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the great snipe
Sep. 24th, 2014 02:09 pmThere is a snipe in our basement! Mucca found it half-stunned from the storm and took it in. In my muzzy half-awake state when she told me about it, I was sure it was a ruse to get me out of bed (appreciated, admittedly) but apparently snipe are like geese in that they are in fact actual birds as well as metaphors for pointless projects.
It is a terribly cute bird, all multiple shades of brown with a bit of orange on the tail, a loooong bill, and apparently a yen for more sleep. I feel you, birdie, I do. It wouldn't fly away when we released it, so we've tucked it back in its box in the basement for now. I told Mucca maybe it had been conked on the head and forgotten it was a Time Lord. In other news, I'm wearing my Eight Of Hearts t-shirt today.
ETA: Bird now let go into garden. Seems less stunned.
Instead of being sunny (:D) or rainy or even flat overcast (:|) today, it was kind of half and half when I got up. Which is to say huge towers of rainclouds (which yesterday were doing their earnest best to dump their contents on us all) being blown past in a very brisk wind, such that the sun was peeking out more often than not. By now, it's mostly sunny and blue (whoo!), but there are still plenty of clouds still lurking and I'd be highly surprised if we didn't get more rain by tomorrow.
Thus, I am going for a short walk up towards the light tower while I can do it without being soaked.
Recent media: Stumbled across Bunnicula while moving shelves the other day. I may have broken something laughing. Immediately ordered most of the series from library-books-by-mail, which I shall have to justify with a straight face when they come in. :D
Finished watching season 1 of Agents of SHIELD in preparation for this week's episode, but haven't actually seen either it or the new Sleepy Hollow yet. Looking forward to both. Was rather surprised by how gripping the last half-season of AOS got, actually, given its slow start. I have a lot of feelings, but not enough to ship anyone. Like, at all. Except possibly May/Hill/Potts/Romanov.
Current fic, unrelated to any of the above, is in the home stretch. Whoo. Have also committed fic for the last two rounds of Bad Bang. Not the Preston Manning/Lucien Bouchard love epic, though all Canadians on my flist must go read that immediately.
Keeping up with this season's Doctor Who and enjoying it rather a lot.
Must go get that walk.
It is a terribly cute bird, all multiple shades of brown with a bit of orange on the tail, a loooong bill, and apparently a yen for more sleep. I feel you, birdie, I do. It wouldn't fly away when we released it, so we've tucked it back in its box in the basement for now. I told Mucca maybe it had been conked on the head and forgotten it was a Time Lord. In other news, I'm wearing my Eight Of Hearts t-shirt today.
ETA: Bird now let go into garden. Seems less stunned.
Instead of being sunny (:D) or rainy or even flat overcast (:|) today, it was kind of half and half when I got up. Which is to say huge towers of rainclouds (which yesterday were doing their earnest best to dump their contents on us all) being blown past in a very brisk wind, such that the sun was peeking out more often than not. By now, it's mostly sunny and blue (whoo!), but there are still plenty of clouds still lurking and I'd be highly surprised if we didn't get more rain by tomorrow.
Thus, I am going for a short walk up towards the light tower while I can do it without being soaked.
Recent media: Stumbled across Bunnicula while moving shelves the other day. I may have broken something laughing. Immediately ordered most of the series from library-books-by-mail, which I shall have to justify with a straight face when they come in. :D
Finished watching season 1 of Agents of SHIELD in preparation for this week's episode, but haven't actually seen either it or the new Sleepy Hollow yet. Looking forward to both. Was rather surprised by how gripping the last half-season of AOS got, actually, given its slow start. I have a lot of feelings, but not enough to ship anyone. Like, at all. Except possibly May/Hill/Potts/Romanov.
Current fic, unrelated to any of the above, is in the home stretch. Whoo. Have also committed fic for the last two rounds of Bad Bang. Not the Preston Manning/Lucien Bouchard love epic, though all Canadians on my flist must go read that immediately.
Keeping up with this season's Doctor Who and enjoying it rather a lot.
Must go get that walk.
