| stardust |
[Jul. 6th, 2009|02:17 am] |
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i saw a shooting star. About an hour ago, on my way home from helping ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) daecabhir sort our book collection, i was preparing to turn into the gas company parking lot to drop off the gas bill night drop. i just happened to look up and see what looked like a stray firework flashing across the sky, except it was arcing down rather than up, and there was no noise (i had my car window open). It lasted about a second, maybe a second and a half.
i looked online for images and this is the closest thing to what i saw (after i massaged it in Photoshop, that is):
Huge it was, just like a firework. And yet, it was silent. The moon will be officially full in about three hours. i think i found a bit of faerie tonight.
Anyone else seen something similar? |
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| In which the blog lives up to its subname |
[May. 9th, 2009|12:29 am] |
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| | Indy 4 on DVD (yeah what of it?) | ] |
Well! My baby's birthday was on Wednesday, she is officially six years old. Today she had her feet trimmed, which for a horse who isn't used to having her feet handled a lot, is a big deal, LOL. But first, isn't **this** the life?
Ravyn is showing her best side on the left, LOL, Gallant is sprawled out in the center, and Pepsi the quarter horse is visible on the right.
( More photo goodness inside... ) |
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| Poppets On Tour: Birthday Edition! |
[Apr. 2nd, 2009|12:25 am] |
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| | The Dark Knight on DVD | ] |
My birthday was on Friday (and THANK YOU all for the birthday wishes!!!!!), and my good friend vandaluna drove up with her daughter to pay me a nice extended visit. They arrived late Thursday night and we kicked off the weekend with carryout Ledo's pizza, yum!
( large photos and verbosity this way! ) |
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| (no subject) |
[Jul. 25th, 2008|08:24 am] |
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| | firefly on DVD | ] |
Happy Birthday daecabhir!!!! |
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| Poppets On Tour: Balticon 42 |
[May. 31st, 2008|09:35 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | balticon, poppets | ] |
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It did feel a little weird, not running Balticon anymore, but it wasn't completely work-free, heh. i was sort of the con "ottoman" - when the Chair wasn't available, people put their feet on me, LOL. And by all accounts, our Guests of Honor had the best convention they'd had in a while.
Poppets were there, in the Art Show, and in the company of myself and a few others :-). Poppets let you know what they want. A year ago, i carried three in my purse. During Balticon last year, two of them disappeared, and i couldn't find them right away. Turns out, they preferred my car, 'cause i found them on the floor of the driver's side, almost under the seat. Now they ride in my car in the ashtray (clean since i don't smoke). The last poppet, who stayed in my purse, is now my "Ambassador" :-)
So to lead off the photo dump, here is my Poppet with our Ghost of Honor, Douglas Adams:
( More Poppety goodness here: ) |
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| The Answer...... |
[Mar. 27th, 2008|11:23 pm] |
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42!
(same as Balticon, hehe)
Thank you, everyone, for the birthday wishes! Life is good! |
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| Foppet and Poppet for St. Paddy's Day |
[Mar. 5th, 2008|12:38 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | art, foppets, lisa, poppets | ] |
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| | Neil Diamond: Song Sung Blue | ] |
Back from the Spring '08 Artist Boot Camp (TM), with happy foppet and poppet for St. Paddy's, and lots of ideas to come.
There are lots of new goodies in the Poppet Planet ebay store. Including a treat for you cat lovers out there, so check it out! |
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| Poppets Love February |
[Feb. 2nd, 2008|12:13 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | art, lisa, poppets | ] |
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| | The Omen on DVD, muah hah hah | ] |
i am still Sick Girl, having had the worst January in a long time, yeesh. But not too sick to help out my friends who need to shop for their honies for Valentine's Day:
Have a look around, she has plenty of unique treats that i guarantee you will NOT find in your local card or candy shop <grin>. |
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| i kan haz LOL? KTHXBAI |
[Jan. 6th, 2008|12:17 am] |
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| |  lost my voice, arghhh! | ] |
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| | Stardust on DVD | ] |
Argh i hate being sick. Especially when i lose my voice, though i'm sure those around me appreciate the silence more than they dare to say <cackle>.
i followed a link to the ongoing Greatestjournal drama and found some way cool LOLcats i hadn't seen before, and being the generous sort, i'd like to share them here :-D .
( LOTS of LOLcat goodness behind the curtain )
Thank you and good evening! <cough cough cough> |
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| Last minute holiday horsey goodness |
[Dec. 18th, 2007|12:40 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | art, horses | ] |
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| | Trading Places on DVD | ] |
i'm way overdue for an update, but it'll have to wait til later. Right now, i only have time for some Shameless Self Promotion(TM), i have sales going up on eBay today! These are three-day auctions so that i can mail them out before xmas. i'll update the links as the auctions go live. Enjoy!
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| Play In the Dark!!!!! |
[Oct. 4th, 2007|12:17 pm] |
It's that time of the year, Halloween season. We loves it, Precioussssss. Poppets of the season abound in Lisa Snellings-Clark's Play In The Dark Sale. One of my contributions is here:
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| Artist Bootcamp TM - Summer in the Desert |
[Aug. 19th, 2007|10:38 pm] |
The good thing about an early flight west is that i don't spend the full day traveling. The not so good thing about it is Oh-my-gawd-it's-early (thank you Robin Williams).
Yesterday was for planning and working on something i brought with me for a future Poppet Planet sale.
Today was for photography, in and out of the water. It is hot here. The heat is oppressive, reminding me of a week ago in Frederick where it went just over 100 but the humidity was fairly high. Here it's not so humid, but the heat still surrounds you, reminding you where you are. Um, inside a giant convection oven i think.
i saw a hummingbird get a snack at the feeder on Lisa's back porch. Then it landed on a nearby hanging plant. And it stayed there. Long minutes. i mean, more than 5 minutes. i had time to get my camera and take photos, that's how long that bird stayed on that plant.
Maybe it was so hot the bird didn't want to spend the energy to fly. i told Lisa it was too hot for a hummer. LOL. i think it wasn't even noon yet, here's how hot it was:
Lisa prepped some poppets for underwater photography, and in the afternoon we drove to Ben's place, with a quick detour to Tatooine to take some photos of me trying not to faint in the heat, LOL.
We took underwater photos with Lisa's digital camera inside a waterproof bag i brought with me, and also an underwater film camera of Lisa's. The digital photos, which are super cool, are here on Lisa's blog, i highly recommend you check them out :-D
Tomorrow is for art. Tuesday is more art. And more photography.
Wednesday is for home. |
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| Patriotic Ponies!!!!!1111ONE |
[Jun. 25th, 2007|10:49 pm] |
i have a pair of Patriotic Ponies up on ebay now, aren't they cute..... :-)
And while you're browsing ebay, don't forget to check out Lisa Snellings-Clark's Summer Solstice Sale. Little Red Poppets, and the cool brand new Little Blue Poppets, Little Pinks, very cool Harlequin Candlesticks, this is the perfect place to do some gift shopping :-D . |
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| poppets celebrate summer |
[Jun. 24th, 2007|04:23 pm] |
Poppet Planet has kicked off its Summer Solstice Sale and goodies abound this time. Alice in Wonderland costumed Poppets, Poppets acting out A Midsummer Night's Dream, Little Red and Little Blue Poppets and more.
One of the offerings is a stunning handmade Poppet puppet, which Lisa captured on video....
Also, an original sculpture i've been working on this spring is making its debut: "Ocean's Amethyst"
And later today, i'll be putting some "patriotic ponies" up on ebay, hehe. |
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| Poppets on Video |
[Jun. 5th, 2007|01:34 am] |
In case you haven't seen this on Lisa Snellings-Clark's blog, she shot some video of diving for poppets, which i then set to a very cool Hopeful Machines song. Yes, poppets are preparing to take over YouTube! There will be a "night" version, as soon as i've had some sleep and more time to play with the very cool night footage Lisa sent me...... Enjoy!
Here is the nighttime version, hot off the (You)Tube :-D |
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| OMG Dancing Pwnies!!!!!1111ONEONEONE |
[May. 4th, 2007|11:35 am] |
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First though, i went up to the farm last night to see my baby and start weekly training up again. For a while though, it looks like i'll be focusing on building back my tolerance, asthma-wise, cause i wasn't even able to give her a complete grooming before i couldn't breathe. But that will change over time.
My baby girl horse was just great, though. i was able to lead her out of the field and tie her up at the fence to feed her dinner and groom her. She even picked up her front near foot for me, but by then i had no energy left so i just checked the one foot. Getting her back in the field was just as easy, though that was because Wendy distracted the other babies with their dinners, LOL.
So, i have no photos for you, so instead you should watch this video that i found on Cute Overload (a really good place to visit when you're feeling an AWWWWWW deficit, LOL). This is a Musical Freestyle Dressage performance from the 2006 World Equestrian Games:
ANDREAS HELGSTRAND on BLUE HORS MATINE
Watching this makes me want to work with Ravynesque even more, she is smart and has a lot of natural grace, we could do some cool things together :-) |
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| Homecoming |
[Apr. 13th, 2007|03:16 pm] |
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| | Brainstorm on DVD | ] |
My little diva is home! After..... wow six weeks in PA. i wasn't able to make the trip with her yesterday, and by the time i got to the farm she had had time to show how glad she was to be out in some open space. By rolling in the mud, LOL. Well, on one side at least, here is her "clean" side:
The graft is healing well. It will never completely go away, but, in this photo (sorry about the blurriness), it appears as a stripe down the front of the eye. A bit of the healthy cornea is visible on the inside front of the eye, which is good because it means most likely she will have at least a little forward vision.
Having been away from the "herd" for almost two months, she comes back in in the bottom of the pecking order, LOL. But Gallant was happy to see her, coming to the fence nearest the round pen and giving her kisses over the top of the fence. Awww how sweet. (well, she's in season, so it's really no surprise, LOL)
Now is the time for me to go up there every week and continue some training, to make the most of the two months of constant handling she's just had :-) |
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| The Pink-eyed Percheron |
[Mar. 8th, 2007|11:51 pm] |
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| | A Drop of Silence - Kitaro | ] |
 Here's Ravyn's mug shot from p/r/i/s/o/n/recovery stall at the lay-up facility near the New Bolton Center. If you look you can see a pink eye on the left (her right) and a green eye on the right (her left). The green is just the reflection in her pupil of the camera flash, that's the "good" eye, LOL.
i drove up today, to see her and to bring her about three weeks' worth of dietary supplements that she normally gets when she's at home. The drive was uneventful and fairly quick, which is how we likes it, Precioussssss. Everyone who's seen her is so impressed with how easygoing she is. i will now quote Jack Sparrow (CAPTAIN! Jack Sparrow) and say,"There'll be no living with her now," hehe. But no, seriously, she is doing fine and not fussing about receiving medication in her eye..... four times a day now.
( And now, behind the curtain, clinical documentation of her recovery (big ewwww factor here if you're squeamish) )
My little diva is being pampered (LOL) and cared for very well. She needs at least two more weeks of meds, and the lavage will stay in until they are sure she won't need any more treatment. But she seems to be healing well and dealing with her surroundings pretty calmly, which is a big relief.
i probably won't be able to go back up there until it's time to take her home, i just have too much work to finish before leaving for a week's vacation on the 18th. Yikes!!!! |
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| The Equine Patient |
[Mar. 1st, 2007|07:52 pm] |
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| | POTC2 on DVD | ] |
 Ravyn had her surgery first thing Wednesday morning, as her eye had deteriorated overnight and the doc was very worried that the eye would rupture. i'm still waiting on photos from the procedure, but, she did very well and, after an extra-long post-surgery nap, got up from the mat like a champ and walked right into her stall. And of course, started eating :-) . She was dressed in her "hospital gown" and even "booties".
( Behind the cut, a post-op photo and detailed description... )
i received email from the doc this morning telling me how Ravyn is settling into her stall, enjoying being groomed, and pretty much doing fine. At home, she is field-kept, she hasn't been in a stall since she arrived as a three-month-old baby. But i guess when she gets home she'll be expecting more glamorous accommodations. Well, she *is* a diva ;-) . The staff that handles her at the hospital just can't get over how well behaved she is for a 4-year-old green horse that has had minimal training. She is truly special, and that's not just the talk of a proud mommy :-D .
More news later. |
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| NOT the update i thought i'd be making |
[Feb. 28th, 2007|12:24 am] |
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| | Ego Likeness: The Explanation at the Center of It All | ] |
There's a bit of irony in the fact that when i finally got a half decent profile photo of my baby girl horse, it was on the right side. i'll have to be content with that camera phone photo because she'll never look like that again.
Okay lemme back up a day. Yesterday i got a phone call from Wendy's daughter who has been taking care of the horses in Wendy's absence, to tell me that there was something wrong with Ravyn's eye. She had already called the vet, who went out there in the evening to look at her. i didn't go because the mud was so deep that i'd be risking a fall, and i'm not supposed to put full weight on my leg yet.
The vet gave her some medication for an infection, but, she saw something she couldn't identify, so she did some research and called an equine ophthalmologist (!!) at the New Bolton Center in PA. This morning she called me and said that the inner layer of the cornea was protruding outward, one of the last stages before the iris prolapses and the eyeball actually ruptures.
Many, many thanks to Wendy, Sarah, and Pam, who offered to take Ravyn up to PA (a three-plus hour drive) in her trailer. We got her seen by the ophth. doc in the early evening. The diagnosis: a melting ulcer. What this means is that there is an infection of some sort, which caused the cornea to rapidly start liquefying, digesting itself.
The bad news, it is too far gone to treat with medicine only. The good news, surgery might be able to preserve some vision in the right eye. The bad news, she will have a permanent scar and blind spot. The good news, she should be able to make the adjustment, and even if she doesn't retain vision in that eye, she can still compete in dressage, and hunter/jumper, and pretty much have a good life.
So i am up here in West Chester, PA, while the docs are treating her with meds hourly overnight, to prep her for surgery. Considering she only has a little bit of leadline training, and hadn't been on a trailer since she left the PMU farm as a 4-month-old, she did very well. She let all these strangers come up to her and examine her (vet students), and has been so good that they can't get over it :-)
After her surgery, she will need at least a week of stall care, and i will have to board her either here at the hospital, or at a nearby farm that takes in hospital patients. i will not be staying, LOL.
i hope to have before and after photos tomorrow, for the not-so-faint-of-heart <grin> |
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| Starting over |
[Feb. 6th, 2007|09:18 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | health | ] |
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| | Janis Ian - Between the Lines | ] |
Yesterday i began a new chapter in my "broken leg" story - i had all the remaining hardware removed from my ankle, 3 years and two months afrer breaking my leg in a horseback riding accident. The surgery went very smoothly, and though my leg aches when the painkillers wear off, the pain is nowhere near as bad as when it broke. Of course, there's no trauma to heal, which is a huge plus, hehe.
So here are some photos for the non or only mildly-squeamish, LOL:
First, my pre-op xrays, showing that both bones in the leg were completely broken and lying *below* the ankle bones, rather than being attached above like they should be, LOL.
Second, my post-op xray, showing the plate that ran up the .....argh i think the fibula, i get them confused, and all the screws holding things in place.
Third, the hardware after being removed and sterilized. Looks brand new, never been used, LOL.
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| Shameless Self-Promotion |
[Feb. 3rd, 2007|12:05 pm] |
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| | No Doubt: Hella Good | ] |
Not only do i have two collaboration pieces in Lisa Snellings-Clark's
Romantics Sale...
i also have a few Holiday Foal eBay auctions of my own, just in time for Valentine's Day. Enjoy :-)
EDIT: Here's the straggler :-)
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| Artist Boot Camp (short form) |
[Jan. 31st, 2007|09:59 pm] |
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| | Sarah McLauchlan: Vox | ] |
i am home from a week spent making art with Lisa Snellings-Clark. i learned a lot in a short amount of time, and went through the entire process of creating a finished piece of sculpture as Lisa and i worked on two collaboration pieces.
One of the steps was creating a mold to make castings from an original. i asked Lisa to take this photo since my gloved hands were coated in molding rubber, LOL:
Lisa's February Romantics Sale has started tonight. One of a kind pieces of art, including the two collaborations, are being auctioned on eBay, just in time for Valentine's Day. (don't tell her i said something so sweet, heh).
Check it out, some Little Red Poppets are available too! |
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