[Gossamer's Scrapbook] The Ethereal Canyon I

[Gossamer]

. Response to Ron Of course Ron... you'd be hot. Totally smoking. With big... eyes! .

[Gossamer]

. I Think My Horse Is Laughing At Me. Of course it might just be paranoia. That's Mina, named after the Dragonlance Mina, and she's a Aalf Arab half Frisian. In Mizahar terms she'd be half nightwalker and half desertbred. .

[Paonna]

That horse is both cute and scary at the same time.

[Gossamer]

How can you look at her beautiful face and be scared? Look at those bright sweet eyes and the supermodel hair. What's to be afraid of? She's the sort that would get distraught if she chipped a hoof. That's not scary. Trust me. Her hobbies include being a 'foodie', primping, showing up other horses with higher trots and a more flaggy tail, and occasionally knocking down a fence casually (first looking both ways) just to get attention from her daddy, Gillar, who was there when she was born.

[Gossamer]

. To All The Whiners Out There That Have Been Complaining.... Yes its a rant so remember you don't need to read any further. Yes you whiners out east... Washington State finally broke 80 degrees. Yes... we had like a zillion days of straight rain and hadn't broke 70 degrees at all until this weekend. The entire northwest was suffering from seasonal disorder and depression while we watched the rest of you jerkfaces complain about how omgd hot it was. I don't care if folks died. That happens every day. I don't care if dumb people left their kids in cars to fry - if not that way they'd ignorantly kill them some other way - think about it. Darwin's writing can explain natural selection to you. Dumb begets dumb as far as I'm concerned. But OMG enough of the bitching and pissing and moaning already. Be grateful you have some sort of heat. California routinely has hellish heat and you don't hear them complaining. AZ, UT, NM, all of them do and I've been in St. George UT at 1am in the morning when its still 125 degrees. So stop bitching about your 'hot' weather already. Its bad enough that the rest of the country already hates your ass just for being whiny. No one cares. Talk to a Filipino about hot Manila gets or how bad Ghana is right now. BUT FINALLY ITS OUR TURN. IT IS FUCKING AMAZING OUTSIDE AT 86 DEGREES! I CAN FINALLY SMILE AGAIN. HELL YES! HELL HELL HELL HELL YES! So guess what we did today? I bet you can. Here's a pic to help you figure it out. .

[Alyx Bronwyn]

Bahaha you poor thing. I take it you like the heat, then? See, for me it's really one hell of a shock - I've literally never had a stretch of 100+ degree (F) weather that lasted fifteen days! I didn't know what to do with myself. It was awful! But I don't mean to whine - I never whine about things I can't control. Just for me personally, coming from a place where it gets cold as Nyx's left teat... yeah, the heat was just insane. I'll take bitter cold and biting wind any day! That being said, I suppose I'll acclimate eventually to it... it's simply not my favourite brand of weather. However, the 80's are pretty alright. I suppose you have to deal with the trade-off of endless rain in Washington, though? (Or is that just Seattle...?) As for the complete freaking morons who leave children in vehicles in this kind of weather? I wish the worst kind of fate upon them. Of course, it is most definitely Darwinism at work - but by proxy. Their children suffer for the fact that Darwinism didn't quite manage to remove their imbecilic parents from the gene pool in time. It absolutely boils my blood when people leave children - OR ANIMALS - in vehicles. Cracking windows just makes the damn thing into a convection oven. People can be so infuriatingly stupid. Bah!

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[Cayenne]

I generally disapprove of hot weather.

We're in a huge drought warning right now - there's been some really gorgeous trees that have just split and crashed down here, and part of me worries that my old babies will be next, even though I keep throwing buckets of water at them.

...but seriously if they came down on my house I would be so mad it would not be funny. >_<

[Gossamer]

If your trees aren't diseased I wouldn't worry about it. A healthy tree doesn't just split down the middle, crack, and fall due to a drought season. There's a whole host of tree-ring evidence out there that says this is true. There are a whole host of tree diseases that will cause a tree to finally die off in adverse weather though... but it has to be sick, and I do mean very sick, first.

PS if your really worried you can call your local arbor society or club and generally they'll come out and give you a free evaluation of both species and heath. Sometimes even garden clubs in the area will do this service as well as part of their community activism.

[Naama]

THANK YOU JEN. For saying this. Really thank you. Because the amount of whining I've been hearing (especially in chat, I mean come on people), about the hot ass weather. What? How about you hang out near the equator for a day, your skin feels like it's melting, it's awesome.

I don't even understand it. Grab a fan, sit in an AC mall. Why is that so hard? Why do people HAVE to complain about it?

URGH.

Funny I should say this though. I'm sitting with my windows open and a fan blowing right into my face as I type this.

[Liandra]

That's not the hot weather up there Caye, that's Raiha's radiating hotness.

That is all.