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summer_jackelWinter has come to Camp Meeker. The fungus is in bloom, the banana slugs roam freely, and if the curtains aren't kept open in the bathroom, water condenses on the window beside and they mold.
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I just ordered another bottle of fountain pen ink, Abraxas light grey. I'm going to try lettering 'Bone Shard' with it and see what happens; black ink just looks wrong with all the washy watercolors of the piece, watercolored lettering is just sloppy-looking (I regret page nine), and the penciled lettering, which is how I've done it so far, doesn't look quite finished to me. I am hoping that grey ink will be a nice solution; I just hope I don't need to buy three different bottles of it before I find one that I like. Ask me about my sepia collection.
My usual source has stopped carrying all the interesting colors of Noodler's, the brand I tend to favor, and this shop is local, ergo I am trying a brand I've never used. The conversation I had with the store about this and my necessary questions, "How lightfast is it? Does it flow evenly? How watertight is it? Is it a warmer grey or more of a colder grey?" made my brother crack up and made me feel kind of like a wine snob. Yeah, so I'm a pen geek. Worse fates. Anyone out there used Abraxas? I should go check the fountain pen forum to see if there are any reviews...
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My dogs got beaten up and coerced into inter-kingdom sex by a plant this afternoon. The horseback ride by the river beneath a lowering sky, complete with picturesque blue colliethings at heel, was really an epic high point, but I need to work on training the boys to stay out of the underbrush. It took over two hours to painstakingly---literally, those things are really sharp---remove all of the burrs from their impressively flowing coats. Pulling as little coat as possible and doing as little damage to my skin in the process, of course. I have no idea what these plants were hunting for...their burrs would probably stick to an elephant...but their use of my collies as gamete dispersal failed, because I chucked at least a quart of them in the fire. The dogs look nice again, and Coba in particular is in full coat and is all kinds of gorgeous.
Chaos has more surface area, though.
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I just ordered another bottle of fountain pen ink, Abraxas light grey. I'm going to try lettering 'Bone Shard' with it and see what happens; black ink just looks wrong with all the washy watercolors of the piece, watercolored lettering is just sloppy-looking (I regret page nine), and the penciled lettering, which is how I've done it so far, doesn't look quite finished to me. I am hoping that grey ink will be a nice solution; I just hope I don't need to buy three different bottles of it before I find one that I like. Ask me about my sepia collection.
My usual source has stopped carrying all the interesting colors of Noodler's, the brand I tend to favor, and this shop is local, ergo I am trying a brand I've never used. The conversation I had with the store about this and my necessary questions, "How lightfast is it? Does it flow evenly? How watertight is it? Is it a warmer grey or more of a colder grey?" made my brother crack up and made me feel kind of like a wine snob. Yeah, so I'm a pen geek. Worse fates. Anyone out there used Abraxas? I should go check the fountain pen forum to see if there are any reviews...
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My dogs got beaten up and coerced into inter-kingdom sex by a plant this afternoon. The horseback ride by the river beneath a lowering sky, complete with picturesque blue colliethings at heel, was really an epic high point, but I need to work on training the boys to stay out of the underbrush. It took over two hours to painstakingly---literally, those things are really sharp---remove all of the burrs from their impressively flowing coats. Pulling as little coat as possible and doing as little damage to my skin in the process, of course. I have no idea what these plants were hunting for...their burrs would probably stick to an elephant...but their use of my collies as gamete dispersal failed, because I chucked at least a quart of them in the fire. The dogs look nice again, and Coba in particular is in full coat and is all kinds of gorgeous.
Chaos has more surface area, though.
