*finishes with his misadventures in crossbow-land and heads over to the House of Feanor to see how Lindórië's doing and whine about how he doesn't really like weapons but doesn't want to let his daddy down omg*

*brings roast chicken for everyone else*

:S

*returns from the Great Chicken Festival (and Swan vs Cock Fight) of Atlanta Alqualondë*
*no, really, that's where he was*

*picks up a tabloid on the way home*
*they're the only reliable source of information*

Let's see... the hairy guy's dead, my not-girlfriend's found her long-lost/dead son (:(), my father went mad, Uncle Cáno almost died, one ( Read more... )

*sits in the front yard with a fedora, a few burlap sacks, some straw, and a suit*

*works hard on getting the head of the new straw Gothmog right*

*for training the baby chicks, naturally*

*comes home from this feeling decidedly less chipper than he appears*

Stupid first lives... stupid rehousings...

*walks down to the river and sits on the bank, chucking stones into the water*

*scowls*

Right. It's been close to two weeks.

*thinks there's been plenty of time for thinking*

*has done a lot of it himself*

*looks in on the chicks and then heads towards the talan*

*somehow manages to climb up it*

Eru, who decides it's a good idea to live this far off the ground?

*takes a deep breath and knocks on the door*

*wakes up early and sets about doing his chores* *dammit*

*checks on the trail o' food and adds a few new packets*

*heads outside to feed and water the chickens*

*goes into the hen house to check on Bertha and sees that her eggs are finally hatching*

*gets a good look at one of the new chicks*

Eru, that thing is ugly. /:)

*heads into town to pick up a few provisions*

*doesn't trust the help to actually get the right sorts of food*

*has to have his Coco Puffs™*

*leaves the house of the drunken fathers, the stressed (but sane!) grandfathers, the pregnant aunts, and the apparently over (or is it under?) sexed aunts*

*ventures out for a walk with Lindórië* :)

*really hopes it doesn't rain or snow or do anything stupid or annoying for once*

*heads over to his grandfather's house to see how insane his father's become (this time)*

*um. his relatively-sane-by-comparison grandfather, that is. not the shiny, happy, dancey fellow.*

...*really has a fucked up family if you think about it* *isn't too concerned*

*figures that, all in all, things could be worse* *no, really, they could*

*decides to get out of the house for a while, though* *can only tolerate the chickens in short bursts**decides to head to the park to sketch the landscape ( Read more... )