The Good News Thread: I'm So Excited! And I Just Can't Hide It!

[Oversleep]

10 minutes ago, Darkness Ascendant said:

Get some fingers then

I think I'll just find some people who can sew *sharpens spikes* and learn from them *sharpens spikes*

Edited April 13, 2017 by Oversleep

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

1 minute ago, Oversleep said:

I think I'll just some people who can sew *sharpens spikes*

Define just.

[A Budgie she/her]

@Oversleep good luck with your Mistcloak then...I hadn't done much 'proper' sewing (I was mostly doing tapestry at the time) when I decided to make one, but luckily I got help when it was needed...

[Kaymyth she/her]

16 hours ago, A Budgie said:

Oh...I just cut them using plinking shears. It was painful, but I used a rather light and thin fabric, so it wasn't as bad as it could have been. And as for the edges of the strips, we got them so one end was didn't need to be hemmed, and the other was the end was sewed unto the costume.

Oof. Yeah, I cut my strips using a yardstick, a second ruler (cause they needed to be more than 3 feet long), and a rotary cutter. Gave me one smooth cut the entire line down, no notches or bobbles where a pair of scissors would have to be moved.

Finished the sewing last night. Tonight shall be ironing and starching.

5 hours ago, A Budgie said:

Yeah...I could understand taking the easier route if you don't have the time to sew on 50-100+ strips...

It's not the sewing part that's annoying so much as the pinning. So much pinning. Every. Single. Strip. Must. Be. Pinned.

[RippleGylf she/her]

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/brandon-sanderson-book-bundle

Just saw the Brandon Sanderson Humble Bundle. So happy! <3

[A Budgie she/her]

6 hours ago, Kaymyth said:

It's not the sewing part that's annoying so much as the pinning. So much pinning. Every. Single. Strip. Must. Be. Pinned.

I pinned mine in layers of strips, then sewed them on layer by layer. Breaking the work up into chunks of 'layers' seemed to be easier.

[Mistrunner]

Standardized testing is almost over, band and choir both performed respectably at State, and the extraordinarily stressful yet productive last couple of weeks are hopefully giving way to more calm ones ahead.

Also, it rained so hard today that they sent a bus down to pick up people from the fine arts building and take us back to the main building, which I felt was a bit extravagant but kind of awesome at the same time.

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

2 hours ago, Mistrunner said:

Standardized testing is almost over, band and choir both performed respectably at State, and the extraordinarily stressful yet productive last couple of weeks are hopefully giving way to more calm ones ahead.

Also, it rained so hard today that they sent a bus down to pick up people from the fine arts building and take us back to the main building, which I felt was a bit extravagant but kind of awesome at the same time.

pfft. Walk through the rain bus peasant.

[Flynn]

41 minutes ago, Darkness Ascendant said:

pfft. Walk through the rain bus peasant.

Ruthless

[Delightful]

2 hours ago, Darkness Ascendant said:

pfft. Walk through the rain bus peasant.

Bus peasant  

Edited April 14, 2017 by Delightful

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

47 minutes ago, Delightful said:

Bus peasant  

that's what my friend calls them. He always gets picked up from school.

[Delightful]

The kids next to me on the bus are watching Hebrew MLP. 

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

3 minutes ago, Delightful said:

The kids next to me on the bus are watching Hebrew MLP. 

The kids behind me are watching Bee Movie >>

Edited April 14, 2017 by Darkness Ascendant
As in my sisters. I'm not on a bus.

[A Budgie she/her]

1 hour ago, Delightful said:

The kids next to me on the bus are watching Hebrew MLP. 

My friend knits on the train sometimes, and I've done cross stich before on there.

[Mistrunner]

On 4/14/2017 at 12:45 AM, Darkness Ascendant said:

pfft. Walk through the rain bus peasant.

The queen does not walk through the rain!

Edited February 6, 2024 by Mistrunner

[Sunbird she/her]

Found a bunch more cool birbs on Saturday! (Yes, I misspelled that intentionally.)

I took 275 photos and kept more than 50 of them, but it's late, so here are just a few of the very best pictures from my trip.

Black-necked Stilt (aptly named; you'll see why):

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Clark's Grebe (the larger bird on the right):

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Swainson's Hawk (It was screaming at me in this picture):

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Western Meadowlark:

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I had never seen a Swainson's Hawk or a Clark's Grebe until today, so I'm thrilled that I got identifiable photos of them both.

[A Budgie she/her]

@Sunbird those are very good birbs!
Strangely enough, over here we have the bird that's on the right in the grebe picture: moorhens, I think they are? 

[Sunbird she/her]

@A Budgie Close! Moorhens are closely related to the little guy in my grebe photo. Mine is called an American Coot, and the only visible difference between the two when you see them swimming like that is their bill colors: on a moorhen, it's red, but on a coot, it's white.

Well okay, on the moorhens I've seen in the US, the bill is red. Other countries and continents may have other kinds of moorhens with other colors of bills.

[A Budgie she/her]

2 hours ago, Sunbird said:

@A Budgie Close! Moorhens are closely related to the little guy in my grebe photo. Mine is called an American Coot, and the only visible difference between the two when you see them swimming like that is their bill colors: on a moorhen, it's red, but on a coot, it's white.

Well okay, on the moorhens I've seen in the US, the bill is red. Other countries and continents may have other kinds of moorhens with other colors of bills.

Oh, okay. I've seen both red and white beaked birds before, although the white seems to be more common. That's cool.

[Sunbird she/her]

1 minute ago, A Budgie said:

Oh, okay. I've seen both red and white beaked birds before, although the white seems to be more common. That's cool.

Yeah, I definitely see coots a lot more often than moorhens. There were probably several hundred of them on Utah Lake yesterday, spread out across various areas.

[A Budgie she/her]

Just now, Sunbird said:

Yeah, I definitely see coots a lot more often than moorhens. There were probably several hundred of them on Utah Lake yesterday, spread out across various areas.

Huh. Although we have them, ducks seem to be more common. And ibisis, which everyone hate.
And guinea fowl, for some reason.

[Sunbird she/her]

4 minutes ago, A Budgie said:

Huh. Although we have them, ducks seem to be more common. And ibisis, which everyone hate.
And guinea fowl, for some reason.

LOL, I've heard stories about the Australian attitude toward ibises. Apparently tourists come over from the US or England or wherever and "ooh" and "ahh" at the ibises and the locals are just like, "Whatever, those birds are everywhere." Am I right?

Do the guinea fowl you usually see look like this?

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I took that photo yesterday as I was heading home from my birding excursion. It's a Helmeted Guinea-fowl; some people in the USA keep them on farms, but they're not native to North America.

[A Budgie she/her]

@Sunbird Yeah, the ibisis are known as a pain.
And yes, that's what our guinea fowl look like. I don't think they're local, though. They only appeared a few years back so we think they escaped off someone's property.

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

I wrote 1,000 words today….

….with the wifi on.  

Seriously, the last time I did that, the wifi was out. Super proud of myself for that. 

[A Budgie she/her]

2 minutes ago, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said:

I wrote 1,000 words today….

….with the wifi on.  

Seriously, the last time I did that, the wifi was out. Super proud of myself for that. 

Good job!