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The War of the Bird Feeders
14 years ago
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So my family's been staying with my grandmother ever since moving back from Bizarroland Florida, and in that time between moving there and back, she's let her yard go to hell. So in an attempt to brighten things up my dad and I put three or four different-sized bird feeders in the front yard, as well as suet blocks, birdhouses and a bell feeder.
Now our yard's Ground Zero for the avian equivalent of WWI. First was a giant bachelor bluejay, who contrary to jay stereotypes, is pretty mellow unless you touch the suet bell. Then the cowbirds [which I did not know existed] were the next to try and stake a claim. There are [so far] four or five of them. The starlings, sorta cranky, followed. THEN a pair of mated house finches AND a cardinal husband and wife and teenage-burd son all moved in, it seems, the same morning. [Teenburd is named Pulsar. :P]
But the German equivalent of the birds came last - four to six fat, bullying doves who crowd four-at-a-time on the large feeder and scare and shove everyone out of the way. They also like to tip the lid off the aforementioned large feeder and wallow in their meal. Dad says there's at least two mated pairs in competition with each other but I'm unsure. They seem pretty chummy to me!
Last is a buff woodpecker who's sort of like Switzerland. He doesn't get involved.
In other news, folks who trade pokémon on Black/White are enormous dicks. No, I do not want to trade Reshiram, Zekrom, or Victini, and Nintendo won't let me trade Event Pokémon thru Negotiations! I worked hard to get them and no one else will offer me theirs! Gah!
It is thusly why I believe the legendary system is broken. That, or 90% of trainers over Wi-Fi are immature, selfish, 12-year-old RETARDS who're out of touch with reality!!!
Despite the unrealistic refusal of anyone to offer anything unless I pledge to give them one of the three Legendaries listed above, I've managed to snag a number of Shinys.
Zebstrika (I caught myself [!])
Umbreon
Golem
Starmie
Swampert
Manaphy (legit [!])
Weezing
and Cottonee.
All legit.
*preens proudly*
So I need Vullaby STILL, as well as Tornadus. I would like a shiny Ralts (two would be mindblowing 83), a shiny Vulpix, a shiny Growlithe, a spare Sun Stone for Cottonee, and shiny Feebas. I'm up for trading most things. Comment here for negotiations...
Also, why aren't any of y'all ever on Wi-Fi? I wanna chat! Trade! Battle! Entralink!
Now our yard's Ground Zero for the avian equivalent of WWI. First was a giant bachelor bluejay, who contrary to jay stereotypes, is pretty mellow unless you touch the suet bell. Then the cowbirds [which I did not know existed] were the next to try and stake a claim. There are [so far] four or five of them. The starlings, sorta cranky, followed. THEN a pair of mated house finches AND a cardinal husband and wife and teenage-burd son all moved in, it seems, the same morning. [Teenburd is named Pulsar. :P]
But the German equivalent of the birds came last - four to six fat, bullying doves who crowd four-at-a-time on the large feeder and scare and shove everyone out of the way. They also like to tip the lid off the aforementioned large feeder and wallow in their meal. Dad says there's at least two mated pairs in competition with each other but I'm unsure. They seem pretty chummy to me!
Last is a buff woodpecker who's sort of like Switzerland. He doesn't get involved.
In other news, folks who trade pokémon on Black/White are enormous dicks. No, I do not want to trade Reshiram, Zekrom, or Victini, and Nintendo won't let me trade Event Pokémon thru Negotiations! I worked hard to get them and no one else will offer me theirs! Gah!
It is thusly why I believe the legendary system is broken. That, or 90% of trainers over Wi-Fi are immature, selfish, 12-year-old RETARDS who're out of touch with reality!!!
Despite the unrealistic refusal of anyone to offer anything unless I pledge to give them one of the three Legendaries listed above, I've managed to snag a number of Shinys.
Zebstrika (I caught myself [!])
Umbreon
Golem
Starmie
Swampert
Manaphy (legit [!])
Weezing
and Cottonee.
All legit.
*preens proudly*
So I need Vullaby STILL, as well as Tornadus. I would like a shiny Ralts (two would be mindblowing 83), a shiny Vulpix, a shiny Growlithe, a spare Sun Stone for Cottonee, and shiny Feebas. I'm up for trading most things. Comment here for negotiations...
Also, why aren't any of y'all ever on Wi-Fi? I wanna chat! Trade! Battle! Entralink!
Constantly, quietly watching.
Waiting.
I'd be willing to offer the Weezing, Golem, or Zeeb... mebbe Starmie too.
Vuuuuuuuullllllllllaby... ◎.ω.◎
*chews on pencils while taken test...*
*checks box "B"*
*snickers* might just be a personal peev of mine to (some what rightly) assume that an average person is... not worth it? but *shrugs* it's not like i don't have due cause for such a belief, after all.. the average person is... well REALLY not worth it for a very good reason!
as for the "BIIIIIIIIIIRD WARS!" i wish i could see!!! it looks awesome! bet it would be fun to watch that with you, i get a kick out of watching nature play itself out :)
~Verda, chere a toi!
*sweat* (sorry! i've never heard of a goldfinch before! :'( but i assume it looks like... a finch?... that's gold-ish colored?)
i was sure you'd ask by now, chere a moi!
~Verda
Sorry, ain't got no new-fangled pokemon game. D:
geez >..> i still remember the ole days of the "thingamabob" >..>
anywho :) it don't help my age that i'm "behind" on anything "new" >..> i remember working on my first computer... it would be only a few years before they had hard-drives, and i got my own snes back bout 1997... my psx bout 2002 or so...
hey who else played the little red Italian plumber dude trying to play 'shoots and latters' with the big barrel throwing monkey back on the atari? >:)
but i meant that my life experiences add up to a rather large amount, compared to many people near my own age; as a child i didnt really 'play' but the best times where just.. talking... "bout the good ole days" with many older people, in particular my grandmother, and the people at the home where my grandfather lived.
among that, i've had... experiences? (most people tell me their definitions more equate 'trauma') in life that kinda forced me to grow up fast; then lend in the fact my family never much believed in "childhood", particularly my mom (perfectionist, god complex, and lazier then a squashed roach. ...fun...)
also grew up a single-child, no siblings, and rather alone, i didn't live in a "neighborhood"... kinda too... back woods area for that, so the only other people around me growing up was older adults, and not necessarily -close-
end result, sans the actual bad things in my life, all that as i put it, more or less literally left me without a childhood (in a metaphorical sense), bulling at school, the lack of attention and affection my family "gave" me has left me emotional withdrawn, and the things my family has done (lied to me, forced me into... 'situations' and my mom has put me into as i understand it, about 20 to 30 thousand dollars of credit theft debt.) has left me with a very large trust problem.
it rather sums me up, just to say i'm an unstable walking mass of emotional complexs. but most people just call me misanthropic. i suppose the definition fits well enough :)
or at least that my personal belief :)
and oooh boy did the world 'change' now that i'm finding the depths of who i am, and not who i was told to be :)