Oh man, have I been sick. Been running a nasty fever, aches, chills, sweats, weird coughing, just… very yucky. (Had some awesome-trippy fever dreams, at least. Yay?) I may be on the mend though, at least today I’m able to sit up long enough to type a few short messages.

I hope everyone here is doing well. I miss everyone, both online and in real life. Though, my real life friends reeaaaallly wouldn’t want to hang out with me right now.

Don’t be dumb like me. I so got my flu shot too late. If you haven’t had one, get one. Today.

Take care everyone,

~Nash

My sketchbooks have been having a rough time of things. I've been using ooold, but hyooge books my mom gave me. But with my current lifestyle, they've been falling apart (Shade and Re can confirm this) So, I got a new one... and am currently decorating it thusly:



I'm so happy! It's not done yet, but I'm making it so I can easily take the decorations off and swap it from one book to another.

Glee.

Been feeling kind of like this a lot lately. Not quite this... dramamtic (and not like the very end), but it seems to fit.

Either way, it's a neat animation.

Hey Shade, Re? You free tomorrow evening?

So, I went to Renfaire this weekend. I was going to meet with Rekay, but she never called, so I spent the day largely by myself. I think it says a lot for the faire that you can go all on your own and still have a good time.

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Life is as hectic as ever. I should have worked more on Eldritch, costuming, and my garden today. Instead I made this:



The Fair Folk made me. Oh well.

I've been happier drawing this dragon than I have been drawing any other one for YEARS. She's dumb, I know, but I love her.

Figured I'd post a picture of one of the necklaces I've made recently. It's a mini moss garden.

I have no clue what sort of moth this is, but it's one of the prettiest I've seen. It's like sherbet in moth form!

~Nash

There are almost no more berries to be harvested, but we've had so many, that we had to freeze some because we can't eat them fast enough. I mean... on top of eating them with vanilla ice cream, I made black raspberry chocolate chip cookies, and am currently baking raspberry and walnut brownies. We have that many.

However, today I did something different. I took a few of the slightly red, tarter black raspberries, and stuffed them with stevia leaves. Wow, does that sweeten up the tart ones. Oh my stars, I wish I'd planted about three more stevia plants.

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~Nash

You can believe this story or not – it’s up to you, and it's a fun one regardless of it's legitimacy. But I will say that, well, folks, I’m lucky, no, blessed enough to have a wide variety of friends, in many walks of life. One of them, bless her heart, works in a restaurant. She cast her lot in with a lot of under paid and under appreciated, but brave, brave souls. Knights thought they had it bad with dragons. At least there were tricks to slaying dragons. Cockroaches are neigh invincible. And customers… well, you all know about that.

Anyway, I chance a visit now and again, to say hello. And sometimes I see The Fried Guy and his wife. He’s a regular, but I don’t think anyone knows his name; my friend said he only pays in cash. However, he always special orders everything he eats, and has them deep-fry it for him.

Well, I was there for breakfast the other day, and to my surprise, he was too. As far as I knew, he never came in for breakfast. Turns out his wife wanted breakfast out, so, there they were. However, he was having a very angered, very heated debate with their waitress.

“I’m so sorry, we don’t start the deep fryers until lunchtime. We’ll be happy to make some pan-fried hashbrowns for you though!”

The Fried Guy, however, was unimpressed. He ran her round and round, and she offered to pan-fry anything he wanted, anything at all. She just couldn’t deep-fry anything. He ho’d and hummed, saying he didn’t want fried pancakes or ham, or hashbrowns, or even bacon.

Finally, she asked “Well, sir, what exactly DO you want?”

At which point he looked at her with a hawk’s gleam in his eye and answered “Grits!”

And that, ladies and gentleman, is the end of this story, but also, is when the grits really hit the pan.

~Nash

I didn't make this up, but I really enjoyed this puzzle, so I'm sharing!

Which of these words does not make the sound of silence?

Note
Rhythm
Rest
Treble
Chord
Scale

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When a door closes,
A window opens.

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Through which to defenstrate the bastard who closed your door~


>:3

Hoo boy, I shouldn’t work outside in the afternoon, it’s kinda warm outside.
Anyway, I finally took pictures of my crummy garden!



Here’s a diagram showing where everything is… assuming you can read it. ( Read more... )

This is my Tricolor Sage! I took this photo a while ago, but I liked the light in it: ( Read more... )

Also, my Black Raspberries are starting to ripen. And we have a LOT of them: ( Read more... )

Shade? Robyn? Re? Do any of you guys want to come out and eat some raspberries in the next couple of days? Maybe I can scrounge up some vanilla ice cream to go with them! My House is a disaster, and I apologize for that in advance, but the outside is kinda nice!

I've returned! I've missed everyone and I totally need to see Shade and Re and everyone soon!

And randomly, some of the plants in my garden really grew while I was gone! I’m rather surprised, because I was pretty sure I was going to kill them by leaving them. I can’t keep a flower alive to save my soul (In fact, the only plant I’ve had for a long time has been my Aloe plant, because you just can’t kill it, and it’s a darn useful little succulent. Have a bug bite? Put aloe on it. Have a cut? Put aloe on it. Sunburn? Aloe can help!). Either way, whenever I saw herbs at Disney’s gardens, like in front of the Liberty Tree tavern, or in the United Kingdom’s gardens, I wondered how my plants were doing. So… I’m gonna ramble a bit about them.

Cilantro/Coriander
I pinched the flower buds off of my cilantro before I left, to encourage growth, and boy, did it grow. It's twice the size as it was. I'm glad my friend Lindsay likes it (Like, she threatened to chew it to the ground like a bunny) because I can probably give her a good chunk of it sometime. However, that stuff is just determined to bloom. I’m constantly pinching buds and such off of it in an attempt to keep it from going to seed. ( Read more... )

So... I have a garden of herbs, as well as a basket where I tried to grow several from seeds. Alas, the seeds were old and many did not sprout. However, I discovered that my oregaNO (which did not sprout) was in fact, oregaTOAD.

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::Laughs:: The little toadie had been hanging out in my garden for weeks, but I didn't expect him to set up shop in my basket! Isn't he an awesome little cutie?

~Nash

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