Wednesday Evening Open Thread

by Alxala

Yesterday my Dad and I decided to go to the dump and finally got all of our old electronics inside a trailer full of those. Then we threw a plastic bag of pinecones, some broken doghouse parts and all the other garbage into a large dumpster. We were so happy that all the junk is gone for good. 😀

Anyways, I have been working out back with my Dad earlier this afternoon. We were just sifting through piles as we search for more twigs, large pieces of tree bark and the last of the pinecones and throwing into them into a pile that can be used for burning. So tomorrow we will get the rest our work done in the backyard and we will have a wonderful garden back there. 🙂

And now for no reason at all, here’s another animated TF2 picture that I created using Shotcut:

TIMBER!!!

by Alxala

Here’s another animated TF2 GIF that I created for tonight with the help of Shotcut since I’ve been playing that game lately:

It was me as a Sniper annihilating an enemy Heavy with a single full charged headshot. That Heavy was doing the headshot death animation after he lost all 300 of his health, and as the old saying goes: ‘The bigger they are, the harder they fall’. Of course, that is the name of the title of this animated picture that I just uploaded on Steam. 😛

Yet Another Afternoon Open Thread

by Alxala

Last night we had two of our friendly cousins coming over to our house for a visit. We had such a great time together from simple conversations with my family to eating meatloaf for dinner along with some salad and green beans. It was a super excellent dinner for the whole family. 😉 I even showed our cousins some of my artwork via my camera including Little Red Riding Hood getting baked, a young couple eating potato chips while getting stoned, etc. I gotta say, they both like my artwork so much. It sure was nice to see our friendly cousins (again). 🙂

I went out back with my Dad this nice but breezy afternoon and didn’t do really much yard work because of heavy winds. We were spreading yard stones on the entrance to our backyard, and tried to avoid breathing stone dust while it’s breezy heavily out here. We decided to call it quits after picking a few more pinecones because we just don’t want to get dirt in our eyes in this breezy weather, and every time I try lift the dirt the wind blows it towards my eyes.

Have A Very, Very Tall Seeding Dandelion

by Alxala

I took a picture of some kind of weed flower a few days ago at about 1 o’ clock in the afternoon after getting all ready for that day. I found this extremely tall seeding dandelion that was located in our backyard next to a chain-like fence between our backyard and our neighbors’:

This dandelion is about three feet tall. It has a lot of tiny parachute seeds that form a good-sized white puffball that has a really nice smell to it:

That’s a few good reasons why I love these kind of flowers: Super tallness, large puffballs and their smell. 😀 But right now we’re trying to decimate as many dandelions and other tall weed flowers as possible by putting down some poisonous weed killer on them so they can droop little by little at a time and die. Oh, on another note our lawnmower men showed up earlier this morning and finally managed to mow down lots of tall weeds in our neighbors’ backyard after they finished mowing our lawn. At least they solved our weed problem because now we have less weeds to kill. 🙂

Monday Evening Open Thread: More Work in the Backyard

by Alxala

Papa Smurf and I went out in our backyard this evening and started grabbing a huge mound pinecones and tree branches into separate buckets so we can load the buckets of pinecones in our van and haul them to the dump on the 7th this month and then use the branches including parts of a destroyed dog house as part of the fire pit experiment.

Either way, we didn’t get all the pinecones and branches but we sure got a lot of them so far. We’ll continue looking for more backyard waste and hopefully finish our job either tomorrow or the next day.