Coin Identification

Can anyone identify this coin?

Arctic Where’s Paladin

Can You Find Him?

The Ant Shirts

The ant shirts are finished and they’ve all been listed on my Etsy store. Also I’ve been doing some reorganization of the store in an attempt to make things easier to find, so if you feel like giving me some feedback that’d be great.

ants ants ants

Where’s Paladin Corner

Ok we are turning the Where is Paladin static page into a corner. Now you can expect regular updates on where Paladin is.

Right now, to the best of our knowledge, Paladin is here:

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Hot Conch on Conch Action

Conches gone wild! Caught on camera! Earlier this week Clarus (top, a Red Footed Conch) was caught attempting to hump The Maguffin (bottom, a Fighting Conch). Being the only two conches in Bramblberry it is perhaps not surprising that they should engage in such licentious behavior, but seriously guys you are not even members of the same genus.

Penelope Humps Potassium

Brambleberry Wiki!

The Brambleberry Wiki is live!  You should be able to make your own accounts.

I Saw America in My Steak

Last night Liv and I ate these gigantic Sirloin steaks in order to combat our Iron deficiencies.  They were so thick that when I thought they were done and took them off the grill it turned out their middles were still basically raw.  Then we ran out of gas for the grill.  Meanwhile, Liv discovered a particular component of potato anatomy which retains the consistency of raw potato no matter how much you microwave and mash at it.  The answer for the steaks was to put them under the broiler on hi for a few minutes, which blackened them nicely on the surface while leaving the centers pink and juicy.  The broiler, kids.  The broiler is great.

Oh say can you see

Also, when my steak came out of the broiler it looked just like this great nation of ours.  I felt a deep spiritual connection with this great nation of ours as I consumed its likeness in beef form.  Also Liv’s looked like a decapitated sea turtle head.  I think.  She said it looked like an old man’s head.

Half man, half sea turtle, 100% beef

But I think she was stretching it a little bit.  Clearly there was some jealousy involved regarding how the great spirit of America had decided to bless me with its meaty image.  But you know, Liv wants to be blessed by the great spirit of decapitated sea turtle heads, who am I to stop her?

Erotic Duck Fan Fiction

An anonymous fan of duck eroticism sent this one in:

It was a hot and muggy summer afternoon.  Potassium and Penelope were sitting in the grass in the shade of the trampoline, quacking quietly at each other.  One of the humans who lived in the house had decided that it was time to clean the duck pool because it was getting to smell very bad.  The ducks didn’t mind the smell, but they did like it when the pool was filled with clean water.  They just wished it didn’t take so long.

Draining the pool had caused a big duck scented puddle to form next to the pool in the yard.  The ducks always get excited about puddles and Potassium got up and started quacking excitedly while drinking from the puddle and splashing with her webbed feet.  Penelope thought this looked like good fun so she got up and started doing the same.  The two ducks made so many excited quacking sounds that they attracted the attention of Ferdinand, the third duck, who had been sitting in some bushes behind the trampoline.  Quack quack quack, splash splash splash, went the three ducks.

Finally the pool had drained all the way and it was time for the house human to start filling it up again.  The hose does not quite reach all the way to the pool, so the human had to rig up a system involving a ten foot section of rain gutter to get the fresh water into the pool.  The clean cool water cascaded into the empty pool, attracting the attention of all three ducks, but the ducks would rather have a pool of water than a waterfall, so they continued to play in the puddle of old duck water until the pool had filled up about half way.

swimming is a great way to cool down when things get hot

Ferdinand was the first duck to get into the pool, but Potassium had other ideas.  Potassium got into the pool with Penelope following close behind and the two of them chased Ferdinand out.  Ferdinand had some idea what was going on and decided it would be nice to just sit down in the shade for a while.

With Ferdinand out of the pool, Potassium and Penelope swiftly got down to business.  Potassium swam to the middle of the pool, and Penelope swam up behind her.  Penelope swiftly mounted Potassium, grabbing Potassium’s head tuft with her bill while she inserted her duck penis into Potassium’s duck vagina.  Penelope dunked Potassium’s head under the water several times during their duck intercourse.  Potassium’s serene duck-smile and half closed eyes when her head surfaced each time let the voyeuristic house human know she didn’t object to Penelope’s rough handling.

Soon Penelope had ejaculated her duck semen into Potassium’s duck vagina and she dismounted.  Having gotten what she wanted, Potassium exited the duck pool and went to sit down next to Ferdinand.  Potassium and Ferdinand exchanged a few quite quacking sounds, and Ferdinand, with a glimmer in her eye, got up and waddled over to the duck pool to join Penelope.

. . . to be continued?

Grape Raspberry Jam

grape peeling

Allison has started a jam making project.  Our grape vine went crazy this year and produced a couple gallons of grapes.  In addition to that, Allison has been working on a farm which gave her a big basket of raspberries.

Allison says that you have to peel each grape before putting it into the pot, so people were peeling grapes in the kitchen all day yesterday.  That was basically the main thing that was happening in the kitchen:  grape peeling.  The raspberries did not have to be peeled, as they do not really have a tough outer surface like grapes do.  Apparently the idea is that you take the grape peels and put them through the food processor and then you add them back in with the peeled grapes.  Nobody could provide a good answer for why you couldn’t just put the whole un-peeled grapes in the food processor.

There were a lot of grapes to be peeled.