the nothing ,anything ,everything thread

[opmania]

This is a thread with no particular

Topic so no one can be off topic 🙂

So if anyone out there has something 

To say about anything you like now

Is your chance

Keep it clean 

And be nice 

See how long that lasts

Can we keep politics and religion out 

Of the conversation 

[ecar3483]

miss_purplekitty 🙂 (There isn't a smiley emoticon big enough) that is a fantastic photo. Thank you for posting it. 🙂

[ecar3483]

If it wasn't raining, it was cold, and if it wan't cold, it was unreasonably cold.

One night it went down to minus 5, according to the BOM online thermometer. "Feels like" closer to minus 9...

I won't argue with that.

One of the water dishes for the birds, outside, froze. I won't say solid because only the top half froze. The bottom half was a massive air bubble. Physics can be a thing of wonder, and if only I'd paid more attention at school I'd be able to say "I know why that happens".

But I can't, because I didn't, ha ha.

Donny, for reasons perhaps only Donny knows, insists on walking all the way up the bridge that links her house and Takeaway's house, well, not quite all the way, she does stop when she sees Takeaway.

Does she then turn around and go back down the bridge, to use any of the other conveniently placed bridges that will assist her in reaching her goal?

No. She stands there, and stares at Takeaway, and then gets chased away, down the bridge.

But just to the first junction, where she falls off the bridge.

It's lucky that the bridge is held up by two pillars that, about half way down, are held together/apart by a cross piece.

That gives her something to catch, on the way down, and then from there leap into the garden.

From there she happily scampers away in the direction of the big table, for breakfast (Ooh big treat - I put a glace cherry aside, specially for her to find. Can possums smile? I don't doubt it for a moment, ha ha).

She could have gone from house to table, along the bridges, no fuss, no worries, but no, this is Donny, and Donny does things which are, at least to me, at times, inexplicable.

But she's happy, and I really can't ask for more than that.

🙂

[esayaf]

As the water freezes and becomes ice it expands and thus creeps up the bowl leaving a pocket underneath

[tasfleur]

Can possums smile?

[ecar3483]

Thanks, esayaf, that's fascinating.

🙂

[ecar3483]

🙂 Tas.

[ambercat16]

[ecar3483]

8.30ish. The cold is starting to creep in. Minus 2 overnight? I'd say it'll be a bit harsher than that, as I move an inch closer to the old bar radiator. I don't know how it still goes, it's been with me for absolute donkey's ages. Fine piece of machinery, though.

Rerrk! Pause of about five, maybe six seconds... Rerrk! Someone's found a possum out the front, or vice versa. Now, who would it be? As if I have to ask. One of the young cockatoos likes to hang around well after everybody else has flown off for the night. A quick walk out the front and flash a torch up into the most likely trees and there he is. He's picked a good spot, so he should be right. Cold, but otherwise he shouldn't have any worries.

You know I said I was going to make a monkey toy? Well, it's sort of made. I started painting it, then I lost enthusiasm (alright, I had a more exciting idea) so it got put aside. Something to work on, later.

I don't know what it is about the middle of the year, but it seems to be birthday season for the people around me and that means having to be clever and imaginative in terms of birthday gifts.

So what do I give a person who likes dragons? A Welsh flag? Maybe not, ha ha.

Maybe a dragon acrobat toy. I think they could be amused by that.

Push the sticks up and down, or move them from side to side to make the dragon flip and turn.

That should keep them amused for a good ten minutes, ha ha ha.

It kept me amused for a good few days. I won't say Never Again, but those wings took some ingenuity to attach. A couple of really tiny nails, some glue, and lots of finger crossing, ha ha. I think I'd have to review the pattern so that I've got a little more than half a thumbnail's surface are to work with. That's the problem with a good idea; it looks great on paper, but doesn't always translate well. Ah well, that's toymaking for you.

🙂

[tasfleur]

Love the dragon toy ecar.

Waiting for you to make a tree kangaroo toy now xxx

[ecar3483]

I saw the little fellow on the news, and looked up the Adelaide Zoo site, which has a great video of him.

He's very engaging but I don't know how I'd go with the knee biting and pulling all the toilet paper off the roll, ha ha.

http://www.adelaidezoo.com.au/orphaned-tree-kangaroo-saved-in-world-first/

I suppose now I'll have to open new folder for pictures of tree kangaroos so I can use it for reference for colour and scale.

If I'm going to go to the trouble of making a tree kangaroo toy, I might as well make it look like one, ha ha.