By the numbers

[maystone]

1. The raising of the storage shed/temp alpaca shelter continues. And continues. And probably will continue for several more days.

2. The freaking mailbox (aka My Nemesis) didn't just fall over in the wind; the wind split the wood off right at the base. So now we have this little pointy stick of splintered wood sticking up out of the concrete that it was buried in. W. T. F. We stopped by the post office and asked them to hold onto our mail for a few days while we . . . do something.

3. I expect that I'll be showered with rotten tomatoes for saying this, but I'm just not getting Heroes the way the rest of you are. There is no there there, as Dorothy Parker so famously said. The only character I care about is Bennett, and that is not so coincidentally because he's the only one with any substantial backstory.

4. Pixel fell asleep on my bed last night in the most ridiculous position: she was on her back, her body was curved around almost into a U shape, her head was so far back that I couldn't see her ears - and she had her front legs up in the air. Who sleeps like that???

5. We think Gertie is going to have her cria very soon. She's acting unGertie-like and the other alpacas keep sniffing at her butt, which activity is about as welcome as one might expect given Gertie's personality. Alpacas tend to give birth between 10Am and 2PM on a sunny day. They've been known to stop their labor if the situation around them seems hostile and hold onto the cria for another day or so until the mom figures it's safe to let 'er rip. So to speak.

6. Our friend Deb's alpaca gave birth a girl cria this afternoon. We're going to visit tomorrow. No doubt that's the time that Gertie will choose to have her baby. Because apparently that's what alpacas do, too. I can't tell you the number of first-hand accounts we've heard of people studiously monitoring their pregnant alpacas only to have them give birth while the owner went inside to take a phone call or go to the store or something short term like that.

7. I can't stop yawning.

8. LJ is being all kinds of pissy about letting me comment. So that would be why I haven't been commenting as much as I'm wanting to. Anyone else having problems with comments getting posted?

9. I love Drive. And I'm back to loving Lost. The Sopranos is filling me with dread; I think a lot of bad things are going to happen in the next few weeks.

Comments

[budclare.livejournal.com]

Who sleeps like that???

Suzy, of course. :)

[maystone.livejournal.com]

Not only cute, but freakily talented!

[sffan.livejournal.com]

How can you love Drive (outside of the Nathan factor, which, I will admit, accounts for a lot) and not like Heroes? Talk about no there there. My mind, it is boggling. O_o <--see?

(*hee*)

[maystone.livejournal.com]

Well, it's all moot now, eh?

[caerwynx.livejournal.com]

2. Ah! But good for killing vampires! If you can, uh, maneuver them into falling on it, I guess.

9. I share your dread -- I'm nearly at the point of watching from between my fingers.

[maystone.livejournal.com]

9. I hear that there's a Sopranos movie planned, so I guess that Tony will be safe - unless it's a prequel sort of thing. But man, I think a lot of blood is going to be spilled in the next 3 or 4 weeks. Speculation only, but I'm pretty sure that Paulie and Christopher are gonna get whacked. And that Carmella finds out about what happened to Ade. And I wouldn't be surprised if the whole Sopranos family empire crumbles. Oy.

[caerwynx.livejournal.com]

My feelings exactly. I'm really hoping Christopher gets it sooner than later, honestly.

[zosh.livejournal.com]

For the mailbox situation, I think you need to build a brick column with an opening for a mailbox in it. If possible, you many want to add a driveway light on top. But that my require digging a trench for the power. Just a couple suggestions.

[maystone.livejournal.com]

Hee. Suggestions noted :) Someone else suggested concrete, and actually I've seen a couple of mailboxes that have been sunk into barrels of concrete. We're considering doing that. We'd get a PO box but they're over $100 a month! Ah, Canadia.

[malterre.livejournal.com]

Okay I am getting obssessed with your mailbox
http://www.seattleluxe.com/cgi-local/SoftCart.exe/mailboxes-curbside.php?E+scstore

http://www.secure-mailboxes.com/oingpost.htm

http://www.google.com/Top/Shopping/Home_and_Garden/Outdoor_Structures/Mailboxes/

http://www.custom-mailboxes.com/heavyduty.html

[maystone.livejournal.com]

Heh. Thanks for all of the links :)

We're thinking of sinking the wooden post into a milk can or large bucket filled with concrete. We've seen other mailboxes set up like that around here (we're obsessed with mailboxes, too!), and it seems like a reasonable solution in the short term, no?

[(Anonymous)]

The good thing about that is that when it gets knocked over, you can just stand it up again.

[budclare.livejournal.com]

Oh, brilliant. I forgot to log in.

[maystone.livejournal.com]

Hee! But you're absolutely right about it not being destroyed even if it gets knocked over.

[saintpip.livejournal.com]

I've been meaning to ask; is the Post Office too far away to stop at daily? Why not just rent a box there and get it over with? :)

[maystone.livejournal.com]

The post office is over 10 miles away, and a PO box is more than $100 a month. Good ol' Canada :)

[saintpip.livejournal.com]

PS: I'm not a Heroes person, either; didn't like it from the beginning.

[llaras.livejournal.com]

Inviting you to use_of_a_swap!