xmas pixel progress

started a new pixel. originally it was just the 2 reindeer and the santa. then it grew to become this size. ugh this is going to take FOREVER! so much detail to do.. this is just the start of the bg's linework if anyones interested. pick faults please, need to fix everything before i start the shading!

one80 camp

at the creek thingy


Mike, vick and cassie tieing the trailer down in teh rain



cris near the creeky place


slap mark on lerchy's back


cris






and random abstract pictures made by me using photoshop 7.0





random turt photos

pix3ll0r

another pixellated thingy-o. need idea's to make more pixellated thingy-o'S.






oh yeah. i know noone checks this, but if anyone has good ideas on what i can pixellate (for siggehs or some other purpose) lemme know. especially for any xmas themed siggehs or pixels eh?

Tribal warefare and the formal

, firstly, and most importantly, a picture showing support for the best tribe at one80, BELLATOR!



followed by formal pictures


















and this is something i just found on a dog adoption site.... i want to start helping out with these places, probably become a foster for some of the animals when i know whats happening with uni..

Save a Pound Dog" is what you do

Lives have been saved, because of you

Pound dogs on death row heard to say

"Save A Pound Dog" saved my life today".

"We number thousands in all our sorrow

Dogs by the thousand with "no tomorrows"

We listen & hear the pound man say. . .

Sorry mate for you it's "execution day".

Tears running down their lovely face

Fear now making their loyal hearts race

No lying in front of the warm fireplace rug

No one to give them that "final hug".

Just the "hangman" with the "noose in his hand"

Thousands dying in pounds across the land.

Why oh why can't humans ever understand

We'd give our last breath for a pat from your hand.

Then as if a "Miracle" from God..

A group in QLD called "Save A Pound Dog"

They turned the tables right around

Saving death row dogs from death in the pound.

So please support our group on our mission

As the Canine Crusaders we will not fail

As dogs in the pound hears that wonderful sound

"C'mon little mate you won your "final round".

"We'll fly you to freedom, across big blue skies

No more will the pound hear your mournful cries

You will play with the kids of your new family

And the "noose of the hangman" you will never see!

and a random horse i did in photoshop;

Spring

Well, today i went down the dam to watch the turtles and give them a little bit of food. as usual, they all turned up (all 30 or so) and enjoyed their miniature feed. Then, as i was watching the turtle heads popping up and dissapearing in the water, i noticed a very little head, attatched to a tiny little shell. I'd seen this little baby a few times before, though never this close, cause its extremly cautious (can you blame it?) but today it was as bold as the adult murrays, and was climbing over the adults backs to get food. I decided to pick it up, because i generally keep a vague eye on the condition of the wild turtles (shell, brightness of eyes etc), and watch them to see how they behave naturally. This baby (well, not a very young hatchy, id guess about 3-4 months old. bout the size turt (ma turdle) was at that age) seems to be perfectly healthy with a beautiful (and might i add, algae covered) strong shell. I took some photos of her/him and put him/her back in the dam. she/he kinda swam about 30cm away from me, stuck her/his head up, looked around, and swam off. he/she was so cute :lol: here are some pics of the babe!










and just for fun, two turtles racing for food




Today's actually been pretty eventful, considering the baby animals ive seen today. i was feeding the baby magpies at out place, and the parents kept following me waiting for a feed (neither pair attacks me, i hand feed them and can tell them apart. lol. they follow me, waiting for food. they'd let me touch their chicks if i wanted to) and i rescued a baby plover from a drain, which was lucky that i heard it. it was so cute.. when i went to return it to its parents, i went within about 20m or so of the adults, put the chick on the ground and waited for a mo, to watch the reaction of the parents (they started with 4 chicks, now only have two, the idiots in our school must kill them or something) and the chick was cold, so kept trying to climb back onto my hand. was absolutly gorgeous little bird.. to get it from teh drain i had to lift the steel cover off and go into teh drain to get it.. lmao.. but once i put the chick down i walked another 20m or so away to watch what the parents would do, incase they attacked it (didnt think they would) and one of them came straight over to the chick and started brooding it (tucked the chick under its wings to warm it up) so yeah. ive been guarding these birds for ages, ask ben, amy, frullet, charnstar and carl rofl. its the only time i lose my shyness; when i see someone harrasing/hurting animals.. its surprising how scary i can apparently be. ah well, dont harrass/hurt animals and your safe! (i scared the hell outa these two guys yesterday afternoon, cause they were kicking the parents and harrasiing them... )

ah well, ill shuddup and stop raving about animals now, i kno not too many people actually care about them

Misty survived!

at about 1:30 this afternoon, my mum called me and said that misty was limping, and looked like she had a swollen foot. so i went ot check on her, and her right forepaw was double the size of her other paw. i immediatly thought "snake" and took her to the vets. they gave her a sedative, incase it was a poisonous snake. it would have cost thousands of dollars to give misty the anti venoms (plural, because there are a number of poisonous snakes in our area, so we didnt kno which one she had been bitten by) which, unfortunately, we simply cannot afford. so, because her temp was high, the vet gave her a antibiotic injection on the offchance that the swollen foot was from a bite from a non-venomous snake and caused it to get infected. we took misty home, and i sat with her the whole time. though she was sedated, she was crying and in pain, so i didnt leave her side for hours. however, now the sedative has worn off, and she seems to be ok! her paw is still very saw, though now she is purring and she can walk (though im keeping her as still as possible) so thank God that she's still alive. when i first saw the swollen paw, i noticed some yellow stuff on the surface of her fur. so, all i can assume is that SOMEHOW misty avoided the full force of the snake and its venom. she showed signs of being bitten by a tiger snake, which are deadly. but if it was a tiger snake, she'd be dead. but she's not! so YEAH!! SHE'S ALIVE!! i really thought i was going to lose her...

Catchup time

Well. i havent made a new post any time lately. so, now, its catchup time. warning; long thread!


POT HEAD KITTY!
well, my kitten/cat/whatever resently went to the vets and came back very groggy and a bit lighter (she was de-sexed) but two days later she started to try to pull her stitches out. so i rigged up a headcollar for her, so she couldnt pull the stitches out! nice, stylish blue plant pot attatched to her furry collar (its furry cause she dosnt like it, so scratches it to try to get it off. soon as she stops scratching it, ill get her a new one)

so, picture of the pot-head kitty


speaking of which.. taught misty two new things :p to stand on her back legs to reach my hand, and to climb up my leg to my face while im standing.. so cool!


NEW TANK!
And guess what? turt got a new tank! its not as big as id have liked, but its better than what she was in! its a 4 foot x 15 inches deep x 18 inches high,, and turt loves it. when i got it i went downtehdam, got some big rocks for the tank as well as more fish and shrimp for her to chase, and lots of new plants. i had lots of new lillies, and i put tehm in there for her. so what did she do? destroy the lillies and leave shreds of their leaves to get stuck in the new filter... and may i mention that the new filter is MASSIVE! 1500 LPH, its a external canister filter with 4 media trays, one with a mechanical sponge, 2 with biological ceramic rings (for growing my new colonies of friendly bacteria) and 1 tray with carbon in it, for making the water clearer...


turt on one of her new rocks


the new tank. theres no lilly leaves (pretty much) still attatched to teh plants, cause she's eaten/destroyed them all, and theres more of teh other type of plant in there cause she likes searching for shrimp in them.... ill be adding black smooth river pebbles for turt to move and search thru, and more plants and a wooden log and ornamenty things...

ps- spot the turtle!

Turt action shots! (took a looong time to get these shots, though theyre still not great)




The Visiting Koala!
for the past 3 days, we've had the pleasure of having a koala in our front yard! we had one in our back yard about a year ago, but he didnt hang around long. this one's been staying in the same tree during the day time, but moving at night. he's even woken up a few times! lol












and just a boring ol' picture that ive started making in ms paint. nowhere near finished, but oh well.




thats all now, then i spose! i shall stop boring you all with my shocking photography and crappy pixels!

hmm.. well. the first time i tried to post this, i uploaded 11 photos out of 12, and typed about 600 words or whatever. then there was a power surge and my comp froze. i lost the stuff id done, and now all i could be bothered doing is uploading photo's... besides, it appears that noone actually knew i was going on the ski trip in the first place, so there isnt much point posting what it was like, from my point of view.. so.. photos; (note; these arnt nearly all of the photos i took... i took about 250 photos in a week... which isnt many, for me. i was paranoid about my camera)

carls first ski lesson


sabotaging carls coke zero


one of the runs down from eagles nest


amy being.. weird.. in the cafe area at friday flats



the ski's that stuck to me for the week. i miss em already


sunrise at breakfast



view of friday flats and eagles nest

ugh im tired, have work to do; thus, i am going to stop uploading stupid pics.. if anyone wants, i may post more if i could be bothered.

ZEBULUN FTW!

Alas, the new tribes have arisen; one tribe is called Abimelech, while the other mighty tribe has been dubbed ZEBULUN. Time will prove that ZEBULUN is the superior tribe, and shall reign over the lesser tribe, Abimelech. In the first clash of these tribes, ZEBULUN proved their worth and clashed heads with the enemy, forcing them back and earning their first victory. ZEBULUN FTW!


and the weakling opposing team, Abimelech. we dont want to make them cry, if they dont get their own picceh

well, this will probably (?) be my last thread until i return from the ski trip.. leave for the ski trip in 2 weeks.. so thats no thread for 3 weeks! thats ok, not many people check here anyway, so no loss. just please dont say 'update' which i doubt you would anyway

today i was taking photos of my turtle. yes, i know, i talk about my turtle too much, but i adore her..

this is a REALLY dodgy photomanip i made.. photomanips dont seem compatable with turtles, so i found



blogger is playing up again, shall update later.. this thread.. ill update.. i dont mean update as in make a new thread. yeah. i know what i mean. do you understand? i hope you understand

in the meantime, feel free to comment on how awesome turt is, and also...

what is the most embarrasing thing youve ever done? feel free to post, and you CAN post more than one story.. i want some good laughs!

Devoted to the animals

Well, for english at the moment, we're doing a feature collum (sp?) and we did a practice one and i handed it in today. i did mine on whaling. see if you can guess my opinions on whaling, me being the animal lover that i am. I got extremly upset, depressed and angry when reading the research articles on teh internet, and seeing the vile photos of whales being hauled onto ships. oo i just almost started to rant just then... off the topic of whaling before i lose the plot again

so this gave me the idea of looking at animal rescue agencies and adoption refuges in our area. one i found is a husky refuge, finding hopes for neglected, tortured, abandoned and unwanted huskies. found some cool stuff..

This is a very true passage, and everyone considering to get a dog should read it. if they dont like the sound of it THEY SHOULDNT GET A DOG

"He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion" - Unknown

and this is the feature story the site had... its an awesome story..

The Dog Who Fought a Bear
It was about ten o'clock on a warm June morning when Paul Guitard decided to take his sled dogs for a run. As usual in the summer months, he harnessed his team up to his four-wheel all-terrain vehicle. His lead dog was a black and silver-grey purebred Siberian Husky named Grizzly . . .
They were about three kilometres down the trail when suddenly, out of nowhere, a black bear charged out of the bush. Before Paul had time to realize what was happening, the bear was on top of him and savagely biting his leg and arm.
"I looked over and saw two cubs on the path - we'd come between them and their mother - and I thought, Uh, oh. I'm in trouble! Then, all of a sudden, the bear pulled me right off my bike. The dogs went on a hundred metres or so and I thought they were gone."
Normally, if Paul falls off or loses the team, the dogs just keep right on going. But Grizzly knew Paul was in trouble. He brought the team to a halt, turned them all and the bike and headed back to Paul. In harness and still attached to the rest of the team, Grizzly went for the bear. The bear released Paul and turned to fight the dog; Paul scrambled for the nearest tree. As he started up it, the bear's jaws closed on his right foot.
"I was kicking her with my other foot, trying to make her let me go, and she was pulling me back down the tree," Paul recalls. "Then Grizzly went at her again and started biting at her, so she let me go. I climbed up to the top of the tree fast!"
Grizzly stationed himself at the bottom of the tree, between Paul and the bear. The cubs ran to the other side of the trail and up a tree of their own.
"I expected that when everything calmed down everybody would leave," Paul says. The cubs left after about two hours, but their mother stayed. Every twenty minutes or so she made another rush for the tree, and each time Grizzly fought her off. When he charged, the harness pulled all the other dogs forward too, but they weren't about to help fight a bear. In fact, just to add to Grizzly's problems, they began to fight among themselves - until Grizzly sorted them out.
The day became hotter. Paul sat in the tree, sweating, knowing he was going to be there for a while, until someone missed him and started trying to find him. His right arm and leg were bleeding badly, and he was in a lot of pain.
"I just sat up there and waited," he says, "and every time the bear charged the tree I wondered, is she going to get up this time?"
But Grizzly kept her away. After three or four hours, the bear ambled about 200 metres off and settled herself down to sleep. Paul began to think about sneaking down the tree, unhooking the dogs, and getting away on the bike. Cautiously, he began to climb down.
"I got about halfway down. She put her head up, looked at me, and gave a kind of a grunt. She started to get up. 'Hey, no problem!' I said, and headed back up my tree."
About an hour after that - six hours since the bear attacked - Paul finally heard more all-terrain vehicles coming. He knew it was probably his brother-in-law and friend coming to look for him. Paul screamed at them to go home and get a gun, so they turned around.
"That was the toughest time," Paul says now, "because I was so close to getting saved, and if she got up there before they got back ..." He broke a branch off the tree and made a little spear out of it - anything to keep the bear away if she did get up. But Grizzly remained on guard, and the bear didn't get through.
At last Paul heard his friends returning. The bear heard them too. She crossed over to the other side of the trail and waited for them. Just as they came into sight, she charged. She was only a few metres away when Paul's friend shot her. Paul stayed where he was long enough to make sure the bear was really dead; then, fighting pain and fatigue, he clambered down the tree.
The first thing he did was tend to Grizzly. The dog had only a small gash on his nose where one of the bear's claws had caught him. In spite of being hampered by the harness and all the other dogs, he had still managed to be faster on his feet than the lumbering bear.
Paul, however, had a gash on his right arm and the calf of his right leg was cut open. And he found out later that he had broken his left ankle from kicking the bear in the nose.
"Not that it did much good," he says now. "I think it only made her madder. It was Grizzly who saved me. I can honestly say, and I've said it a hundred times, I wouldn't be here if it weren't for that dog. I'd be dead. That bear would have killed me."

yeah... dunno why i posted this.. just i spose cause im an animal fanatic

"Sleep Over" piccehs and othas

nyah. made a picture in MS paint, and im currently using it as a signature on a graphics forum that i spend too much time on. But oh well.

another picture, this is a photomanip, you may recignise it from teh banner at the top of my blog... i made the sig first, which gave me the idea for the layout. but yeah.

sleepover pictures. cant post the movies, cause theyre 98.5MB + in size. might post a couple more pictures if anyone actually even see's these, otherwise there isnt much point

argh, well, it appears that my internet is messed up, and wont let me put any more pics up. oh well, noone woulda seen em anyway. just gonna put some song lyrics up, instead

these lyrics are for teh song "Never Alone" by Barlowgirl. weird name for the band, but i like that song, so i'd appreciate it if you didnt make fun of it.

"Never Alone"

I waited for you today

But you didn't show

No no no

I needed You today

So where did You go?

You told me to call

Said You'd be there

And though I haven't seen You

Are You still there?

[Chorus:]

I cried out with no reply

And I can't feel You by my side

So I'll hold tight to what I know

You're here and I"m never alone

And though I cannot see You

And I can't explain why

Such a deep, deep reassurance

You've placed in my life

We cannot separate

'Cause You're part of me

And though You're invisible

I'll trust the unseen

[Chorus]

heh. some of you may miss the point of the song, but oh well. post what ever you want, if you could be bothered