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Happy father's day everyone! I'll hopefully be going to my parent's place this afternoon to have dinner with them in celebration.

Yesterday a friend came over and we had fun exploring. Been quite a while since I've gotten to go exploring, and even longer since I've done so with a friend (I hope he wasn't bored, he's not the biggest adventurer out there, but he seemed to be alright, and afterward him and Kota played Borderlands 2, haha). A little bit of trespassing and we found a really neat...I'm not sure if it counts as a huge pond or a really small lake, haha. It was in a mining area, where they used to do hydraulic mining, so it was an interesting landscape...kinda desert-like with dry light colored fine rock mounds, yet overtaken with shrubby manzanita and other plants. The water was very interesting; I had found it on Google Maps one day and was so interested in the colors I told Kota we HAD to go...then one evening of a long bumpy dirt road later we managed to find the road that passed it (but since it was dark out Kota said no, we couldn't go explore...darn! lol). And discover that the OTHER way on the loop road was much shorter, even if it required crossing a creek via fording it, haha. So we went there yesterday, rediscovered the road, and found the water. It had really clear colors of blue, some green colors, and at the edges a red-brown. WEIRDEST thing though? THERE WAS NO LIFE IN THE WATER. No plants underwater like seaweed and such you'd normally see in lakes, no underwater grasses (though there were marshy grasses at the edge and in parts you could tell used to have water), no evidence of anything living in the water...in grand total, I found ONE tiny little minnow. That was it. It was so weird! The bottom of the pond/lake was also very interesting...since that area had been blasted with water (maybe from that very lake/pond) it was like a mushy thick-feeling sand. The water was very warm too-most of the lake/pond was rather shallow.

So yeah, really interesting, I plan on going back there. There was a house out there, and honestly I'd love to meet the people who live there (if they do) and ask them if we may explore their property more often, lol. Some of it was national forest land. Though there was also a sign saying that someone had a mining claim on the land, and then a bunch of no trespassing signs. Next time I go I have to remember to bring my camera!! Had to rely on my phone instead >.< So sorry about the size/quality of my recent uploads (though honestly my phone's camera isn't that bad all things considered).

Getting to explore like that was great though...been much too long since I've had a raw "let's discover things!" adventure outside of my car. My chest was feeling all upset and tight from a lack of it to the point where I was just complaining to Kota that I NEEDED to explore, haha. Now I want more. Adventure is one hell of a drug.

My chickens are getting big...I'm wondering if I should switch my older girls to chicken food instead of chick feed now. They're starting to really look like adult chickens, haha, though they still have a ways to go as far as growing goes. The silkies on the other hand hardly seem like they're growing at all, but I guess bantams take longer to. We'll be getting the chicken coop this week hopefully, and the pen will be started, so pretty soon I won't have to go back and forth every day moving the chickens from the dog pen to the garage, haha. They'll be happy about that! Well, I guess the silkies I'll have to do that still since they're too small for the gauge wire we'll be using. GROW SILKIES, GROW!! XD

And for the job related stuff I talked about in my last journal, I'm going to go in tomorrow to The Fur Trader and tell them Animal Control isn't going to work out at least for the rest of this year. I mean, I don't entirely know that for sure, but that's what it's sounding like at this rate. I need to start making money; graduation checks aren't going to last forever! lol Kota spends his days trying to fight back the blackberry bushes to get them out of the stream bed, while I'm just kinda being more useless and doing stuff like take care of the garden or minor house work or sitting around drawing...I should help him outside more.

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To Do List:
Owed "Thank You" Art: [link] [link] (face ref & body ref)
Coyote LARP Character: Shirt: Needs Decoration, Pants: Under Layer Complete-Need to Cover
Barbarian/Natural Outfit: One Sleeve Made, Coyote Face Shaped (skirt, shirt, pauldron, bracer...?)
100 Themes Challenge: [link]

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Stuff People Owe Me:
- Bodysuit/Footpaws
-Fursuit Head

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People I Know In The Real World:
(Kadota or Kota)
(The Holy Pulp or My Clone)
(Dr. Neelloc or Midget)
(...no nickname that I know I can use online yet)
(Tad)
(Miaka)
(Steph)
(Jenna)
(Luna)
(...no nickname that I know I can use online yet, lol)
(GB)
(Brittany)

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