Toysday: I Am The Law

    Still taking a break from Mastermind, because I am really hoping to see their Drift release soon, so I can post him. Lame, I know.

    In the meantime, here to G-Creation GDW-02 Rebel. This is their IDW Prowl, although for me...I think in my headcanon, he's a new character. not totally settled on that yet.

     I really appreciate designers taking on these IDW designs and doing such a nice job of it. This piece is complicated, without sacrificing the the important qualities of fun in the process. His transformation does not cross over into that "I'd rather golf" border and he looks great in both modes. He is equipped with two rocket launchers(shoulder mounted) two guns of different molds, and two batons. I can easily see him patrolling the roadways between cities on Cybertron. He scales well with and matches the aesthetic level of Masterpiece Transformers

My Roommate's Cockatoo, Sid, helped with this.
Ok, kind of Hindered. 

 

     In other news, I have discovered a new thing about Canada Geese. They will eat hash-browns. We had a nested pair waiting for us outside of Carl's Jr. Sunday morning. They, along with a cast of crows and a chorus of starlings were looking for food. The geese were waiting at the door for people with carry-out bags, and rather insistent on charging a toll to pass. They liked me... and followed me to my car

How Not to be Seen

     Can you locate the bird in this picture? I took the picture, I know where the damn bird is, and I still had trouble seeing it when I looked at the picture again

Fortunately newly fallen light snow showed me evidence of his passage the next day

 

this may help spot the bird...or then again, maybe not. he's crafty, and he knows he's getting fed here

 

For further information on not being seen...

 

 

Turkey Vultures by Sam

It helps if you read this post first: Turkey Vultures

     I expect they'll be back.  We have a booming prairie dog population.  We have too many, actually, and they're at the point of not caring who comes near their dens.  So the food source for the Turkey Vultures is, to quote the Jurrasic Park: Lost World movie, 'A moving buffet'.

Anyways, it's not the prairie dogs that we're so worried about.  It's the people in the Federal Prison that the land of  Prairie Dog surrounds.  Poor prisoners just waiting to be picked off by buzzards.  Before y'all die laughing about it think on it.

Anyways, that's a spooky cell block entry right there:

"Vulture landed on the weight benches.  It looked at me.  I said many prayers."

Speaking of Vultures . . . 

P.B. and I were at Wal*Mart the other day.  P.B. was trying to find a parking space.  Out of the store comes this woman eating a snickers bar.  She was an old bitty who insisted on walking right down the middle of the lane.  Her entire attention was focused on that snickers bar.  It almost got her killed by a guy backing his big ass bronco out of the space.  The irony?  His entire focus was on a snickers bar he was eating.  

How About A Completely Unrelated Link?  The Flooding House

Turkey Vultures

     ...are fascinating. I may have to see if Sam will let me keep one as a pet. The vultures we saw were about 1/2 mile from a prison. Sam was speculating about how freaked the yard would be if a vulture landed there. I responded that I wouldn't want to be the unlucky prisoner the vulture looked at...

Turkey Vulture Facts

We're Going to need a much bigger cage

Birdwatching from my Civic

     We added a new bird to our list of oddities seen out in the Denver area today; Previously, we have seen tons of Canada Geese, Mallard Ducks, Magpies, Starlings, Crows, Ravens and Blackbirds. We have occasionally seen Double Crested Cormorants, Snowy Egrets(which you can only see once*), Herons, Anhinga, Coopers Hawks, and Eagles, both Bald and Golden. and one late night Sam was buzzed by a Great Horned Owl

(*because if you see one again, it's a ReGret)

     But up until today, we had never seen Vultures

   I initially thought Ravens(Big Ravens!) but Sam said we needed to go back for a better look. there were about 5-7 Turkey Vultures hanging around a prairie dog Colony off of Kipling and Quincy. they were rather Shy around us(and I guess you don't want a vulture being too friendly...) so this is the best I could get picture wise

this is an artists rendering of what they might look like a lot closer and computer generated

Update- I updated this picture- it never looked right until I really futzed with it. Now I'm Happy