Mood:
happyNow Playing: Manners by Passion Pit. Cool electropop!
Topic: this 'n that 'n the other
Me and the spider are getting along quite well. She's settled down in her new home, she spend less time in an attack position with her front legs up and ready to pounce and more time at the glass peering outside. We have her in our dining room on top of a cabinet and she can look over the whole room. She gets very curious when there's any noise or activity in the room. At dinner time she's always at the glass with her front legs up on the glass watching us. One thing I didn't know about tarantulas: they make a noise when they walk, a sort of clattering rustling ruffling sound. it's not loud, it's just weird.
She has systemically murdered all the crickets and she's lined them up along one side of the tank. She's certainly eaten four, there's one half sucked-dry husk of a cricket, one that's webbed up and one that she killed because it was far too noisy for her. She hunted that one for a while and he tried digging a hole in the substrate to get away. i poked him out of the hole and she got him. She left him at the water dish and the other crickets were quiet for a while. Then as they began cheeping again she went after them.
So now i am going to the pet store for more crickets. I have a little cricket cage and I'll put them in only a few at a time. She can murder small insects to her heart's content.
My mom and dad have their fiftieth wedding anniversary coming up in September and the invitations are going out this week. I have a dress planned for myself, it's going to be red and made of silk jersey and embellished with bronze and antique gold, there will be eyelets for tightening the bodice, there will be soft deerskin suede lacings and feathers and some earthy beads, I have some sequined trim with soft suede scrolling to use under the bust. I want to go the whole nine yards with this dress and then I can also wear it to the Creative festival in Toronto in October. I have a couple sketches already of what i want to do. It has to be red, no other colour will do.
I should also offer to make my mom a dress, I know what i would like to do: a simple wedge/column silhouette in a fabulous fabric with a bold neckline detail, such as a collar or perhaps shoulder detailing. The colour should be jewel bright and not bashful or understated. I would love to do another rich brocade dress for her, that would look super.
The only wrench in the works is that they want to invite my one ancient aunt who is a missionary up in the northwest of Ontario. She inculcates indoctrinates slaughters the native culture...she's a missionary who destroys all vestiges of first nation culture...DAMN! I can't think of any nice way to say that she's preaching a foreign religion to the children in the guise of a teacher. I think what she's doing is hideous and I find it hard to bite my tongue on this. These are the kind of people who supported the Indian residential schools of a not-so bygone era. And to make matters worse, she's a raving fundy who thinks that GWB was the best president in the history of the US and thinks the worked is 6000 years old. She's also a cap and cape dress wearing old order Mennonite. I will bit my tongue, but I'm still wearing a red dress that shows a bit lot of cleavage.
In other news I have a very lush, green and successful veggie garden. I will soon have more peas and more green beans than i know what to do with, no...I know what to do with them: Freeze them so I can have garden fresh stuff in the middle of winter! There are blossoms on the cucumbers, the green zucchini and yellow zucchini, the tomatoes are in bloom and the peppers are growing well. I need to fertilize them with a fertilizer that has a high middle number, that's the one that gives you leaves and flowers.
So that's all, there's not much happening in the old litter box. That's good, sometimes I need a brief time with no drama in my life.
