listy weekend

[jinian]

Naruto:
Things that I wish would happen:

1. Rock Lee: "Oh, Haruno Sakura? Yeah, she's really strong, isn't she? I had such a thing for her two years ago -- but I'm over it." (This never happens in manga at all that I have seen. I guess it's not common in any fiction. Examples?)


2. Anyone: "Oh, shit, this opponent is really strong. I will use my really strong jutsu immediately and kick his ass." *uses strongest attack*
   Enemy: *falls down*
   Audience: OMG that only took one chapter! WOOOOHOOOOO!

Relatedly, the good point about reading entire volumes of scans in one sitting is that the plot actually moves.

Naruto-Fair transition:
One of the pictures from the always-entertaining high school art show was Maito Gai, complete with thumbs-up and sparkle.

Puyallup Fair:

• Piglets large enough to look like real, hairy little pigs instead of cartoon pigs.


• Cows being washed with hose and brush, as if they were cars.


• Headache all day; no rides for me.


• Cheeseburger, elephant ear, strawberry shortcake, $3 bottle of Aquafina.


• Mutton Bustin': A child up to 6 years old and 60 pounds in weight attempts to cling to a sheep that desperately wants to be on the other side of the enclosure. This works possibly even less well than you think.


• Rabbits of adorability; yawning, with dark stripes down speckled white backs, superfloofed, big and small


• The expected amazing quilts, which are always even better than I remember


• The expected only-okay knits, which I always decide I should outdo next year


• The expected peculiar collections, ranging from totally commercial to animal-themed to really unusual (yellow-handled kitchen implements! of which someone took a photo to show her sister, who collects green-handled kitchen implements)


• Draft horse teams, including six very frisky black Shetland ponies, demonstrating their cart-pulling skills

Garden:

• Attempted generosity:
  
  • Ten Freecyclers wanted my oregano and lemon balm divisions
  
  
  • Three Freecyclers showed up
  
  
  • Zero Freecyclers said anything at all about not coming
  
  
  • One Freecycler sent a thank-you note


• Oregano:
  
  • Seven pots need homes
  
  
  • Two varieties still in herb patch: purple flowers, white flowers with pretty green bracts


• Primroses:
  
  • Divided, some into as many as five pieces
  
  
  • Surprisingly okay after the dry dry summer
  
  
  • Named "prim-" for "first" (not, as I guessed, "primavera", but meaning the same thing)


• Planted in the big dirt:
  
  • Japanese holly-fern (Cryptomium, currently sadder than when I bought it at half price)
  
  
  • Seedlings of the yellow corydalis of mystery
  
  
  • Anemonella thalictroides


• Confirmed lost to squirrels that dig in pots:
  
  • Dicentra cucullaria, two


• Discovered and stolen from digging squirrels:
  
  • A hazelnut. It was good.

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[cheesepuppet.livejournal.com]

Ya'll must be hittin' those big-city fairs, 'cause our County Fair's Aquifina was only $2.50.