A PEST infestation in my lightbox!!!

[mark james]

Very bothersome... Persistent... Always present... Noisy... Attracted to warm lights... Seems to follow me all over the house... Click on the lights and wham! They appear from nowhere.

The gray pest kept trying to eat a blank from George

I suspect George casted a dead tuna fish in that blank... :cat::cat::cat:

 

[mmyshrall]

Hi Mark,

Looks to me like they are there to remind of two things:

1) As the superior being in the house, you should be grateful for their presence and any inconvenience to you is irrelevant...

2) If they posessed opposable thumbs, they would be a way better pen turner than you. I particularly believe that is the attitude of the siamese... :biggrin:

I would suggest a couple of canines to balance; they are always happy with whatever "stick" you produce... :smile-big:

Having said all that, I do miss having felines around the house. They would catch the mice that the border collie herded up... didn't make the border collie happy when they decimated her herd though.

I like the lightbox setup, did you make or purchase it?

Michael

 

[mark james]

Hi Mark,

Looks to me like they are there to remind of two things:

1) As the superior being in the house, you should be grateful for their presence and any inconvenience to you is irrelevant...

2) If they posessed opposable thumbs, they would be a way better pen turner than you. I particularly believe that is the attitude of the siamese... :biggrin:

I would suggest a couple of canines to balance; they are always happy with whatever "stick" you produce... :smile-big:

Having said all that, I do miss having felines around the house. They would catch the mice that the border collie herded up... didn't make the border collie happy when they decimated her herd though.

I like the lightbox setup, did you make or purchase it?

Michael

Hi Michael:

Purchase the folding box on sale over x-mas through amazon. If I remember it correctly...Cowboy Studio ?

I have two bulbs clamped to large coffee cans that I can move easily and the final hanging from the ceiling joist. It goes up/down in 3 minutes. Sits on a pool table.

 

[carlmorrell]

Hey is that a Rex?:biggrin:

 

[mark james]

Hey is that a Rex?:biggrin:

SHARP EYE Carl!!!

Yes, both are Devon Rex's.

Upon getting married 29 3/4 yrs ago... Wifey (who asks for very little actually) did ask to try to have a cat - she had them growing up.

I am an asthmatic, very well controlled, no real problems. I also try to please. And finally... I'm sometimes very stupid!

The cat experiment lasted a bit less than 3 weeks. Almost killed me!
Back on allergy injections bi-monthly for 2 years, couldn't wear my contact lenses for almost 9 months...

So, fast forward 18 years... my 7 year old daughter... "Daddy, do you love me..." "Sorry..." Saying that almost killed me also.

Then at a party, a friend of my cousin bragged how he was a lifelong asthmatic and now has a wonderful cat... I listened, but didn't believe it was possible. At same gathering a full year later I asked how it was going. "Great, now I have 2!"

So for my daughter's 8'th birthday we got the grey tabby mix, and 6 months later the seal point (white) for my wife.

I've had no allergy issues!

PS: I bought them for my daughter and wife, right. Who's lap do they jump into; who do they follow around; and who is clearly their preferred slave - ME!

 

[1080Wayne]

Hey is that a Rex?:biggrin:

SHARP EYE Carl!!!

Yes, both are Devon Rex's.

Upon getting married 29 3/4 yrs ago... Wifey (who asks for very little actually) did ask to try to have a cat - she had them growing up.

I am an asthmatic, very well controlled, no real problems. I also try to please. And finally... I'm sometimes very stupid!

The cat experiment lasted a bit less than 3 weeks. Almost killed me!
Back on allergy injections bi-monthly for 2 years, couldn't wear my contact lenses for almost 9 months...

So, fast forward 18 years... my 7 year old daughter... "Daddy, do you love me..." "Sorry..." Saying that almost killed me also.

Then at a party, a friend of my cousin bragged how he was a lifelong asthmatic and now has a wonderful cat... I listened, but didn't believe it was possible. At same gathering a full year later I asked how it was going. "Great, now I have 2!"

So for my daughter's 8'th birthday we got the grey tabby mix, and 6 months later the seal point (white) for my wife.

I've had no allergy issues!

PS: I bought them for my daughter and wife, right. Who's lap do they jump into; who do they follow around; and who is clearly their preferred slave - ME!

That`s because you are the one with the ability to preserve their DNA for posterity by encapsulating a hair beneath the first layer of CA you put on that special pen you made for your best customer . Your wife comes into the picture as the resident QC expert who points it out to you .

 

[mark james]

Hey is that a Rex?:biggrin:

SHARP EYE Carl!!!

Yes, both are Devon Rex's.

Upon getting married 29 3/4 yrs ago... Wifey (who asks for very little actually) did ask to try to have a cat - she had them growing up.

I am an asthmatic, very well controlled, no real problems. I also try to please. And finally... I'm sometimes very stupid!

The cat experiment lasted a bit less than 3 weeks. Almost killed me!
Back on allergy injections bi-monthly for 2 years, couldn't wear my contact lenses for almost 9 months...

So, fast forward 18 years... my 7 year old daughter... "Daddy, do you love me..." "Sorry..." Saying that almost killed me also.

Then at a party, a friend of my cousin bragged how he was a lifelong asthmatic and now has a wonderful cat... I listened, but didn't believe it was possible. At same gathering a full year later I asked how it was going. "Great, now I have 2!"

So for my daughter's 8'th birthday we got the grey tabby mix, and 6 months later the seal point (white) for my wife.

I've had no allergy issues!

PS: I bought them for my daughter and wife, right. Who's lap do they jump into; who do they follow around; and who is clearly their preferred slave - ME!

That`s because you are the one with the ability to preserve their DNA for posterity by encapsulating a hair beneath the first layer of CA you put on that special pen you made for your best customer . Your wife comes into the picture as the resident QC expert who points it out to you .

Hadn't thought of that... Hmmmm.. I still think George sent me a tuna fish blank. :cat:

 

[Teeball]

I would not put it past George , he puts everything into his blanks and they all turn out beautifully. Ask me how I know, I have 60.

 

[robutacion]

Well, I never thought in try using tuna fish to make blanks with, I may try one day...!

What you've got there is the "Truffle", it has a very distinct smell (not bad, at all...!) however rare, particularly after stabilization, there is a possibility that, one of the many resident grubs from that wood, is still present inside the blank.

Like I said, that will be a rare event and it should have cost twice the money as, supplying a pen blank with a unique Aussie natural product, with its natural resident still present, (even if dead), has double value, is the exoctic "meat" value that will make the blank, super special...!

Apart from that, I don't know...!:biggrin:

Cheers
George

 

[Curly]

Is that grey one sticking his tongue out? :tongue:

 

[mark james]

Is that grey one sticking his tongue out? :tongue:

Trying to eat through George's resin to get to the tuna fish!!!

After I took George's blank away... not happy

 

[Curly]

Sorry. I'm a bit colour blind. I thought this one was the grey.

 

[robutacion]

Is that grey one sticking his tongue out? :tongue:

Trying to eat through George's resin to get to the tuna fish!!!

After I took George's blank away... not happy

Oh dear Mark, what have you done...!!!

Let him/her have it for a little while, he wouldn't destroy it, would he/she...???:biggrin:

Well, I know that, some of my blanks have been used for some very strange purposes but, cats toys, that's the first...!:wink:

Cheers
George