Invasion

Last night I put birdseed near my bedroom windows, hoping I'd be woken up by the birds coming to get it.

Instead, I was woken up by Cory shouting at me because there was a blue jay in the shower with him..


See, the blue jays figured out how to steal the cat's food (which we keep on the porch outdoors so the dogs don't get it). And despite all the lovely seeds I scattered, they still prefer the catfood. So Orange Cat chased one of them into the house.

Whee!

We caught it -- he was fine and angry and trying to keep hold of his catfood -- and I waited a bit for him to dry out and then put him outside; he flew off for a few seconds and then returned to raid the seeds. I sort of wish I had taken a picture, but I couldn't really do that and hold him. (And Cory was in the shower!)

Blue jays really are pretty birds. More corvids! The strong, aggressive bird that steals my heart! My morality prevented me from just keeping him domestically, since he was completely uninjured, but I admit, I was sorely tempted.

I've probably already said this...

I kind of feel like someday we might sell the farm and move closer to D.C.

But if we keep the farm forever, I want to build an aviary someday. When I'm 40, I will keep peacocks, exotic chicken breeds, and crows or rooks or some corvid from a breeder.


If I had ten million dollars, I'd buy a two-headed turtle, a hairless rabbit, and Transylvanian chickens.


Oh. And in my barn, I would also keep a bunch of hissing cockroaches and dermestid beetles. Wheeeeee!

Hypocritical lust

I wonder if I would look like a complete sausage in this. A BTSSB jumper that would theoretically possibly fit (or go around) my measurements? O_o

I could be a shirring-stretcher...


I still can't tell if that's 1. elastic thread shirring, 2. sewn-on elastic bands 3. covered elastic bands.

Smaller, brand-wearing people: Do YOU know? For that matter, anyone have any pictures of busty girls in that style of jsk? Googling "fat girls in BTSSB" SO DIDN'T WORK GUYS
Flickr is 100% pictures of dolls at this point, so no help there, either. Arg.



Oh ho ho ho. I could order that, and a parasol-umbrella. (I really want a Baby "parasol" to use as an umbrella. I'm not SUPPOSED to be covering myself up, I'm supposed to GET MORE SUN, but I do loathe the rain and those are frilly.)

Also I want teapots. And stuff. I'm feeling very consumerist today -- THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT HAS HIT ME AT LAST! YAAAAAAAAAAAAY!