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[pacificpikachu]

I took the dogs outside and heard a familiar call. I looked up and, way up high, there were about forty or fifty sandhill cranes passing over! They were so high up I couldn't confirm just by silhouette, but after watching for about five or ten minutes until they were out of sight and earshot, I immediately went on Youtube to check the call (even though I immediately recognized it as being sandhill cranes), and that's exactly what it was! Ahhhh, so awesome! I love sandhill cranes, they're amazing. ♥ *A* Sounds like they'll be at Graylodge again soon!

Also, got a call from Linda this morning on a rehab bird. It just happened to be a little bantam chick who wandered into someone's yard and the cat was playing with the poor little thing. Thankfully, Charming just hatched three (ADORABLE) chicks yesterday and today, so I stuck the little baby under her and she immediately adopted it. :D It looks like it's a few days older than the newborns, maybe five or six days old, but Charming will take good care of it. Eee, how cute! I'll take pictures of all the chicks soon because I'm expecting more to hatch in the incubator in the next three to four days. Baby chickens are the beeest! ♥

I'm on a "reading about morbid and tragic things on the internet and looking at crime scene photos" spree. I have these every few months if not a little more often than that. It's not out of depression or anything like it at all, it's just out of sick fascination I guess. I dunno, it's interesting, and I'll get sick of it after a day or two and go back to reading about more normal, cheerful things (for the most part).

Makayla, Steven, and I went and saw OWL MOVIE in 3-D IMAX! It was pretty archetypal and they weren't too impressed with it, but I must admit I liked it a lot! The animation was super gorgeous and I was just happy to see a talking animal movie with an actual plot and a lack of romance. (I really really dislike talking animal movies where they just make a bunch of pop culture references and tell funny jokes, hurrhurr!) I was thinking as I watched it "If this were about humans I probably wouldn't like this movie much..." But, hey, pretty, well-animated owls duking it out. I'm easily won over. Anyway, yeah, I liked it. Nice to see a kid's movie with some darker themes and imagery than the usual saccharine stuff that kids are raised with today. Nightmare fuel for today's five year olds? I hope so, we all need a little nightmare fuel in our childhoods, haha. My childhood had plenty of it and I still love those nightmare fuel movies today. :D

Chicken picture posts coming up soon! I just want to wait for the rest of my eggs to do their hatching.

Oh, I might be taking a trip down to the Bay Area the weekend of October 10th (and then again for Yaoi-Con, of course, but that goes without saying) if anyone wants to hang out while I'm there or come along? I'm going for a Chickenstock that's from 11 AM - 3 PM on the 10th, but if I'm going to go down there I might as well do some other things in the bay area and maybe stay the night there as well! I dunno, I'll figure out more specific plans later, but I am thinking I want to attend that Chickenstock and then maybe go hang out in Japantown or something.

Back to reading morbid things on the internet!

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[astralvulpes.livejournal.com]

Sandhill cranes. *_* I used to get pairs of those on my lawn back when I lived in Florida - they always made me smile. They're really gorgeous birds.

I'm dying to see the guardians movie. I'm glad to hear there's no romantic subplot, which is definitely a plus.

[pacificpikachu.livejournal.com]

I remember you telling me that--how incredible! I would love to have them on my lawn any day.

I think you'll love it! It's totally perfect for animal/fantasy people like us. The lack of romantic subplot is refreshing, too. :D

[jodie.livejournal.com]

I'd love to meet you again! paperoid and inkyfish and I just hung out the other day, and were talking about hanging out this weekend at the UCSC campus where paperoid lives. Except, I'm not sure if it's too late notice to change those plans and try to get them to take a trip to... is it SF? I've heard San Jose also has a Japantown.

Either way, ~ yeah! haha; I'd be up for it if it's at all possible. :D <3

And that's wonderful your little chick was adopted by Charming. ^m^ So cute! I wish I had more to say about that, haha, but I don't know chicken lingo. haha

[pacificpikachu.livejournal.com]

Awesome, I would love to meet you again as well! Yes, it would be in San Francisco, and I'll likely be in Japantown all day on the 9th. If you guys decide to join, by all means, we'll figure it out! And if not, no worries, though I would love to hang out if possible!

It is really, really cute! I'll share pictures soon so you can properly squee about the adorable! ♥

[kyogres.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I had any childhood nightmare fuel (I was quite sheltered0, though The Hunchback of Notre Dame made me quite depressed the first time I saw it.

[pacificpikachu.livejournal.com]

Haha, I had Watership Down (NOT a good movie to watch when you're four years old--though an excellent movie period and my second favorite book ever), The Secret of NIMH, Little Nemo, The Bear, and others I'm sure... The films that were creepy as a child are the ones I tend to still love today, whereas other movies that weren't creepy at all didn't hold up as well. XD

[archaneah.livejournal.com]

stop reading morbid things and watch it! I'm super curious to hear what you think.

[pacificpikachu.livejournal.com]

Done and entry'd! *Spamming you now that she's seen it*

[pacificpikachu.livejournal.com]

Yayyy! It should be in a day or two (mayyybe three) once all the chicks have hatched! I've got one hatched, and a few working on it, and I'm sure more will be starting their work tonight. They're SUPER adorable! ♥

I think you'll like it--I know I did!

Hoorah, we should definitely hang out then! And ask if Laura is free! Sounds like we might be doing an impromptu/casual pkmncollectors gathering. My plan is to go hang out in Japantown all day on Saturday, the 9th, so if nothing is going on for you hopefully we can arrange to hang out! I can pick people up if needed, too, though I know you have a fixed car now so hopefully transportation won't be an issue. :) We'll keep in touch!