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She's awesome! Tell her I love it. I forwarded it to the Mister. He's not so nuts about dragons as I am, but he loves wolves. :)
I like that dragon, Melia!Phwinnie, your friend's work is beautiful.
Oh, I've got a picture of Falcor and me!It was taken a loooong time ago when we visited the Bavaria Film Studios.
More? :-DIt was also possible to sit on his back and meanwhile watch a video of yourself riding him through the clouds.
Gah!Why didn't I ever get to do that?!
If you also got a book with double ouroboros on it that would just be the end for me.
Ha, I should have asked for one!But no, I didn't. So I'm only half a Bastian Balthazar Bux, I guess.
That was a sigh of relief, huh? Not a sympathetic sigh for me not getting the book, right?I think you haven't seen the ficus for quite too long, Susan.
*Stashes snacks and a sketch pad behind the ficus incase Suz has to do a stretch*
Wrong on both counts, Martini. It was a sympathetic sigh for myself.But seeing that Melia has set up the Ficus perfectly for me, I will happily hang out there.
::winks at Melia::
*gives the thumbs up and wanders to the shower*
Well, for being so mistaken about your sigh I think I deserve to go behind the ficus, too.Ice cream? :-)
Yes, please. :)::scooches over and dusts away eraser debris::
Hey, it's quite cozy here, I didn't expect that!*passes over large bowl of ice cream*
*offers sugar and chocolate sprinkles*
What did you draw, respectively erase?
That beer in the fridge is for Larry & Jim. You guys can have the iced tea.
Iced tea is nice, thanks Phil, but why do we girls only get a nonalcoholic drink? We will not go on the rampage after a beer or wine.
There are always those island style drinks at the bar. It's just that Larry & Jim spend so much time back there we try to keep the brews stocked up for them.
Ooh, a bar? Shiny! Okay, beer for the guys, Pina Colada for me.
(I begin to understand why they spend so much time here.)
Hmph.I brought my own sixer and restocked the chilled glasses.
Martini, it was a few different sketches of a fox. I don't like how the eyes keep turning out.
I like foxes. Friends of mine once raised an orphaned fox baby, she was so cute! She followed them around like a dog (I know this isn't the appropriate way of living for foxes, but otherwise she would have starved) and lived with them for about four years.Do you draw living foxes, or from your imagination, Susan?
Zardoz is in the Tardis wrote: "More dragons, please."Like this...
... or like this?
Martini, it all depends on my mood and who it is for. My husband requested a fox so I am doing a realistic one for his birthday card.I had already completed a frog for him, secretly, when he requested. Little turd.
I like that your friends helped a fox out. They are beautiful creatures.
Susan wrote: "MI like that your friends helped a fox out. They are beautiful creatures."For sure! And foxes are cute, too.
Susan, is it possible to see any of your sketches online? You've really made me curious. :-)Couldn't you have changed the frog you already had to a frog munching a fox, with only its tail hanging out of the frog's mouth? Would've saved you some time, and your husband would still be getting a picture with a fox in it. ;-D
Phil, so you got to know them, too? ;-)
Perhaps. We shall see.The frog was stylized like a vintage frog playing a banjo and was finished. All watercolored up and junk. No room for a fox or a box. I will do one of a fox all special-like for him since he is my love. He usually gets two cards from me, anyways.
Martini wrote: "Friends of mine once raised an orphaned fox baby, she was so cute! ..."Yesterday, said friends and me were doing some PR for our rescue center for injured and orphaned birds of prey, when we got a call from somebody who asked us where we were, because he had two animals that needed help. We expected him to bring us some fledglings, but it was two orphaned fox pups he had found; their mother was run over by a car close to the den. They are about six or seven weeks old.
Here they are:
Just a handful - and my hands are not that big:
We'll try our best. At the moment, they are fed lactose free milk (because some of them can't digest lactose, just like humans) from small baby bottles, every three to four hours, but they are very weak.This evening a vet will be checking them to see if they have parasites or diseases, to find out how their general condition is, and if they've got a chance to survive.
Oh my goodness! They are so sweet. Poor little babies!
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Martini, please keep us posted if you can.
We took the pups to the vet yesterday evening and they will have to stay there for at least five days. The vet said that they were having huge parasite infestations (tapeworm and others) which need to be treated, and that this (among others) led to the dehydration and weakness of the pups.They'll get a deworming and continuous infusions, and we hope that this will improve their general condition.
Now there's one thing we have to consider: If the pups recover and we take care of them, they will get used to us and humans in general, and they'll never be able to live in their natural habitat again. The only way to avoid this is to only feed and clean them, without any further contact.
To me it would be very hard not to play with them and cuddle them, and my friends are not confident that they'll manage to do so as well. They then would have to keep the foxes just like pets, like the little one they once had. That is not a problem right now, because at the moment we've only got six birds of prey nursing cases, but considering that this number will increase to about twenty or twenty-five until summer, the additional attention the foxes will need might be too much.
We could give the pups to an animal shelter where they would be raised in a way that they can be released into the wild once they are fully grown.
This is a difficult decision.
The vet has informed us that one of the pups has died last night.*sigh*
Oh no. That is sad . I hope the other one will make it.
Martini wrote: "Martini wrote: "Friends of mine once raised an orphaned fox baby, she was so cute! ..."Yesterday, said friends and me were doing some PR for our rescue center for injured and orphaned birds of pr..."
Those are very cute pups, sad that one didn't make it :(
On a positive note, I don't get why there are no polls anymore. I really had a good laugh voting on the TC polls :D
Sally wrote: "I'll make you a poll."I know this is late, but thanks for the poll.
Dumb question: what's the difference between being a mod for a GR official group and being a GR librarian?
Another one: is being a mod a difficult task?
Aliyah wrote: "Dumb question: what's the difference between being a mod for a GR official group and being a GR librarian?"A mod is in charge of a GR group, a librarian can edit books.
a difficult task? yes, there is a test and a physical obstacle course that i think only sally and i passed successfully. beyond that there are meetings, pop quizzes and occasionally training that is grueling.
Aliyah wrote: "Another one: is being a mod a difficult task?"That all depends on the group and your own attitude. Sock puppets and trolls = difficult.
Kevin wrote: "a difficult task? yes, there is a test and a physical obstacle course that i think only sally and i passed successfully. beyond that there are meetings, pop quizzes and occasionally training that i..."You wouldn't have passed either if Sally hadn't pulled you over the wall.
There's probably something in old dead threads explaining some of the reasoning.
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