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Unfortunately, some members/sects are certain that ‘they’ are correct and anyone who doesn’t believe what they do is not only wrong but condemned by God. Additionally, there are some who have interpreted their duty not as demonstrating Christianity by loving and helping their neighbors, but as converting people by hammering them over the head with it if necessary. Some of them are genuinely concerned that if they do not do this, everyone else if going straight to hell, which makes it a bit difficult to argue with them. But it does tend to give the ‘victims’ a rather jaundiced view of Christians. I am frequently glad that I no longer encounter the people who practically assault you in the parking lots with ‘Are you CERTAIN you’re saved!!!?? If you died RIGHT NOW, do you KNOW you’d go to Heaven, or will God condemn you to ETERNAL damNATION!!!????’ If that sort of approach offends me, I can’t imagine it offers a very alluring introduction to people who aren’t Christians.
Personally, I much prefer the LDS and JW versions, where they go quietly door to door. Although I do not necessarily agree with all their points (you left out Episcopalian on your list, Laurie!) I have had some interesting conversations with them. Besides,it costs nothing to be polite, and I have great respect for their dedication, even if I feel no particular urge to be converted. I’ve always found the best way to strengthen my own faith is to give due consideration to other people’s beliefs; even if I don’t ultimately agree with them, it helps me clarify what I believe.
I’m not sure the rats/cat has the right title. It should be something like ‘Just wait ’til you come out of there!’, only better.
Maybe you could ship them some sand to dump on the leak. You do have a bit of sand where you are, don’t you?
Very cute! Although, I think I’d rather have a hatching griffy chick – rump in a shell and a fragment for a hat?
A Flion cub might be easier to curl up (hint, hint!).We’re all very good at telling her what she should sculpt, aren’t we?
Actually he has several – I got him one of those plush ‘tree stumps’ with the little stuffed squirrels inside (well, they have long furry tails, but they also have chipmunk stripes) and he likes to groom them. He also has a stuffed dog that . . . squonks. It is without a doubt the weirdest sound I’ve ever heard, sounds like someone stepped on a cartoon goose.
He also is very familiar with my rabbit Sable, of course, although they don’t get to play together due to the size mismatch. She’s not a bit afraid of him – she’ll box his nose if his gets too pushy – but she weighs about 3.8# at last weigh in, and he’s about 90#. She’s also 9 years old, so she has seniority on him.Oh, I love the name of the ‘common toad-frog’! Sort of makes him sound like a slightly missed translation attempt! (Yes, I KNOW it’s really a Frog Wizard painted to look like a Japanese common toad. But ‘toad-frog’ sounds better.)
And I’ll second the stunningness of that unicorn. Pretty, pretty.
I’m not beating myself up. I knew the odds were pretty high against from the start, but I couldn’t just put it back outside. And Adam’s enough to stress anybody! Although he did fetch the baby in without actually injuring it. I just wish mama would find some other place to build her nests. But it’s still sad, even if it was expected. I appreciate the sympathetic comments from everybody.
Etruscan, the old thinking was that palomino was a variation of the claybank (or red dun) the same as buckskin was a variation of yellow dun. This actually makes a bit of sense when you realize that there are a certain number of non-flaxen palominos, whose manes and tails are the same gold as their bodies. So yes, there are a lot of older books out there that say palominos are part of the Dun group. One of the reasons palominos were notoriously difficult to breed was that breeders were lumping dun, cream, and (in some breeds) champagne genes, and trying to treat them as a single set of colors. So many breeders would breed, say, a dun horse to a palomino, and then you might end up with a grulla, if both parents carried black. Or perhaps the palomino parent might be a linebacked palomino, AKA palomino dun.
Currently, the duns (zebra, yellow, red, blue, claybank, etc) are recognized as separate from the buckskin/palomino/cremello/smoky (ha! I remembered) and both are separate from the champagnes, and of course the new genetic tests help a lot – as the palomino above so dramatically demonstrates. There are also one or two other genes they think may be overlapping as far as visual appearance goes. But there are still confusing terms like the fact that the American Buckskin Society registering duns, and grullas also being called ‘blue buckskin’.
I’ll have to try these. I’ve done the ham and cheese (and broccoli, I think was the original) version a zillion times, but never thought of trying something like a taco or dessert version. Although, I’ve done a wide variety of cheeses and veggies to go with the ham and crescent rolls. (Ham, Swiss, and broccoli was the original, I think.)
Yes, they seem to be trying to blend in with their Windstones recently. I got an Opoponax-type of fuzzy with Xan, and my lynx-point flap-cat’s stowaway has the same pale base coat and blue eyes, although it doesn’t appear to have developed any points yet. I’m not sure if that means fuzzies don’t have points or if it means it’s a young’un. Protective camoflage, perhaps? Since the person liked the color of the sculpture they’ll also like the color of the fuzzy and give more chocolate? Or maybe it’s to aid in hiding behind Opoponax et al when you’re looking for whoever ATE all your candy!
Yes, the lamp on e-bay is gorgeous (although I admit it’s not worth $600 to me, but for a somewhat more reasonable price . . . ). I especially like how they retain a lot of the ‘stone’ look, almost as if they’d trapped a Medusa or something and been turned to stone while retaining their original tints.
(Sticking the edit in first, since I forgot to put it in.) Thanks for the links, rusti, that first one in particular is excellent. Got a short list to go shop with, but the cecotrophs will be easy since I have a house rabbit.
Well, unfortunately, when I got back from the store, the baby had passed on. I admit that I was a bit surprised – not that it died, but that it had done so so quickly. Immediately before I left it was warm, alert and rather feisty, so it was a bit of a shock to find that it was dead and cold when I returned. Had it been weak, or comatose, I’d have expected it.
So, I’ll go out this afternoon and bury it, and fill in the hole in hopes that mama will go somewhere else next time. But, if a 90# dog isn’t reason enough to stay out of the yard, I don’t think I’ll find anything to convince her. I’m still not sure that Adam actually dug up the nest though. I find it difficult to believe there was only one baby, and if there were more he’d have brought them ALL in. (Believe me, I’ve gone all over the house looking for other ‘guests’!) I thought last night that it might have been brought over by the big owl that sits in my oak tree some nights – s/he’s dropped baby squirrels that ended up being fetched in – and Adam merely ‘rescued’ it, but it really has no external injuries at all except the umbilical scab.
Bye, baby bunny.
That is a heck of a sooty (I guess) palomino. I didn’t realize it could make the legs as black as that.
I’d probably have guessed dark chocolate silver (some of them have pretty dark manes and tails) or a very sooty buckskin. Or maybe a – drat, what’s the term? – a single cream gene under black. (Hmmm, cremello, perlino, palomino, buckskin . . . sigh )
Mine have all been very well taped, whether brown or white boxes. Can’t say anything about the PYO’s as all I have is a muse, who was pretty well crammed into his inner box. (How DO you get all that paper in there? Once I unwrap the sculpts, I have a problem getting JUST the paper back into the boxes!) I’ve yet to see any PYO other than the Muses available in the store. 🙁
This is ridiculous. The vet is closed until Monday at 8am. Animal Control, is closed until Monday at 8am. The nearest rehab center I can find hasn’t updated their website for 3 years and calling the number gets the message: ‘Memory full. Please enter your security code.’ Which leaves me not even knowing if it’s still their number. So I have an empty nest, a frantic dog, and a baby rabbit who is warm but probably hungry and keeps chirping like a bird. Even if I try putting it back, mama won’t return til tonight, and I’m not certain it can wait that long. All the online advice says ‘leave it where it is’ (I don’t think they mean if it’s on my carpet), ‘put it back in the nest’, or ‘call a rehabber, vet, or Animal Control’. None of whom will talk to me until Monday, which is going to be a bit late as far as the bunny is concerned. Why do these things always happen on Friday nights?
Strictly speaking, I am a vet, but as I work for the USDA, I have no access to either meds or most of the standard equipment, and when I was in practice I’d only worked with adult, pet rabbits, not cottontails of any size. I don’t think the one eye is supposed to be open, though, as he doesn’t seem to be able to blink it. That does worry me, as a half-blind rabbit is going to have a very short life, I think. Anyway, I’m at a bit of a loss, as I have an illegal rabbit and can’t get in touch with anyone who can legally have one. As well as being rather sleep deprived at present.
