Ganked from azure_dragon and scandiamaxie"The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed ( Read more... )

The two hatched baby cardinals are doing just fine. Momma C isn't brooding anymore, but I did see her bring food to them, and they're both still doing the automatic open-mouth-wait-for-food thing as soon as anything gets near the nest, bird or human. Looks like the unhatched egg is a dud as there's still just the two of them.

Well, almost anyway.

As you may or may not know, Grace and I have a koi pond in our back yard. Between the pond and the house is a bush of some sort (I don't claim to be any good at this whole nature thing). Here's a photo from when we first moved in - it's the tall one on the right behind the concrete bench thingy:
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Hilarious. I'm working on getting Sasha to do some cat yodelling right now

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What with the long weekend thanks to umm... Thanksgiving, Brenda's been dragging me around the shops looking for gifts and decorations (everything's 50% off at Hobby Lobby). We've spent the last few days setting up our new tree (bought in San Antonio just after Christmas last year), and putting together garlands on the mantlepiece and the ( Read more... )

It's a little late, but here's this year's Halloween pumpkin:

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Just a little shy of its 3rd birthday, my iPod has passed on. It is no more, ceased to be, expired and gone to meet it's maker, kicked the bucket, begun pushing up daisies and shuffled its mortal coil. It is an ex-iPod ( Read more... )

So on Wednesday I headed into Dallas to take my NREMT exam. Didn't really know if I was ready or not, but I figured I had to get it over with sooner or later. As it turned out, I seemed to have a lot of very similar questions, just worded in different ways. I lost count of how many times the multiple choice answers wanted me to give patients ( Read more... )

Wow, been a while since I used this thing. Not sure why, but I seem to have got out of the habit of clicking over to LJ on my daily internet trawl. I'm sure I've missed a lot of stuff going on with everyone and for that I apologise ( Read more... )