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I'm happy to announce that this month I was finally able to buy Pirlouit a proper packsaddle! Doesn't he look very professional? And handsome. He receives a lot of compliments every time a visitor sees him all dressed up.

If he looks a bit wary in this photo it's because it was the first time I added the baskets, and as he'd never seen such large baskets before he wasn't sure they weren't about to eat him. His nervousness only took the form of twitchy ears though, there was no drama. (And he can be very melodramatic, so really he's been very stoical and self-possessed in the process of getting used to the packsaddle.)

He can also sulk for days if I make him do something he doesn't like (e.g. hoof care, which he seems to interpret as pointless torture), so I find it gratifying that every time we've used the packsaddle so far, he didn't try to avoid me the next day but came to greet me—he makes it very obvious when he is offended by an activity, and I'm glad that he seems to enjoy being asked to help carry things :).

When I bought the packsaddle I was a bit concerned about the girth being too small, because Pirou refused to let me measure his circumference beforehand (and I was pretty sure having to resort to some sort of girth extender would embarrass him) (but he does have a very round belly...)

But no; I was able to fasten all the straps—though I spared him the crupper strap at first.

I had to have two tall trees felled in the pasture (because of a project I will talk about in another post), and I also cut a couple of storm-damaged trees in my woods, so I spent a lot of time this year cutting & splitting logs. I now have several stacks quite far from my house, in places that can't be reached with a wheelbarrow, and my donkey's help is very appreciated to carry everything to the woodshed. Plus, the people who visit me are usually more into doing stuff with the llamas, so this allows me to give attention to Pirlouit too, while doing something useful.

Aren't you proud to be now in my Top 3 Most Useful Animals, Pirou?

... wait he's still grumbling about that one comment.

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ive bitten six people so far this year by hiding in the rack of sweaters and lunging when someone reaches out to touch them but the banana republic staff cant put me down cause im an endangered species

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The Olympics but high fashion by Wisdom Kaye

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Had a discussion with some friends a while back about the ol’ “replace everyone but one actor with muppets” idea.

So someone suggests Full Metal Jacket, keeping R Lee Ermy (the drill sergeant). And I said no no no.

Keep Vincent D’onofrio.

For those of you who haven’t seen it, spoilers for a 36 year old movie!

Full Metal Jacket is essentially two related short films sharing a few characters, glued together in the middle. The first half of the movie follows US Marine draftees as they go through basic training. The second half follows a couple of those guys as they take sniper fire in Vietnam.

Vincent D’onofrio only appears in the first half. His character, “Private Gomer Pyle” (a derisive nickname applied by the drill sergeant) is the subject of tons of abuse at the hands of said drill sergeant, and, eventually, his fellow draftees.

And at the end of the segment, he has a nervous breakdown, takes a rifle into the bathroom, and when confronted by the drill sergeant, blows him away, then kills himself.

So replacing D’onfrio has 3 main effects here.

1. You get to see private Pyle subject to increasingly brutal psychological and physical abuse, by muppets.

2. You get to see Private Pyle go nuts and kill, in a fit of insanity, a muppet.

3. The entire back half of the film, which is less remembered in pop culture but still a fucking brutal and harrowing story in its own right, is re-enacted entirely by muppets.

Honestly, I don’t think anything in cinema could top that. I think it would make Citizen Kane look like The Room. I need this. I deserve it.

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a kinetic sculpture by Tim Lewis

I know it’s not pottery but it is sculptural and holy shit

it’s beautiful and disturbing and I feel like I could stumble across this creature in a forest and never be seen again???

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'She Loves Me' wooden spoon carved in Cedar wood using the lighter sapwood as the flower petals.

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Remedios Varo

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Béla Czene (Hungarian, 1911 - 1999) - Young Girl with an Album, 1968

picture resolution 1417 × 1062

More by #béla czene enjoypaitings

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William Morris (1834-1896） Tree of Life

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The Blue Wasp lamp designed by Shawn Michael Lucas Stained glass with walnut base, 21.5 x 17.8 x 6.3cm Photographed by Daniel Delgado

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Slow train journeys in rural England sure are an experience. You're going ten miles and it takes a day and a half because it stops at every lamp-post and the announcement says "The next station stop is Ferretley" or something and you think "I didn't know that was a place" and you get there and it isn't

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'Mermod'. Yuri Zapancic. 2020.

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People will just say shit like

"I'm boycotting trains"

In my tumblr notes, like girl that doesn't help anybody

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‘Masculin Feminin’ - Mimi Parent (1959)

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in the listings for these vintage whiting & davis liquid metal necklaces, the sellers frequently mention how nice the cool mesh feels against their necks

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Rankin Street, Branchland, West Virginia.