a_sculpture_of_myself cr o w l turns 49 for my birthday gift, my oldest daughter, beth, made me a papier mache sculpture of myself. i'm wearing my black pencil suit with a scraggled mop and beard. my heart is bursting out of my chest with too much love. that's me... 090222 ... cr o w l turns 49 for my birthday gift, my oldest daughter, beth, made me a papier mache sculpture of myself. i'm wearing my black pencil suit with a scraggled mop and beard. my heart is bursting out of my chest with too much love. that's me... 090222 ... cr0wl sorry abou the robot glitch 090222 ... cr0wl i've put it in the kitchen to scare away the field mice searching for crumbs on the oakwood floors. 090223 ... unhinged is your scaremouse working? 090223 ... cr0wl so far so good, unless the siamese cats finally started to do something more than be living furniture. 090224 ... unhinged if it was the kitties, they surely would have brought you the carcasses as presents no? 090224 ... cr0wl probably if it was a half self-sustaining farm cat, but the indoor siamese are a far elite class, moreso royalty; never forced outside, always allowed to go in and out. they don't kill real mice, only catnip ones. they might be able to reach a diplomatic compromise with the squatting mice and even encourage them to better food possibilities in the stone basement. 090224 ... unhinged i didn't let my cat outside. she flung herself against the window screens, barked like a dog if another cat got too close. for a very long time, she perched near windows, tail wagging at the sight of a bird, rabbit, squirrel. in retrospect maybe it was mean keeping her inside. but i already had to clean up puke and shit on a regular basis. the thought of dead and half mangled animal carcasses was not appealing. the dalai lama chastizes his cats for killing mice. maybe your kitties are just more realized than most. 090224 ... cr0wl you speak of your cat in the past tense. does this mean you don't have a cat in the present? my 4 cats (2house2farm) are definately realized, at least as i define the term. to be realized for a cat means they understand humans, our habits, patterns, nuances. they know when we wake and when we eat, drink, bathe, whatever...they realize our limitations. they sleep on our clothes. they cuddle beside our fires. they beg for our attention, distracting with peacock flare, a flash of black tail, and a throaty meow or hard rub of the face. across the wooden floors, they delicately step, stones over water...fish into dream. we ride on their velveteen backs into frosty powder...whoops, i'm waxing quixotic. what does being "realized" mean to you? 090225 ... unhinged my cat died many years ago now from a hyperactive thyroid. it was very sad. basically, her body started eating itself and she became a sad sack of bones that could barely walk, let alone jump up on things or climb up the stairs. i wanted to put her to sleep about seven months before my mother was forced to, but my mother flipped and said 'she's not your cat anymore. you've been away at college for years. i can't do it.' long story a little short, she ended up on medication for her thyroid, but the medication they give cats for that kills their kidneys. my cat eventually died from kidney failure. the day my mother finally agreed to put her to sleep, she was pissing blood into her litterbox. (as sad as it was for him, i was dually impressed by bird's courage in his decision about his beloved shadow) my current place does not allow pets. as much as i like to travel, maybe it's better. but sometimes i think a warm fuzzy would improve my mood immensely. realized - awakened, enlightened. i have always been drawn to the intelligence of cats in comparison to other domesticated house pet animals. or maybe you're right; maybe they are just spoiled and lazy ;-) 090225 ... cr0wl now kathy wants beth to make one of her... 090226 ... unhinged of course she does. beth was kinda asking for that one... speaking of which, my nephew owen's birthday was yesterday and i have yet to buy him a present let alone mail it to him. i mailed his sister a special birthday present this year and that poor kid is already a victim of blatant favoritism. *sigh* what to get the five year old that already has enough imagineless plastic toys? 090226 ... cr0wl it's interesting that his name is owen. that's the name i chose to be the young boy in the story that my daughter greta will be turning into a film. she's working on the screenplay now. have you ever played a treasure hunt where one clue leads to another until ultimately it reveals a gift at the end? perhaps you could devise one of those. as for the treasure...interactive books are cool and they encourage cooperation and friendship. hand puppet? blank book and watercolor crayons? 090227 ... jane (my babysitter laura used to make those treasure hunts for us. one time it ended up being a cookie in the oven.) 090227 ... unhinged owen is part of our pisces posse. i don't know him as well. he was born after i moved here. i've never been at one of his birthday parties. i didn't get to hold him much as a baby. he is more like my brother. so there is a connection, but not like the immediate connection i have with arielle being a little red_headed version of me and living much closer when she was little. a treasure hunt would rock, except i don't think my sister would cooperate. she's kinda hard and joyless. but, owen and arielle both like to color when they are with grandma. my mother has been giving them watercolors since they were barely old enough to hold a brush. a nice pad of paper and oil pastels....i loved oil pastels when i was a kid. thanks kev. sorry i hijacked your birthday present page. 090227 ... cr0wl treasure hunts were huge at robin_hill when the girls were growing up. everyone was involved, even the farm animals, and the clues were hard, requiring a lot of intense thought to figure them out, but it was well worth the prizes, some as yummy as margaux's cookie in the oven... giving him art supplies will give him something to make you a gift...and remember there's always thorn's awesome homemade stuff... 090227 ... unhinged yes, a drawing of his favorite thing in the whole world for my refrigerator (once again, if my sister could be bothered to mail it to me) is going to be requested in his birthday note. 090227 ... cr0wl what was his favorite thing in the world last time? 090228 ... unhinged i've never asked him what his favorite thing in the world is. he carries the beanie baby type blue bear my father got him in alaska everywhere. blue bear's leg has been resewn at least once i know of. he also loves trains and dinosaurs. and teenage mutant ninja turtles. but honestly, i'm not sure what he would say if forced to pick. 090228 ... Soma If it's carved entirely from teeth. It might fool the dentists. 240314 ... epitome of incomprehensibility Now I'm wondering, would my all-teeth sculpture chatter to dental assistants about linguistics? :) 240314 ... raze i carved it out of spit and spite it tastes like nothing (take a bite) 240315 what's it to you? who go blather from