I should have plugged this in at the dream post above, but I forgot!
Posted on 03/14/2002 5:07:26 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
We have a robin that built a next right where we can easily see it. It was empty the first time we took the barstool out there and looked...then there were four eggs. One day, I noticed more commotion out there than usual, so we hauled out the barstool and found 3 very newborn baby robins! The fourth egg must have been a dud. Now they are quite big and we don't even need the barstool...we can see them very well when the mama bird flies up. It is unbelievable! That mama robin is so used to the kids that it hunts for food just feet away from them while they are back there playing. There are the kids...running around, with a robin hopping around right beside them!
We also have a bunny that I have decided to let alone to see if it will bother our garden. So far it has done nothing but eat grass, and it just grazes out in the backyard. It also stays back there while boys are playing and it seems almost unconcerned. The boys are under orders not to harrass it and they both just seem to accept the other!
It's like a little Eden right here in my own back yard!
I may have gone off the deep-end, but if so, it has led to a possibly fun tale to tell.
Last night I had a dream. (Jen, this one is rated "G", don't worry!) A bunch of us were all together at a theater watching Fellowship of the Ring! Which was fun enough of an idea... but it gets better.
I looked behind us, and in the back row was Peter Jackson. (I know, I know)
After the film, we approached him to meet him and tell him how great the film was... and he sat and talked and listened to us (while some of us even had the gall to complain about Galadriel)...
Then he said... "We are having a very secret advanced showing of the Two Towers here. We think it is very nearly finished... All of us are going to take a look at it and see. I would love to have some fans here to see it too. We want to make sure it is good enough for the fans. But you will have to promise not to tell anyone about what you have seen. And he handed us these ticket/passes.
I don't know which of us were there. I know most of us hobbits were there, but my brain sortof morphs people together and changes them around in my dreams, (especially people I haven't met) but I know Penny was NOT there for whatever reason, because I asked if we could get a ticket for her too, and he said no... only those of us that were there... (sorry Penny I tried!)
Unfortunately, I woke up before the movie started, so I still haven't seen TTT. But it was a fun idea! I almost got us there!
Anyway, back to our regularly scheduled programming...
Fun to watch birthings and critter activities in the spring. Last year I had a Robin's nest high in a tree in my yard, and a baby Robin fell out of the nest (actually the nest broke). A friend and I rushed it to the Wildlife Rescue place. - Hope he made it but I never called to find out!
Are you sure that you're not just keeping to the promise you had to make to PJ?
-Kevin
I absolutely can't wait! Only 218 more days, according to my nifty desktop countdown thingyjigger.
I should have plugged this in at the dream post above, but I forgot!
That must have been my punishment for seeing a movie other than LOTR in the theater last night! :o
Saw Spiderman, my friend really wanted to see it, but I still managed to sneak in to see bits and pieces of LOTR before and after Spiderman started. Unfortunately, the movie was scheduled to start right at the time the preview would have been showing, otherwise I would have snuck in for that too. Oh well...
BTW, really enjoyed Spiderman for what it was, even though I don't particularly like Tobey Maguire. But it was fun and entertaining, and I found myself remembering certain parts of the comic book that they seemed to follow pretty well in the movie.
Found any rumors in your travels on when an official TTT trailer will be released? - Any rumor of it being posted to the official site again so I don't have to actually go SEE any of the summer films?
I would not be at all surprised to hear that a teaser trailer is attached to AOTC. In fact, that would be kinda funny. I still remember seeing back-to-back trailers for FOTR and AOTC, and seeing the quality of FOTR juxtaposed with AOTC made me laugh all the way through the latter. I'd be up for a trailer for TTT making AOTC look juvenile, not that it'll need any help. ;)
Sorry, just read a not-so-nice review of AOTC, so it's all very fresh in my mind...
Going home now, bye!
-Kevin
Have a pint and relax...
Glad you made it online before you became catatonic!
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