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08-07-2012, 02:54 AM
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Elf Lady
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Hehe, what did your dad answer?
Puck tends to mostly bite my fingers and my slippers (he loves shoes, especially smelly ones, hence the slippers which I wear bare feet) and he uses my hocker as a scratchpole instead of the 3 scratchpoles that are there for that purpose. (Three because I got gifts from people who didn't consider I might get one for them myself  )
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08-10-2012, 12:20 AM
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My dad is rather anti-cat, so having a kitty is a new thing for me.
I'm surprised at how loving this cat is. She'll start purring if you just stand near her. If I pick her up, a lot of the time, she'll nuzzle my face with her little nose, or paw at my cheeks or nose with her little paw. I kind of always thought cats were more aloof, tolerating being loved on. Cricket hasn't really done much biting, but your kitties sound super cute, Mari! 
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08-10-2012, 12:15 PM
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So does yours
How old is she, you think?
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08-10-2012, 03:21 PM
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Tortoiseshells! Small tortoiseshells! Woohoo! I saw my first tortoiseshell!
They used to be so common around here but I have never seen a live one until now. It's been on my want-to-see-butterfly-list for years. Now there were suddenly NINE on the budleia bushes, woohoo! Go butterflies! I'm going to calm down now.
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08-10-2012, 04:44 PM
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Elf Lady
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*grins* Congrats! What does a tortoiseshell look like?
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08-10-2012, 05:31 PM
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The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator
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It looks gloriously.
Kleine vos in Dutch. The name may not mean much but you probably recognise the butterfly when you see it. It's a quintessential butterfly.
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08-10-2012, 05:59 PM
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It's a really pretty one!
It's Norwegian name means Nettle Butterfly - there seemed to be some mention of nettles on that Dutch page as well ...
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08-10-2012, 06:18 PM
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my new suit of armor is going to be so awesome!
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08-11-2012, 02:38 AM
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08-11-2012, 06:00 AM
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The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator
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That's cool, to see more of them making an appearance after a long absence.
 Do you or your sister participate in the yearly butterfly counts, Mari? Last weekend was a national counting weekend organised by Natuurpunt here, but I think the Duch Vlinderstichting participates at the same time too. Might be interesting to do, if you have an interest in butterflies. I've been joining in the monthly count for several years now and it's really interesting to go through past records to see how the number and species shift.Yes Varna, nettles are involved. It's one of the species of plants on which the small tortoiseshell lays eggs. Nettle butterfly would be a very spot-on name indeed. It's always interesting to see how a butterfly is called in different languages. Here we have a butterfly named in English, Dutch and Norwegian for different characteristics: colour in dutch ('small fox') pattern in English ('tortoiseshell') and breeding plants in Norwegian ('nettle butterfly'). Language can be cool indeed.  Curiously, nettles have just appeared this year in the garden, and I wonder whether that's tied to the small toirtoiseshell sudden re-emergence. It's going to be a difficult decision though, we want to keep them for the butterflies, but they're in a bad spot and mum wants them gone as they're stinging nettles, but they don't respond to relocation well. Darn.
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08-11-2012, 02:59 PM
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No, never participated. I like looking at them and recognise a few species, but that's it.
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08-15-2012, 12:53 AM
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Quote:
 This is what she looks like when she's fallen asleep in her food bowl. Sorry for the hugeness of the pic. I wasn't sure how to size it down without html tags.
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08-15-2012, 04:12 AM
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Elf Lady
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She and Tybbe are the same sort of cats. Tybbe has those stripings as well
Cute how she's fallen asleep in her bowl!
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08-15-2012, 06:36 AM
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The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator
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So cute!
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08-15-2012, 04:01 PM
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Lovely cat!
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08-15-2012, 07:31 PM
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That's an awesome picture!
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08-15-2012, 08:04 PM
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I was really excited when she didn't wake up in the middle. Animals have a slightly annoying habit of ruining completely adorable pictures by noticing the fuss you're making, even if it's not really that much of a fuss!
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08-16-2012, 04:06 AM
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True. Every time I get my camera out they suddenly wake up and jump away or something... >_<
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08-22-2012, 05:26 PM
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Two cousins engaged over the same weekend! Super happy for them - it was about time!
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09-03-2012, 06:41 PM
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Successful Summer! Set out to get my two younger boys swimming. We got a late start, and had to miss two weeks straight in early August - but they started progressing quickly, especially the past couple weeks. Then this weekend they just went nuts - starting to jump into the deep end for the first time Saturday. They've ended up both really able to swim - jumping in the deep end, able to swim across the width of the pool, etc.
We were able to just close out the summer swimming session by attending 3 consecutive swims today - spending about 3 hours in the water! So glad we were able to do it.
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