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Crafty-lil-vixen In reply to ??? [2014-02-05 12:30:14 +0000 UTC]

haha yeah it must be
cus my mum loves pigs hers was 26th jan
yep mine a few days away

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TODDANTHONY-ORG In reply to Crafty-lil-vixen [2014-02-06 00:02:43 +0000 UTC]

Happy birthday early! ...it's fun having birthdays when your young because young people always want to get older faster so they can be independent, but when you get old the clock is ticking the other ways round and then you get scared of growing old

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Crafty-lil-vixen In reply to TODDANTHONY-ORG [2014-02-06 08:00:35 +0000 UTC]

yeah im scared to be old
and this birthday feels like my last one was only 6 months ago
hey i bet ur not old!!!
anyway thank you~

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TODDANTHONY-ORG In reply to Crafty-lil-vixen [2014-02-08 00:03:09 +0000 UTC]

I'm probably the same age or older as your parents, but I've always looked 10 years younger than my age so people never believe my real age and they always talk to me like I'm a lot younger when they first meet me. I am still a kid in my dreams and ambitions, but my body is wearing out from so much exercise and physical use ...but I still keep moving!!  

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Crafty-lil-vixen In reply to TODDANTHONY-ORG [2014-02-08 20:31:33 +0000 UTC]

ohhhh i thought u were like my age ^^"
but anyway
age doesnt matter as long as ur a good person right

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TODDANTHONY-ORG In reply to Crafty-lil-vixen [2014-02-08 23:42:34 +0000 UTC]

I just turned 44 January 29th :] ...I thought when I first saw your profile that you were 14 or so but you said once that you are not a teen anymore, if that's true, then you still look younger than your real age This is my website which tells more about me www.toddanthony.org/ 

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Crafty-lil-vixen In reply to TODDANTHONY-ORG [2014-02-09 09:17:18 +0000 UTC]

i had no idea
yeah 14 was a long time ago for me
but glad im not that age any more
was fat and ugly back then and looked like a fat boy XD
i checked ur website out
ur so daring putting all those photos up!
id like to burn my child hood ones!!! never mind put them on the web!
but it was good to see thank you
ur photograph is good
and i used to go off roading on a motorbike too~
that was when i was 14 actually fun enough

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TODDANTHONY-ORG In reply to Crafty-lil-vixen [2014-02-09 22:28:20 +0000 UTC]

I can't see how you could be fat? I liked being a teenager, the best years of my life were during my teen years

I'm glad you liked my website, it's fun to see people when they were little and now, that's why I put up my childhood pictures

Did you always have piggies, even as a child or teen? I love my off-road motorcycles, I haven't been able to ride for a year or more, but when I do I ride until my whole body is wiped out from exhaustion, it's a lot of fun to learn how to control the power, balance, and speed of the machine, I like getting all dirty and stuff too, to me the earth is fun to play in! How is your dancing going? I will look at some more of your youtube videos and see! That's a good exercise routine for staying in shape too ...I am really missing summer and we are having the worst winter in many many years, it is too cold everyday and too much snow everywhere! I am a summer person  

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Crafty-lil-vixen In reply to TODDANTHONY-ORG [2014-02-10 09:05:07 +0000 UTC]

i have enjoyed all my life
i really have i loved my school life
people often say they hate school
i really enjoyed it
apart from the homework of course!
yeah i was over weight up to the age of about 17
i used to weigh 10stone 4 now i weigh 8stone
so im "normal" now haha and i dont wanna go back to that ether!
off roading was good
first i had a green bike then a red honda
but i gave it up
as we were doing illegally and i was scared of getting caught by police
so being a good girl i quit
then eventually my brother and dad quit
cus it became harder and harder to find somewhere to off road
but never mind it was good whilst it lasted
feel free to check my dances out theyre there anytime
do u bike often?

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TODDANTHONY-ORG In reply to Crafty-lil-vixen [2014-02-12 01:50:46 +0000 UTC]

I liked school when I was young because I had so many friends from there. Today I like it because I like to learn, but I don't always care for all the tests and rules and stuff. I have 3 college degrees now and each one I received awards for, so that's good! You don't look fat today, your a beautiful young woman, and even if you ever get big again, it won't change your beauty or spirit, you have so many gifts and talents others would be jealous of, your athletic abilities and dance, your skill and creativity in crafts, your artistic abilities in art, and your patience and intelligence caring for your animals. Your an amazing young woman who makes beautiful things become real in this world!  

Too bad for your ending motorbiking, here the U.S. is so big there are a lot of places to ride but still I have to haul the bike to places to ride that are legal. I use to ride it illegal but I got caught and then fined a lot of money so I do it legall now. There are places to ride legal that are free but you have to haul the bike there by truck or trailer. That's good that your dad and brother had you ride too, over here females do almost everything males do, and I recently watched a women's softball championship on TV and it was better than any male baseball game I've ever seen in my whole life! I saw more of your recent dances, looks good! Must take a lot of choreography and practice to memorize the routine? I like the piggies pictures on your walls, that is funny and cute! I don't have a youtube account so I don't leave any comments, actually I have one but it is so old I don't think it is still open? I will have a new one someday instead.

My car is broken now so I haven't motorbiked for a year or two, but I will again! ...maybe this summer! I have to fix my bike, the electricity is broken on it. I see in your journals you were in college? Do you go now? If so, what do you study? Also, I saw your journal about your piggy when she was bloody and sick, my Cinnamon died like that, I never knew what happened? She was my last pig left. I came home once and she was dead and there was all this blood coming out of her and in the cage? I didn't understand what happened, I assumed she must have been pregnant and had a miscarrage and it killed her? I use to keep her with Porky all the time and her was male and she was female and she seemed too young to have babies so I thought maybe he got her preganant and she died from it? What do you think?

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Crafty-lil-vixen In reply to TODDANTHONY-ORG [2014-02-12 13:55:29 +0000 UTC]

oh my goodness
that must have been horrible to come home to
well i guess what u thought could be correct
but how awful
well mine started bleeding a week before 2013 christmas
we got  her looked  at and was prescribed anti-biotics
she took them and lost a lot of weight as i think it made her feel off
so she didnt want to eat or anything
then two weeks later she started bleeding again
ive wanted to take her for a month now but no one would let me
but in an hours time we are going
i personally booked the vet myself - making a stand!
so gonna update my journal as soon as i get back

thanks for checking out all my bits and pieces
if you do choose to get a youtbe account u know where i am
but yes ive recorded about 90 dances
my account started june 30th 2013
so do i fair bit of dances over the months
but i love it
and my latest one kip came to watch me XD

motorbiking places here
are rare and expensive
so we gave it up
too bad for u that u got caught
musta sucked /:

and thank you for all the nice things you
said about me made me smile
thank you for your kind message and support ^^

oh and i return to college after a 3 week break
starting 3rd march (i hope)
i study sewing and patchwork
love it
i got no end of qualifications seriously
and probably wont ever need em cus im gonna be self employed

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TODDANTHONY-ORG In reply to Crafty-lil-vixen [2014-02-14 22:46:24 +0000 UTC]

Good luck with the piggy at the vet!

Yeah, I saw Kip peek into the video, that was super funny! ..it would be great to be able to read his mind when he saw you, I wanted to know what he was thinking!

Good luck with classes again when they start up! Do you have your own sewing machine at home? I have several antique ones I collect, even one that uses a foot pedal to pump the machine over each time the needle sews, pretty cool! Everytime I get a nice used one that works I end up selling it later for some money I have some I'm fixing but last time Iworked on it I couldn't get it to grab the underthread correctly, so my clothes still need repair but I can't fix em!! ...oh well!  

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Crafty-lil-vixen In reply to TODDANTHONY-ORG [2014-02-15 09:36:25 +0000 UTC]

yeah i would like to know what he thought of me as well actually
probably was like "you do this in your bedroom and now in the living room!? get a life!"
something along those lines
he sees me dance all the time in my bedroom
wow u can fix old sewing machines!?
incredible thats a good skill the have and handy
im screwed if mine breaks
yes i have my own in my room
ive had it for 4 years now
id be lost with out it
but ive said when i eventually become self employed
im  investing in a better one as mine its good but very simple
but at the time i wanted simple
but now having a machine that did more would be ever so handy for my work!
i sew all the time
doing a few commissions at the moment actually

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TODDANTHONY-ORG In reply to Crafty-lil-vixen [2014-02-16 00:15:09 +0000 UTC]

I sent you a note with a piggy youtube vid link

I just think its interesting to think about what animals think of us? When I was a boy that was why I liked animals so much, because I wondered if they see us an "another animal" or if they think we are actually different than animals? Like when all these city birds and squirrels see us get into cars and ride bikes and stuff, "what do they think we are doing?" ...I wonder? That one link I showed you where that guy has his pig (wigwig) on the couch then the piggy follows him to the fridge, that's amazing because piggies are so small and timid, for that piggy to be that comfortable on an open floor with such a tall creature walking around by him, that's just amazing to me! I remember once when I was a boy I took in this stray black cat for a week or two, well I was sleeping at night and the cat came into my room and climbed into bed with me, I was so asleep that when it woke me up I completely forgot I had this black cat and I couldn't see in the dark so I started screaming and crying because I thought some monster came into my bed, poor cat!!! He must have thought I was psycho or something! (lol!)

I have a college degree in mechanics and a certification in bicycle mechanics and I fix all my own stuff with motorcycles and things. I like sewing machines because once you learn to sew by hand and THEN learn how to use a sewing machine, well, wow!! You think "this is amazing!!" Now this machine does all this work like a piece of cake! Simple things amaze me, like a bicycle, a sewing machine, and a guinea pig!!! (ha-ha!) But I like the simple sewing machines too, I've had one with fancy stiches and attachments, but really the skill in being a good seamstress is in learning materials, threads, seams, designs, and stuff, at least that's what I think, but I'm surely a novice for sure!!! My grandmother (deceased now) won a championship in our state back in her day for her sewing skills, she worked as a seamstress for JCPenny's department store most of her life. You should put some videos of your doing you sewing projects on youtube!!! I really think so! I would love to see you make something on your sewing machine, you can talk about it while you make it and say what your doing and why! I think you should! I love all your crafts, and when I get more money again someday I will support your self-employment and help you however I can, I want to see you succeed at what you love and are so good at doing! By the way, this piggy culture is amazing!! I had no idea all these people all over the world were so into their piggies! I'm watching a lot of youtube piggy owners of all kinds and all things, showing off their cages, teaching how to have piggies, filming their baby piggies, everything! One girl even spends 20 minutes showing off her new piggy treats she bought them for Christmas! Wow! ...it all makes me smile and feel good to see so much enthusiasm and affection ....some pets these pet owners keep are strange though, like I could never love reptiles like snake and stuff, then I watched one girl talk about her chinchilla and another owner with his capybara, those things are strange, and kind of scary.

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Crafty-lil-vixen In reply to TODDANTHONY-ORG [2014-02-16 16:05:26 +0000 UTC]

wow sounds like you've seen a lot of piggie action lately
i have about 10 pet vids on my youtube
but i dont feel like my pets do a lot haha
theyre lazy well the pigs are
kipkip does more but hes a bunny
he was happily standing and sniffing my bra yesterday
hes at a curious age i think haha
they make me laugh
i photographed my piggies today
they were well behaved for a change
well lily is always we behaved she even changes poses like a model
its dead strange
maybe i should record my crafts but im not sure
i dont know which ones id do
and im not good at editing footage so id have to get my friend to help me
im so rubbish at technology
so do u sew then? if so what?
uve seen my skills and stuff
id like to see ur if u sew
and ur grandmother sounds amazing
wish i had a good story like that to tell about my family
uve done well to get a degree
i never wanted to go university so i didnt!
i was made to apply when i was at my old college
went for an interview which was horrible
was interviewed by the course teachers
they were horrible people i thought "i dont wanna come here"
and i got rejected! i actually cried in happiness
cus i never wanted to go but felt pushed to go
so ive stayed on at college
with lovely people and staff
i dont care what qualifications i get
i just go cus its company and fun
what job do you have? you a mechanic? my dad is a self employed mechanic
thank you for the support

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TODDANTHONY-ORG In reply to Crafty-lil-vixen [2014-02-20 02:32:01 +0000 UTC]

Yeah the youtube piggy stuff is such fun! I like hearing the noises of the piggies again! There is one sound they make that is rare, I never heard it from my pigs and much of anywhere on the piggy videos on youtube, but one guy on youtube talked about it and caught it on video but I can't find the video again just now, but the piggy got into the other piggies cage while the owner was away and when he came home the first piggy was on the ohter piggies house making an extremely loud sound like a bird, I've never heard it before, the owner thought a bird got into the house. I guess the piggies only make that sound when they are deathly afraid or threatened, that one had fought with the other piggy after getting into its cage, and maybe lost?

I just sew to patch my clothes or turn two clothes into one, like swapping parts and stuff I haven't sew for a few years since I sold my last working machine and the one I'm planning on using wasn't sewing right. My mom has one of those sergers that sews 4 threads at once, but she doesn't sew much. I would like to make my own leather shoes someday, that would be cool, especially if I had a sewing machine that could sew thick leather like that

Yeah college people can be mean. You are already an expert at all your crafts. Your work is always amazing!

I have a mechanic's degree yes, I was doing some work for my friend who has a family business running a trucking company, but the trucks are too big to fix for me, I can, but cars are smaller and not so heavy with the tools and stuff. I stopped that job, now I'm not working, but I'm moving in one week to a smaller town nearby, I may not be able to get to the internet as much for a little while so if I don't write as much that is why.

-Todd  

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Crafty-lil-vixen In reply to TODDANTHONY-ORG [2014-02-20 14:46:09 +0000 UTC]

i couldnt bare it if my machine broke!
my life
ive just made a quilt for a client i will be uploading it shortly
and next im making a cosplay for a friend
so my machine is very important to me!
piggie videos are sweet arent they
i enjoying watching my pigs at home more than watching tv
more entertaining
unless theyre laying down doing nothing
good luck with moving house
hope its not too stressful for u
and dont sweat about replying
just concentrate on getting urself and home sorted
take care

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TODDANTHONY-ORG In reply to Crafty-lil-vixen [2014-02-21 19:54:11 +0000 UTC]

I'm the same way, I enjoy watching nature outside and the wild animals more than television. I like in the piggy videos when the piggies lie down to rest or sleep, they look funny when they do it because it looks like their giving up on something "ohh well, forget it.." (lol!) They look like little people sometimes because they have such human expressions about things

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Crafty-lil-vixen In reply to TODDANTHONY-ORG [2014-02-22 10:20:03 +0000 UTC]

yeah if u like that then come over sometime
thats all ours ever do!!!
such lazey piggies honestly
its sweet but i see it everyday and a few times a day XD
we make them a den so they feel comfortable and secure
so no wonder they drop off really

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TODDANTHONY-ORG In reply to Crafty-lil-vixen [2014-02-23 22:38:16 +0000 UTC]

I'm amazed at all these devoted piggy owners with their videos on youtube, actually, most are in the U.K., ...hmmm? Must be a piggy nation!! lol! ...I see a lot of owners with the hairless guinea pigs and also rat owners with the hairless rat, or even cat owners with the hairless cats, wow, people really get into those! You know the hairless guinea pig doesn't even look like a guinea pig to me, their head looks so much different without hair, and how could they possibly survive!?

How long do guinea pigs live? I dont' even know...? I was suprised to see on yourtube that rats only live 2 years, that's not very long. Guinea's must live much longer? I can't remember how long I even had mine when I was a boy?

I've been working on a lot of art lately, yesterday and today I kept thinking about your "splat guineas" art ...I love that painting! The title too "splat!" ...like the piggies are just there all of the sudden

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Crafty-lil-vixen In reply to TODDANTHONY-ORG [2014-02-24 09:44:56 +0000 UTC]

you should have ago then doing some splat guineas
really wasnt hard i bet u could do it
and id love to see your art work
best of luck to ya
erm personally i dont like animals with out fur
its not for me and guineas without fur dont look like guineas as u say
i think they can live up to 8 years some people say but average is around 5
the last one we had lived til 5
the girls are currently 2

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TODDANTHONY-ORG In reply to Crafty-lil-vixen [2014-02-26 01:09:33 +0000 UTC]

I like your splat guineas better than if I did one Like your embroidery of your piggies, it was made with a lot of love and that's what makes it so priceless! ;D I will probably do a painting of your photos of your piggies at some point, my computer crashed a while back so I haven't been able to view digital photos at home in order to paint them, not until I get a different computer I guess.

Five years doesn't seem long enough of a life for great guineas, sad, ....should be longer I wish. You have a long time then yet with yours so that is good!

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Crafty-lil-vixen In reply to TODDANTHONY-ORG [2014-02-26 09:15:48 +0000 UTC]

ah thats too bad
but if u did ever draw my guineas u have gotta show me
if u do want to use a photo honestly feel free to go at any of them
i dont mind i put them on here to share
so best of luck to u when ever it will be
i know i think hammys should have longer that 2 years
i miss my lovely hammy

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TODDANTHONY-ORG In reply to Crafty-lil-vixen [2014-02-27 06:15:48 +0000 UTC]

My first pet ever was a hamster I named Schmoo, he was a great pet and a lot of fun

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Crafty-lil-vixen In reply to TODDANTHONY-ORG [2014-02-27 08:52:03 +0000 UTC]

haha funny name but nice to say
my first pet was a hammy too but it was back when i was kid
and looking after a pet was a bit much for me
i wasnt that into the hamster i did play with her
but she got no were near the amount of attention
my last hammy got a couple of years ago
i adored him <3

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TODDANTHONY-ORG In reply to Crafty-lil-vixen [2014-03-01 02:19:56 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, I wasn't too good at the proper care of my pets when I was a kid too, but I still loved them very much!

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Crafty-lil-vixen In reply to TODDANTHONY-ORG [2014-03-01 09:48:15 +0000 UTC]

no i wasnt i was too busy playing with friends and playing pokemon games haha
by time my hammy got up i was in bed asleep
i  was only like 8/9 years old

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TODDANTHONY-ORG In reply to Crafty-lil-vixen [2014-03-02 23:58:41 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, hamsters are nocturnal so they sleep in the day, that's why pet owners would get bit because they wanted to play with them during the day so they would wake them up by sticking their hand into their nest or something and the hamsters were usually crabby and would bite. I knew which ones wouldn't bite of mine so I just handled those ones in the day time and let the others sleep till night. Boy when night came then you couldn't get the hamsters to slow down! Wow! They would run in their wheel for hours and hours and keep me awake. I feel bad today when I think back because sometimes the wheel was so squeaky that it drove me nuts and I couldn't sleep so I would sometimes take his wheel away in the middle of the night ...thinking back now I feel terrible because he needed it, I feel like a real jerk for doing that, makes me sad and mad at myself today ...wish I could go back in time and do that over because its like if someone wouldn't let me run today -I'd go crazy!!!! If the hamsters were not given a wheel to run in then they would just spend their time chewing like crazy on EVERYTHING they could! ...always trying to "escape" :] I had one that wasn't very tame that someone gave me (I was the neighborhood drop off I guess for unwanted piggies or hams ha-ha!) but this one was never handled so it wasn't very tame, it was the teddybear hamster with the long hair, anyway he killed himself one day, he had one of those plastic multiple tubes everywhere cages and while I was at school he managed to pry two pieces of plastic apart a little bit and so he thought he could squeeze through them (no way!) and after he got his head through the plastic pinched real tight and suffocated him. I was real shocked to see it when I came home, but then again he was only a "look" pet because he was so wild and would fight with other hams so he was kept alone, so I didn't really feel real sad when he died, except for how he died, that was bad. I learned that those tube cages are bad cages for hams because it makes them more wild and less tame like the open cages do, plus multiple hammys always fight when they confront one another in those tubes because only one can pass so they naturally fight more with those tubes.

Did you have a teddybear hamster or a regular one? What color was he? ...I had all different ones of course, but mostly the brown traditional color one.

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Crafty-lil-vixen In reply to TODDANTHONY-ORG [2014-03-03 17:26:51 +0000 UTC]

jeez todd youve had your experiences havent you
well i know taking the wheel away was a bad thing to do
maybe you should have moved the cage to another room
but whats done is done
im sure the hammy found something else to do
and that wasnt nice how the other one died
but that wasnt your fault at all
well first mum brought a golden hammy
you know the traditional ones looking like theyre wearing a jacket
and that was when i was too young to understand
mum has always had hammies you see
then my friend got given one for christmas but was scared to death of it
and she was moving away she gave me her hammy
i was 10 now so i had a bit more understanding
i played with this one he was a sandy colored hammy very cute
cant remember how those two died it was too long ago
then 2 years ago i brought a hammy for a reward for completing my college course
he was beautiful like a sandy colour then he would grow
these long strands of hair round his back legs, bottom and scent glands
i trimmed then as they used to hold sawdust so made a mess when i got him out
but i loved him so so much
never wanted to exercise or anything just wanted quiet and cuddles
i was close last year to getting another i was feeling low for a while
friends had moved on bit lonely i was searching for a cute hammy
and in the end it was my dad who stopped me
and im glad he did
kip is a handful, at night im tired so if i have a hammy to get out
it might not work my last hammy just sat so it was good
were as a baby hammy might be dead energetic and could turn into
something i dont need/want
so i kept with kipkip in the end which im glad i did

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TODDANTHONY-ORG In reply to Crafty-lil-vixen [2014-03-04 04:49:26 +0000 UTC]

Yeah our family was crazy, we had all kinds of experiences.

Huh? ...a hammy with long hair in some areas? Must be a mix of teddybear and regular? I've never seen that

I saw wild rabbits last night when I was running at a very late hour. They like to get far enough away but then stop and watch me I stopped to pause to watch the winter ducks in a frozen small city lake, one side is unfrozen and the ducks hang out there all winter, I don't know how animals can keep warm at such extreme cold temps, especially in water!! In the summer one of my favorite things to do is go to a nature preserve where I run and watch wildlife and take pictures and write poems Close by the nature place there is a small city lake with wood swings and lots of grass. My favorite thing is to sit on the swing and get a suntan and watch all the ducks and geese and seagulls playing together in the water. One time, a juvenile eagle came to the water in the daytime, adult eagles NEVER do this, but the young eagle didn't know he was a predator bird yet (lol!), he was full size but his head was brown and not yet white, anyway he was just playing there thinking he was just another bird but all the other birds there were going mad and crazy with fear and panic! Like 60 or 80 ducks, geese, and crows and they were all freaking out every time the eagle would fly above the water or drop down to drag his feet in the water as he flew over it. He wasn't hunting, just hanging out. I feel sorry for eagles and hawks, I mean on one hand they are the kings, but on the other hand they are also the most hated birds of the bird world and there is NO WHERE they can go without being hated or harassed by other birds simply because all birds know they are the predator birds and no birds will tolerate their presence anywhere close to them! ....makes me think of Rudolph being an outcast again ...except I guess the eagles and hawks are not misfits.

I also really like watching the prairie dogs (like gophers) in the grass on the hot sunny days They are funny! So sleek! So fast! Sometimes I take naps on the wood bench swing and the prairie dogs will sneak up close and sit there for an hour watching me (lol!) They think "hmmmm?" "..what a strange creature this thing is!" ha-ha! Birds and prairie dogs and squirrels have those flighty twitchy fast muscles so they jerk every time they move One summer was a real treat! The mother prairie dog had babies and as she stood tall on her back legs holding still looking for predators her babies came out of the hole in the ground and were trying to play with her while she was frozen like a stature looking off in the distance The babies were climbing on her and hanging from her nose and everything, it was pretty funny and cute! Don't see that everyday I love watching the animals in the wild!!!!!! So interesting! At the nature preserve I get to see wild turkeys, birds, owls, frogs, dragon flies, squirrels, deer, fish, and all kinds of bugs you can't imagine! ...like little tiny beetles with neon fluorescent colors!

Good thing you have Kip, you are quite attached to him I can tell!

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Crafty-lil-vixen In reply to TODDANTHONY-ORG [2014-03-04 14:00:19 +0000 UTC]

sounds like you live a care free life
have you no commitments?
sound like one with nature haha
i know those feelings and we experience different environments
i like going those sort of places but mainly go for walks and picnics
i dont like eagles so im with the birds on that one haha
i have no idea what a prairie dog is
dogs are wild where you live!?
you need to share some of these moments
take photos todd!

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TODDANTHONY-ORG In reply to Crafty-lil-vixen [2014-03-05 01:03:06 +0000 UTC]

...actually I didn't know people made pets of prairie dogs?! ...wow! Here are two videos of how tame they can be, I am surprised www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJX00z…

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki0elJ…

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Crafty-lil-vixen In reply to TODDANTHONY-ORG [2014-03-05 09:30:31 +0000 UTC]

thats a prairie dog!? you have stuff like that wild?!
cute
like a chipmunk or a squirrel

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TODDANTHONY-ORG In reply to Crafty-lil-vixen [2014-03-05 17:18:41 +0000 UTC]

The ones in my city are a little different, they look better actually, sleeker and thinner with gold and black stripes on their backs

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Crafty-lil-vixen In reply to TODDANTHONY-ORG [2014-03-05 18:29:50 +0000 UTC]

aww i want them over here!

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TODDANTHONY-ORG In reply to Crafty-lil-vixen [2014-03-05 22:47:19 +0000 UTC]

I wish I could find some pictures on the internet of the ones here in my city? ...I've been looking but I can't find any photos, I'll ask someone here, maybe they're not prairie dogs at all? They would have to be but I don't know why their coats look so much different than the one I see all over the internet? ...hmmm? Have to solve this problem!

Maybe you can probably get one as a pet from a store somewhere, in the U.K.? I've never seen them for sale at any stores here so they must be very specific for purchasing?

Ok, I just looked a little bit online, they have them in the U.K. as pets, so they are there for buying or adopting. The thing with the prairie dogs is they are EXTREMELY social animals, more so than the hamsters or guinea pigs, so you have to buy them usually in two AND be very committed as a constant handler of them. They "kiss" each other all the time socially so they need that attention. When I was watching the youtube videos of them I noticed one with a cat where the cat kept moving away from the PD but the PD was always trying to "kiss" the cat's nose, because that's what they do. So they need A LOT of attention and affection to survive. Just so ya' know!

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Crafty-lil-vixen In reply to TODDANTHONY-ORG [2014-03-06 09:29:29 +0000 UTC]

thats soooooooooooooo cute i love them even more now!
id love so have them here
ur so lucky and thanks for introducing them to me
i hadnt heard of them up until yesterday
so sweet animals
would u ever keep one?
i am very 100% committed to my pets
i bet id be fine
but goodness knows what kinda cage theyd need!

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TODDANTHONY-ORG In reply to Crafty-lil-vixen [2014-03-07 03:35:10 +0000 UTC]

I'm guessing a cage could be normal size but they probably need to be out and running around a lot for exercise. The ones I see here are only the size of small rats or small ferrets, but the ones I've seen on the internet and shown you seem to get as big as guinea pigs or small beavers, although some I think the owners over-feed them out of affection You see that in America A LOT with cats, obese cats because owners want to make the cat feel good all the time, but it is bad for them and shortens their life a lot.

I'd like to have one too, preferably the smaller ones, but someday I hope to have a home and then I can get piggies again and from there I'll see what else! They seem to get along with all other pets. I'm sure you would be a great care taker of one too, as you say

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Crafty-lil-vixen In reply to TODDANTHONY-ORG [2014-03-07 09:44:16 +0000 UTC]

yeah id have a small one too
i just meant would then need a hutch like guinea
or a cage like chinchilla
they are cute
yeah we have obese pets here too
its not fair
killing them with love
i thought u had your own place
u said u were moving house right?

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TODDANTHONY-ORG In reply to Crafty-lil-vixen [2014-03-10 00:19:37 +0000 UTC]

Well, I was moving into another apartment, but I didn't do it after all. The place was different than what I was told so I didn't like it so I decided to stay where I'm at a while longer yet When I do move it won't be into a house because I don't have any real money, just trying to get by right now. Hopefully this will be my last winter in Minnesota as I plan to move more south in the U.S. to get away from these terrible winters in Minnesota

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Crafty-lil-vixen In reply to TODDANTHONY-ORG [2014-03-10 12:37:51 +0000 UTC]

well i hope you find a good place out side
minnesota thats reasonable and lets u have piggies
winter in america was bad this year wasnt it
we didnt get any snow here
move to the UK haha
keep me posted
and i dont mind if u want to have a moan
moving must be stressful

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TODDANTHONY-ORG In reply to Crafty-lil-vixen [2014-03-10 23:44:53 +0000 UTC]

Yeah we had an unusually cold and snowy winter this year, but in reality Minnesota use to have the same type of bad winters as this year every year when I was younger, it is just that the climate around the world is changing from the ozone layer so our winters have been more mild in the last ten years of more. Yeah moving to the U.K. might be nice! No snow? ..wow!! That would be amazing! I hate the snow! ...after so many years in it that is. I like to run, bike, ride motorcycles, suntan, and be in the sun So winters don't give me any of that to do I go outdoors all winter anyway, I run, still bike, and walk a lot too, but not because it is fun in the winter, but because I go crazy if I have to stay indoors all the time, I hate that. How bout' you? Do you get outside a lot to do stuff? I know you spend a lot of time on your crafts and sewing so that stuff is all indoors, but maybe you do it by a window and all the sunlight?

I know you said on your youtube account that you have two diseases so maybe that keeps you indoors more? But I know you take your piggies outside cause' I've seen your videos and photos outside The weather looks nice over there, especially when you take your quilt pictures outside Yes the moving (and not moving) is very stressful, I've been living at my current apartment for about 8 years now, which is the longest I've lived in one place my whole life! I stayed there because I did all my college degrees while I was there, but now it is time to move on, time to change my life and get new things started and leave some old things behind. 

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Crafty-lil-vixen In reply to TODDANTHONY-ORG [2014-03-11 12:56:07 +0000 UTC]

ohhh i see
8 years thats the longest uve stayed in one place!?
amazing ive been here 20 years now
i like it here
before we used to live on top of a very big hill
my parents didnt like it so moved here
dad had a very well paid job at the time so we were fortunate to have this place
i always talk about moving out but i dont think i will for some time
i have no one to move out with
and the thought of living alone i think would make me sad
do u live alone?
diseases haha thanks
their illnesses diseases sounds like im infectious XD
i have M.E. and fybromaylgia (can't spell it)
they can stop me from going out
ive had it for 4 years now
the first 2 of them years i was house bound
all i could was stay in bed or on the sofa
thats not me by the way total opposite of my personality
i love to play out and have fun im energetic bubbley
so it was very hard
they are long term illnesses i still have them
im on heavy painkillers
i do my best
and thats why i gotta be self employed cus its gonna
be tough finding an employer to suit my condition
but i dont talk about it cus im not one of those people
who are like "give me sympathy" i do my best and get on with it
i do go outside
my condition benefits from being in the sun
i used always play out and walk round the neighborhood with friends
but now friends are too busy so i walk by myself
might go for a walk later weather nice here
year winters suck dont they
they certainly keep me indoors
cold effects my condition badly
so yeah sorry for going on haha
i hope you can find somewhere nice to live
i know the area of town i wanna live
im saving up for the day
but im in no hurry at all!

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TODDANTHONY-ORG In reply to Crafty-lil-vixen [2014-03-11 18:03:03 +0000 UTC]

Actually 6 years was the longest I've been in one place, it is just that I have now hit the 8 year mark at my place, but when I hit that past 6 year mark that was the longest Speaking of U.S. states, I've only lived in 4, but counting my moving from one home (or apartment) to another I've lived in approximately 40 to 60 different places in my life. ...pretty crazy huh?! It has been hard, I've had an illness of depression since I was 17 years old and it has caused me a lot of problems with stability in my life with a place to live and with work.

Your right, living alone is sad, but on the other hand many people don't get along with their partner but neither of them wants to be alone so they just live in a "contract" or "agreement" to be together instead of being alone, and that is sad too. I often get sad from not having someone special at home for me when I come home, or someone to share things with, and someone to love and be loved by, it is hard for sure, but the world is a very hard place and even though human being don't live in caves anymore or beat each other with clubs, they still behave as tough and hard as those long past days. That's why your such a unique and special young woman Jo, your family has a lot of love, caring, and positive spirit, and that is not as common as you might think! It is hard to live without love, I have done it for many, many years, but what happens is that it damages you by taking from inside you and making you unhealthy and not whole. Like the animals, you know how they need socialization and care and positive interactions? ...well, people do too! And they don't survive well without it. We are social like the prairie dogs kissing and playing all the time (ha-ha!) Just knowing you as my friend gives my life a lot of happiness, because of how beautiful your life is (illnesses and all!) But when people live like I have, losing things, moving, changing, and unstable, then after time it begins to hurt to see and know beauty and love and good things, because they always leave or are taken away. Eventually it becomes where it is easier to not have them because ever time you lose them you lose a piece of yourself, and eventually you have no more pieces to lose, so you stop knowing them. Loving nature outside is a beauty I never let go of or lose, it always makes my heart beat fast and makes my eyes water from how beautiful it is. We had nice weather the last two days so I went biking and walking in nature I love the trees so much, so big and so beautiful and so still, living and dying and being here on earth, to me trees are magic!

I don't understand what M.E. stands for? But the fibromyalgia I understand, yes. You are strong and healthy despite these things, I can tell! ..as I am despite my depression I'm in the best physical shape of my life! That is hard for you to take all those medications, I am sure of that. I took many anti-depressants for most of my life to fight my depression, but now I live without any. Sometimes I still need them, but most times I can't tolerate all the side effects of the medications, I have always been much too sensitive of a person for most things. I hope your medications don't give you too many bad side effect? They are very hard to take sometimes, some don't even let you go to the bathroom! Others give such stomach problems or anxiety problems and stuff. How come you lost all your weight (as you said before)? Were you heavier before discovering your illnesses? Or did something just change you to lose the weight? Maybe you were sick and lost weight or something huh?

I understand your reasons for self-employment too My depression makes it hard for me too. I get anxiety and panic attacks from it and I feel alone even around people and I get scared very sad and then I can't be in public like at work. People with depression feel like death is always there waiting for them and that it is upon them when the depression strikes, I feel like that too. When I can live a calm life with low stress then I'm ok, but when I get too much stress or anxiety then I panic and have strong depression and I feel like I'm trapped in a horrible dark place alone, so depression make a person feel suicidal at those times because they want to escape the pain and bad feelings all over them, it is a scary experience all the time. After so many years I am stronger and experienced now, but I still have attacks. Last night I had one, I didn't want to go home because of it and I didn't want to leave the sun. When I have depression I need the sun ALL the time! It is one of the only things that comforts me and makes me feel good ...that, and love of course ...like the piggies need love

Thanks for sharing about your illnesses, I know it's not easy to talk about or tell people I think your dealing with it wonderfully and very well! Your dance videos, your crafts, your art, and your "family" of pets!!! It is nice also that you have such caring parents who help you and care about you, that is nice ...and I can see you have MANY deviantart fans (like me) who also care about you and all the wonderful things you do

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Crafty-lil-vixen In reply to TODDANTHONY-ORG [2014-03-12 11:09:45 +0000 UTC]

I cant get over how much you have moved in ur life!!
unreal i couldnt cope with that, far too stressful for me
dont know how u handle it actually what with ur condition
do you think you might have S.A.D.?
have you heard of it before if not i can explain it to u
i think u need to know about it
yeah i dont ever mention my condition
the people on DA who support me dont even know im ill
i just keep it to myself cus i dont want to trouble people
and i dont want to look like i want sympathy cus im not that kinda person
i just get on with it and when i can i try to appear "normal" as much as i can
it has been hard wont lie to you
i cried buckets
yes i lost weight due to the illness and painkillers making me feel off
also when it all first started it felt like flu
like i was dying so i struggled to force food down me
but im fine now i have a stable weight
i was 10st 4pounds now im 8stone 2 pounds
i can tell you a bit more about it if you like
basically 4 years ago i had just completed a very stressful college course i put everything i had into it to get the top grades ^^ but the summer break came and i felt just a bit under the weather didnt think much of it then a new college course started after summer break i last 6 weeks before i was forced to quit. i couldnt keep up. something was up i didnt know what i was scared. i was in mega pain all over i was passing out in class i was shattered all the time i went to the doctors a few times a week every week but he was rubbish and didnt know what was up i had endless blood tests in the end i quit college i was very upset that i had lost to this mystery illness then i was house bound for around 2years cus i simply couldnt walk far or anything i was nakerd i cried loads but never gave up
finally i got diagnosis and i have M.E. and fibromylgia (cant spell it) went to courses about the condition which was totally depressing i was the youngest there by at least 20 years learned about what i had
no quick fix no tablets gonna cure this just gonna take time
i started to ride my bike and built it up by going to the first lamppost then worked up to the next etc
and started walking outside again building that up again
it has taken ages to get were i am but i never give in
its a stress illness basically stress makes me very ill
so thats me, today i can go out the house, i can drive again, i can dance, ride a bike, see my friends
but all this comes at a  cost i cant do it for very long compared to a "normal" person my age
and im in pain throughout the whole day
hope that makes more sense
but i do my best everyday and try to live a "normal" life
but i used to worry loads about the future but i kept getting told by everyone
"focus on one day at a time" it was hard to get used to but im more relaxed about it now
but any stress and that me ill honestly its pathetic
i used to live off stress didnt enjoy it but i did have a stressful life
now i just cant cope
i bet u understand that
im on anti-depressants too but ones to help my sleep not cus im depressed
they thought i was depressed originally but i never was
wonder what started ur depression off
i know its something like u dont make a chemical in the brain or something
my dad was off work with it years ago for a bit
bad times i dont wanna think off
it effects the people around u not just urself
do you socialize alot? u cant be alone all the time its not good
come to the UK i'll keep ya company ^^
but year if u dont know what S.A.D. is let me know
hope you doing ok today

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TODDANTHONY-ORG In reply to Crafty-lil-vixen [2014-03-16 02:09:13 +0000 UTC]

Sounds like your really went through everything in learning and living with your illness. Your very smart and ambitious and you don't lie back and take it, your tough and energetic! It is too bad that you are much younger than others with the illness but your are still strong and healthy and have a lot of life to go! I had an emergency surgery a few years ago for a ruptured appendix and I didn't eat for about a half week or almost a week! I lost a lot of weight just from that! But the anti-biotics I was on made all food taste like metal -yeeehhch!! Plus my intestines were still sore.

My depression started when I was 17. Probably two or three things made it happen. One, I didn't want to be like my sister's dad, with his bad temper, so I just started holding in all my anger instead of having temper tantrums (like I usually did). If you research depression a lot of it comes from anger turned inward on oneself and inability to express anger properly. Two, my girlfriend and I broke up and I remember really crying for like three days or four over that, it really hurt me a lot. Three, some (or all) is probably chemical, like your talked about with the brain. Some of the antidepressants over the years really helped a lot, but like I was saying , the side effects are hard to take.

I don't socialize as much as I should I've become anti-social over the years, but I have excellent social skills, so usually I can talk with people anywhere, it is just that I keep to myself too much. Thanks for the invite to the U.K.! I would love to come! But I don't have any money to travel at this time, unfortunately I can tell you care about me and it means a lot for me to know your concerned and caring, thank you! I cherish your friendship and words, your a special young woman and I'm so glad to know you, makes my world a better place and gives me sunshine when the winter sun is cloudy here!! ;D You are an amazing person

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Crafty-lil-vixen In reply to TODDANTHONY-ORG [2014-03-16 08:56:43 +0000 UTC]

oh thanks todd your a pretty amazing and strong person yourself u know
im always here if u need to talk
dont be too anti-social!
actually im one to talk
but self employment can be lonely and my friends all have relationships
so i dont get to see them that often really
but im kinda used that now
i still have good social skills
oh and piggies you asked
well my old one if i played him videos of squeaking pigs he'd talk a little to himself
and look around but he was a single pig bet he was hoping he had company!
but my too play them squeaks theyre not arsed they look around and sniff but thats it
boring really arent they haha
wow that operation sounded painful no wonder u lost weight i wouldnt wanna eat for a month!
tablets can have nasty side effects trust me i know
but depends whats worse condition or side effects
depression isnt a good thing i know its not
but sounds like uve done very well to get were u have today
some take the suicide option as they are not strong enough to go on
im glad u havent done that but i appreciate you must have had thoughts at some point or another
your doing well and with the weather picking up im sure its bound to help

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TODDANTHONY-ORG In reply to Crafty-lil-vixen [2014-03-16 23:16:02 +0000 UTC]

Thanks I'm glad your here for me, it helps I can be social but it is hard to find good people to be friends with. As you get older Jo you'll notice more and more things in the world because you experience more, and there are so many difficult people. Anyway, I helped my neighbor yesterday, he bought a bunk-bed for his kids but he didn't know how to put it together and he is Somalian with rough English speaking and reading. When he told me to come over to help him with his bed I thought to myself "simple!" ...Oh boy was I wrong!!!!! ...when I got there it was a box with like 200 pieces of different size wood, screws, bolts, nuts, all in a box! I was like to myself "shit!!!" "this is going to take 2 hours!!!" ...but took about an hour or hour and a half and it was finished, wheeew! Lot's of work But he and his wife and their kids were very happy when it was done He wanted to give me $20. but I refused. He has a family and wife and bills, I don't want to take his money

Too bad your friends are all in relationships and busy I know you talked before about having a daughter and moving into your own house someday, but your don't need to grow up so fast Jo, you are just 20 years old! You have a lot of time to do things, you will always be here to do them! Probably adults tell you that and your sick of it or something but it's true, you don't have to do all the adult things right away in your twenties I'm sure your illness has frightened you, but won't get left behind ...I promise! I will always be here for you. Although the internet is an unreliable thing in ways, because we can meet people and get close to them and then they just disappear, and we have no way of finding them or contacting them again, so it isn't exactly like being someone's neighbor next door in real life, but as much as is possible with the internet -I am here for you!

Yes the nicer weather will help, but it's not coming fast enough for me! I'm ready for summer!! Anyway, if I move after this summer then I won't need to get the lumi light because I'll most likely move to the sunnier places and then it is sunny all winter with no snow.

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Crafty-lil-vixen In reply to TODDANTHONY-ORG [2014-03-17 18:40:54 +0000 UTC]

that was so nice of you to help out a neighbor like that
well done you setting up a difficult bed
dont think i could have done it!
but i bet it made a change for you
and you had someone to talk to even if it was broken english
yeah my friends are all to busy with their boys
i dont have the time and im not interested right now
feel like they will only slow me down
i have bigger fish to fry!
but i do hope in the future i wont be alone
i dream of loving a daughter like my mum loves me
im so close with my mum she makes me feel special
and i hope i can recreate that same love
but not for some time!!!
im still a virgin for gods sake so children
are years away!!! im in no hurry
just dont wanna be like 40 when it comes to it
sometimes i do feel like "god im so far behind everyone"
but i try not to think about it too much
i wish you were here id share my piggies with you and go on walks
but im here anyway if you need me
hope america has a good summer for you!

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TODDANTHONY-ORG In reply to Crafty-lil-vixen [2014-03-18 23:52:02 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! Yeah, the bed was much more work than they tell people when they buy that stuff. He wanted to just start putting it together but hey,,, I have a mechanics degree! ...and you don't just start shoving things together when there is some plan of order. So I read the insturctions and it went well except one piece I put in wrong, some pieces can be installed wrong and still work, it worked, except I had to drill two holes in the wood because the holes we needed were in the wrong spot from my mistake, and it was too much to take it all apart for that, so I just grabbed my drill and made some holes and it worked

I don't believe you will be alone in the futre, there are many many males who would love you and be very attracted to you and your life That is good that you concentrate on your business and doing your commissions and work And that is great that your mom is so special, I'm sure your daughter will be the same! If for some strange reason you are alone by age 30, I will come over and be with you so you are not alone ...but I canno't give any women babies because I had myself fixed a few years ago, so I am sterile now (vasectomy).

I know what you mean about feeling left behand, I think that feeling happens to anyone who has a different situation than the general population has. All my high school friends went to college after high school and I didn't, so I missed out on that. Now I just earned three college degrees but at my old age of 44, so all the students were your age at college. And in life everywhere I go people are either older or younger than me, I hardly ever meet anyone my age anymore.

We are getting lot of snow today and tomorrow ...but it won't last long because March goes up and down in temps so it will melt soon
Have you ever had snow there and taken the piggies out to see and feel the snow? I've never seen any guinea in or by snow?! ...I wonder if they just hate it? Obviously they can't live in it , but I wonder if they have ever seen it?
 

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