Gardening Only Thread




Posted by Slade

I'll be tilling in about a week hopefully! I sprayed everything down yesterday, so it should be 7-14 days before it all dies. Then I'll turn it all up and organize the area. So far I have lettuce, snap peas, radish, sweet corn, carrot, green bean, sunflower, summer squash, mixture (HUGE) squash, and pumpkin seeds as well as tomato and pepper (hot/sweet mix) plants. I should be getting a few more plants from my parents, too, since their garden is going to be overcrowded. It's gonna be crazy awesome.

Progressively greener pics to come!




Posted by Lord of Spam

i cant help but notice that you dont plan on growing any weed

surely thats merely an oversite.




Posted by Lord of Spam

i cant help but notice that you dont plan on growing any weed

surely thats merely an oversite.




Posted by Dexter

Before I see green pics I'd like the before pics plz k thanks.




Posted by BLUNTMASTER X

who the **** gardens..... until a gardening video game with AT LEAST a 9.0 in ign shows on the scne i dont give a FUQ




Posted by Lord of Spam


Quoting BLUNTMASTER X: who the **** gardens


farmers



Posted by Stalolin

[quote=Lord of Spam;942956]farmers

there are none in america

they're all dead

mad cow disease

and this:

[youtube=0gEDUDmZkyc]0gEDUDmZkyc[/youtube]




Posted by Slade


Quoted post: who the **** gardens.....

really cool/cute guys

Quoting Dexter: Before I see green pics I'd like the before pics plz k thanks.


That's a good idea! And I just found a cable that works for my super old camera, so it might be possible.



Posted by Slade

[center]GARDEN I
The Beginning / natriuretic proximal strigosus[/center]

[IMG]http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a188/ketoman77/garden001.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a188/ketoman77/garden002.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a188/ketoman77/garden003.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a188/ketoman77/garden004.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a188/ketoman77/garden005.jpg[/IMG]

Pretty much will be planted in the main area pictured first, along with the green table grapes. I'll probably plant strawberries in the round spots. The bark chip area behind those round things already has a fig tree, two blueberry bushes, and a couple other things I've forgotten. I have no idea how well those will turn out, though.

Behind the garden (and beyond that big deer fence) there are wild plum and apple trees that are 100% delicious. There's one transparent green apple tree inside the fence that will be good for apple sauce. And down the hill (past the round things) there are a couple apple trees, one plum tree, and some concord grapes.

So yeah, I sprayed it all because it's been growing over for two years, and now I'm waiting to see the results so I can start using the rototiller. I'll post pics when it's all leveled out and brown.




Posted by Slade

[center]GARDEN I
The Beginning[/center]

[IMG]http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a188/ketoman77/garden001.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a188/ketoman77/garden002.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a188/ketoman77/garden003.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a188/ketoman77/garden004.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a188/ketoman77/garden005.jpg[/IMG]

Pretty much will be planted in the main area pictured first, along with the green table grapes. I'll probably plant strawberries in the round spots. The bark chip area behind those round things already has a fig tree, two blueberry bushes, and a couple other things I've forgotten. I have no idea how well those will turn out, though.

Behind the garden (and beyond that big deer fence) there are wild plum and apple trees that are 100% delicious. There's one transparent green apple tree inside the fence that will be good for apple sauce. And down the hill (past the round things) there are a couple apple trees, one plum tree, and some concord grapes.

So yeah, I sprayed it all because it's been growing over for two years, and now I'm waiting to see the results so I can start using the rototiller.




Posted by Lord of Spam

needs mo weeds




Posted by Vampnagel P. Wingpire

sweet, what does it look like now? i've got to start mine this week.




Posted by Slade

It looks all yellow, and I tore out the blackberry plants. Couldn't get the rototiller started though, so I'm gonna try that again tomorrow morning.




Posted by Vampnagel P. Wingpire

bummer. take some more pics




Posted by Slade

My parents are sending me emails like HURRY UP AND TILL THE GARDEN because my mom wants to visit again and help me plant. But I'm like LISTEN GUYS IT'S MEMORIAL WEEKEND I'VE GOT SOME PARTYIN TO DO. sigh. Two of my tomato plants are looking really cute, though. Maybe I'll take pics of those.




Posted by Vampnagel P. Wingpire

just do it

i'm gonna start my garden on tuesday. pics to follow! and i think my baby tomato plants come pretty soon <3




Posted by Vampnagel P. Wingpire

just do it

i'm gonna start my garden on tuesday. pics to follow! and i think my baby tomato plants come pretty soon <3




Posted by Slade

[IMG]http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a188/ketoman77/furrrr008.jpg[/IMG]

This is what I'm dealing with right now. I've gotten it to sputter for about 10 seconds twice, but now I can't get anything out of it. The biggest problem is that the choke lever is a tiny screw that doesn't function like it should. So I have to simultaneously toggle a screw on the engine and jimmy the throttle at the end of the handlebars. such a beast




Posted by Vampnagel P. Wingpire

whoa, that thing's an ancient beast. good luck!




Posted by Vampnagel P. Wingpire

So I bought a lil strawberry plant. Gonna plant all my stuff tomorrow, woo! Also getting my tomato plant on monday, pretty pumped for that. pics to follow




Posted by Ant

I've grown both. The Tomato plant was a lot easier to grow than the Strawberries. Though I enjoyed the strawberries a lot more. so juicy...




Posted by Vampnagel P. Wingpire

homegrown strawberries own hardcore. what kinda tomatoes did you have? BEEFSTEAK?




Posted by Ant

they were red.




Posted by Vampnagel P. Wingpire

no ****?




Posted by Ant

I'm not a tomato expert, and I never will be.




Posted by Lord of Spam

ive never grown anything useful. :'(




Posted by Vampnagel P. Wingpire

should grow some weed




Posted by Ant

keyword: useful.




Posted by Vampnagel P. Wingpire

weed is one of the most useful things i can think of.




Posted by Ant

so sad..




Posted by Slade

Yeah it's pretty pathetic when you're calling a plant that can be used to make clothing, oils, soaps, etc. useful. angelwing: another lost youth

UPDATE!

GARDEN PART II

[IMG]http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a188/ketoman77/garden2001.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a188/ketoman77/garden2002.jpg[/IMG]
peppers!
[IMG]http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a188/ketoman77/garden2003.jpg[/IMG]
tomatillo close-up with roma/cherry tomatoes in the background


All that's left to plant are more carrots/beets if I want them, and maybe some sunflower seeds. It's too late to plant strawberries, so I haven't decided what to do with the circles yet. I might take out all the decorative stones around them and the fence around the garden, though, since those are pointless right now. I can make more tomato cages out of it!




Posted by Vampnagel P. Wingpire

(H) wow, you have been hard at work! Did you start everything from seeds?




Posted by Slade

Nah, my parents started the tomatoes, peppers, and some of the lettuce in pots at their house and brought them over here. I'd been tending to the tomatoes and peppers in pots for a couple weeks before we planted them. But in about two weeks all the stuff we planted seeds for should start coming up! There's a notebook around here somewhere that has a map of the garden, so if I find it I'll list everything we planted.




Posted by Ant

that's a pretty big garden you have there.


may I touch it?




Posted by Vampnagel P. Wingpire

sweet, do it

here's mine so far. the coriander just started to come up today and i got my tiny tim's yesterday that i ordered so i'm pleased! now to plant all the rest...

[IMG]http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o311/caligo_avalonis/DSC01410.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o311/caligo_avalonis/DSC01409.jpg[/IMG]




Posted by Vampnagel P. Wingpire

the coriander is growing surprisingly quickly, despite the ****ty weather we've been having. i'm still bringing them in at night because it's ****ing cold. planted the basil the other day so it should be coming up in a few days. also got some more plant pots so i can plant the rest of the veggies today!




Posted by cool gamer dad

[quote=Slade;943909]Yeah it's pretty pathetic when you're calling a plant that can be used to make clothing, oils, soaps, etc. useful. angelwing: another lost youth
pretty hard to get high off industrial hemp, cool garden though. bitch.




Posted by Slade

can't industrial hemp be referred to as "weed" anyways since they're the same plant? whatever I'm not the moron here, ignoring uses other than getting high because getting high sucks anyways, WEARING COOL SHIRTS IS WAY BETTER!


I found a packet of snap peas the other day so I might have to plant those when it stops raining! Speaking of rain, it's been kind of like those days in harvest moon where you wake up and it's raining and you're like "**** yes I don't have to go water all my crops today. I can go into town first thing, or go exploring, or do whatever I want but this day will never include walking from the spring to the field over and over and watering all my ***forsaken potato plants, plus the rain can water all those plants that I mistakenly placed where I can't water them so they'll eventually bear fruit in 10-15 rainy days, or they'll just dry out and die"




Posted by Vampnagel P. Wingpire

****in love that game.

I didn't even bring out my crops this morning it was so cold. It's like, almost below freezing in june, wtf.




Posted by Ant


Quoting Slade: can't industrial hemp be referred to as "weed" anyways since they're the same plant? whatever I'm not the moron here, ignoring uses other than getting high because getting high sucks anyways, WEARING COOL SHIRTS IS WAY BETTER!


trolling is too easy sometimes



Posted by Slade

dan got me worse! I always fall for his troll-posts where it reads like he just misread something. then he's like "ahahaha i was kiddin bro" and I'm like TOO FUKKEN LATE I'M ****ED


Quoting Ant: that's a pretty big garden you have there.


may I touch it?

NO YOU MAY NOT TOUCH MY GARDEN WITH YOUR DIRTY TROLL HANDS



Posted by Slade

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Thanks everyone!




Posted by Shin-Ra

Great thread. I'm eager to move out so I can grow a garden of my own. When I lived in Austin as a kid I grew all sorts of stuff because we had a lot more land, but since I moved I haven't had the space to grow anything. I've still gotten to help out a bit. At the [url=http://www.buumon.org/]local Buddhist temple[/url] (look at the photo galleries) I helped out in their garden a few times and my grandpa lives like 5 miles away from my house and he grows potatoes, tomatoes, squash and other various vegetables. Once I go back to Austin or move to Portland I'll start growing stuff for sure, I miss it.




Posted by Vampnagel P. Wingpire

That's a nice garden.

I wish it would warm up so I wouldn't have to keep my plants in most of the time. wtf june it's supposed to be summer.




Posted by Vampnagel P. Wingpire

ok so now it's so freakin hot i have to water the plants all the time. updated pics tomorrow, you should do the same.




Posted by Lord of Spam

i think the most ive ever grown was a cactus that used to sit on the porch

always thought it would be neat to have a little garden, but never had any land to implement it




Posted by Slade

I'll post some pics by Tuesday... Stuff's coming up! And yeah it's pretty hot so I'm watering at night with the sprinkler and spot-watering in the middle of the day with a can. Some deer got in the other day and cut my tomatillo down to 50% along with some peppers and stuff, so my roommate put up barbed wire over the pathway it got through. Hopefully my neighbor doesn't notice, since it used to be the path to his house.

ANTI-DEER
ANTI-SLUG
ANTI-LIFE




Posted by Vampnagel P. Wingpire

if that doesn't keep them out maybe get a salty-lick to distract them.

i'm about to go transplant my way overdue strawberry plant, then i'll get some pics up




Posted by Vampnagel P. Wingpire

i went to get flowers today but then i remembered it's canada day and stores don't open or they open later. but i transplanted my strawberry plant so it will actually grow now! pics in a min




Posted by Vampnagel P. Wingpire

alright here are the pics i promised:

tomato plant
[IMG]http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o311/caligo_avalonis/DSC01506.jpg[/IMG]

herbs
[IMG]http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o311/caligo_avalonis/DSC01509.jpg[/IMG]

strawberry plant
[IMG]http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o311/caligo_avalonis/DSC01505.jpg[/IMG]

baby face flowers that didn't come up from last year :( but there's moss and possibly a tree now!
[IMG]http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o311/caligo_avalonis/DSC01508.jpg[/IMG]

and the birdfeeder and bath that the birds can't find
[IMG]http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o311/caligo_avalonis/DSC01507.jpg[/IMG]




Posted by cool gamer dad

yo where's the naked guy?




Posted by Vampnagel P. Wingpire

there was just some horribly sun-burnt fat women and some stupid teenage/young person talking really loudly




Posted by Vampnagel P. Wingpire

alright so i bought some flowers and stuff today:

herbs (chocolate mint on the end)
[IMG]http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o311/caligo_avalonis/DSC01511.jpg[/IMG]

sorry looking violas
[IMG]http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o311/caligo_avalonis/DSC01510.jpg[/IMG]

hosta!
[IMG]http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o311/caligo_avalonis/DSC01512.jpg[/IMG]

petunias and my sad philodendron
[IMG]http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o311/caligo_avalonis/DSC01513.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o311/caligo_avalonis/DSC01515.jpg[/IMG]

tomatillo (and something else i'm not sure)
[IMG]http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o311/caligo_avalonis/DSC01514.jpg[/IMG]




Posted by Slade

In that last picture the other one looks like a tomaTALLo hahahaaha


You must have a pretty big patio huh? What's chocolate mint like, and what'll you use it for? I've got zero herbs right now (except for some cilantro that won't die from 3 years ago), but that might change soon.




Posted by Vampnagel P. Wingpire

lol

yeah it's fairly large. I'll take a pic of the entire balcony next time. i think i can use the choco mint in cakes and cookies, so next time i make cookies i'm gonna give it a try! i've never really grown herbs before so i'm pretty excited to start using them fresh.




Posted by Vampnagel P. Wingpire

some of my tomatoes are turning red and i have a teeny tiny green strawberry! pics to come

how's yo garden doing?




Posted by Slade

Since my parents came over today they immediately headed into the garden and told me what was ready to pick. So we've got a few cherry tomatoes, one jalapeno, some beets, lettuce, green onions, and some overripe radishes in the house. My roommate made a soup with the radishes and it's definitely edible. I picked rainier cherries the other day from some trees my dad planted 5 years ago, and I think a handful of blueberries will be ripe soon. Plus the apple tree above the garden which is going to give us tons of apple sauce. Things are going to start flowing in from the garden and surrounding area!

I'll take pictures this time for sure! I was feeling really down about the garden since a deer got in and demolished some peppers, peas, and green beans last week, but I feel a little better now that it's being productive.




Posted by Vampnagel P. Wingpire

**** wildlife

my garden is so slooooow. i had to buy blueberries and strawberries yesterday. :(




Posted by Vampnagel P. Wingpire

2 tomatoes look edible. will update




Posted by Slade

The same stupid deer has come back into my yard several times over the last few days. He just can't stay away from the apple tree. TOO BAD FOR HIM THE APPLE TREE IS NEXT TO THE GARDEN

He was actually just here, and this time he made so much noise I could hear him while I was inside the house. Just knocking down tons of apples and stuff. So I threw an 18 inch hammer at him. Missed his head by about 4 feet, but I have a feeling every time he comes over here it'll get closer.




Posted by Shin-Ra

Kill it and have delicious deer steaks.




Posted by Vampnagel P. Wingpire

or capture it and ride it to work. free pet!




Posted by Slade

Ugh, since my last post I've chased him out of the yard about 5 more times, but he's stopped coming around for now. He broke a little section of a fence and made me lose my really cool hammer since I threw it at him again in the dark.

The last few days the garden has started doing all kinds of crazy stuff. I'll go take some pics and die in the 102 F heat with 40% humidity




Posted by Slade

[IMG]http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a188/ketoman77/garden3001.jpg[/IMG]
It's quite a bit greener now. The intense heat is keeping me out of the garden and making weeds grow like no farmer's business.

[IMG]http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a188/ketoman77/garden3002.jpg[/IMG]
Those deer mother****ers thought they'd seen the last of my peppers, but this'll ****ing show them. Too bad the peppers aren't nearly as hot as I had hoped. next year: entire garden of ***-****ing hot peppers

[IMG]http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a188/ketoman77/garden3003.jpg[/IMG]
This is that tomatillo that got beat down a few weeks ago. Now it looks like several flowering plants and the bees are lovin it.

[IMG]http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a188/ketoman77/garden3004.jpg[/IMG]
sunflowers! The ones on the right get shaded by the grapes so that whole row is shorter.

[IMG]http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a188/ketoman77/garden3005.jpg[/IMG]
today's yield lol

[IMG]http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/2139/garden3007.jpg[/IMG]
modified sprinkler system

[IMG]http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/2716/garden3009.jpg[/IMG]
the hipster train came by and dropped off my hammer




Posted by Vampnagel P. Wingpire

sweet garden, bro. will take some pics of mine tonight if it stops raining ever.

and dude, it's 100% humidity here right now, SUCK IT




Posted by Lord of Spam

i am on a tropical island.

my humidity can beat up your humidity




Posted by Vampnagel P. Wingpire

despite that winnipeg is more humid right now. EAT IT




Posted by cool gamer dad

i'm starting my own garden




Posted by junior senior

hey cool gamer dad




Posted by Vampnagel P. Wingpire

some of my tomatoes shriveled up :(




Posted by junior senior

aww :(




Posted by Vampnagel P. Wingpire

i had my first strawberry the other day! another one is on its way. sooo goood




Posted by Slade

All I've had for strawberries this year were two tiny (delicious) wild ones, a package of store-bought ones, and a handful of grown ones at someone's house. The latter happened last week, and I was totally surprised to be able to pick them fresh since I thought strawberries were done with here by the time I started planting.

In the last week I've had some tomatoes, peppers, lettuce, and green onions from the garden. My roommate made soup that incorporated the overripe green onions and it turned out alright. I've mostly used the tomatoes on sandwiches so far, but I think I'll boil some up for chili or something later, when a bunch come in at once. A handful of green beans made it through the deer-o-caust, but I haven't tried them yet. Apples are pretty much over, but we have tons of sauce and cider. Plum cherries are basically done, too, but I might pick a few more before I forget. If I had a dehydrator so much more of this stuff wouldn't go to waste! Transparent apples are soooo good dried out, probably the same with cherries. Oh, hopefully the pear harvest goes well in the next week or so, since I'd like to can a bunch of 'em. And I guess blackberries are harvest-able, too, but I'm having trouble finding big healthy patches of them.




Posted by Lord of Spam


Quoting Vampnagel P. Wingpire: despite that winnipeg is more humid right now. EAT IT


this is just not so, i assure you.

I WILL ARGUE WITH YOU ON THE INTERNET UNTIL YOU ADMIT IM RIGHT

also, if i end up renting a house out here (vs apartment) i might end up doing some sort of gardening. probably just end up growing herbs and spices and whatnot, since i dont really tend to eat many veggies, but love properly seasoned meat.



Posted by Vampnagel P. Wingpire

when i checked the weathernetwork it was!

rent a house, it's much better. or a townhouse




Posted by Lord of Spam

depends on whats available, how much it costs, etc

ill get up to 1700 a month for rent, so i can afford a smallish place by myself here, but im still thinking about getting 1 or 2 other guys and getting a highrise penthouse on the beach.

because **** it, i can




Posted by cool gamer dad

holy cow, i pay 280/month on rent




Posted by cool gamer dad

heh




Posted by Ant

you live in north dakota.




Posted by Lord of Spam

back in charleston our rent was 1200 a month, split between three guys. me and one dude paid 375, and the dude that took the master bedroom paid 450. BAH is the ****, becuase i was still gettin paid 1200 a month even though i was paying 400ish (utilities etc). OHA sucks, because if youre authorized up to 1700 (for my rank, anyway) but if your rent is 800, you get 800 and no more. tis bull****.




Posted by Vampnagel P. Wingpire

beach property owns everything




Posted by Lord of Spam

yeah, looking into an 11th story 3 bedroom apartment that overlooks the ocean.

p badass




Posted by Slade

gb2 housing prices only thread


Today we weeded a little since there wasn't enough car space to carry everyone anywhere. I had completely forgotten about one tomato that was missing a cage and was kinda sprawled out on the ground surrounded by weeds. Seeing that limp green figure so helpless in the face of native grasses sparked a spark in my heart so now I will be Tomato Protector Forever.




Posted by Lord of Spam

i prefer my tomatos in suace form.

the thought of having my own little herb garden is annoying me, because its just one more thing that i cant do until i get my own place, which probably wont be until like, september/october ish. fuuuuuck




Posted by Vampnagel P. Wingpire

I've just been eating my tiny tims whole. They're like candy.

I've had 3 strawberries so far and I only see two more possible berries. Not very happy about that.




Posted by Vampnagel P. Wingpire

picked a boatload of tomatoes this morning. my tomatillo and ? are huge now and have had flowers for a long while but nothing has come of it as of yet.




Posted by Slade

I'm having trouble using all the tomatoes as they come in, since I'm basically the only person who eats em. I guess my roommate likes fried green tomatoes, so we might have to try that since I've never had it.

Same with my tomatillo! It's freakin massive and looks like three plants, but no tomatillos have formed yet.




Posted by Vampnagel P. Wingpire

yeah and still there's nothing! it'll be getting cold soon. :(




Posted by Lord of Spam

l2notcanada




Posted by fnool

currently planning out turning an old chest of drawers into a grow cab, gonna buy the hell out of some cfls and mylar, oh and yeah probably gonna go for a photoperiod strain and not autoflowering. might go 12/12 from seed to harvest. good times in the pipeline.................VIDEOGAMES




Posted by Lord of Spam

i hate you so much




Posted by fnool

"heh"




Posted by Slade

drugs are ****ing gay
[youtube=O-jxOvOBUsI]O-jxOvOBUsI[/youtube]
potatoes rule


side note: I just found out it's really easy to make/upload youtube videos with this thing. expect a couple more maybe sometime soon!




Posted by fnool

hahha **** i dont know why i laughed so much at that




Posted by fnool

oh yeah it's because i'm ****ING COOKED RIGHT NOW




Posted by Vampnagel P. Wingpire

**** i am jealous of the purple potatoes. please send me some in the mail




Posted by Slade

I might let you pay me to take some more pictures of the purple ones...


Besides harvesting all the potatoes I got a lot of tomatoes and some disappointing carrots. The biggest one was maybe as big as my thumb. I'm scared the cold weather is going to split the rest of the tomatoes before they ripen. One of the plants is loaded with fruit but all of it is still green.

green beans are over
peppers are over
sunflowers are about to open, but will probably get ice-****ed before they see the light
squash is just hanging out and slowly getting bigger, in a couple weeks I'll start drying them

Oh and we have a gun now, so if that deer comes back again it'll be hamburger time; America.




Posted by Vampnagel P. Wingpire

i am down

i only had one carrot that came up and it's so tiny. i am sad




Posted by Slade

Forgive me, potatoes...

what you should do:
NOT WASH THEM
let them sit outside in the shade 1-2 days to toughen the skin
rub excess dirt off them
put them in a cold dark place

what I did:
washed the heck out of em
let them sit out for ~6 hours (to dry, mostly)
put them in a cold dark place

Anyways, ate mashed taters last night and they were delicious. Potatoes? More like expensive safeway steak of the earth.




Posted by Vampnagel P. Wingpire

you have to let them sit out in the shade? huh




Posted by Slade

POTATO uses HARDEN

POTATO's defense increases!




Posted by Slade

Gardening season is almost over (my sun flowers came up just in time to get rained on, and we're close to our first frost), so I think I'll phase this thread into an Off-Season Kitty Only Thread.

I got two today. :)

[IMG]http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a188/ketoman77/Photo16.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a188/ketoman77/Photo17.jpg[/IMG]

They arrived a few hours ago and are already starting to feel more safe. We'll see if they like the paper-based cat litter I got the other day, but I might be switching to a compost-able type that clumps better soon. So far the black one is named The Void and the creamsicle colored one is nameless. Ideas include Baldur and... idk haven't come up with any winning ideas yet. help




Posted by Vampnagel P. Wingpire

Finally! aww they are so cute, I need more than two pics




Posted by Slade

how about a VIDEO?!

[youtube=2-_3niZDMfs]2-_3niZDMfs[/youtube]

alright this was taken one shot ONLY WAY I KNOW HOW the camera gets a little funky with the lamp light later on SINCE I WAS BORN but we are hoping satisfactory kitten activity is to be viewed

By the way, I'm just holding a laptop up in the air which explains most of the weirdness. The yellow/white one still doesn't have a name. It's too bad because it makes talking to him kind of awkward sometimes.




Posted by Ant

I also lol'd when the kitty fell. *** I WANT




Posted by Lord of Spam

it shall be named Spot. If its a good enough name for Data's kitty, its good enough for yours.

****, now i wanna watch TNG.

[center]Ode to Spot

felis catus is your taxonomic nomenclature
an endothermic quadroped, carnivorous by nature
your visual, olfactory, and auditory senses
contribute to your hunting skill and natural defenses
i find myself intruiged by your subvocal oscillations
a sinlgular development of cat communications
that obviates your basic hedonistic predilection
for a rhythmic stroking of your fur to demonstrate affection
a tail is quite essential for your acrobatic talents
you would not be so agile if you lacked its counter balance
and when not being utilised to aid in locomotion
it opften serves to illustrate the state of your emotion
oh spot, the level of behavior you display
connotes a fairly well developed cognitive array
and although you are not sentient, and do not comprehend
i nonetheless consider you a true valued friend
[/center]

postscript: ******* im a nerd, i was able to type that from memory




Posted by Slade

Wow, wtg man, trekking up my thread. That reminds of me of this tiny book of Irish cat poems that I really need to get and then transpose onto the internet. And yeah, you're a nerd bro.

The white one's name MIGHT be Ocelot, but I'm not 100% on that one. I also have a grand youtube video in mind, but it would probably require an actual video camera rather than a built in iSight.




Posted by Lord of Spam

every thread needs more cat related trek quotes.

also, you need to fatten those cats up for maximum FACE FULL OF CHUBBY KITTY BELLY D'AWWWWWWWW




Posted by Slade

We'll see about fattening them up once they ****ING LEARN HOW TO **** PROPERLY

Pretty much the only problem I've had so far is that The Void likes to position himself with legs resting on the plastic edges of the litter box so that his poo lands right outside the box. Then he scratches the clay inside the box a little bit and wanders off. Plus the other cat just hangs out in the litter box when he's bored and moves the clumps around. Every time he goes in there I want to take him out so he doesn't just play, but I never know if he actually needs to relieve himself. might as well just kill myself




Posted by Vampnagel P. Wingpire

haha mine did that when i first brought them home. sat in the litter box, sleeping, ****ting, eating...

those are some cuuuute kitties, how old are they?

you should call him macbeth




Posted by Ant


Quoting Slade: The Void likes to position himself with legs resting on the plastic edges of the litter box so that his poo lands right outside the box.


knowing what "The Void" is makes this sentence really funny. [spoiler]FFV reference rite?[/spoiler]



Posted by Slade

haha tonight The Void was tearing at the food bag to the point where it was about to burst open so I ran in there, picked him up, called him a dick, then realized their food bowl was totally empty. sorry guys, momma's tryin


edit: ant, we're talkin bout
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right?




Posted by Ant

yes. the




Posted by Slade

So I think the white one's name is Ocelot for sure now since he's a total *****. MEOOOOWWWW.... MEOWWWW MEWWWWWWWWW... MEOOOWWWOOWOWOWOWOOOOWWW...
"hey buddy what's wrong?"
meow? *skips away*




Posted by Lord of Spam

sounds more like he should be named kunt.

*****es a lot but dopesnt know what it wants

AMIRITE GUYS? mysogyny ftw. **** im drunk




Posted by Vampnagel P. Wingpire

had to bring my tomatoes in because it went below freezing last night. i'm afraid to look at my flowers and other plants :(




Posted by Slade

Have you checked your other plants yet? :( The tomatoes are finally over as of a few days ago. First they were hung up in the greenhouse totally dirty and made a huge mess, then their products were left in the fridge for a week before processing just taking up space. I'M GLAD THEY'RE DEAD


The cats have been keeping me entertained and frustrated in turns. Now when I get upset with them they're called Pussalot and The Dick, but since they don't know their real names that might not help either of us. The best thing they do is pile into my lap while I'm at the computer and be all cute and sleepy.

Ocelot's strengths: meowing loudly, licking hands/fingers/elbows raw
weaknesses: glasses of water thrown in his face

The Void's strengths: having a cuter meow than Ocelot, getting locked in rooms that he shouldn't be in anyways
weaknesses: absolutely none, he faces all challenges with an icy uncaring attitude




Posted by Vampnagel P. Wingpire

Everything's dead, it's too cold here now. :( I have to set up my grow-lights and try growing herbs inside this winter. My tomatilla didn't produce, takes too long for my pathetic summer. sigh

I need more kitty pictures, here's one of paige being scary:





Posted by Ant

you can see the hatred in her eyes for having that thing wrapped around it's body.




Posted by Slade

[IMG]http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/8826/photo27y.jpg[/IMG]

they don't have costumes yet....:9


Quoted post: my tomatilla didn't produce, takes too long for my pathetic summer. sigh

same here! the plant got HUGE and had at least 30 little tomatillo husks, but none of them provided fruit. if I hadn't needed to till the garden so much before planting it probably would've worked.



Posted by Slade

[IMG]http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/6615/photo21wk.jpg[/IMG]

I guess it took about 12 minutes for them to fall asleep just now




Posted by Vampnagel P. Wingpire

Yeah I saw the start of tiny round green fruit when I peeked inside their shelter but then it started freezing.

those are some really cute kitties, how old are they now?




Posted by Vampnagel P. Wingpire

today is the day i clean off the plants on my balcony. i am sad

on a good note i have a flock of sparrows eating me out of house and home on the balcony!




Posted by Ant


Quoting Vampnagel P. Wingpire: on a good note i have a flock of sparrows eating me out


stopped reading there.



Posted by Ant

QUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEF




Posted by Vampnagel P. Wingpire

i knew i could count on you