhhhhhh. But imagine my characters with decent detail in glass? Talk about a cool unique subject matter. Yes, I'm contemplating making Scary Fear and some of the others. I would have to modify my art style on some of them to account for the nature of glass. Nothing super skinny which is typical of my style. So Fear and the others might have to gain a bit of weight. I think I'll have to draw him with fewer feathers too. But it's line work. Basically I'm doing the dreaded inking that I hate so much in my art and then flat colors only. I'm also thinking about making one with Bullet the budgie. I don't know if I want her to be realistic like Phage here or make her cartoon Empress Bullet. The biggest problem with doing Bullet is I don't know how I would make her look like a lacewing. There are white and clear glass pieces of course. But I'd love to find a white with tan makings for the lace pattern. Doesn't have to be exactly like hers (none of this is exact. I know it is all simplified forms of real things) but there has to be something white with tan flecks or streaks. I know there is a learning curve here but I have a strong feeling I can do this. As far as art goes I've always thought of myself as a "drawer". That is, my forte is drawing and digital art. But I have found I'm blessed as an over all artist. I am pretty much good at anything I set my mind to in the art world with few exceptions. Other than my budgie I have also never seen a good budgie stained glass anything. That must change.

Ok now for the story about the fence. Our fence has been falling apart after many storms. Our yard is big and we can't afford to buy new ones ourselves. And if we could we're also not physically built to install anything ourselves. And our insurance is all used up after the roof. We've been praying that God would work something out for us. He always provides for his believers. The roof is another example of that in our lives. Well, one neighbor in the back began to install a new white fence. We love those. That's what we would want all around. Well after that was done the neighbor directly behind us started to install his. But he went a lot slower. He did like three panels then stopped. We were cheering for him to go all the way across. But as more and more storms came our fence began to break more and more. He was even fixing out panels at times. I don't know what happened, maybe his wife got on his case but after months of no work he started up again doing a panel a week. I understand that. Panels are expensive so probably one each paycheck. Finally he finished and then rounded the corner and headed out to his street. We were thrilled. I'd check everyday to see if there was a new post or finished piece. I'd call Chris and tell him about the neighbor's progress on "our new fence". We have a third backyard neighbor and our fence only covers two panels of that. It's falling apart there too but by the time this was over we had around 150 feet of new fence on the longest side of our property. The only thing now is we have a lot of work to take down our crappy rotted wood fence. We still need fence on the sides but those aren't so bad. In face we might be able to reuse the board to fix the sides and maybe even for some other projects that don't require perfect wood.

It's going to take us some time to get the fence down as again we're not built for this kind of work. But demolition is easier than construction. Possibly the jeep can even help with some of this. So we're very happy about this. And on the left of the photo you can see some of that lovely new white fence. But we're still in no position to have chickens. Of course if I could have it my way I'd have 10 foot concrete or brick fences all around the property with a gate like they have in Central America.

Lastly against the wood fence on the left of that photo is a one piece cattle panel trellis Chris and I both installed on Sept 15th. I'm thrilled. I have always wanted an arched arbor I could walk through. It took 4 T posts and we bent the cattle panel between them. I think it's 6 feet wide so it's 7 feet tall. It will be for small to medium pumpkins and gourds. One on each side. We plan to get another panel to extend it and that would be four plants that could go up it. I think it's lovely. I can't wait.

Oh and Whitey has three eggs now. I candled them yesterday as it's been 5 days for the first egg. As I thought, no chick inside. This first clutch may be all duds. I want to strangle Minion.
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I have been so busy lately but in a good way. I am happy that Fall is finally here. Well I set up Minion and Whitey for breeding at the end of last month. Whitey is super ready to be a mom, but I think Minion is a moron preferring his perch to a real hen. Whitey does the banana pose so much as ACTipton80 calls it and all Minion does is kiss her. She even turns left and right in case he might have a preference. Minion's an idiot. I'm lovingly mad at him right now. I've let him watch budgie mating videos. That didn't work. So today when Whitey was out I grabbed them both and showed them. It's not the first time I have had to do this with first time breeders that don't get it. I was also worried Minion was eating all the calcium. This is typical that the males eat the calcium and the females don't. Very annoying. But Whitey really started ripping into the cuttlebone the other day. On Sept 11, 2021 at night she laid her first egg. I told my friends on text and tried to not get too excited. It's likely Whitey decided to start without Minion, which is not going to work of course. Let's hope today's lesson sunk into the little budgie brain.

Here is a pic of the three. I'll know on the 5th or 6th day if that egg is any good. If and once we get past that hurtle then I can start to worry if Whitey will be a good mother and not abandon her eggs like Emma II her mom did.

Well I have also been busy with pumpkins. The types that have sprouted and I have planted are: Moonscape, Midnight, Sunlight, Seminole, Cassabanana melon, Atlantic giant, La Estrella, One Too Many, Dickinson, Green Cushaw, White Cushaw, Orange Cushaw, Big Bear gourd, African Wine Kettle Gourd and Indonesian Bottle Gourd. Something has to make it to harvest I hope. I'm also excited to try some actual giant pumpkins with good genetics from professional pumpkin growers/competitors. It's a bit of a dream to win the Florida state record. But just growing a regular pumpkin here is near impossible. I'm growing in the off season hoping things will work out as IN THEORY there should be fewer, bugs and diseases and less heat. I still have had to get an arsenal of organic chemicals, no because I care about the environment, but because I may eat some of my harvest later on if this works out. I have a theory that the time to grow pumpkins is a very short window from Sept - end of Dec and then again on Valentine's Day through end of April. By June it's too hot and bugs are out in full force. Also end of April might already start seeing too much heat. So no we don't have nearly a year to grow all season long despite not having snow and only Jan through Feb as winter. Two short windows of opportunity for pumpkins here. Gourds do better and most can grow in the heat of August or July. By gourds I mean Lagenaria spp.

And in other exciting news. We finally got a new fences for the back yard for free. But I think I'll write about that next entry. It's an answer to prayer for sure.
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I am so ready for this month to be over. Go away August. It hasn't been a bad month. No not at all. I'm just ready for Fall. I love Fall as you guys know. And for me (I don't care what the calendar says) Sept 1st is the first day of Fall. Also August is our hottest month with no holidays. Sept doesn't have any holidays either but it's Fall and the start of cooler weather. I have been checking my local walmart often for those awesome heirloom pumpkins to come in. It's a great way to get free seeds. And they just look beautiful. I like them better than the typical orange pumpkins that were all you ever saw when I was a kid and into my 20s.

My pumpkins are growing well so far. Chris and I have started working in the yard and clearing out not just weeds but grass for the pumpkins and gourds. I'm planting them in pots but the roots can go into the soil through the holes. I'm hoping good soil at the main vine will give them a head start.

I have set up Minion and Whitey for breeding. Luckily Whitey isn't attacking Minion and hurting him like I thought she might. But Minion doesn't seem to want to mate with her. Whitey is the one putting the moves on him, but it's a Gilligan Ginger relationship where the female makes the moves (we know the men are the ones that have to put the moves on) acts all coy and then Minion purposely falls off the perch. I'm waiting on some pellets to come today through UPS. I ordered a big bag of daily mini pellets and a bag of breeder pellets. The breeder pellets don't come in small bags so Minion and Whitey get a 25lb bag all to themselves. If they do have babies then of course the babies will wean on to that, but still that's a bunch of food for just a few birds that only need it for a few months. Unless I can find a new mate for Blue Brother.

I just opened the old drawing of RipTalon. I need to finish his character sheet then start making real art with him on his plant. Can you guys help me come up with a name for a dystopian, cybernetic dinosaur planet? At least I have Planet Budgelon 5. That's just so cool ha ha.
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Ok, so I have not posted much but I have just been incredibly busy enjoying life and living it to the fullest. This Monday I'm leaving to visit my friend ACTipton80 in North Carolina. As always I'll be stopping at my aunt's in north Georgia for a rest. I had planned to go to Tennessee and check out an awesome nepenthes nursery. But they never got back to me so that's all unlikely now. Very disappointing. I know they are busying with the biggest import of plants they've ever gotten. But who knows. Maybe on the way back. So I've been busy cleaning up the house. I'm finally seeing progress. It's been amazing. The garage looks amazing. It's still not done but I can't wait to do a comparison from when it was stuffed so no car could get in there to what it is now. And it will still be better. Getting so much out of there has helped get rid of stuff in the house too. The only things left of my mother's now are the tons of photos and some of her picture frames and diplomas that I still don't know what to do about. My room is a disaster but I might be able to work on that today.

I'm also trying to get the patio greenhouse to the point that it's super easy for Chris to take care of. I've got some very cool plants in my collection now. We have greenhouse frogs( Eleutherodactylus planirostris ) that got in the green house. These are tiny frogs that technically are toads. Micro toads. The reason is they are mostly terrestial. Females lay eggs in moist soil and they hatch as frogs. No tadpole stage. They don't swim and are adapted to live under moist plants. They aren't the pretties frog coming in brown, red and grey/tan. But my fave thing about them is the cute chirps they make. If you want to hear there this is my fave video that shows what they sound like.
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So this Wednesay May 19 Chris took me to a petstore and bought me a terrarium and some supplies. I already had a lot of stuff around the house too like the plants. So I caught one male frog. Here's the set up.

He's in the upper right. So tiny. I have a nepenthes, and amorphophallus and Calathea Lancifolia. The nepenthes and the amorph will eventually get too big. I'll have to change them out. But for now they look really nice. Like they have a little palm tree in there. I hope the nepenthes will pitcher soon. I hope it won't eat my frogs. I also added springtails and isopods to the soil so they will clean up the frog dropping and decaying leaves. I have to culture those because I may have to restock and I have other tanks I'm going to turn into self cleaning tanks. The isopods are very pretty they are powder orange. I'm hoping I can find the native rollie pollies that are in the yard. I used to play with those as a kid and always loved them. Chris likes them a lot too. I also have to culture wingless fruit flies now too. Wow so much for some tiny frogs ha ha. It's ok I love a challenge like this and the pay off is something nice to look at.

I also bought a travel bubble backpack for Minion. He's coming on the trip and I'm also taking Nitro. They need separate cages but if I go in a store I have to take them with me hence the back pack.

Nautica went into it. She was not afraid and liked it.

Luckily she helped Minion to show him what to do. But he still doesn't like it. I have to train him and Nitro more. Everything is new and scary but hope he'll warm up to it. He needs to get used to it no matter what. I love it. Hope my birds will too in time.

I also need to prep the jeep. I want to convert the back into a sleeping area if for some reason I ever need to pull over for the night and sleep in the back. So I hope to experiment with that today. AND on top of that my other hobbies of action figures. Chris bought me UP and Jurassic Park figures. I have so many videos to make and show. If I have time I need to finish a talking Minion video at least. Ok better get to work. Time's a ticking.
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Things have been so crazy busy since the whole thing with the roof started at the end of last year. The ceilings were done on March 3rd, three days later. I had a doctor's appointment during that mess so they took lunch while we went to do that. I was not happy they were smokers and though they didn't smoke in my house, I'd never allow that, they stunk and the smell got everywhere. I'd rather deal with paint fumes. They were surprised I told them this. I hate that addiction so much and they could have been done sooner if they didn't take so many smoke breaks too. We had lunch on the patio because our kitchen was separated from the rest of the house. So that was an adventure but kinda nice to eat in the greenhouse with all my birds. I'm glad it's finally over now. I think today I can start working on the video. And so began the clean up work on the 4th as there was dust and debris EVERYWHERE. I started by cleaning the two hanging lamps in the livingroom and kitchen that they didn't cover and got covered in ceiling mud. But yeah wow all the rooms look WAY better now. The only rooms left that still have popcorn are the entrance way which is tiny and Chris's room. After seeing how they did it I think we can do it ourselves and take our time with it. It would be an undertaking of itself because we would have to box up our huge collection there. But it may be good too as we majorly need to dust in there.

So my poor birds. Physically they are fine. They had no ill effects that way other than Whitey got a bit of dieria. She might have nibbled on a plant out there. She's better now. BUT Minion took it hard and was not happy to be separated from me. It was very clear he was mad at me. He stopped talking to me and went into a corner and would not step on. He was always so happy to jump on my finger. Or if I walked in he'd jump on the walls of the cage and follow me around. He LOOOOVES me. The second day on the patio he started talking again but only to his swing and still didn't want to come to me or come out. Emma and Nitro on the other hand reacted favorably wanting to be with me and would jump on me and were both kissing my face. Emma and Nitro fight a lot and Whitey has become very stressed because she gets picked on. This was going on before we moved them to the patio. So once I cleaned the budgie apartment and brought them back inside I added a new cage. Here's what it looks like.

Nautica is not in the top cage. She was visiting Minion. Second cage down is a blue one that belongs now exclusively to Whitey. Minion is still in his pink cage on the second floor. And now Emma and Nitro have been demoted to the first floor. That's what I meant by Whitey has moved out. She got better almost instantly. I have started working with her because despite being a hand fed baby she's almost wild. She's afraid of everything. I guess mean sisters can do that. But fast progress was made and she now has learned to step up and stay on my hand almost 80% of the time. We're working on touching her which she lets me with the question of "Can I touch your ______________ ?" Fill in the blank with whatever body part: foot, wing, back, tail or beak. This works incredibly well. I call it "asking permission" and my birds that learn this won't let you touch them first unless you ask first. I first started this with Minion as he used to be a scardy bird. It's a discovery and never seen anyone use this training method. I didn't set out to use a training method I just treat my birds like people. I act as though they already understand me. Also with Minion I have learned that he is learning a language. English and they do understand things. I've always known this but never had a bird of any kind with such a huge vocabulary. I know a lot of people learn languages and can't speak but understand. Seems budgies are this way too. Anyway, Minion is not quite normal still after being "banished" to the patio. He's talking like normal but he's hesitant to step up, doesn't seem to have the enthusiasm he used to have at seeing me. One thing he used to do all the time that I loved was when I entered the room if he was on his swing was, he'd jump off making the swing hit the wall loudy and he'd scream. I don't know if he was saying YAY or if he was trying to scare me each time I came in the room. Whitey began to do this too so it was quite the greeting having two budgies scream and jump out at me just for walking in the door. Minion doesn't do this anymore. I miss it. I used to say, "What the, budgie? Are you trying to scare me?" So now I come in the room and make a big deal about Minion. I hope I can get my out going budgie back.

It has dawned on me too that I can slowly start to bring stuff out of storage. Yesterday we finished fixing up the garage and were finally able to put the jeep back inside. The garage is loads better than when I started cleaning it back in 2016. But I feel like all I do is clean and fix the stupid garage. Luckily this time it only took four days to fix and not years. All the work we did since getting my mom's junk did help us a lot for this. We're still getting rid of stuff but wow do things look better than ever. Will we ever be done? I think so. It took my mom 50 years to "collect" everything she owned. Stands to reason I would not be able to be rid of it in a day. A year per decade I guess makes sense. We've been focusing on the stuff we've accumulated and I think once we get rid of that stuff, nowhere near what mom's things were, I think we will finally be done. This is the smallest storage unit we've rented so that's a good sign. As for the work we still have to dusk and mop everything. Our shoes are white underneath from the powder mess that was left behind. But we were so sick of everything, remember we're both 100% introverted, that we sent off the workers and told them not to bother with final clean up. We just wanted to be left alone after 3 non stop days of "company".
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Well our new roof is done. That's half the project. Next we have to have them finish the ceilings inside the house. Check out his video of what a crazy time it was.

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Late Merry Christmas to everyone. I'm so late with Cards this year. I'm afraid this may be the first time in decades I haven't finish a card. That would suck. Perhaps I can get to it tomorrow and start printing. Lack of motivation and other things (always big legitimate things keep me from art lately) don't help matters. Anyway, Christmas was great. We celebrated on the 24th. We went to see family on the 25th. I'll do a haul video and pics later. The coolest thing was Chris got me Mars mova globe.

Ok I finally got around to making an amazing video for Minion and nearly all 200 of his words. It's amazing to see how his voice changes over time. I had forgotten what his baby voice was like. It's so much better now.

https://youtu.be/py2ScETcuU8

Minion is a one and only bird on the planet. Please help spread this video. The world needs to know about this amazing tiny bird. Show this to everyone I mean even in real life.
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Today we have reached exactly 200 words with "Jeep Is Not For Sale." tipping the scales. I was hoping for 300 by the end of this year but 200 is not bad. That's over 100 words in this year alone. I am extremely proud of Minion. And I tallied up Whitey's words. She has 12 which is huge for a female budgie. Too bad she's not as clear as Minion. I will now post the vocabulary list of both of them and will be making a special tribute video hopefully tomorrow to celebrate this mile stone. I was at my desk when I heard a cute voice say, "Jeep is not for sale." I have been trying to teach him this because I get so many offers in the mail asking to buy my jeep. Ok so here are the lists.

( Minion,s Vocabulary )

( Whitey Words )
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Happy Halloween everyone!! And happy Novemeber. I'm so happy I was able to get through a month of public prayer videos last month. Was not easy and almost missed a day a few times. I will continue to pray daily of course on my own as we all should. Chris and I had a lovely birthday and Halloween this year. We got together with his family for a dinner at Alexanders. I had a yummy burger and everyone else had steak. This year I got him mostly decals for his Toyota Tacoma. I wish I could have gotten more but a little goes a long way and his truck looks nicer now.

Happy Halloween from Minion.

( Neat pics and stuff )

And lastly here is the video of the wind chimes since I said I would post that.

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Today is a day off for Chris and I. Early voting opened earlier than planned in Florida. It was supposed to start the 24 but Chris noticed lines at libraries. So we are going today and will be voting fro President Trump. Both Chris and our families have been conservative Christian Republic since we were born. I encourage my fellow Americans that you vote from Trump as supporting the other side is the wrong choice in every way.

Things have been going well for us. My camera had stopped working for a bit but I figured out that it had just over heated. I remembered this problem with another sony camcorder I used to have. You just had to turn it off, take of the batter or charger and let it cool down. I got through a lot more tape transfers yesterday. I'm impressed with how tough and durable these little video 8's where. The housing was solid and because they had shielding on both sides, not just the front of the tape, they seem to last longer than VHS. I've never had a video 8 break but had my share of broken VHS tapes. I'll be glad when this is all over. I think I might have around six tapes left to go. There were around 20 total. I hope no more pop up unexpectedly. That just seems to keep happening when you think you've made progress and you're done.

I got a budgie mug and a budgie wrist pad the other day and I love them both. I haven't taken pics of the mug yet but I will. Here's the new bean shaped budgie wrist pad.

So far only comes in green. Wish there were other colors. I love he's sideways and you can see his cute X feet and one little wing.

I have been wanting a large windchime for ages now. This isn't my dream one. One day if I'm rich I'll have my giant Corinthian bells. But for now this is not bad. The longest tube is 21 inches. I loved that it was blue. Even the hanger is a blue metal. And it's an acceptable shade of blue. It's not that ugly dark blue you see so much. It's not turquoise but I like this anyway. Luckily someone had posted a video so I knew what it sounded like. I love low notes and deep tones. I don't like high pitched clangy chimes. So this one sounds incredible. I'm keeping it in my room because it's too pretty to let it rot out in the elements. They also make this in red, copper and silver. I'm thinking of getting the red. I was so happy to see this discounted on prime day so I had to get it. I'm so glad I did. The budgies weren't afraid either which was great. They got excited actually. Chris is going to help me find what the notes are for each tube. Then we can figure out what key it's in.

The company is called Upblend Outdoors. And they sent me a free little rock that says "Be A Little Boulder". There were four you could get and this is the one I really wanted. I'm so lucky I got it out of a 25% chance. YAY. Second choice was "You Rock!"
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Arrr I be late with the pirate talk mateys. Sept 19 was Talk Like A Pirate Day. I forgot to text everyone like I usually do with funny icons. Sorry about that. But I did make a Minion video at the last minute. Enjoy this short talking pirate parrot.

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Things are going very well. I've been very busy. We had a guy leave us a card on our door the other day for roof repair. We do so need a new roof. It said very little cost so Chris called him up. He came over the other day and looked at the damage we had. He said the insurance should handle most of it and we'd have to pay very little but it all hinges on if the Insurance wants to work with us. So he and Chris called them and they will come have a look. Let's pray it all goes well because we REALLY need a new roof. The guy left us a neat book with different color singles. I'm between the green and the blue. I can't make up my mind. I've started doing a photoshop of our house to get an idea. It's very exciting but I hope the insurance will work with us and not be jerks.

Calzephyr, thanks so much for the awesome birthday card. I loved the little tabs and stamps too. Always useful. And 3 out of 4 budgies approve of your art.

I loved it. It's Minion ready to party. Emma really loved it too. I think she thought it was her. Nitro was the only one that didn't like it. Always a critic in very bunch ha ha. But Emma, Whitey and Minion all looked. But yeah the drawing is my fave thing.

And I have finally managed to capture a decent video of Whitey talking. Female budgies don't usually talk and if they do they have very small vocabularies with bad pronunciation. That's whitey. She says around 9 words and not very well. Still it was a total surprise to me the other day when I heard her say "Whitey".

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Hey everyone. So things are going pretty well. Wow had lots of comments to catch up on here and on YT. I'm happy to see you guys posting again. We need to get this place more active. Do tell your friends about this place in real life. I will promote it again soon on my youtube and hope some of my good commenters there will join. We need to new good recruits. Speaking of youtube after YEARS of being glitched I think they've finally done something right and fixed the comments. About three years ago I had someone leave a nice comment on one of my chicken videos. I went to approve it and it would not go through. The comment was stuck and that's when the problems started. I could never get rid of it. I tried approving, deleting, blocking, marking as spam etc. But nothing worked. And then when the new youtube got installed I'm sure it is related that that stuck comment would not let new comments show up. And I was not the only one. Lots of my watchers told me they were not getting comments until way later. I reply to everyone as you guys know so I hated it that it made my look like I was ignoring everyone. But a few days ago I noticed comments were finally showing up on time and going through. I found the old chicken comment and approved it and it finally went through. FINALLY. It's been smooth sailing since then. I'm surprised as I'm used to all sites only doing what's wrong and changes being made for the worse and bugs never getting fixed. I still don't trust or like youtube though but I can say this one good thing at least.

You guys that have been with me a long time know that I love the video game Skyrim. Well Chris picked it up again recently. We have had many play throughs as many characters. We've always played it and beaten it honestly so this time Chris decided to try playing with mod. The Mods will cause trophies/achievements to be disabled. We didn't care because we've already played the game so much and put tons of hours into building our characters. Well we found the single most awesome mod in the game. Someone made an exploding chicken follower. In skyrim there are chickens. Like in almost every open world video game. They are small background elements you usually can't interact with. Here is what they look like in the game.

Kind of like a red star chicken. Well someone made it so that you can have one as a follower and she has all the most powerful spells. She has lightning, fire, explosion and the Fus Ro Da shout. She can knock down even giants. She has tons of health. She can carry your stuff. She doesn't die. She gives you free eggs. Her name is Breakfast. The only thing I don't like that keeps this from being the perfect mod is they gave her a male voice. I can tell it's one of the voices from one of the other followers but I can't quite place it. But it is funny to hear her say "FOR SOVENGARD! Is that all you've got?" She is brave and charges into battle. And she can't be killed. If only she had the voice of a female warrior it would be perfect. But I LOVE her. I will post a video eventually. Really I should not be gaming right now with so much to do.

The other thing I have been doing in Skyrim is I have remade Scary Fear. With mods I was able to get the cloak from the Gray Beards which is perfect for Fear. I can't have his normal outfit in this game of course. The blue shirt with dark green sleeves. It's such a unique shirt it's hard to make in any game really. BUT the Gray Beards cloak looks like Fear's alternate clothing in my story. And I also found a mod for skin color on the dark elves. Kinda stupid that dark elves aren't dark. So now I have him with his black skin. He looks awesome. So yes videos will be coming eventually. I'm leveling right now and have to design the perfect enchantments for his outfit. I'm adding his stats like he is in my story. Strong powers but low health. I kind of want high stamina though because Fear in my stories can run and is very fast. Fear IS fast. Yesterday was a day off and Chris helped me level him.

So art wise. I have finished this bad arse drawing. I've made it to look like an album cover. I'm going to draw the back soon that will have the list of songs. If this were a real CD it would be galactic power metal like GammaRay.

So far this is one of my fave Fear drawings ever. I must arrange a top five of my faves some day. I'm still over hauling some of the older art. One day I will finish Dawn of Fear. This is the drawing I made for the Ace of Spades. But so much of the lovely art was covered up I had to use it for something else. I'm also going to be making a mouse pad out of this but will without the texts. Oh gosh those stupid texts where the hardest thing about this as styles have never worked right for me on Photoshop. So annoying.

So I am still waiting for my Dennis Nedrys to arrive. Notice it's plural. The Ebay one should be arriving today. It's the race of the fat guys. Who will win? As for the one coming from Entertainment Earth, the tracking says it's in Atlanta but once again no update in days. It could be anywhere.

My budgies are all doing well. Whitey has turned out to be a surprise. She is my first talking female. But don't think she's like Minion or any of my previous good talkers. Still I'm surprised she talks. She says in a bad robot voice, "Hi Whitey." And possibly "Pretty girl." I don't expect her vocabulary to get better than that or her pronounciation, but it's a talking female!! That alone and four words is just super rare and amazing. This line from Emma II has been full of surprised. I had a crested and now a talking female. Sadly Whitey has become a coward. I think the siblings have picked on her and she's afraid of other budgies. She's also afraid of my hands but comes to my face if I talk to her. Pretty much all my birds are imprinted on my face but not my hands. Sigh. You have to be careful because the friendly ones will jump on your face because of this even if they aren't in the cage. Face huger budgies and their nails hurt. Whitey also seems to have taken an interest in Minion. She's curious about him. Always has been despite him having acted like a jerk when she was a baby. I didn't want to breed any of the spangled babies because of Emma having been a bad mom and possibly passing on being bad parents. I lost so many eggs and babies this year. And also the bad crested gene as well ANd the spangle diluting lacewing. But if Whitey talks and Minion is a champion talker the talking gene would be increased. After all these generations Whitey got the talking gene from the original ancestor and founder of the line: Phage. But with Whitey being unfriendly that's more bad traits passing on than good ones. Not sure what to do. She's too young anyway to breed.

Well once again we are already half way through the month and I have not even started September's Bullet Journal. I will try to and will take ACTipton's advice to draw cactuses because they are easy. This should in theory get me ahead. I bought a regular planner so that I can still write my plans and chores for when my BJ is not ready. Then I transfer it over. Here is a pic. I love how pretty this planner is.

So yes this will be a very helpful thing.

A late B Day gift from Peregrine. Thank you. It looks like Minion and he was curious about it. Ok I think I will stop here. It's late in the morning and I got to get to work.
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The Realm

Musings of a demon

Night Before Christmas .... Budgie Version

I didn't get eaten by my dog

Just a General Update

Unknown gift for the birds

New Birds

Time's Running Out

Gaming sort of. Still Hurt

Jurassic Park, Birds, Oragnizing and Hurt

Budgie Stained Glass Fence and Trellis

Trying To Breed Minion And Whitey

Last Day of August

Preparing For A Trip

Whitey Has Moved Out

The Roof and Minion's 200 Words

200 WORDS!!!

Late Happy Halloween

Nice Stuff

Late Happy Talk Like A Pirate Day

Possible New Roof

Exploding Chickens and Talking Budgies

About the Demon

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