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Monday, November 9th, 2009
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9:33a
*feels better*
So I went home and cut up my charts into manageable pieces and magneted them to the magnet board, so now I can travel with them and know where I’m up to. I have now officially made progress on the blue knee high socks that is actually noticeable, and I feel much better about the world in general. Visible progress helps my state of mind.
I am up to the calf shaping on the first sock.
The pattern really is lovely to work with. Simple enough to travel with, yet interesting enough to keep me entranced and motivated. There’s been a couple of things I wanted to make note of;
1. I finished the heel on a purl back, though that line appeared to be missing from the pattern. Though I may have mis-read it…
2. The ankle decreases – I’m not sure if I was reading the pattern wrong (again), but I thought I was following the directions, but my lace pattern was off by one. So I altered it slightly and did one decrease, then the front half of the sock, then the next decrease and the back half of the sock. This should also make the decreases more evenly spaced around the sock.
3. The lace pattern threw me when it began working in the round as you need to move a stitch across from the last needle to start all rows that begin with a double de-crease or your lace ends up askew.
Once brain failed last night I pulled out a gnome and finally began stitching him together. Seb got some interesting photos of the process which I’m not sure will ever see the light of day! But he’s turning out so cute! I can see myself making many more of these little guys (just possibly altering the pattern to work in the round!)
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bunnyowners
[ anjel_kitty ]
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10:38a
Red wigglers and Bunnies: The perfect marriage for your plant children
Hello all. I'm rounding up the end of my gardening season, and wanted to update those who are interested on how things turned out in addition to sharing some great information I've come across about vermiculture and rabbits.
To check out my garden project, what grew well, and what didn't check out my bunspace
Also of interest I've been following Red Worm Composting, by way of an Rss feed: http://syndicated.livejournal.com/redwormcompost/profile
And there have been several posts about worm composting with rabbits:
Composting rabbit manure with baking soda - According to this baking soda is bad for the worms, but composting bunny litter, especially the paper kind is a great way to get good compost for your garden. Also he suggests cutting down on the smell of the litter with some peat moss which I'm going to try next.
Composting under rabbit cages- This is a great idea about composting directly under your rabbit cage. I plan on setting this up the next place I live. Rather than using any sort of mesh that would hurt their little bunny feet, I plan on putting their litter box over a sliding door that will drop all the litter into the worm bin when it is pulled up. This could possibly be a problem with flies (I've already been having an issue with flies already) but I think with a good mix of peat moss it could work well even with my indoor rabbits.
From personal experience, I can say that composting my bunnies' used litter with worms worked really well. I'd just dump the whole contents of my rabbit litter into the worm bin and then give it about 2 weeks. I'd then turn it over and find the worms had turned nearly all of it into compost. Of course having 3 rabbits means that I have to clean the litter more often than that so, I do end up still having to throw it out. I'm hoping the next place I live will afford me more room so I can have multiple worm bins going that way I can have zero waste produced from my bunnies.
As far as manure goes, you can't get anything better than rabbit manure. My plants all grew really well and besides the occasional bout of tomato worms, and a heat wave in July, I had really great success feeding my plants compost every other month.
To conclude, as rabbit owners we are in a perfect position to all have amazing gardens because of the nature of rabbit manure. Further, with worm composting, we can essentially produce zero waste from our pets and have a really good combination for compost that you could even sell.
Anyway I hope to see this inspire more rabbit/worm projects in light of all my success.
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[ sailor38 ]
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10:55p
Ideas?
I would appreciate your help. I'm seeing an inexperienced but very enthusiastic submissive. She has spoken at some length about her desires around humiliation, which are very focused on sex, being denied sex and/or orgasm or alternatively, being used and abused. I'm fine with all of that, but my problem is that, not having done much of this kind of play I tend to run out of ideas and dialogue. Repeating lines like, 'you dirty slut' gets old quickly. I need some i for stringing out a scene and keeping dialogue going without resorting to overly esoteric punishments or tasks...any suggestions?
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[ azrielsdaughter ]
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9:06a
Third Fixing
And the headache is complete- Jack is currently at the vet for his neutering (wish him luck!).
I'm now, or shortly will be, the proud momma of three fixed bunnies. :D And a dog, but I digress, heh.
Hopefully this helps with his territorial behavior and biting issues. Dmitri is just now starting to calm down with humping- he spent an hour or so with Niko in her cage last night, grooming and relaxing, before he decided she smelled nice enough to mount and was promptly scooped out of there. He spent a few minutes in the bedroom free-range with Jack as well (and FLED in terror from him, for no reason it seemed, I was confused by it...maybe I was missing a mean!bunny cue from Jack that Dmitri was picking up on, though).
Anyway, hopefully all the buns will calm down now and I can start bonding my brood together. =) Any tips for making Jack comfy tonight? He's a very nervous guy (huffs and puffs when picked up, very twitchy, GOOD LUCK getting him to trance) so I want him to be comfortable and not scared even though he'll be in pain from the surgery. My other two buns are very chilled out so after their surgery they just loafed in their cages and relaxed. This guy is way more twitchy and easily upset than them. He's even tried to jump out of his cage once or twice- 4-5 feet in the air. :\
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[ karina_ajzo ]
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5:56p
i have no choice
Wars. We all understand very well that it’s just somebody’s business, somebody’s money. Cruel, bloody money.
Millionaires, multi-millionaires – their money are used in arms traffic, politics. All that happens in order to earn MORE money. I address to all oligarchs whose money are concerned with politics (and it means that they are concerned with all the wars):
BUY these five paintings! Give your fucking money for them! Hang them in your room, look at them and think about death. Think about those who died for your money. Think about death which is represented on these pictures and think about life which they are washed with – these pictures are sodden with my milk, with my life. I did it as hope that HUMAN life would become more important for you than money. Buy these paintings, accept this life and remember about it always. Look at them and think about the fact that you will die too and all the world can perish if we don’t invest money in life. Everything can disappear, and what for you accumulated all these millions and billions?
Buy these pictures and show to all the people fighting for their lives that you are worth being called a HUMAN BEING. After your death the world will remember that you didn’t live here for nothing.
Please! All those who read this – add me as a friend! Help me to extend my manifest. It must find it’s addressees.
LET’S SAVE LIFE! LET’S STOP WARS!
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coin_opr8d_boy
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1:13a
Slacker boy
So much going on for me lately... both good and incredibly bad.
Transition wise, things are going swimmingly. It is funny though, I recently looked at pics of myself when I first met Whoretic, and to see how much I have changed in that time, is pretty full on. Ya see, until very recently I didnt really **see** any changes. I heard the change in my voice, especially since the TABOO doco shoot when I was with T.
I find it amazing that there are people who meet me now who could never have guessed that I was Trans*, On my Birthday, at Sircuit *Gay Leather bar with a mixed couple of nights) I went there with some of my urban family and friends, and met random Sircuit Guy D, who was amazed at Nateboys want to transition, and how he would never have guessed Nateboy was Trans, until he opened his mouth.. to which I said, Me: "Could you pick me?"
D: "what"
Me "Could you pick my voice"
"D "As?"
Me "Trans"
D - *Splutter* Serious?/
There are people around me now who couldnt ever have guessed,and I love that, though there is a part of me that feels... bad? odd? about not telling people that I am. I am not sure why the need, it is not to feel "special", but to remind them that people are not always as they seem.. I think.
Dangerous Curves gave me Testogel 5mgs x 2 for my birthday, which was sweet, but I have no idea on how to use this, and if it will mess with my Sustanon shots to take these as well/ instead of, for the time I have them
More soon, Promise.
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