The Magnolia

Well, I finally got my magnolia planted, seems like so much other stuff is getting in the way these days,.... Oh well.... (sighs)....better late that never and other such platitutdes....

And, at last got a teleporter to take me or you from the beach to the shop and back to the beach....so that seems to be working well,.... my first few steps into the land of scripts and funny grammar and punctuation marks... god, I have enough trouble writing English, let-a-lone computerspeak....eeeks.... computers are soooo picky, real anal... lol

Not much to report otherwise, haven't seen anyone recently, but got me dancing shoes ready...... for 20008, hehehe, just gained 18000 years......

Happy Christmas

Thanks to everyone who sent cards and best wishes, I hope you all have a great time and manage to put your feet up a bit before the job has you up and at it again. :))

Here the sun is shining and I've been out for a walk to shake off the cob-webs..... and some of the Christmas fare.... puding etc.

Got a new magnolia tree I hope to plant today.... hehehe....mad tree-woman strikes again. :))

God Jul til alle de Norske folke som kjenne meg....:))

Outage can cause outrage, well,.... irritation

Thats the way things have been the last month, all sorts of things stopping me from going online. I guess thats the nature of things... ... hmmm, pretty moronic philosophy, that. Oh well.



This is what the beach looks like now I've had a tidy round with the hoover. Much happier than I was with it, it was starting to look like a sculptie tip. Prim land fill.

This is the Christmas card I'm sending out this year, not in SL of course, and I made some presents too, so I've been pretty busy.



The complete morons who interviewed me last month haven't had the manners to tell me I haven't got the job.. . so I guess they wouldn't be good people to work for anyway, thats how I'm taking it anyway......hehehehe..
Still, plenty of people who need me for their gardens so I've not been twiddling my thumbs... Getting a bit fitter than I was in the summer as a consequence, so seems good all round.

Well, got more to do on the blender so better get to it........

seeya
soror

Tidy

Well, finally got round to doing some tidying up at the beach. feel like its much more presentable now.

Still got a couple of building projects in the pipeline, not least a beautiful orange flower..... watch this space...

Can't seem to upload an image at the moment....will try again later.

soror

xxx

Unbelievable

but true, i still haven't heard from my interview, jeez, you'd think it was some amazing job what with a second interview and all, then all this waiting to hear. There was only two of us at the last interview, so I don't know what's going on.....

Anyway, it would probably be a terrible job anyway.

Well, I started re-arranging the beach a bit, cos it was getting very overgrown, so I did some weeding and cutting back and my prims are looking all the healthier for it. I will resurrect the old Atoll walkways, they're antiques now, no longer in the Library thanks to the Linden Boys economising on our Inventories.

Lots to do...

Loggin blues

Hmmm...

We are having some technical problems and you may experience some difficulties in logging in

... well, they got that right, I am.

Now, it must be pretty difficult keeping it all on track, but thats what we pay you for Linden boys... we can't charge YOU VAT on our downtime, unfortunately.....

Well, I guess anyone can get bugs....

So, while I'm being patient I have got the Blender whirring and am dying to rez my new flower.... oh, well...

Weather remains fair....

A lovely evening

Absentee

OK, I know its been ages since I wrote but its been high stress...lolol....I went for an interview and the stress was just tooo much... first, i had to find the iron, it only normally comes out at weddings and funerals......and I missed Caro and Monty's wedding which really pissed me off, I had my head in other places (up my own.....) so I was really annoyed with myself. Anyway, I found the iron but didnt have any shoes to match so I went out and bought a pair, cheap, well, not that cheap, and thought wow, I'm gonna be really pissed if I dont get the job. bought some accessories in a second-hand shop and was worrying about this interview all week.

Read Bob Dylans book, reading is how I bury my head when I dont wanna think... and was generally miserable until I went for the job today. Well, the woman that saw me was very nice but, instead of giving me the job and a huge salary said to come back to a second interview next week. God, its not for fucking president....lol.....I'm only gonna move some plants around...

So, then I been doing some gardening too and its been hard work, I have been sitting on my cute little bum for over a year now, so the activity nearly killed me.. anyway, back on track now cos when I go to be reinterviewed, well, she can just give me the job or stick it, I'm passed caring now.... :))......

Well, back to reality, I gotta do something with my beach, the place is a real tip; there's plants and trees everywhere and I think I gotta move em all.... big job, my invent will explode....

Tree Mad

Well, this is the 36th Ancient and with those lovely lights she looks great at night of course. I have Floradora Sol to thank for the script...



Now, this one is interesting because the tex is from a tree trunk I made for a show in Los Angeles (RL) where a guy called Great Escape is putting on a show of objects created in SL and transfered to RL by making paper models of them, at least thats what he says hes doing with them...
Of course he cant do canopies..... too much like hard work to cut lots of little holes like you get in an alpha tex.... so it'll just be the trunk....

And I just downloaded the new version of SL and theres a huge list of bugs its supposed to have fixed, so we'll see.....
Must say in general that I havent crashed so much recently, but then thats a dangerous thing to say
:))

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I ended up under 10 feet of snow in a snow lodge......

Grrrrrrrrrhhhh!!!! 2

No, its all pretty hairy In World tonight. (except me, I was hairless)... got in eventually but PrimWorks was just open sea, and Lifstaen was grey...???

Eeeeek!!

Why me......?? the whole island has been shot to pieces, cant even log on........lol...... 5 times I tried and then, when I did get in the were huge bits of Treeworks and the island missing.....????

Hmmmm. well, something is not well in SL tonight,....... I have a new tex I wanna try ou too.


Well, I went to a wedding, Eternal and Andromede, that was my first wedding, but not my last, cos Caro's getting married too....
I bought myself a cute little blue dress, quite proper and a little flirty, specially for the occasion....Will take a photo of it for the boys...:))

And well, apart from that i made a resolution to get out more, I've made some great trees but I've been neglecting my friends so.....must get out more...

I'm off to try agaion to get in......seems like my island is too holey to tp to......well, we'll see....

Frocks and Tortoises

Well, I got a new frock for Caros wedding....great.... needed something a little less "mad tree-woman" so I look quite normal in this one....cool. Couldn't wear my white kimono, bit of a no-no at weddings....
Then, while I was trying to fit a shadow under my latest tree..... a mini mummy doing wheelies on his bike with three toroises started to scare a huge dragon....
Well, the mini-mummy was called Vianne Udet and was very fond of his/her three pets, Bettie, Oldie and Gebbie.... i gave them some vegetables which I had lying around in my Inventory since I made them for the chef.....
Well, the dragon, Crazod Zehetbauer, was getting very crazod and skittish...
and distracted me from my artistic musings......
Vianne did some great wheelies tho...



Anyway I just got on with a new project which I'll tell you all about when I got names and things written down....
Quite pleased with ancient 34....... :))

Last night went to a building class with Floradora Sol.... can thoroughly recommend it..... just find her in search...shes very cool...

1,5000,000 US$

Well, very nice of someone who i dont know to have deposited 1.5 million US in an account for me.......all I had to do was send my address and telephone no.... well instead I redirected/forwarded the nice mans email to:

reportphishing@antiphishing.org.

and probably they will do something.....who knows...
anyway, anyone who calls me My Dear is gonna be a weirdo..:))

Otherwise not much going on, still a few small bugs floating around but I havent crashed for a while which has gotta be good news....
Stiil working on the Bog, its in my Picks, and I think the LM is pretty good so you dont have to end up underwater.......
Shame that the Squirrel-Master has gone into Hibernation...... have to do it all myself......oh well, a work in progress.

A bit of news...

Well, the first thing is that Kalt has been gathering leaves in large quantities and has gone into hibernation...I don't blame him, it was hideously cold last few days........

And the other is that I got bored with the kimono, and changed clothes at last, I went to Floras building class and seemed to make a real hash of it, but it was SL playing tricks on me.....

So, anyway, Iowa Ireton is a master chef and has come to me for a few of the delicacies I grow on the island. He needs top ingredients and has gone of with carrots, asparagus, papaya, pears, django beans, and two types of mushroom....so he was well glad, knowing all my produce is fresh and clean. Keeps well too....:)

Also, I made another tree tho I said i would give it up....I just had too...lol
well, two actually, 32nd and 33rd.... but now, thats enough...
Must get a life....

Gotta do my first hard days work tomorrow in RL.....eeekk........will be a big shock...

::))

Clothes

God, I am so bored with my clothes,....gotta do some thing, been wandering around in this kimono for weeks, just simply cant be bothered to think about it, and the fear of malls....Mallophobia, looms with lag and slags....:))
takes 5 minutes to see all the crap you never wanted to buy in the first place...
i guess I should make my own, its not like I cant use a sewing machine, knock a few prims into shape in the blender or something like that.....
I am becoming a mad tree woman..... must stop.... heheheheee (she cackled)
well, these are almost my last.... gotta do clothes next week



I like this one a lot



This one shines, my first light tree...



and these are prairie daisies


just one more tree planned for tonight, then I will kick the habit....
honestly
:))

those photos

This is called snakeroot by the native peoples of the area. the roots are used as foodstuff, the plant growing to a great size with time.



Well, this is the arrow-leaved orchid, so called for obvious reasons, only recently discovered...




Well, should be getting on with something, I guess....

Flora Virtua Exotica

Ah, well, even Blogger has bugs, they are pretty catching, although...(don't tell the Linden Boys)... I haven't crashed for ages ....hmmm.... should not speak too soon.

Anyway, been very busy, rather obsessively building, and theres more strange flowers than u can shake a stick at now up in the cloudshop......

Cant upload photos of them to the blog at the moment cos of some bug which has got a weird name..bX-ltlqzv ( they name all their bugs here)... but will carry on regardless.. and no doubt will be able to tomorrow...

Things are settling down in rl too now...at last.. and hope to be getting back to a more regular blogging....sorry..... :))

soror
xxx

More plants, they just keep growing

This is one they call the Fan Orchid
and the one below, the snake orchid....
quite rare...

28th ancient one

Well, its late at night and ny eyes are giving in, just finished my 28th ancient..... so thought I'd have to get it on the blog

:))

hehehe... 98% successful move

Moving tomorrow.....omg.....

Well, this is my 26th Ancient One, and although its only a sapling at the moment the genetic material is intact for future generations.... the leaves have started to turn blue, well, autumn is approaching....



and this is my second one prim tree, a goal I had set myself a while back....I wanted to compete with the nasty photo trees you see everywhere in SL, and the only advantage they USED to have was that they were low prim,,.... well, you dont get lower than one prim..... now anyone can plant a forest on a 512......



On a totally different note..... someone was kind enough to nominate me for the art award.....lol
The banner is very naff...and I have to stress that I had nothing to do with the design and will be redesigning it when I've moved.....first priority....:))
No doubt I will be begging round trying to find different places to set up my banner when its done,... tho it will probably be 3D someting..... nicer than this anyway...

:))

1.18.3(5)....hmmm...now a rolling restart..

Hmmm... might get boring if I carry on......

Burning

Well, if I could be bothered......this is what I'd email to the Linden Boys.....

Dear Boys,
Now, you knew htere were gonna be a few people turn up to see the burning, you been advertising it all week on my screen when I log in......SO, well, dont you think you should have made a few arrangements, sort of to allow for all the interested parties...???
Now, if I was in charge, I would know that the old Lets-Meet-At-The- Joining- Point -Of-4-Sims trick just wouldnt cut the mustard...and...surprise...it was crap......

Well, this is beans photo of the Burning...... hmmmm




I got a photo, straight from the event, this is Daaneth Kivioq going out to burn the man, followed by all his lampbearers...
great...... now, he had a lot of trouble walking, the rest of us were totally immobilized..... dont you think a dragon avi is a bit ambitious? a squirrel might haver been better..or something low-prim....???.. well, I know nothing and so I crashed like ,well, the whole sim??? not sure, cos i couldnt get back in to do my Investigative Reporting for you guys...
but I did here someone shout...."bugger, I can only see a leg and it pretty tame"...now I assume that the first to suffer in high lag are the effects...like fire....but what do I know....

New Tree, the 24th Ancient

Well, its not quite finished but its nearly there...
Thought I'd show you anyway....



Well, crashed twice last night within an hour, so the fix was obviously a normal one....hehehee.....
Got lots of nice comments from people about my show at Burning Life, but its really laggy there, so best visit when theres fewer people online........ if that helps... .seems to be better sometimes...
If its all just too much then most of my new flowers are out on the beach, and the new trees are up in the cloudshop, the bog extention..

Moving in RL, so up to my eyes in boxes and stuff....lol.....

Fixing the fix....

Well, last week we had a fix, then immediately a compulsory fix to fix the fix,.....
now, we assume a fix to fix the fix fix........
but who will fix the fixers.....???

Obviously the fixers cant fix the fixers fix, or it would all be OK....

Maybe outside help, like a team of hard-wired squirrels or ..hmmm....some professionals..... don't the A-Team live out west....

Anyway, while they are playing with their tunnels and things, I thought you might like to see some more of my paintings...



I forget what this ones called, written it down somewhere.....its a little 12"x 12" oil on board abstract landscape....Third Life.....:)))

Oh well, when SL suffers, Blender whirrrrrrsssss.....

Burning Life, (Diablo) 80,114,24, (got it right)

Well, the festival kicks off tomorrow, and I am ready, my site is pretty jammed full of my stuff



Seems like the colours are working nicely together,...



and I'm quite pleased with the results...



If you get a chance to drop in for a look, please do so....

Burning Life, (Diablo) 80,114,24

Talk about art reflecting life....... First I find a great house in rl..... then, I entered a Lottery in SL for land parcels at Burning Life, (thx Roy for telling me about Burning Life) and I won. I got a parcel of land, 2096M to build my stuff on, before it all gets deleted after the Burning.

So, I didn't know anything about the Burning Man before this........ Its a big festival of art and music that happens in the desert every year.... and no trace is left when they leave.




So here, theres 22 sims of art...



and , of course, I thought it would be great to bring some flowers and trees here.....

Well, I'm hoping to be finished for the 24th , which is when it sort of starts.... and the Burning is on the 1st October, I think, but, you know me, I will give you all the right details, eventually.....

Kaltusaran Moonsoo

Well, after being kept waiting for nearly a week, Kalt has at last learned that he has got 2nd Place in the flower competition.
Now, no sour grapes here, the judges decision is always final, but I think they all need glasses.....
hmmmm...
:):):)

Oh no....

Well, just when I'm ready to get back online and find a good photo for this page........ its all closed down for some prim fiddling, well, probably not prim-fiddling, that's what I wanna do, for another "fix".....hmmmm, not very impressed.....
Previous fixes have been of dubious quality ...
In fact, how many fixes can we actually need, surely with all this practice they would have got it right by now???
I usually manage to fix things first time, or if I really screw up, on the second attempt....
But to fix the same thing on a weekly basis....hmmm..... oh, well, blender here I come..

:)

I'm back

Offline......omg

Well, It's a bit of a shock being im rl for 48 hours without so much as touching a prim, and I only managed to write this because of a friends puter, which I have managed to get my hands on....

and, you may ask, what am I doing, out in the real world for 48 hours with no tp possibilities....well, I'm looking for a house to over-winter in, and the good news is....that I found a beaut........ so I won't have to sleep under any hedgerows this winter....:) very cool.

so......I expect building work to continue shortly on the bog...

seeya tomorrow night... all being well

soror
xxx

Bloody Hippies at 1-800-flowers

Well, its all very well and good, organising a competition to see who can make the best flowers in SL.....
1-800-flowers........
btu when you put off announcing the winners....and dont tell anyone........ are they all West Coast hippies...?????
Not good enough ....
Lax...



Well we got so bored of wating, we had to amuse ourselves.... the announcement should have been the 13th....hmmmm



The rodent went into deep trancendental meditation.....



And I went and made plants.....
and wrote and complained to everyone I could

not amused of Lifstaen...

Two Big Prims

Well, I said I'd show you........

The hot weather continues..

Well, its understandable that dancing in this hot weather can make you want to throw off some clothes but a few people went the whole hog at Callisto last night , which could have caused a bit of a stir....

Anyway, at least one of the DJ's was a litttle more careful about what the general public was offered, visually, that is....



and I met a person called J C Anvil who was very complimentary about my work and showed me his beach house and beach, nice, very laid back style...



but the big thing was for me the chance to see my two prim tree done with giant prims....hehhhe.... I know the Linden Boys don't like em, but it was HUGE.....hehhhee... rather impractical, my camera couldn't get far enough away to see what I was doing....

but I'm getting the photo developed so I can show u tomorrow

soror

Sand pit days

Days in the sand pit doing some building, rather antisocial, I know but I need to get some new plants for the bog...



This is one of Kalts latest trees and not one of his weird, 'mad squirrel' trees... absolutely stunningly crisp detail..



and this is my Bog Lilly, discovered in some secret little nook on Lifstaen, the island where I live, its one of a number of plants which we hope to show to the general public in our exhibition of Flora Virtua Exotica, plants brought back by the great plant hunters from the far reaches of the known world (sponsered by TREEWORKS) for your enjoyment, in the new gallery currently under construction next to the Cloud Shop....

Watch this space for details of the opening...

Beach and bugs

Well, the Linden Boys keep asking me if Second life is getting better or worse....well, MY life in Second is getting better, thankyou very much, but not because of anything they've done, except, of course, keeping the whole thing tied together with bits of string so I can get online. So I keep having to answer NO, and they dont give me a chance to explain, cos the box where I could give my opinion is always noy working....lol.....get your boxes together, boys....

Ah, well, we keeep drowning propective customers due to a bug in the TP system, and I have written a note of apology to the people who get dunked on their way, and stuck it on the ocean bed, which is where they end up....... not really the way to do business, is it



So, apart from the odd trip to the sand box, I have found it safer on the beach, having crashed about 10 times yesterday, lost count actually.....

The weather continues fine.......

Civil engineering in the bog.

Making sure that the risk assessment meets with my approval, Kalt went bog diving yesterday.



He was looking into ways of draining the bog, or at least getting some fresher water in there



Our hopes of opening to the public have been slowed down a bit, cos the infrastructure isn't really in place yet.... still patience is a virtue... they say; on the other hand 'they' say a lot of old tripe at times...

Eyes

Well, my first modelling engagement was a very speedy and no-nonsense one, Mr Darkholme needed me for a photoshoot and I downed tools and lept to his assisstance.... as you can see from above. Now I was quite willing to wear a wig for the occassion but he was adamant that all would be well....... having seen the advert, I must say that those eyes do NOT go with my natural colouring, but, well, its his product, so.....

Otherwise beeen building like a mad woman, and its taken me two days hard work to get the tex right for my new orchid, the Greater Spottted Orchid, which, if I can be honest, is one of my best pieces of work so far.... photos tomorrrow.....

Crashed a few times ...... seems the bug season is still in full swing.

Autumnal colours

Some new trees by Mr. Moonsoo at the cloud shop, TREEWORKS, just use the Picks in my Profile to tp, if u fancy a look...



Ah, those wonderful colours...



Well, the bugs are out in full force now that autumn is approaching......and Blogger even gives theirs a name...bX-qeihpe, was the one stopping me uploading....oh, well, not as bad as the Linden boys who have bugs in all sorts of crevices... poor Kalt.....5 hours of his day gone, just trying to log on......and I'm sure its not a sort of squirrel prejudice, but a wider bug population....
made me wonder if the Total Resident Population also included the insect life, and what proportion were tunneling their little way through the secret connections and valves in my puter....

doesnt bear thinking about.....

lol
soror
xxx

Moody

Well, Kaltusaran and I have been busy..... girl and squirrel beavering away on a mouse til the moon was up and we couldn't see to work any more.

We're discovering new life forms in the marsh bog of the island and will no doubt be able to let visitors in, in a few days, if all goes well...




I've been to classes at ASL.....can fully recommend it... in Search, go to Events and type in ^ASL^ and you will see a list of courses and their times...
Went to a beginners scripting class and a sculptie for beginners one....... cool



The bugs seem to have hibernated for the moment and all seems somewhat normal........fingers crossed....

Kaseys New House

Well, this is Izabella and i sitting, chatting, in Kasey's new house, we had tried to go out shopping, but the Sim went down, then we couldn't tp anywhere, so i dont know whats going on with the linden boys......?? seems like someone needs to get themselves sorted out in a big way....lol

Anyway, not much happeniong otherwise, the trees keep growing, discovering new life forms almost daily on the island which is a very rich and varied flora...

Must get some new clothes...but shopping has got even harder now with all these bugs flying around....

the shop

BUGS, BUGS, BUGS

Well, now, that things dont always go as they should is not anything to get upset about really but getting your customers dumped in the briney ocean, when they thought they were going to arrive in a woodland paradise where birds sing and all that stuff, is not good for business...

And the Linden Boys decided it would be interesting for me to examine a bluish sand at minus 180 meters, which, unlikely as it may seem, could have amused me for 10 seconds the first time they did it to me,(I was only trying to Sit), but by the 4th time the joke was wearing pretty thin.

But, the worst thing, and what has spurred me on to rant in such an unseemly manner is my jeans. The ones I normally wear, have been turned into cut-offs, without my consent and, totally 'no mod'. Now from what I've seen them wearing, the Lindens are not to trusted for fashion tips.....
and for them to suddenly start cutting up my jeans......it makes my blood boil....

SORT IT OUT....theres more bugs than you can shake a stick at...

And you emptied everyones library except for some tat...e.g. Accessories folder.....a torch?????.....you wanna get out more....

1-800-flowers.com

Now if you get time it would be great if you vote in the flower competition, there's good prize money which Kalt could use to get himself a decent motherboard......lol
All you do is go to the website, and then email to;

secondlifeflowers@yahoo.com

and tell em which flowers are the best

and if you cant spell Kalts name, join the club....well, I think I got it now.....Kaltusaran Moonsoo

and he's got a blog at mrmoonsoo.blogspot

seeya

TREEWORKS

Well, finally, but not completely finished in the shop, I mean, theres only so much a girl and a squirrel can do.....lol

and its Saturday night, so, dancing shoes.........Wear...../ao off



Please come look, or eat your lunch there, its really chill

ADDRESS...... not usually very good with these things....it's in my picks and should be in Kaltusaran Moonsoo's, if he's done it..... these squirrels, jeez....

The TREEWORKS cloud shop, Moldorf, 208,47,227......yep

xxx