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Hi folks,
First
I got to say that my meeting with furry ones had
been
postponed from Sat to Monday evening, or I would
have
been writing about them already.
While
I got a few more half finished accounts to
finish
and others already in the germination stage,
events
of today bumped them out of the way. I even
got
Her Grace to sleep earlier tonight as otherwise, I
would
not be writting this now.
I
planned a rather simple day which in due time would
appear
as part of her chronicles. Today on Sunday, I
was
going to the Tropic of Cancer park to have some
shots
of her criss crossing the Tropic of Cancer with
the
background of various markers of TOC erected at
different
times in the last hundred years. The
biggest
and most hideous is the one most recently
build.
Then
we were to continue on to this JenWeng dam which
was
bone dry with a vast grassland last year during
the
drought and which I thought will be brimful with
water
this time with all the rains.
Both
did not happen. What happened after was rather
mundane.
But what came after that after, just 5
minutes
or so were so delightful that this elbowed its
way
to the front.
The
Tropic of Cancer park was closed due to
refurbishing
with construction site fence surround all
of
it except the newest montrosity towering over the
fence
that I refused to take a picture of.
We
then decided to stop by this 7-11 to have coffee
and
to have a couple of shots, Her Grace in her purple
harness
and me in a matching purple T shirt.
Tinkerbell
- Give daddy
http://community.webshots.com/album/192168971VeTQOG
I
know I wrote just a couple of days ago on Tsaoling
and
the oath I made about not taking shortcuts. But
that
oath was made 2 months ago. I forgot that oath
today.
To a longish ride (that I halftruthed my wife
into
joining), I tried to take a shortcut. After 45
frustrating
minutes, I managed to ride on the right
road.
Than a sudden spell of wisdom which turned
otherwise
in retrospect, I added another tiring 25
minutes
too embarassing to detailed here.
Then
I passed several perfectly ok petrol station I
dained
to stop becos they were on the other side of
the
road. After entering a stretch of road with
sparser
and sparser dwelling with 35 km more to go, I
finally
stopped, asked, and was told there aint
anymore
petrol station for the next 50 km on whichever
side
of the road.
I
felt those omens did not augur well. Turning to go
back
to top up with petrol or going back home was so
depressing
that I thought we pop back to this NanYuan
park
we caught sight of a while ago and use that visit
as
a consolation.
That
was an interesting park and there are some
interesting
sequence shots made there for you folks.
Then
we headed back. I saw another 7-11 store and as
this
had some tables and benches in a little park
attached,
thought we would have a coffee break before
heading
back.
While
I idlely twiddled a bottle drink cap, Her Grace
snatched
it from me. Normally she refused to give it
back.
Normally I shout at her "drop it" which she
seemed
to take as cue to pull it further away from me.
If
at home, she would fly away, and kept flying away
just
making herself barely out of reach as I chased
her
to retrieve it, taking huge delight until she gave
it
up in the end.
I
asked her "give daddy". To my surprise, she opened
her
beak and drop it into my hand. I had not my
clicker
handy or I would have used that to cement her.
I
said 'good girl' and treated her that she
recognised
as equivalent to clicker which I used in
her
recalls (after using clicker to start and
subsequently
fade off). After a while, she picked
that
up again and on "give daddy", she gave that up
without
struggle.
Something
lit in my head. I positioned her away, put
that
cap there and cued "come here, give daddy". She
took
that up, holding it in her beak, and flew over to
me
with it. Something I was thinking off for a long
time
procrastinating myself all the way finally took
place
by that 7-11. To be fair, realising I have so
little
time left with her, I was reluctant to start on
any
new training. I prefered to spend it on headrubs
or
play with her on the swing and just being with her.
But
she seemed to know what I wanted.
You
see two separate sequence of her flying to me with
that
cap. I hardly believed in it and was nicely
surprised
when she did as cued.
The
third sequence was a dead cigarette butt, that
being
handy. Tinkerbell chewed into my ciggarette
boxes
so often biting my new ciggies to pieces that it
wasn't
funny. The last 4 trips we went out on the
bike,
she stole from my pocket, stole from my
backpack.
unzipped my kangaroo pouch and bite and
chewed
on 5 cigarette boxes in that 4 trips.
Being
all excited to look around for sutiable objects,
I
used a dead butt. That is why in the last sequence
had
her flying to me with that butt. Except instead
of
giving to me, we fought as I prised it out of her
mouth.
Please do not flame me for being stupid and
using
a butt. Lord, I know I am stupid enough for
starting
smoking in the first place, but that Old Nic
is
a damn hard guy to get off your back!
The
last two sequences show how that 7-11 rest area is
like,
which include an aircond place to eat or drink
what
you bought. In case you happen to past that
stretch
of road 10 km south of Chiayi, you know what
to
expect of a coffee break at that 7-11.
Tinkerbell
- Give daddy
http://community.webshots.com/album/192168971VeTQOG
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With
warmest regards
Shanlung
- lackey to all below
Joy
- wife, Tinkerbell - CAG & surrogate daughter
Halftail
the Bimbo - beautiful sweet silly cat
Zorro
- ferret which loves parrot pellets
Bim
and Zor are with other loving families now
I
will remember them for the happy times they gave me
earlier
emails and photo links on Tink -
http://www.geocities.com/shanlung9
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and sporadically updated
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