Hiding behind the rainbow

The King of the kitchen is dead.

2008-08-21T18:16:00.003+02:00

It came to pass that on the 4th day in the 4th week of the 8th month of the 8th year, the calling of the wild clover fields out weight the coils of life, so as the time came the king was surrounded by family and loved ones, now the king runs free in the wild clover fields, forever young and full of vigor. Blessed be Ditto.

The passing

2008-05-01T08:09:00.003+02:00

In the beginning of the day just as the sun startet to rise, the spirits called out into the void calling another to them, as the ones that have passed before, the choise is his to make and his alone, will he pass fully to the world of his dreams, or linger on the edge, to come and aid those he loved when times get hard, passing into the world of dreams to spend time with old friends, but always listening for that faint sound of a loved one in need of guidens, leaving the dream world and friends to guide loved ones is not always easy for the new spirits, but as they become wiser they know that the dream world will always be there, even if the other spirits will leave to guide their loved ones from time to time, when a spirit is in the dream world it sometimes happens that loved ones will visit in thrie sleep, knowing this and knowing the spirit before it is called by the others will give a clue to where to look in the dream world to find that special spirit.........

In memory of H. Ben Malliett
Lost the fight to cancer on wensday 30/04/2008 at just before 5am(cdt), 12pm(cet)

old pics that i wanted to post

2008-02-06T20:23:00.000+01:00

was nosing through old pics and found a few that would be interesting to postThis one was one i took while out on a bike ride.
A shot along the biking/walking path in the small forrest where we live.
Just alittle friend that lives out in our wood-shed.
Quilt the cat.
Quilt the cat hiding in our birch tree hunting birdies.

Just an update

2008-01-27T13:15:00.000+01:00

Well i figured it was time to try and do an update on how things went on our us trip...

We landed in Chicago and went to pickup our car but they where out of the model we had booked so they gave us a free upgrade to a PT cruiser, not a bad trade, so after that we made our way up north to Appelton to visit with family starting (and ending) with Mom Malliett, had a nice amount of snow and grabbed some pics of stuff.

Us with Mom Malliett

Birds at the feeder at Mom's

House across the street, jsut looked good with the lights

The we went up to greenbay to visit Ben, he is the one with canser and the main reason behind our trip this time.Here we are with Ben.

Also went to visit Bill and Julie (brother and sister in law of Cuz's)

Here we are with Bill and Julie.

A shot of Bill and Julie's house.

Shot down the road outside Bill and Julie's house.

Then we took the drive down to Tennesee to visit friends in Nashville.

We stayed at the Sullivan's house and pictures was taken but i seem to have misplaced them and when i manage to locate them i will make a post with the pics.

There are pics of critters and some of the Sullivans, and also of Jenna's basketball game but that will have to wait till i find them.

I did get a new cam while in Nashville, seems me and Doc share the intrest in both music and pictures, so was fun to look for a cam with him along.

time to run and hide

2007-09-26T18:20:00.000+02:00

time to run screaming over the hills screaming the vikings are comming

Just transfered about a normal months sallery *eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek* but now we have the tickets *wooooo*

here are some info

leaving Aalborg at 1pm (-7h) landing in Copenhagen 2pm(-7h)
departing Copenhargen at 3:30 pm (-7h) landing at Ohara 6pm (us time)
on 22 of december
what the plans are from there we dont know that majorly depends on
Bens plans.

but one thing we know is that we will visit both Wisconsin and Tennesee.

More to come as we progress in time

TTFN

Creative change

2007-09-15T14:09:00.000+02:00

This is my new creative outlet, been playing keyboard, piano, organs

for a long time but after thinking about it and not playing actively for

some times (coupple of years) i decided that i was gonna try something

new.

This is the mandolin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandolin

and after only a few days playing on it i learned that i had the

same kind of feel for the mandolin as for the keyboard

After doing a bit of research i was reminded that my grandfather
on my mothers side played the mandolin, maybe this was at the
back of my head when i picked this instrument,
currently im learning the basic playing skills and a few tunes,
like christmas songs and a few oldies, been practicing Dance tonight
by Poul McCartney.

TTFN

Another new critter in the pack

2007-08-24T19:14:00.000+02:00

Her name is cleo, due to the black lines from the eyes

she has that old egyptian look.

She is a 1year 4month old english bulldog.

The coke bottle in the corner of the pic was one she

decided that she would use as a chew toy.

Cleo is not yet fully grown but still got a weight at about

50lbs. (tiny puppy) *snicker*

New critter in the pack

2006-06-07T19:27:00.000+02:00

Ditto and his new little brother The real bandit a golden satin guinea pig (yes his eyes are red ruby red)

Ditto and Koda (named after the little brother bear in disney's brother bear) relaxing in the piggie box between the computers, and yet again his red eyes are shining through

The Squirrel dog is dead

2005-12-13T10:31:00.000+01:00

PD. The Tennessee Squirrel Dog is dead.
The mind was strong but the body was weak.
He had the spirit of a 2 month old puppy but the heart of a 20 year old dog.

PD The Tennessee Squirrel Dog.

January 10th 1991 - December 13th 2005

Rescue mission 2

2005-08-29T09:48:00.000+02:00

Yet another rescue mission Quilt dragged in a young blue tit and was chasing it all over the house managed to lose it for a few hours and i could not find it then it showed up again and i managed to catch it.

Quilt, fierce predator.

Blue tit, angry pray (bit me several times).

Blue tit on my shoulder trying to get away from Quilt running around on the floor screaming.

Blue tit in our apple tree after i released it.

Road trip

2005-08-20T15:48:00.000+02:00

Today we went on a small trip to Randers regnskov (Randers rain forest) and AQUA.
Randers regnskov is a indoor recreation of the rain forest in south America, Asia and Africa and most of the animals are running free in each area, even a snake pit where all the snakes are crawling around free among visitors. AQUA is a research/learning center for freshwater lakes and streams, where they have lakes and rivers where you can be in a building and look out into them through a large window truly natural conditions and also different enclosures outside with animals as seen in the wild.

First pictures are from Randers regnskov.

This is a Marsh Mongoose might be hard to see but it is eating a mouse.

This is a little monkey that was running around on the guard rail, it had a nest in one of the trees just below so was a great way to guard.

Not a good picture but this is a sloth almost at the top of the dome from bottom to top the dome is about 120-130' and it was at about 80-90' up and crawling on a pipe of some sort, we where told that it would take it about 1 day to get from where it normally should be and around the dome on that pipe before it was back again, this one was wandering free.

Cave Porcupine, was in a enclosed area since they tend to be slightly nasty.

And this is the reason why they would be a little more nasty than normal. They had pups.

More from the road trip

2005-08-20T15:25:00.000+02:00

This is from AQUA.

Raccoon feeding time. Searching for things in the stream and trying to get fish chunks out of the box.

This is a wild mink eating a fish i just caught in the water.

Just a turtle enjoying the sun in a small un-enclosed area.

One of the otters swimming around waiting for the feed (live fish)

2 Of them eating live fish.

2 of the storks.

Dog Food day!!!!

2005-07-30T19:56:00.000+02:00

So it was time to make dog food again and I decided that this time we take pics of the process.
A badge of dog food is one full months worth for 3 dogs, they eat about 8lbs in 3 days so that means 1 month is roughly 80lbs, so it makes a rather large pile. A badge of dog food is meat, spinach, carrots, viable other greens, kelp,flax seeds, oatmeal and oil for shiny coat.

This first one is the carrots going through the grinder, some 15lbs. I think.

Still grinding up carrots, 15lbs'ish is a lot of carrots.

Getting towards the end of the carrots WHEEEE!!!!!.

Time to mix up the food.

Early in the mixing process can still tell carrots and meat from spinach.

Starting to get hard to mix as things start to firm up some.

Nice and greasy, all the way up the the elbows, and almost done mixing it up.

9. 8lbs bags and 4lbs for the fridge, nice amount this time.

PD. Cleaning the tub, also shows the size of the tub compared to a little dog.

PD and Ditto

2005-07-27T20:49:00.000+02:00

Since PD got injured he have been laying infront of Ditto's house and Ditto have been unsure about how to handle it, and hardly left his house then as PD got better, Ditto feelt more safe about leaving his house again and today i saw this sight and just had to snap a pic of it.

Rescue mission

2005-07-26T17:45:00.000+02:00

I went into the garage to get the lawnmower and noticed a bird in the window all the way up under the roof, so i mowed the lawn and went back to put away the mower and the bird was still there ok time to boot it out so i grabbed a cat (qiult) and put her up near the bird but she was scard of it and did not manage to scare the bird into my range instead she went outside the window and tried to catch the momma bird. ok i climbed up high enough to reach the bird then went out into the yard and put it down, all while quilt was chacing the momma bird, after i put it down the momma bird had lured quilt away and was now hopping around with a worm in it's beek, first 5 pics is the young bird just old enough to try and fly, last 2 is the momma bird with a worm.

Hogs in the pile

2005-07-24T14:00:00.000+02:00

Forgot to grab the cam as always......

today while clearing out the garage we found what we thought was an ant hill under some junk
when we poked it ants would run around so we got ready to remove it and i noticed something strange poking out of alittle hole in the top of the pile on closer inspection it turned out that a hedgehog had been dragging in junk and putting it in a pile next to the anthill, when i uncovered it to move it i was shocked it hissed at me never had that happen before and i have handled alot of hedge hogs, so i went to pick it up (wearing my ticky leather work gloves) and it chomped down on a finger again never happend before, ok i picked it up around the body only to notice a pink little thing with tiny white spikes laying under it, so as it chomped on my finger again (grumpy little bugger) a box was made ready for me to put it in then i searched the former nest and found 2 tiny little hedghogs about 2-3 days old that i put into the box with the mommy-hoggie (a momgie?), and topped off with some of the debris he had made the nest in, only took her a few minutes to calmdown again and start warming the youngs again, i called someone that has a hedghog shelter and they where more than happy to take the hoggie and her youngs, since if disturbed the mommy-hoggie will leave the nest and not comeback and with dogs and cats running around it would not be safe.

Me messing around with the cam (old pics)

2005-07-17T22:36:00.000+02:00

Left: Gpig waiting for a treat.
Below: Gpig during winter sitting by the computer.

Left: PD doing a nice pose for me.
Below: The face i have to deal with when i snack.

Left: Gpig all snuggled up on his blankie..... i missed the yawn.