So, it is party time again, folks!

[wiseheart]

Each year this time, we launch my virtual birthday party, which starts on October 1 and ends on October 9 at midnight, sharp. The goals of the party are to post as many comments and collapse as many threads as possible, on as many new pages as we can. It is always great fun, as you can see if you check out the similar entries of the last few years.

This year, I'll also throw the real party at mid-time - and post the recipes of all the food that will be there for you, so that you can all participate if you want to. Virtual food has no calories.

Fandom-related discussions are as welcome as the ones about coffee or chocolate (just to name a few favourites from previous years), and, of course, pictures and recipes of birthday cakes. ;)

So, drop by, tell your story, post your pics or silly poems, ask questions you always wanted to ask and have a good time!

Soledad, in excited expectation




Oh, and by the way, to provide birthday gifts hobbit-style, I've got a revived story and a Kansas 2 update for you.

Enjoy!

Comments

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Today we ended up going to a reclamation yard looking for a stone bird bath to put in the new part of our conifer bed. Sadly we saw nothing remotely suitable, though they did have paired stone dogs, lots of old-fashioned lampposts, huge whisky barrels, and numerous other peculiar objects.

We ended up instead looking at storage chests & kitchen tables, though sadly one of the local shops that we've bought good-value furniture at before now seems to be a tanning parlour. Urgh.

[elmey.livejournal.com]

We have a ground level birdbath in the back yard, it's plastic made to look like stone, once it's gotten a little dirt on it, it's not bad looking and it's in the middle of plenty of weeds plants. The advantage is, that it's light enough to drain easily for cleaning. It's kind of nice, with a shallow end and a deep end. The birds love it, and the other day we had two deer drinking from it too.

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

A plastic birdbath is a good idea; we've been tidying up the garden over the past couple of years so that many of the pools of water that had been lying around have gone, and we've been feeling rather guilty.

Deer in the garden sounds interesting! Where do you live?

[elmey.livejournal.com]

We're 30 miles NW of NYC. Rockland County. A lot of it is typical suburban, but there are older pockets that are very wooded, and the county is adjacent to a large state part so we get wildlife. We don't have a regular garden to worry about, too much shade, so I don't mind them at all, they're beautiful animals.

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

I know a lot of people are worried about deer eating their garden plants -- not that we get deer here at all. In fact nothing bigger than badgers.