• spook - virtual pet

    >Spook has grown up

    >LOL!! Of all the possible results, I got a „one point“ version, or maybe two, if the other side has one, too.
    Spook grown up
    Where the blue eyes come from does mystify me, though.

    Here are the other possible outcomes:
    http://www.chickensmoothie.com/archive/2010/June/Horse

    Mielahis: #I still like him, the round spot looks kinda „Zen“ to me.#
    Azâr:*eyeroll*

    Oh, and the other foal is actually going to be a unicorn. *ducks nightmares*

  • firefly - spook - virtual pet

    >Virtual critters – update

    >Spook is now 24 days „old“ and still looking like this:
    Spook, next stage
    Am growing extremely curious about what he’ll look like „grown up“.

    Maybe he’s waiting on his buddy? *g*
    You shouldn’t keep equines alone, not even supernatural, virtual ones *g*, so he’s got a comrade who was available as a special so far unknown breed.

    It is definitely making an appearance of the different kind already… Meet Firefly:

    Spawned in a galaxy far, far away *g*:
    Spook, next stage

    Falling from the sky, maybe I should have named it „Falling Star“ or „Comet“ instead, LOL!!
    Spook, next stage

    Making quite the impact- even the dustcloud changed every day, here are two examples:
    Spook, next stage

    Spook, next stage

    Starting to reveal itself to the Jedi um- audience:
    Spook, next stage

    Spook, next stage

    Seems the landing was pretty rough, it looks weary!
    Spook, next stage
    Now Firefly is 10 days old.
    So far it looks like the evil version of Regina Regenbogen’s (Rainbow Brite) horse, am curious how it will grow up.

  • bloody noise - vuvuzela

    >New hate object!

    >The blasted Vuvuzela trumpet thingies! (Looking like this: http://imadivaprincess.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/vuvuzela.jpg )

    They hand them out here thanks to the football WM in South Afrika. All day people walked my street honking and squeaking, because they did not master the things. Now, even now, at night, people are out and „playing“ making it alternately sound as if a big ferry is about to land in the parking lot before your house or as if a horde of angry Mammoths is stampeding through the streets around you.
    And indeed, they are LOUD!

    Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrh!!!

  • balcony - flowers - hydrangea - summer

    >Flowers! Serious Summer Warning!

    >So today we still have this wonderful warm weather and I woke up early enough for the market, so I set out to get summery plants for the balcony.
    When I was done on the market, my bike looked like this:
    shopping flowers

    All the plants and stuff I bought, making two tours:
    all the plants I bought today

    The finished balcony, all clean:
    finished balcony

    Tagetes, why am I suddenly surrounded by so much orange?
    Photobucket

    Photobucket

    One marguerite which did not fit into the middle flowerbox anymore:
    margarite

    The Bornholm Marguerites, tricked into reopening their blossoms fully (they do that only in full sunlight):
    bornholm margariten

    New hortensia, the other died by drying up from within- I suspect a damaged root.
    Photobucket

    This one will look like these, when flowering:
    http://www.gartenmarkt-koehler.de/wp-content/uploads/2006/06/03-08140054.jpg

    To Mum:
    My neighbour just got a third flowerbox out there! With more weird Geranien inside…
    Her children really must hate me now…

  • balcony - sunflower

    >Project Sunflower pt. 1

    >Today I got me a „raise your own sunflower“ kit, because I thought this would be fun to try. (On the package they said it would always grow something from the sets. We’ll see about that, I thought the seed did not look so good…)
    But here we go!

    The package:
    Sunflower Project 1

    Sunflower Project 2

    What’s inside?
    Sunflower Project 3

    You had to drill holes into the bucket (to let excess of water out)- what kind of a easy to use kiddie-set is that?! o.O
    Sunflower Project 4

    And everything set:
    Sunflower Project 5
    I watered it and put it out onto the balcony. Now the waiting can begin.

  • mielahis - nightmare - virtual pet

    I did it again!

    >Snuffles is getting some company… *g* I must have a real addiction to that orange and black combination, wonder where that comes from?
    Mielahis: #Orange and Black are beautiful!#
    Um, yeah…*cough* The nightmare made me do it, LOL!!

    Here is The Spook
    Virtual Pet - The Spook
    Actually, the pattern and colour are supposed to be based on a ladybug, but try tell that to a nightmare…
    I did not really want to adopt it, as I had no idea what it would actually look like, but I never could resist Mielahis‘ begging and so here we are.
    One happy nightmare, too, LOL!!
    Mielahis loves the foal

    (As usual, Spook will live in the sidebar and appear only in posts when he grows into the next stage)

  • balcony - flowers - plants

    >Flowers and no end, LOL!!

    >My parents had another flowerbox to spare and Dad brought it over when we set out for the home tool supplier. I ended up with a screen-version of a flydoor afterall, as the one I wanted was not available currently. And I will save some room with this version as it works like rollo that is pulled sideways. These are not so easy to install, so I will need Dad for this after all, but at least the thingy is here already.
    But the flowerbox! Of course having it here on the kitchen window sill did not give me any peace, LOL!!
    So I moved the hortensia to a new place (there is a bit more shelter against the weather):
    Blaue Hortensie

    And since the empty box looked so empty and it was still not raining, I made a short excursion to Blume 2000 to see if I could find something nice. And so I did!
    Bornholm Mageriten

    Bornholm Mageriten
    Pocket sunshine, LOL!! Bornholm Margeriten.
    If they grow too enthusiastically, I can set some into a big pot, too, but so far, they have enough room. And I have a mini garden now. ==^==^==

  • Snuffles - virtual pet

    >Whee, Snuffles is a Fox!

    >The virtual pet „Snuffles“ has finally come out of its box:
    Snuffles' box

    and seems to be a red fox, whee!!
    Snuffles' first appearance
    The page of origin says he’s not grown up, yet, so I am curious if there will be more changes in the appearance. Am going to document this with screenshots like these.

  • balcony - plants - spring - virtual pet

    >Springiness

    >See how the hortensia turns purple:
    Hortensia

    Detail:
    Hortensia detail

    The Stoneheather is happy- there are new red leaves- so it is busily growing larger!
    New leaves

    The little firtree is also verrrrry springy, as you can see here:
    sprouting like mad

    The Pansies have all turned blue, but they have grown like mad, especially those on the little table…
    Pansies

    Pansies

    And I got myself a little virtual pet which you can see on the sidebar of the blog, so it is invisible in a mailed version, I think…
    So far, there is only the transportbox, I am very curious what will hatch from it… I called it „Snuffles“ because the box looked as if made for something canine, but it may as well be a Wer-something, LOL!! Am waiting curiously now.

  • stain - watery things

    >This and that

    >Did you know that stains on the floor can be cute? No? Well, this one in my kitchen is- or was. It was almost sad to remove it, LOL!!
    heartshaped stain
    Don’t ask me how it happened, it just did…

    Sometimes, when the hydrometer is complaining at you, the solution is so easy…
    Indoor well
    This is a little indoor well, which had for a long time in my closet. I had not enough white gravel, but I managed to conceal it nicely with the glassballs and the semi-precious stones which look so good in the water.

  • friday spoilings

    >Celebrating the Friday

    >Niiiice food!
    butter kartoffeln
    Apologies for the „butter“ just looking like „splat“, LOL!! I will never be one of those artistic food decorators…
    Tetrapack pictured as evidence that I am not drinking myself under the table with red wine tonight, LOL!!

    Pretty flowers:
    Photobucket

    blue hortensia

    And sunshine, we had, too. ==^==^==

  • fei - horses - progressive list

    >Petition against the FEI – "Progressive List"

    >I signed the petition today, I was too late for the „No-Rollkur-List“, but this one I found in time.

    The so called „progressive list“ would make it legal to ride an injured or otherwise not fit horse in competition under the use of painkillers.
    The wellfare of the horses would be worth absolutely nothing like this.(They are already on a good way to it anyway…)
    You can read about it, and sign, here: www.no-fei.com

    People really need to get the „dollar-signs“ out of their eyes and remember that their sport involves a living being that gives its very best for them daily. And how do they reward it? Very badly.
    So here is the chance to raise your voice together with people all over the world. May the ears of Princess Haya and her „experts“ ring…

  • balcony - flowers

    >Spring!

    >OMG, I can copy huge archives to the hdd, work on a photo, listen to music and have wmplayer make a library all at once while I am online and write here and I never notice a slowdown. O.O Awesome…

    Um, but what I wanted was to show that I let spring come to my balcony, too!
    New plantses!
    A new hortensia:
    Hortensia

    And pansies/violas (Stiefmütterchen)- I only wanted to fill one box, but they sold only big amounts of them, so I got to run for more soil and set up a second box, too, LOL!!!
    I couldn’t resist when I saw them in my most favourite color-variation:
    Stiefmütterchen

    Stiefmütterchen

    It rains with occasional hail even, which is why these flowers stand on the floor here.

  • computers

    >Wheeeeeee!!! New computer!

    >Me gots a new computer and so far it has been nothing but great, am currently testing it, still.
    And it has blue-lights, whee! ♥ ♥ ♥
    new computer
    Hmm, maybe I should take another piccie when it is dark- it will be more visible, then.
    I think that for once, I am most eager to migrate onto this machine- I bet that I get all impatient when I hook up the old one again, later, to copy files… *g*

  • balcony - computers - embarrassment - funny vids - grand prix - plants

    >Germany – Zero Points!

    >Aargh!! I just found out that the new song that they play up and down and which I myself had already voted as the „worst thing since Stefanie Heinzman sang the „The Unforgiven“ (Metallica) cover version“ is actually our Grand Prix d’Eurovision entry this year!
    And this crap did they need a whole casting show for?! O.O Also, they also said the girl is „unconventional, an „actress“, spontaneous“ etc. … Seeing her music vid, *I* say I see neither.Let’s not mention that her English sounds…weird…in places. Sing, she can’t either- where her voice fails, she just does some kind of „one tone chant“- I didn’t see the shows, but if she wins- how bad was the rest? o.O

    Good grief…we should have rather sent Guildo Horn again- like that, we would have scored for weirdness, at least.
    Teh German entry:
    YouTube video of „Satellite“

    And now excuse me while I am embarrased in a corner again, LOL!!


    Am feeling old- when you catalogue books and come across recent events- recent, like say, the last twenty years- and have to put them in the „History“ systematic while you think „Heck, I remember this, that can’t have taken place *that* long ago!“, this is weird…


    I will get a new computer, whee! Am both curious and dreadful about Windows 7 on it…
    And I loooove the „persona“ skins that you can put on Firefox 3.6. – they look mostly awesome! ===^==^=== Finally something to make the browser pretty.


    In case you have not seen it yet and need a cheer up after the song above, watch this hilarious „Simon’s Cat“ episode:
    Snow Business


    I want plants like this for my balcony, they are called „Duft Geranie“ and smell faintly of lemon to the human nose- and are apparently revolting for mosquitos and wasps! Great!! Must try to find some..
    „Duft Geranie“