Aw, crap, we lost Saurfang :/

Garrosh 2.0. In reverse. 

First day of autumn. Ah, well. Good thing I love being cold.

Of course, I also love being warm.
But ye gotta count yer chickens.
Making bookmarks.

General's line of the week (regarding harvest)

Us, StGeorgians, are fast harvesters because we never know when the owner of the field is coming. 

Okay, so how eco friendly AM I?, really? ...

Everyone knows I don't believe in man-made climate change or don't care about change or think nature is in trouble and the reasons for these controversial not-running-after-band-wagon opinions are: climate is changing all the time and always will; change is a good thing, it's called evolution in some circles, or revolution, depending on how radical, and it happens all the time; all of creation, from forests to oceans to mountains to the moon will be here LONG after we fuck up. The sooner we fuck up, the better off nature will be. And don't tell me to think about our grandchildren, because the entitled little shits would burn down the entirety of the fucking Amazon forest for a chance of winning the new iPhone, so, really, fuck those little parasites.

However. The other day I got into a heated argument with a nephew, when he set to kill a house spider. I told him why he would do that, the little thing was scared to death when I setb it free from a jar. He said it's just a shitty spider. I said don't you belong to a shitty religion that preaches nothing but mercy and compassion? So where is it? The family said; how dare you. You just are chicken! I said - oh, you were going to EAT it? Oh, okay then ...

 And so we are at some nature savior protest day or something. And it got me to think. AM I environmentally conscious? Even though I've seen nations in billions treat the planet like a garbage dump and know no Instagram model showing of how she produces NO garbage ever will change the fact crypto-currency miners alone cause so much emission they are putting all the burping cows to shame?

Let's see. I don't have a car. I use a bike or walk or ride a train. I drive the car maybe once a month and usually very shorty.
I very rarely use plastic shopping bags, I use mostly bag-for-life, paper or just my backpack.
Half of the food I eat comes from our farm or our garden. Not saying it's 100% bio, but it is homegrown. The rest is shit like ice-cream, chocolate, coke, bread, and lactose-free milk.
We don't throw food away, ever. Even the bits we don't consume, the dog eats that.
I don't recycle, strictly speaking, or separate my trash, but my trash is mostly paper tissues, snack wrap and kitty litter.
In our household, we rarely cook, rarely wash the clothes and rarely heat anything. It's just that I have a huge washer and only wash everything every two weeks or so using a spoon of detergent, the food we make is usually for more than one day and the water heater for showers has been broken for over a year and we just CBA fixing it, because we've learned how to shower with half a bucked of lukewarm rinse.
We buy one smartphone every two years. This means I get the old one and the kid gets my old old one. We haven't turned the TV on for a decade. All the bulbs in the house are dim and economic.
Yes, I am married to a hunter, but I eat very little meat. We also don't use any sugar in our cooking and sometimes barely any salt. We grow our own hot peppers.
I buy very cheap, local clothes that I wear for years until they fall to rags, I keep all glassware to put buttons in it (jam is homemade) and I don't use soap or shampoo (my hair is crew-cut short and the water is very clean, no need for more chemicals on my skin.). I use a lunar cup for my period.

So ... All in all, I'm not quite vegan, but I rarely eat meat; I am not quite eco-friendly, but I don't pollute and I respect nature, life and sanctity of not imposing myself on other living things above everything. I keep bees, eat lots of oatmeal and eat organic fruit only. Just don't tell anyone. 

Still sorting ...

I have two shopping bags full of buttons I need to sort. Is today the day I try to begin? 

Doodling Mar in Latvian folklore style

Before, during and after the reign.
There's also one of Des in hell, which is not yet finished and one of ... Morphei, the moment he succumbs to his executions ... Which I am not sure I will post or will post with a warning, because it is fucked up.

Marowt, a Wend swamp nightmare

As a king of lore

Deciding it's time to give up on trying; fuck pagans and their pet pangolins, too.

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Just in the wind...

The stupid PC has been breaking up so badly lately (and I can't figure out why), that I dare not watch my porn on it, in case it finally stops completely and I have to take it to repair without being able to delete my search history. I suppose that shows I still have a modicum of decency stuck somewhere inside me still...

Oh, wait, the devices are all connected, right? If I erase it on the laptop, is it thoroughly erased from the PC as well?? 

As all mortals things must, I, too, succumbed to the innate desire to play Classic. Even paid my own subscription from the piggy bank. It's THAT enchanting, to be back there again, as weak and slow as a dead frog and just as gangly. (I played an Undead first, all those dozen years ago.)

Seaside paintings promo :)

I have an uncanny tendency of throwing (dropping?) food down in my own shoes while I eat ... Don't ask me how that works, it's just one of those irregular talents one wishes they rather didn't have. 

Rab old town doors (and windows)

(and windows)

Back home

So, the last day was spent packing (not that there was that much to pack, but the process itself is a mental ordeal) and playing frisbee in the shallow waters. At first, I was terribly pissed for having kicked the sand into the paint while trying to rescue it from a rogue wave, but General started acting such a fool I couldn’t but laugh and then we literally exhausted ourselves laughing, tossing the stupid cheap thing which flew every which way but as aimed.

I was so hungry that I made an omelet of bacon and five eggs and instead of splitting it, I ate everything in one awful sweep, meanwhile, the poor idiot was waiting for me, sitting in the sun for well over an hour and is now approximately the color of an apricot. So we played some frisbee :D

After we packed and took most of the stuff to the car, we went swimming one more time, hugging and playing and hugging and kissing and some more frisbee and then just hugging and watching the sunset. Oddly enough, this has cooled my body down to an odd sense of being cold, so, waking up in the middle of the night in my hammock, having dreamed everything is frozen and there are polar bears, I had to zip up my sleeping bag to the gills, freezing. Mind, I normally sleep in shorts and a tank top, and the night was no cooler. Just weird.

We started early, driving down to the ferry dock, basking and solving crossword puzzles. I had two coffees on the drive over to the border and then finally began to nag I also need food. Truth is, the General, as all Aries, only sees one goal at a time and he only saw the end of our destination - home - so he did not eat, did not drink and for almost six hours he hardly stretched his legs. This inevitably makes him increasingly cranky, so I know by now to enforce breaks. We chose a good restaurant, too, and had a 2-person plate of meats and side dishes, pumpkins and kale salad, it was delicious. I also asked for a Greek-style trio of deserts, and it was amazing. Only minus side is that the Greek version of the balaclava is dipped with lemon juice and that just kills me. My mouth really hurt. Amazing how something can hurt so much without actually causing any real damage (just micro-cracks.). Once we arrived home, the storms finally followed, shaking and rocking the city, and my computer died as soon as I started it. The world is back to normal :D

Rab Cake - their official cake. This shit is actually REALLY good!

Alien invasion.