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I can’t think of any pranks I’ve done as I don’t usually play April’s fools pranks. However Mother Nature decided to play one on us today. Yesterday was a beautiful day with lots of brown out there. Today we got up and it was white. It had started snowing somewhat unexpectedly early this morning and continued most of the day. By suppertime you couldn’t even tell it had snowed. 😛
Got some eggs for you guys.
Bronze tinsel(alternating patterned lineage)
Claim my eggs/hatchlings!Skywing
Claim my eggs/hatchlings!Royal Blue
Claim my eggs/hatchlings!I don’t think she means green + amethyst but rather actual green amethyst. Amethyst isn’t always purple but come in green as well. Here’s a pic I found of it:
Sirithiliel, I tried to get breed you a seasonal but they aren’t cooperating. I even tried my breeding project ones and even with over 30 dragon not a single egg. All my seasonals are either CB or PB. I can try again next week if you want.
What a great suggestion, Joliesdragons! I forgot about the feedback list having prices going back forever. I’m still mourning the days when ‘ended auction’ searches could go back 3 months. :p
You can still search 3 months back on ebay. You just do a search like normal and then on the left side check the box that says “Completed Listings”. All the current listings are replaced with everything that’s ended in the past 3 months. It works for individual sellers as well.
I thought only a limited number were released and all silver tinsels originate to one of those?
You are correct. CB tinsels were given out as contest prizes and can’t be acquired though normal means
Here’s one my Mom sent me:
The Green Thing
Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren’t good for the environment.
The woman apologized and explained, “We didn’t have this green thing back in my earlier days.”
The clerk responded, “That’s our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations.”
She was right — our generation didn’t have the green thing in its day.
Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled. But we didn’t have the green thing back in our day.
We walked up stairs, because we didn’t have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn’t climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. But she was right. We didn’t have the green thing in our day.
Back then, we washed the baby’s diapers because we didn’t have the throw-away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy gobbling machine burning up 220 volts — wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that young lady is right; we didn’t have the green thing back in our day.
Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house — not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana . In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn’t have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn’t fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn’t need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. But she’s right; we didn’t have the green thing back then.
We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But we didn’t have the green thing back then.
Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn’t need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest pizza joint.
But isn’t it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn’t have the green thing back then?
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Remember: Don’t make old People mad.We don’t like being old in the first place, so it doesn’t take much to tick us off.
I would say most Windstones a prettier in person especially if they have purple in them as purple can tough to photograph well. I would say his color is slightly in between my pic and the official one. The store pic looks a little washed out to me as you don’t really see much of the non blue details. He’s one of the first Amethyst Males and if I recall correctly they has less blue on them than newer ones.
I have a general question regarding antiquing agent….where do you get it? the local art stores I’ve checked don’t seem to have any.
Not all paint brands especially artist paints have antique as you can just use regular paint as antique. To use paint as antique you mix it with retarding fluid (or something else that slows the drying time). Retarding fluid helps slow how fast the paint dries allowing you time to wipe it back off again. I’ve done it without but you have to do very tiny patches as you don’t have as much working time.
As for finding antique, I would check at some where like Micheals. They usually have something in both the artist brands and craft brands.
And to think that not even two years ago 1 or 2 rainbows laps stayed in the store for weeks teasing me … Now they’d probably vanish in a heart beat.
I love it! But I’d loved to see the hades/black ruby one as an LP more though (my wallet wouldn’t though). I love the black ______ combinations and Red is my favorite color with purple being #2.
However, the best is when I set something down and think “I could trip over those shoes”, or “I might knock that off the table” and 1/2 hour later, I do! Now, that takes brains (of some kind). 🙂
I did exactly that about a month ago… majorly 🙁
I was cutting cloth(on a mat) while sitting on the carpet. My rotary blade was dull so I changed it and was planning on sharpening it sometime in the future but didn’t want to mix it in with the sharp blades. So I set it on the floor thinking that it won’t be a problem. It’s lying flat on the floor near the edge of the table so it’s unlikely I’ll step on it but if I do I won’t cut my self because it’s dull and flat on the floor. Well I was right I didn’t step on it… I kicked it looking for something on the table causing the edge to lift up and cut the underside of my foot. 6 six stitches and 2 weeks of lost work(due to hobbling) later…
