zippy, because the first thing she ever did when i first saw her, was to zip past me like i didn't exist and go inside and make herself at home!
but i'm not currently taking on any cats, despite me started out feeding 2 and now if i'm not careful, up to 16 show up! gotta use strategy to get around half that number snacks every day for months now with the occasional leftover meats, which they love.
i'll introduce some of the others once i get the pics cropped.
the first thing i thought when i saw her, was how much she reminded me of the various cats i've seen portrayed in various egyptian movies/pics etc.
she had to be taught with a string and then a knobby, stubby tree branch about 4 feet long that me touching her, did in fact NOT mean i was going to eat her! now she loves the branch and all its scratchy goodness and it has a lot of claw/teeth marks in it, not just from her.
next up is actually 1 of the 2 firsts to show up. one of the sweetest but still a bit off imo, just like the rest of them, whose personalities are as distinct as their appearances.
she started out as ms skittish for obvious reasons but after a few days, a lot of food and string tosses, of which at first she looked at me like i was one of the dumbest life forms ever to cross her path. now though she is called, ms skittles. apropos, no?
a pretty big fan of lovins and scooby snacks, she still will not hesitate to send my white butt to the hospital with very deep scratches if i dare to even THINK of picking her up. she is a free spirit and thanks to her independence, has given me the strength to close the door on them all, knowing that one day, i may very well find one of them flat as a packcake or perhaps have frozen during the winter etc. such is life eh?
ok here is 1/2 of the duo to first show up, her companion, at least for a while there, pictured above. one sweet, one pure evil, hence her spot-on nickname, evil b#*#& reincarnate! of which, i have mentioned her on this forum before.
she certainly has potential if someone REALLY put in the effort but as-is, she basically just hates everyone and everything and has smacked and/or bit every moving thing to come within her circle, including me, on which several occasions has made me bleed!
i have petted her though my blood pressure goes up and she likes it but she truly hates to admit it and when i sat out a small cardboard box one day while her and skittles were showing up for dinner, she went right to it and laid in it as she had perhaps done it 1000 times before! well, she was getting to the point of being around all day, every day and i had to get my kitty squirt bottle out to get her to move along since my words weren't working and she needs to go learn to be a cat and kill mice, birds, crickets, moths etc to support herself, especially since the main reason i've been messing with them at all, is to give them a bit of human contact so someone has a chance at maybe taking them on and to prepare for the inevitable freezing and sub-freezing temps which is common here in the midw-est.
she is the MOST dedicated to showing up and getting food as has laser-beam eyes and reflexes to get anyone elses food unattended for more than .003 seconds. lol
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Today another HMS Ship has sailed:
Gone From My Sight
I am standing upon the seashore. A ship, at my side,
spreads her white sails to the moving breeze and starts
for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength.
I stand and watch her until, at length, she hangs like a speck
of white cloud just where the sea and sky come to mingle with each other.
Then, someone at my side says, "There, she is gone."
Gone where?
Gone from my sight. That is all. She is just as large in mast,
hull and spar as she was when she left my side.
And, she is just as able to bear her load of living freight to her destined port.
Her diminished size is in me -- not in her.
And, just at the moment when someone says, "There, she is gone,"
there are other eyes watching her coming, and other voices
ready to take up the glad shout, "Here she comes!"
Pictured, then Prince Charles' visit to Expo '70 - now has ascended to the throne as King Charles III.
(Apologies for the blurred photo, but I had mounted the telephoto lens on my camera not expecting that Prince Charles would walk right up to me at the entrance to the U.S Pavilion there in Japan.)
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Photos and history regarding Hawaii's ancient fish ponds.
The naturalist, William Ellis, on Captain Cook's third (and final) voyage to Hawaii recorded the practice of Hawaiian royalty maintaining fish ponds. He subsequently wrote, "They [the Hawaiians] have numerous small lakes and ponds, frequently artificial, wherein they breed fish of various kinds in tolerable abundance,"
The fish farms of today and the Fish Ponds of ancient Hawaii differ in a significant respect. Historically they were walled to connect with the sea and a small entrance allowed small fish from the sea to enter. As the fish grew bigger they could not escape through the small entrances to return to the ocean. Today's fish farms are stocked with selected varieties. This apparently allowed the fish to remain genetically diverse without some of the detrimental issues that apply to farm bred fish today.
Oahu's Moli'i Fish Pond located on the Windward (East) side of the island remains one of the few and largest Fish Ponds to have remained intact for centuries. Its 125 acres extends as deep as 30 feet and the fish commercially harvested from it include Moi (thread fish), 'ama'ama (mullet) and awe (milkfish.)
Its history is steeped in legend and like the well recognized Chinaman Hat Island (properly named Mokoli'i) which is close to it, has a mythological storied origin. While Mokoli'i is said to have originated from the discarded tail of a dragon lizard that Hi'lika (the volcano goddess Pele's sister) threw into the ocean after defeating it, Moli'i Fish Pond is said to have been built in a day by the mythological elf-like creatures known as Manehunes.
Its more recent history is documented to include Dr. Gerritt P. Judd's purchase of the surrounding land from King Kamehameha III in 1850. Ownership remains in the family today and is operated as part of the Kualoa Ranch by Judd's descendants, the Morgan family.
My own personal introduction to Moli'i Fish Pond aligned with a roadside stop at the connecting Macadamia Nut Farm (actually a sales location rather than a farm) in the summer of 2001 just months before the eventful 9-11 calamity. As I wandered along a wooded pathway I encountered an artist with an approximate 50 inch by 30 inch canvas mounted on an easel. He told me he was completing a painting of the Moli'i Fish Pond. The setting there under the shadow of the westward looming majestic Cliffs of the Kualoa Mountains was serene. Extending eastward from the enclosed body of water was a thin peninsula of land known as Secret Island which separated the fish pond from the Pacific Ocean.
Observing the quality of his effort I let the artist Dennis Morton know that I would be interested in acquiring his completed work. In the ensuing weeks we kept in touch and he let me know that his intent was to have prints replicated from the original painting. Those plans fell apart somehow as a consequence of 9-11but the original painting eventually made it to me where I resided. It hung in my office for many years before eventually returning to Hawaii for hanging there.
When I look at it today, it reminds me not only of the serenity there on the edge of Moli'i Fish Pond when I met the artist painting it, but also of the world's stability that was then existent.
Below pictured is the subject painting of Moli'i Fish Pond as well as a recently taken photograph of the tree depicted in the painting as it can be seen today from the site of the Macadamia Nut Farm's gardens. Also included is a view looking westward to the looming majestic Cliffs of the Kualoa Mountains:
And here in an owned print from another artist (M. Von Dorm) can be seen the referenced nearby Chinaman Hat Island known to the Hawaiians as Mokoli'i which means "little lizard" in deference to its legendary origin.
Talk about serendipity -
.Shortly after posting the above account regarding my acquiring of the above pictured painting, I stopped by an art gallery that just happened to have a recently released book by the artist. Not only did I find my painting featured, but the artist had included the same account of how I came upon him while he was painting it and confirming details of my subsequent acquisition.
FWIW the actual size of the painting as I just measured it again is 29 inches high and 51inches wide rather than the 24 inches by 36 inches referenced. I am guessing that the artist had long lost his original notes in the two decades between its painting and the book's publication.
He also mentioned that a photo of the painting was included in a book by his mentor, the artist Richard Whitney. Now I will have to track that book down as well.
The Rest of the Rest of The Story:
Today I received in the mail the book by the artist Richard Whitney that was referenced above as also containing a photograph of my owned painting by his student Dennis Morton. It was noteworthy that of all of Dennis "Danny" Morton's paintings this was the one selected by the author:
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i present to you, zippy longstocking!
zippy, because the first thing she ever did when i first saw her, was to zip past me like i didn't exist and go inside and make herself at home!
but i'm not currently taking on any cats, despite me started out feeding 2 and now if i'm not careful, up to 16 show up! gotta use strategy to get around half that number snacks every day for months now with the occasional leftover meats, which they love.
i'll introduce some of the others once i get the pics cropped.
this is sphynxie cat.
the first thing i thought when i saw her, was how much she reminded me of the various cats i've seen portrayed in various egyptian movies/pics etc.
she had to be taught with a string and then a knobby, stubby tree branch about 4 feet long that me touching her, did in fact NOT mean i was going to eat her! now she loves the branch and all its scratchy goodness and it has a lot of claw/teeth marks in it, not just from her.
she is a good play fighter now!
next up is actually 1 of the 2 firsts to show up. one of the sweetest but still a bit off imo, just like the rest of them, whose personalities are as distinct as their appearances.
she started out as ms skittish for obvious reasons but after a few days, a lot of food and string tosses, of which at first she looked at me like i was one of the dumbest life forms ever to cross her path. now though she is called, ms skittles. apropos, no?
a pretty big fan of lovins and scooby snacks, she still will not hesitate to send my white butt to the hospital with very deep scratches if i dare to even THINK of picking her up. she is a free spirit and thanks to her independence, has given me the strength to close the door on them all, knowing that one day, i may very well find one of them flat as a packcake or perhaps have frozen during the winter etc. such is life eh?
ok here is 1/2 of the duo to first show up, her companion, at least for a while there, pictured above. one sweet, one pure evil, hence her spot-on nickname, evil b#*#& reincarnate! of which, i have mentioned her on this forum before.
she certainly has potential if someone REALLY put in the effort but as-is, she basically just hates everyone and everything and has smacked and/or bit every moving thing to come within her circle, including me, on which several occasions has made me bleed!
i have petted her though my blood pressure goes up and she likes it but she truly hates to admit it and when i sat out a small cardboard box one day while her and skittles were showing up for dinner, she went right to it and laid in it as she had perhaps done it 1000 times before! well, she was getting to the point of being around all day, every day and i had to get my kitty squirt bottle out to get her to move along since my words weren't working and she needs to go learn to be a cat and kill mice, birds, crickets, moths etc to support herself, especially since the main reason i've been messing with them at all, is to give them a bit of human contact so someone has a chance at maybe taking them on and to prepare for the inevitable freezing and sub-freezing temps which is common here in the midw-est.
she is the MOST dedicated to showing up and getting food as has laser-beam eyes and reflexes to get anyone elses food unattended for more than .003 seconds. lol
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Today another HMS Ship has sailed:
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Gone From My Sight
I am standing upon the seashore. A ship, at my side,
spreads her white sails to the moving breeze and starts
for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength.
I stand and watch her until, at length, she hangs like a speck
of white cloud just where the sea and sky come to mingle with each other.
Then, someone at my side says, "There, she is gone."
Gone where?
Gone from my sight. That is all. She is just as large in mast,
hull and spar as she was when she left my side.
And, she is just as able to bear her load of living freight to her destined port.
Her diminished size is in me -- not in her.
And, just at the moment when someone says, "There, she is gone,"
there are other eyes watching her coming, and other voices
ready to take up the glad shout, "Here she comes!"
Pictured, then Prince Charles' visit to Expo '70 - now has ascended to the throne as King Charles III.
(Apologies for the blurred photo, but I had mounted the telephoto lens on my camera not expecting that Prince Charles would walk right up to me at the entrance to the U.S Pavilion there in Japan.)
Unfortunately I never have that problem.
I see the no horses sign, is that a no magaphone while on all fours below it?
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That appears to be a no spelunking sign. Apparently, there are caves in the area and they don't feel like rescuing lost spelunkers.
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
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Talk about serendipity -
.Shortly after posting the above account regarding my acquiring of the above pictured painting, I stopped by an art gallery that just happened to have a recently released book by the artist. Not only did I find my painting featured, but the artist had included the same account of how I came upon him while he was painting it and confirming details of my subsequent acquisition.
FWIW the actual size of the painting as I just measured it again is 29 inches high and 51inches wide rather than the 24 inches by 36 inches referenced. I am guessing that the artist had long lost his original notes in the two decades between its painting and the book's publication.
He also mentioned that a photo of the painting was included in a book by his mentor, the artist Richard Whitney. Now I will have to track that book down as well.
The Rest of the Rest of The Story:
Today I received in the mail the book by the artist Richard Whitney that was referenced above as also containing a photograph of my owned painting by his student Dennis Morton. It was noteworthy that of all of Dennis "Danny" Morton's paintings this was the one selected by the author:
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