PROGRESS!!

I have had a feral spayed cat living in a large kennel in my utility room since mid-January. I have been attempting to tame her. I have not pushed the issue but have let her make the first moves. We have gone from cowering, growling and hissing in the corner to letting me actually scratch/rub her head. This happened Saturday evening. I was so surprised by this development that I almost let out a squeal of joy but managed to contain it. I did not want to scare her. I have been able to scratch/rub her head again yesterday and today. I have let her approach me each time. I thought this was never going to happen. Hoping for more progress on this "front".

WHAT DECADE

Thank you so much Wendy :( This so dates me.




what decade does your personality live in?


quiz brought to you by lady interference, ltd

A LITTLE OASIS

This is a little oasis that I created for myself. I am hoping to use this during the summer. I enjoy being outside but do not like the pesky little flyums that come around. So with a few purchases from Wal-Mart I created a little oasis. I used it last night when I got home from the barn. I just wanted to sit for a while and enjoy the evening. It was great. I hope I can use it a lot this summer.

SPIREA

This is the little spirea bush that is in my yard. When the house was bought (1977) it was a sorry and pathetic looking bush. It had a lot of dead stuff in it and had not been trimmed in who knows how long. One year I had looked at it long enough so that fall I cut it all the way back. The next year it came back with all new growth and looked so good. I have cut it back from time to time since then. Last year it had hardly any bloom but this year it is just full of bloom. Once the bloom is gone I will need to trim it but for now I am just enjoying the profusion of bloom.

PERSONALITY TEST

I found this on LadyDragonFly's page. I don't know quite what to make of the results.





Robot
You are 57% Rational, 0% Extroverted, 0% Brutal, and 0% Arrogant.

You are the Robot! You are characterized by your rationality. In fact, this is really ALL you are characterized by. Like a cold, heartless machine, you are so logical and unemotional that you scarcely seem human. For instance, you are very humble and don't bother thinking of your own interests, you are very gentle and lack emotion, and you are also very introverted and introspective. You may have noticed that these traits are just as applicable to your laptop as they are to a human being. You are not like the robots they show in the movies. Movie robots are make-believe, because they always get all personable and likeable after being struck by lightning, or they are cold, cruel killing machines. In all reality, though, you are much more boring than all that. Real robots just sit there, doing their stupid jobs, and doing little else. If you get struck by lightning, you won't develop a winning personality and heart of gold. (Robots don't have hearts, silly, and if they did, they would probably be made of steel, not gold.) You also won't be likely to terrorize humanity by becoming an ultra-violent killing machine sent into the past to kill the mother of a child who will lead a rebellion against machines, because that movie was dumb as hell, and because real robots don't kill--they horribly maim at best, and they don't even do that on purpose. Real robots are boringly kind and all too rarely try to kill people. In all my years, my laptop has only attacked me once, and that was only because my brother threw it at me. In short, your personality defect is that you don't really HAVE a personality. You are one of those annoying, super-logical people that never gets upset or flustered. Unless, of course, you short circuit. Or if someone throws a pie at you. Pies sure are delicious.

To put it less negatively:

1. You are more RATIONAL than intuitive.

2. You are more INTROVERTED than extroverted.

3. You are more GENTLE than brutal.

4. You are more HUMBLE than arrogant.

Compatibility:

Your exact opposite is the Class Clown.

Other personalities you would probably get along with are the Hand-Raiser, the Emo Kid, and the Haughty Intellectual.

Link: The Personality Defect Test written by saint_gasoline on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the 32-Type Dating Test

THE NEIGHBOR DID IT AGAIN

Well, the neighbor gave the boyfriend the boot about a week ago. She now has another boyfriend. Last Saturday around midnight she and bf got into a fight (yelling, cussing). Not only were they fighting but her girlfriend was having a fight with her boyfriend at the same time. I had just gone to bed. I did end up calling the cops when the yelling and cussing was joined by screaming. I don't think it got physical but I had had enough. By the time everything settled and calmed down I was finally able to get to sleep - around 2:30/3am Sunday morning. Totally screwed up my Sunday. It has been relatively quiet next door since then. I really need to get my bedroom moved to the other side of the house.

ICHABOD PICS

Here are some recent pics of Ichabod. I did a little grooming (surface brushing) before taking this pic. He looks so much better but will still need to have some shearing done.



So everyone can get an idea of just how tall Ichabod is - here is a picture of me and Ichabod. I am about 5'5". As you can see Ichabod is probably about 6' tall at the top of his head. I swear that his ears are about 9" long on their own.

YELLOW JACKET WASPS

It is that time of year again and they are back. I had some start a nest on the door frame between the screen door (which needs to be replaced) and the door to the utility room. They are no longer there or alive for that matter. I found my wasp and hornet spray and took care of them along with 2 or 3 other new nests that I found. The overhangs on my house are open and evidently inviting. Almost all of the nests have been on the south side of the house. Well, I guess until this fall there will be a minor battle going on at my house - me against the wasps.

NEIGHBORS!!

I live in an older part of Denver. The houses can be close to one another. It has not been a problem. However, recently it has been becoming a problem. My neighbor's back door is almost directly across from my bedroom window. I have been opening my bedroom window recently to let in the cooler night air. Last night the neighbor's back door was open. Her phone has a high-pitched chirpy ring. The phone is located close to the back door. They (neighbor and live-in boyfriend) received 2 or 3 calls last night around midnight. Disrupted sleep! Not only that but sometimes they have friends over. Entry and exit is made through the back door. The door is hardly ever closed quietly. Disrupted sleep! Nor does the company always arrive quietly. Disrupted sleep! My solution to this problem, outside of killing the neighbors? Eventually to move my bedroom back to where it had been originally. This will put me on the other side of the house away from the neighbors back door. Now all I have to do is use some of my "copious" free time to accomplish this task.

DOMINANT INTELLIGENCE

Your Dominant Intelligence is Spatial Intelligence

You've got a good sense of space and how the world around you looks. You can close your eyes and "see" images. You have innate artistic talent. An eye for color and shapes, you're also a natural designer. Since you think in pictures, visual aids and demonstartions help you learn best. You would make a good navigator, sculptor, visual artist, inventor, architect, interior designer, or engineer.

What Kind of Intelligence Do You Have?

"Stolen" from Priestess of Nothing. It is me.

MY BIRTHDAY MEME

I found this to be interesting. Stolen from Priestess of Nothing who stole it from Lady Dragonfly

April 2

3 events -
1513 - Juan Ponce de Leon sets foot on Florida becoming first known European to do so.
1917 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson asks U.S. Congress for a declaration of war on Germany.
1917 - The first woman ever elected to the U.S. Congress, Jeannette Rankin, takes her seat as a representative from Montana.

2 births -
1510 - Ashikaga Yoshiharu, Japanese shogun (d. 1550)
1914 - Sir Alec Guiness, English actor (d. 2000)

1 death -
1902 - Esther Morris, suffragist and first female American judge (b. 1814)