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luci-four · 3 years

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Tug-o-War {Leviathan x Reader/MC}

A/N: Just something I thought would be fun. I can definitely see Levi being the kind of asshole to pull on the string just to get more room for himself asdklfh plus, I’m a big sucker for soulmate aus :sob:

{Leviathan x Reader/MC}

Leviathan didn’t enjoy socializing.

He actively avoided leaving his room, and didn’t waste his time with trying to get close to the “normies” who surrounded him in the universe. He was alone and didn’t mind it so long as he had his passions to keep him company—and Henry. He liked Henry’s presence.

The tug on his finger was annoying, and at times he would find himself enraged by the fact it caused him such an inconvenience. Rhythm games were almost impossible to do and if he dared to knock over any of his figurines again, he just might call upon Lotan to punish him for his own crimes. Levi would trip over nothing, run into door frames, and worst of all, there were times this stupid string of his would pull so suddenly he’d fly out of his chair. It had him enraged, and he was ready for it to be gone. The taut string was infuriating and limited his movements far more than he liked, but no matter what he attempted to do to cut it some slack, it never seemed to work. Scissors would break under the sheer pressure he put them other, and magic simply backfired if he used it on the red line between him and whoever else.

He was told it was supposedly attached to his “soulmate”, or whatever. He was well aware of the trope—he's seen enough anime to get the gist—but he didn’t care to find out who was on the other end. Sure, the idea of a soulmate was enticing; someone who was perfectly crafted to be your match while you were crafted the same way? The two of you meant to be together in some way, shape, or form, enriching each other's lives and making each day worth living—he wasn’t interested. All he cared about was what surrounded him and made him happy in his present state.

Levi had gotten used to the limitation on his movements; he could reach the corner of his room if he stretched as far as possible and duck underneath his desk to plug something in so long as he stuck his other hand out from underneath it. Lately, however, he found it severely odd that he was able to move a bit more freely. He was able to do whatever he wanted; spin in his chair, go wherever he pleased (his idol meet-ups were the only places he died to go, however), and found that he could even pull on this annoying little string of his. He’d yank on the cord sincerely hard at all hours of the day, hoping to inflict some sweet revenge on whoever had caused him to struggle for so long. Every time he watched the string drop a bit more, indicating the person on the other end may have fallen on their face, he couldn’t help but let out a hearty laugh. Levi would admit it did make him feel a bit frightened to know it insinuated that the person on the other end could potentially be much closer to him than they were before.

No, he didn’t care about soulmates. His soulmate was the very love he had for his anime, his games, his idols—for Ruri-chan! Levi couldn’t care less about the person on the other end. They were probably some normie anyway, and he had no time for that. Late at night, however, while he looked at his reflection in the loading screen, he wondered just what they might have been like. It didn’t mean he would seek them out, just... curious. Months had passed; he no longer paid attention to how the string seemed to neither pull at him nor wiggle about.

Dammit, he needed his money back from Mammon. Luckily, he could hear his older brother’s annoying voice ring out from downstairs so he reluctantly made a move to meet him there, moaning and groaning about how disgusting he thought Mammon’s greedy actions were. Orange eyes were trained on his feet as he walked, his thoughts wandering between the idea of forcing the money he needed right then out of his brother, or demanding everything that was owed to him. Out of the corner of his eye, he noticed the stupid string around his finger once again and sighed, playing around with it a bit; what he realized made him stop in his tracks, however.

He could see the string. Well, he could always see the piece around his finger, and every so often a glimpse of a piece just a bit away from him—but never so much of it at one time. It didn’t give any sort of strain nor slack either. An overwhelming sense of panic took over his body, and he decided to give it a bit of a test; as he had done several times before, he grabbed a hold of the red cord and pulled it back, hard. Below him, he heard a loud thud as someone had fallen to the floor and Mammon call out to whoever it had been. Quickly, his heartbeat was the only thing he could hear pounding in his ears as each step he took towards the two bodies downstairs were so shaky he wondered if he could even do it without falling down.

The person on the other end was there? In the hallway? In his house? In Devildom? It was a fact he just couldn’t fathom. He didn’t care—he had been saying it for what felt like forever-- but why did the pit of his stomach feel so jittery that it hurt? He felt like he was waiting in line at a handshake event with his favourite idol; his hands were shaking and sweaty and he couldn’t quit fidgeting. It was as though he could feel every cell in his body at once and they were all shouting to the point his body felt like old TV static. He didn’t care. He didn’t care, he didn’t care, he didn’t care. With each step closer to the mystery person, the louder the ringing in his ear seemed to get.

Levi couldn’t bring himself to lift his eyes for a moment when he heard Mammon call out to him; instead of looking towards the person with him, he trained his gaze onto the white-haired male and put all of his focus into blocking out his peripheral vision. As his brother spoke, his mind easily snapped back to the task at hand—chewing him out for his money back. He hounded him, threatening him as he normally did, only to be blown off as he attempted to inch his way down the hall; calling after him was useless, Mammon had taken off running, leaving Levi with the so-called “soulmate”. Their presence behind him was heavy, and he faced away from them as long as possible. Maybe they wouldn’t notice it was him? Maybe they wouldn’t realize and rather fear him, knowing he was a demon? Maybe they didn’t care—he sure didn’t. Not at all.

“Um, excuse me...” their voice was heavenly. Levi could feel his ears turn red and a shiver crawl painfully slow up his spine. “Leviathan... right? Your brothers mentioned you--”

Their voice wavered, the words dying in their throat. Were they nervous? He wasn’t. He wiped his hands on his pants before turning to look at their feet. Orange eyes dragged up their frame to meet theirs that looked like they gleamed like the stars were supposed to. He didn’t care.

“I’m MC,” they played with the perfect little bow wrapped around their finger. He watched them bite their lip ever so slightly and subconsciously mirrored their movements. He didn’t care.

He didn’t care. He wouldn’t care. They could be the most beautiful creature he’s ever seen, as though they fell from heaven alongside him, so terrifyingly perfect he couldn’t even wrap his head around it and he wouldn’t bat an eye. His throat was dry—he was gaming all night beforehand, that was why. It was hot in the house, that’s why his hands were sweaty; no, it was cold in there, that’s why he was shaking.

Deflecting their question, he put a bit of disgust behind his voice as he spoke to them, telling them to make a pact with Mammon. He didn’t care if they did, he just wanted his money. He didn’t care if they got close to his brother. Levi ignored the pain in his chest as he thought about it. He ignored the confused, and somewhat sad, look to their face as he kept talking.

He doesn’t care about meeting some stupid normie that would be his “soulmate”. He didn’t care at all. He just wanted to go back to his room and watch the new episode he’d been waiting for, maybe get some food since his stomach had been churning the entire time he stood there. He didn’t care, he didn’t care, he didn’t--

Why did his heart beat so loudly in his ears, then?

#om! leviathan #om! levi #om! levi x reader #om! leviathan x reader #obey me! levi #obey me! leviathan #om! writing #om! fic #obey me! fic #satans bookmark #so yeah hot take levi would ignore his soulmate unTIL hes forced to acknowledge them

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nancypullen · 3 years

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We're Home

Actually, we've been home for a couple of days- I'm just exhausted. Not even sure why I'm tired, probably from wondering if the people on our flights were super spreaders. Honestly, the airports and flights were better than I expected. The airports looked like ghost towns, security screening took mere seconds, and flying into Baltimore our flight was about half full. Coming home our flights were packed and that made me nervous. We're vaccinated and we never took our masks off in the airports or onboard - I'm not sure what else we could have done. I'd never forgive myself if we carried this awful virus to our sweet, unvaccinated grandgirl. ANYWAY... Our trip was quick but productive. We covered a lot of ground and definitely know where we would and would not like to live. I took notes because I knew that it would all become a blur..."Which town was that blue house in?" We still love Chestertown. It offers an awful lot, especially for people staring retirement in the face. The only problem with Chestertown is that the housing inventory is limited. We saw an adorable house that had been flipped - top to bottom with gorgeous HGTV worthy finishes. But they saved money by not installing central air. As a woman of a certain age, there are some things I'm not willing to compromise on and good air conditioning is one of them. The closer we looked the more it seemed that money wasn't the only reason for leaving out the HVAC update, that perhaps the electrical wasn't upgraded on the (old) home and might not support a system. Farewell, beautiful kitchen. I love the way you look but I'm not willing to sweat inside my home.

We found several neighborhoods in Easton that we liked - quiet, wooded, lovely homes, and convenient to everything from healthcare to shopping. Easton also has a charming downtown. Loads of history, sweet parks, fun shops and restaurants. We explored a bit and sat outside Storm & Daughters ice cream shop and enjoyed a cone. There's a lot to like about Easton and it's definitely at the top of our list. Bonus, Talbot County property taxes are quite reasonable. Just down the road from Easton we toured Denton. It's a small but vibrant town. They boast a cute, historic downtown, and seemed to have an involved community. We found a couple of neighborhoods that we really liked, one even had lots for sale. The downside is that even though it's just a few miles to Easton and Talbot County, Denton is in Caroline County and the property taxes are much higher. Still okay, but high enough to make me pump the brakes. We're definitely not taking Denton off the list, but we'd probably opt for less house there. I'll be honest, my favorite house was in Denton. It ticked ALL of my boxes. Roomy, updated kitchen, pantry, walk-in closets, garage. The back yard was postage stamp sized, but we're not getting any younger so it's fine. The neighborhood was delightful and convenient to so much.

I checked on the property taxes for 2020...almost four thousand. Get outta' here. I know that we're really spoiled with low property taxes here in Wilson County, and we understand that we'll pay more in Maryland...but...ugh. Right now there are people in New Hampshire saying, "Four grand?? That's a steal! Buy it!" It's all perspective and something I'll have to work on. We traveled town to town, loving some of them and putting others in our rear view as fast as possible. Centreville? Loved it, but pricey. Ridgely? NOPE. Rock Hall? Charming, loved the Harbor Woods neighborhood, but they have one mom & pop grocery store and I didn't even see a clinic anywhere. It's 30 minutes to Chestertown, some of it through a wildlife refuge where my brain was screaming "SNAKES!". Adorable, but no. I think it will be Chestertown or Easton for us. Exploring the Eastern Shore was a fabulous history lesson and I'm eager to learn more. Back in the day they were big on their monarchs. There's Queen Anne, Princess Anne, Queenstown, Caroline County, and so on. In a pretty park in downtown Centreville there's a really lovely statue of Queen Anne. Some 271 years after Queen Anne of England signed the charter that created Queen Anne County on Maryland's Eastern Shore, a statue in her honor was unveiled by her namesake, the current Princess Anne. I'll bet that was a big day in Centreville. The statue shows the queen seated, holding the charter she's just signed and a little spaniel sleeps behind her chair. I thought I'd snapped a couple of pictures, but all I can find is this really bad video.

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I was more in love with that tree than with the statue. Just across the street from that park was an Irish pub named O' Shucks. In my mind that was amusing, like saying darn it. More likely it has something to do with shucking oysters.

Beyond all the royalty and colonial settlements of the 1600 and 1700 hundreds, the Eastern Shore also has a rich history of Underground Railroad and abolitionist activity. Cambridge was the birthplace of Harriet Tubman and there's a museum and plenty of historic spots documenting her fearless work. Over in Easton they're proud of native son, Frederick Douglass. His story is fascinating, from slave to statesman. He was self-taught - a brilliant orator and writer, responsible for great social reformation, tireless in his pursuit of equality and fairness. He was a staunch supporter of women's suffrage, saying, "In this denial of the right to participate in government, not merely the degradation of woman and the perpetuation of a great injustice happens, but the maiming and repudiation of one-half of the moral and intellectual power of the government of the world." In other words, by not allowing women a vote our country was wasting half of its intellect. Here in Tennessee you'll find proudly displayed busts of KKK leaders in government buildings. Our parks are home to statues of the confederate generals who fought to keep slavery alive. Don't give me that B.S. about the Civil War being about state's rights. Ask yourself, a state's right to do what? Enslave people! It was economically beneficial for the south to enrich itself on the backs of slaves. Okay, I'm rambling- from property taxes to Civil War issues. None of which you probably care about. The very best part of the trip was, of course, quality time with the grandgirl. And oh, she is grand. We played princesses, we did a craft, we read books and made snacks. We squeezed a whole lot of fun and love into a short visit. She's smart, funny, curious, sweet, and beautiful. That's my 100% unbiased opinion. No matter which town we land in, it's closer to her and we'll get to enjoy all of the milestones that are so important. FaceTime is fine in a pinch, but nothing beats being there. Time for me to hush and get a couple of things done around here. There's laundry to fold and a dishwasher to unload. I'm currently sitting at my desk, gazing out at the gardens (the pumpkin plants were 3/4 dead when we came home and I'm not taking any heroic measures to save them) and loving what September is showing me so far. I love this month, the light hits differently and everything seems to calm down. After the busy, blazing summer months it's a welcome change. We still have some hot weather ahead, but there's a hint of change in the air.

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Also, I'd like to add that IT'S JUST 53 DAYS UNTIL HALLOWEEN!!!

I'm getting happier by the day. Join me. Stay safe, stay well, and start stashing away some candy for the kids. XOXO, Nancy

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fisherfurbearer · 5 years

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Why Enrichment Matters, and Why Improvement Never Ends

Animal enrichment is a never-ending process of learning and always, forever striving to improve.

I haven’t said much about the pair of button quail we adopted earlier this year, but they’re really something special. I’ve never owned birds before them, but I had done a lot of research into quail off and on and I’ve always obsessed over birds in general, but nothing else is like actually owning one in my own house. I’ve learned so much from just observing them and making small changes to their environment and care, and it has benefited them so much.

Wasabi (rooster) and Mushroom (hen) were hatched and reared by a local couple to us, along with several other roosters and hens that they hatched at the same time. Not realizing until later that button quail, especially roosters, are territorial and do best in pairs, they were looking to adopt out most of their quail to good homes, and we decided to adopt two of them.

Being hand-reared, they aren’t as horrifically skittish as I’ve heard other button quail to be (I’ve heard stories of some that are so nervous they bolt upwards to the point of hurting themselves if anyone so much as comes near their enclosure, and they remain Extremely Stressed after any enclosure maintenance!!) but they were NOT, and are not, handleable. Which was fine by me, I never expected them to be cuddly, but it was a little disheartening that they didn’t seem as relaxed as I wish they would be. Even after they calmed down and adjusted to being together (they were both housed separately before, but quickly bonded and have never had any issues) and being in a new environment, they would spend a lot of their time awake pacing and pecking at the walls, acting agitated even though they had room to move and plenty of food/water. I even gave them treats, which would calm them down for a short period of time, but soon after they would be back to pacing.

We have now had the pair for almost five months now, and so much has changed. I don’t think my initial care of them was ever BAD, per se...they’re still in the same enclosure they started in, with the same wood decor and they get the same treats...but all of the small changes I made over time have definitely made a difference.

After spending so much time watching their interactions and behaviors, I managed to test many different ideas and slowly alter and Improve their living environment and husbandry to what it is now.

This was their original set up right before I got them:

It’s not BAD, not at all! But it really wasn’t best for the birds. This was my first time owning any bird, let alone a ground-dwelling bird like button quail, so using my research and some assumptions I tried to come up with a set up that might make them feel more comfortable while also giving them space to perform natural behaviors. The substrate was a modified mix of my tarantula substrate (topsoil, coco coir, vermiculite, and sand) with extra soil for dust bathing. I used half-pint mason jars as food and water dishes, and (not shown here) mason jar lids for oyster shell and grit.

It was alright. There was some cover for them to duck under, and plenty of open space too, but I quickly realized it wasn’t nearly enough cover to make them feel Secure, and the semi-transparent sides may have been contributing to their pacing.

Over the weeks, I experimented...

I mixed up the wood placement, substrate choices (turns out 100% soil isn’t best, actually! They LOVE soil/sand for dust bathing, but it’s better as one specific corner, and pure RINSED sand is their favorite!), messed around with adding cover and changing foliage color/types, I tried growing live plants early on (that was a huge failure, by the way), experimented with different types of treats and forages (millets, roaches, and black soldier fly larvae are big favorites!!!), and learned a lot from watching their behaviors.

Over time, they grew bolder, and CALMER.

Here is their enclosure today, for reference:

It’s been a while since I last switched them over to their newest substrate (mostly soft paper bedding with a corner of play sand) and decor, and I haven’t noticed ANY pecking or pacing. Sometimes Mushy will pace the front of the enclosure and peer through the crack in the door, but she never pecks like she used to. They don’t even crow as much these days...they both have a wide variety of beeps, songs, and crows, but they only make a huge fuss if they’re low on water or food. In a way, they’ve trained me to keep all of their resources in tip-top condition and I’m convinced that soon they’ll figure out how to beg for treats, too!! Every time I open the door (to spot clean, replace water/food, remove eggs, etc.) I ALWAYS scatter healthy treats or leave a dish of insects for them, and it GREATLY reduces maintenance-associated stress. In the past week, she won’t even run from my hands!! (Well okay, today she ran, but I also had to remove her Secret Egg Stash and a lot of bedding from the sand so the movement set her off, but still, usually she’s good) Most of the time she waits for the doors to close before she dives for treats, but a couple times now she will wait for me to put it down in front of her, and will even eat with the door open and me sitting right there!! She’s still not perfect (again, today she was more antsy, but I don’t blame her) but she, and Bibi, come such a long way.

(Wasabi holding a One Singular bug for his wife to come take. He’s such a good husband and saves the best treats just for her. <3)

I attribute this to a mixture of changes, of course. It took a while to get this far and a LOT of adjustments, but it’s been worth it. I would say the greatest changes we made were...

- Keep general maintenance quick, calm, and Consistently reward door openings with treats. Scattered treats (ex. millet balls/individual seeds) are superior to entire millet sprays or dishes. ALWAYS remove birds from enclosure and place inside a dark, soft-sided box covered with a blanket for Safety during full cage cleans. GREATLY reduces stress associated with free-roaming.

- Multiple substrate types are better than one. Soft paper bedding or wood shavings are gentle on feet and aren’t super messy, and a corner of sand is greatly appreciated! They dust bathe several times a day and it seems to be a sort of ‘bonding’ time for them both. Rinsing sand vs. unrinsed soil is MUCH better for them as well, I learned that the hard way...everything was ridiculously dusty before and now we have had 0 dust problems!

(Pardon her bald butt, Bibi is NEVER aggressive with her, but he still manages to rub off her feathers when they court and she looks pretty weird. I’m not sure how to prevent this.)

- Cover!! And LOADS of it!! Even if you think it’s enough, it isn’t. Visual barriers are so important and they THRIVE when they have decor they can hide under/behind and run between. They’re tiny birds and can dive around it like it’s nothing, and even though the enclosure looks crowded, it’s actually set up so they have Maximized floor space. GREATLY improves their confidence and sense of security. Switching up foliage/decor types seems to be beneficial, but large-scale, frequent changes probably aren’t the best. They seem to prefer when some decor is kept the same (ex. large wood features) and others are changed.

- Designing multiple “zones” seems to offer them a much greater amount of choice and has made a huge difference to their behavior. Instead of an enclosure where everything is the same, they now have a corner just for dust bathing/sleeping, a middle section with shaded water, and food in the open, and a third section with a lot of cover to the sides and an open middle area where they can be out of sight. Shown above, it looks impervious, but that’s all quail-accessible space behind that wall of decor. I plan on setting up an avian UVB light (but arcadia only makes them in T8s so I have to figure that out before I get one...) to put over their dust bathing/open area to give them further choice and basking options, as well.

(Mushy’s secret egg stash!! I didn’t even know these were here until today, they’re so well hidden!! She never broods them, but it’s interesting to see that she’s started to lay them in the same place, she never did that before the changes.)

All in all, these little changes have added up, and I’m still improving as we go along. I have additional plans for building a larger enclosure for them one day (probably 48″x24″x12-18″) so they can have a third substrate option and even more room to run and roam...it shouldn’t be too expensive and I think they’d really enjoy it.

This turned into quite the ramble, but I hope it proves to someone out there that ENRICHMENT. MATTERS. And that just because your first run of something was ‘fine’ or even ‘good’ doesn’t mean it can’t be BETTER!! Learn from your mistakes, learn what you can improve, watch your animals and see what they do and how to encourage healthy, natural behaviors. Enrichment of all types isn’t just for our enjoyment, or because it looks pretty or cute. These changes have greatly influenced my birds’ behavior and comfort, and we will continue to learn and improve as time goes on.

It’s a never-ending process, and it’s a bit of work, but seeing them healthy, calm, and content is what all pet owners should strive for.

#birdblr #animal enrichment #avian enrichment #vivarium design #button quail #my pets #mushroom #wasabi #i have to send an update to the guy i adopted them from #to let him know theyre doing well #it was so funny when we met in that wawa parking lot so i could pick the birds up #i think we were both worried the other person was going to be a serial killer #or worse...some creepy old dude...#but nah it was a really rad trans guy and his girlfriend #and theyre my age and were all pretty short and just looked at each other like #'im so glad youre someone my age and also not a murderer'#and we talked for a while and they were very chill and passionate about birds #and i think theyd probably like to hear about how the quail are doing...#last time i showed them the enclosure they went out and got more stuff for their own quail #and made it all handsome and added lots of cover and branches and stuff for them #it made me so happy...they were so inspired by my own care that they improved their own birds c':#thats what its all about #thats why i ramble like this and want to keep animals all my life #it makes me so frickin happy

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quest-thejourneythatislife · 4 years

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Can your heart survive outside of your body?

First things first, this is a highly emotional post.

Have you wondered at times, if a piece of your heart could live in another being? Yes, it absolutely can! Many have fantasied about it growing up as teenagers in romantic settings, read poetry and even listened to songs wishing the same. But, it is only now, when I have been away from my babies for the longest period ever, that I realise it to be true.

To begin with, I am a mother of three. A three year old Labrador called Penny, a two year old son and a one year old Newfoundland called Skyler. Some of you reading this may already know me or know of me as a certified crazy dog lady! So it wont be a surprise to many that Penny and I have been inseparable ever since she came into our lives and became my eldest kid. From then on, apart from our yearly vacations, when our gracious neighbours bestowed her with loads of TLC, we have spent all our time together doing mother-daughter stuff.

Mother-daughter stuff meaning, I try (try being the operative word) to train her and she cleverly takes all the treats and does nothing. Or when I plant my veggie garden and Penny takes a whole week to rip one plant off at a time and bring it back to me. Or when I get her a soft toy and she rips it apart in a few minutes and I spend an hour cleaning up filling and styrofoam. Or when I try to clean the walls (again try being the operative word) and she runs off with the cleaning sponge, what can we say…. some habits are for life I guess. And Penny and her love for cleaning sponges is one of them!

Hence, over the years, with such intense bonding experiences (some almost on a daily basis), we have truly become a family. And after more than 3 years, this is the first and hopefully the only time ever, that we have been apart for more than a few weeks. Currently due to Coronavirus (Covid-19) I am staying put in India with my son while hubby back home takes care of both my daughters.

Its been months! and God, I miss Penny so much! I miss her so much that it physically hurts sometimes. I miss Sky too, a lot, but that is mostly because of her cuteness quotient. Who wont miss a silly furry cuddly bear with innocent eyes? But, with Penny its like missing a part of myself. My heart feels like parentheses stretched 4800 miles over two continents.

I miss the feel of her hair as my palms stroke it. Slightly prickly but still soft and smooth. I miss the weight of her head on my lap as she naps while I read. When she has been out in the sun for a while and her fur is toasty warm, I miss cuddling her then and its like soaking up sunshine. I miss the dog smell when I hug her. I miss that she likes her pats on her bum and scratches behind her ears. I miss giving her a massage and brushing her hair.

I love how she is a complete pillow hog in bed and takes my seat on the sofa. I miss how she sleeps on top of me and when I get up during the night to wee ( yes I am that old!) and she take up my warm spot and does not budge when I come back.

I miss how she loves her food and them treats!! How she preempts my training sequence to get most treats in the least amount of time… haha.. always keeping me on my toes. I miss how she can sleep through a movie but wont miss a single crinkle of a wrapper from the kitchen. I miss how she makes a judgey face for veggies, but inhales all kinds of meat, yogurt, banana, peanut butter, etc…….you get the picture. I even miss her eyes on me when I stealth eat..muawhahaha…!!

I miss that she follows me inside the washroom every time. I miss that I brush her teeth and clean her ears every time she does so. I miss giving her a bath and the workout to catch her first that it entails. I miss her excited jumping when I come back home and her patient stays as I unload my stuff from the car (unlike her very silly sister, who is like a rug, but all around you, so you might trip and fall, as you make all those trips back and forth to unload your shopping).

I miss the innocence of her eyes. I miss how she is completely in the moment (Labradors aren’t the best examples of delayed gratification… but still….). How she lives in the present, every day a new day and only day to live! I miss how she does naughty stuff and gets told off one minute, and the next she is in my lap snuggling or getting me one of her toys to play. I love how she has loved me and taught me how to love. I thought I did before her, but I was so so very ignorant. I love how she has given herself to me and accepted a part of myself, even without my realising so.

I love how she looks after the entire family. I miss her sense of freedom when she gets to go off leash and reign free in our park. Our park, because she knows every blade of grass, every human, every lamp post, every tree, every toddler, every pram, every scooter, every cyclist and every dog in that park. I miss how she has taught me forgiveness and patience, my Achilles heel till now. Raising my three monsters, sometimes I feel like I am surly on my way to sainthood….…:)

I love how she has reinforced the value of hope in me. Penny seldom gets human food but still never loses hope of getting some…. :) I love how she has taught me to never give up and hope! And don’t you go feeling sorry for her. My doggie pantry is as big as my kitchen pantry and equally well stocked. I miss her enthusiasm to explore this world and start every day fresh with limitless possibilities. We never know what mum might cook for us today or what treats are in store! What parks we might go to or even the beach. What games we might play. Will it be tug or some mentally enriching stuff like sniff and go find the treat or may be even some doggie puzzles. It’s Penny’s simple uncomplicated way to taking each day as it comes and making the best of present, that has guided me to examine my take on life and manage expectations.

I even miss the bloody dog hair, bane of my life, that gets into everything. Unlike Sky’s hair thats long soft and smooth, Penny’s hair is like fine, flexible pine needles, that gets into the fabric and doesn’t come out with a vacuum until you manually pull it out of your comforter. Yes! it gets into the comforter even with the cover on. This just goes on to show how far gone I am. I wish it is soon safe enough for us to fly back home and be united with my other two babies.

In the meantime, as I am going to miss both their birthdays this year, I wish them both loads of love and blessings. May they both be happy healthy and have loads of fun testing daddy’s patience. Hope to cuddle you soon. And when I get back home I am sleeping with the two of them straight for a month and hugging the life out of them. I am going to be in their face and space, so much so, that they get sick of the sight of me and run away as I approach……:)

Until next post. Stay blessed!

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peepingtoad · 3 years

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Have you got any headcanons for how the plot of The Tale of the Utterly Gutsy Shinobi goes? Or do you follow the given plot for the RL light novel of the same name? Thanks in advance!

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I wouldn’t say either, really, because the most I’ve ever needed to mention it is in passing and there isn’t enough detail about the light novel available :P the canon always made it pretty clear that the book was based on Jiraiya’s own experiences of a world under the threat of war/in the middle of ongoing wars, so I’m not sure what it could be other than what it says on the tin. Heroes saving the world and overcoming hardships kinda deal. We could always surmise that it would probably contain some parallels between himself and Naruto, Tsunade and Tsuyu, Renge and Orochimaru, the dubbing of the Legendary Three &c. without there even being a real life novelisation of it.

Of course, I read the synopsis for the light novel a few months (or maybe over a year, time is meaningless) ago, but because it sounded very fitting with what glimpses we got in the canon I don’t feel much need to diverge from that. What little knowledge I have on it is inoffensive. I don’t feel any particular need to change it just for the sake of changing it, not when Kishimoto probably had a lot of say with what Higashiyama wrote in order for it to reflect his intentions for Jiraiya’s story (and I mean, since it is a big inspiration for some of the main heroic figures of the canon it seems churlish to mess with it just ‘cause I can).

But remember, this is just based on the synopsis I’ve read on the Wiki, which doesn’t even contain full details on how the plot goes, and as far as I’m aware it hasn’t been translated. I’ve been unable to find a translation for it, anyway. Maybe if I could read the whole book or find a more detailed synopsis I’d suddenly have strong opinions and inspiration for more headcanons, but as far as the characters and the direction of the plot go… why would I need to change or headcanon it? The story, quite like Icha Icha, never needed to have loads of details anyway—you just needed to know what it’s about. And in the end, if I do get to read it, I’d probably rather take my usual approach of ‘build my interpretation from the canon materials, rather than change it to fit what I want Just Because’, and create headcanons for the place Jiraiya was in at the time, how he was feeling and what he was going through, rather than headcanon the entire plot itself.

I’d be especially interested to see how the characters of Naruto, Tsuyu and Renge interact because it would give some interesting insight into how Jiraiya sees his own relationship with Tsunade and Orochimaru. I read somewhere the first and last time I looked into it that there was some mention of the difficulty on both Tsuyu and Naruto’s part in accepting they had Something Romantic, for example. I also think it’s interesting how the famous ‘give up on trying to make me give up’ scene is something that is associated so strongly with the Child of Prophecy throughout the series, with Minato, Naruto and Nagato all being potential Prophecy Kids and imagining how that scene would play out in their heads… and yet while Jiraiya actually lived out that very scene (in the anime), it seems to me that he kinda downplays his own role in the Prophecy that took over his life (and I strongly believe that all four of them were Yogen no Ko-tachi in the end, all necessary for the next to carry on the dream). But I digress.

I will say that when I first read the synopsis ages ago, I also hunted it down on goodreads, where the reviews were sort of mixed. Some were saying it was kinda basic, lacked depth, too much symbolism, had too many stupid romantic/sexual parts &c. &c. which tbh… actually fits with how it was received in the canon, or at least how Jiraiya himself described his own writing as juvenile. It fits with how he’s likely to put a comedic or silly spin on things, too. I can only assume the reviews are in English by either Japanese or German speaking people (because I think those were the two languages it was published in), but if it’s available in English at all then... where??? Give!!!

Actually, one thing I’m now thinking is that if Gutsy Shinobi was actually marketed to young adults in the canon it probs would have done way better. Not that I think children/teens were even a consideration as a ‘target market’ at the time, nor that the writing in such literature is actually ‘juvenile’ at all (I really love YA literature)—however they do tend to have very passionately held messages which could have touched younger, less jaded readers if it had been more available to them, which I can only assume it wasn’t because... reading is a luxury at the time. Just look at the nosedive in priority the arts tend to take whenever resources are being funnelled elsewhere in the real world, and when the majority of people are mostly concerned with survival > enrichment. Many great works are enjoyed more posthumously. I hardly think that most adults (or kids) suffering in between world wars, when it was published, would be able to take much comfort in a light-hearted, optimistic wankfest (as they may see it lmao)... whereas folks like Minato (young and full of hope) and Naruto when he read it, thought it was great. I reckon that the timing and the marketing, if there even was any, were really against him there.

I do really like the thought of it being republished in the Boruto era and marketed more towards the young shinobi, who are distanced enough from the horrors of actual war that it could be enjoyed from a place of wonder rather than actual lived horrible experiences. And I mean, the real life book itself contains illustrated maps of the world Jiraiya created to parallel the real one, which implies the in-canon one does too—and if that doesn’t scream fantasy-adventure for young adults, what does?

Anyway to sum it up, I guess the answer is both and neither... which is very helpful, I know :P but I also don’t feel like it particularly matters when the themes of Jiraiya’s stories have always been pretty obvious! Unless I have something concrete to work from, I tend to keep things like Gutsy Shinobi and Icha Icha vague and changeable in terms of their plots depending on what I’m writing, anyway, sometimes just making up some detail or another on the fly for a given plot or for humour’s sake. As such, it still does tend to annoy me a little when the content is assumed by other people (please do not liken an obvious rom-com to 50 shades, i s2g!!!).

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rachelcatherinesproule · 4 years

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Elements project- research

For a brief time, i considered looking at nuclear energy and elements involved in fission/ fusion as part of my elements project and found a highly resourceful website https://www-formal.stanford.edu with the following information on nuclear energy:

Relevant Very Elementary Physics, mostly nuclear.Up to:

FAQ on nuclear energy.

Unless one takes some rather complex facts on authority, which may be good enough depending on the authority, forming an opinion on nuclear energy requires just a little bit of physics. Let me assure the reader that nothing in what follows is controversial. Many readers will find nothing they don't already know. Here are some facts.

Energy is an additive quantitative entity. Thus if you use 50 kilowatt-hours of energy for one purpose and 40 kilowatt-hours for another purpose, then you will have to pay for 90 kilowatt-hours at the end of the month. The United States generated 2.572 trillion kilowatt-hours of electricity in 1987. A kilowatt-hour cost approximately between $.02 and $.10 in 1987 depending on the customer and the utility.

The amount of energy handled by humanity is still small compared to the amount of energy in the sunlight that strikes the earth. It's about one part in 50,000.

Energy is conserved. It can be transformed among various forms, (e.g. mechanical, electrical, chemical, heat) but the total remains the same. In each transformation, some of the energy becomes unusable, usually in the form of heat.

All matter is composed of elements. The important elements for our discussion of nuclear energy are uranium, plutonium, carbon and hydrogen. Uranium and plutonium are involved in nuclear energy production, and carbon and hydrogen are the main elements in conventional fuels like coal, oil and natural gas.

An atom of an element consists of a nucleus surrounded by electrons. What element it is is determined by the number of protons in the nucleus, but the elements come in various isotopes, and the isotope is defined by the number of neutrons in the nucleus.

Matter takes part in two kinds of reactions involving atoms of different kinds - chemical reactions and nuclear reactions. Chemical reactions are common and re-arrange how the atoms are combined into molecules but never change what element an atom is - or even what isotope it is. The reactions involved in the production and use of non-nuclear fuels are all chemical reactions.

Uranium has 92 protons. Two isotopes are important. U-235 has an atomic mass of 235 and U-238 has an atomic mass of 238. Natural uranium as it comes from mines contains 140 times as much U-238 as U-235. Because the 235 is the total of protons and neutrons U-235 has 235 - 92 = 143 neutrons.

Plutonium has 94 protons. Its important isotopes are Pu-239, which is used in power plants and bombs, and Pu-240 which is ok in power plants but which is a nuisance for those making bombs out of plutonium. There is also Pu-238 which is not fissionable but emits alpha particles and thereby generates heat. The amount of heat produced is convenient for powering spacecraft systems. There is very little natural plutonium.

When an atom of U-238 absorbs a neutron in a nuclear reactor, it becomes U-239, which decays in a short time to Pu-239. If a Pu-239 atom stays in the reactor long enough, it absorbs another neutron and becomes an atom of Pu-240 if it doesn't fission.

When an atom of U-235 or plutonium absorbs a neutron it almost always fissions. Namely, it splits into two atoms of lighter elements and emits neutrons - on the average a bit more than two. The emitted neutrons can cause further fissions in a chain reaction. In a bomb the chain reaction is very fast; in a power reactor it is slow. The two fragments are emitted at high velocity, and when they are absorbed in the fuel rod a lot of heat is produced. This heat is what powers the nuclear power plant.

Separating the isotopes of elements is very expensive. There are big plants for separating U-235 from the U-238 in natural uranium. For nuclear reactors, it is economical to use uranium that has been enriched to contain 4 to 5 percent U-235 instead of the 0.7 percent U-235 of natural uranium. Bombs need over 90 percent U-235.

Separating Pu from U is not very expensive, and bombs are mostly made of Pu made from U in special reactors in which the Pu-239 is promptly removed. In ordinary power reactors, the Pu-239 gets contaminated with Pu-240. Separating Pu-240 from Pu-239 is very expensive.

Power is measured in watts or kilowatts (1,000 watts) or megawatts (one million watts. An electric generator is rated in watts. A large nuclear power plant has a power of 1,000 megawatts (or one gigawatt). If a one kilowatt generator runs for an hour, it produces a kilowatt-hour of electric energy.

Nuclear reactions can change what element an atom is, occur on earth only under special conditions and involve something like ten million times the energy. Thus enormously more energy can be obtained from suitable nuclear reactions than from chemical reactions.

Here are some facts about nuclear power plants.

Present nuclear power plants consume uranium (specifically U-235) as fuel. When the power plant is loaded with fuel, it can run for 18 months or 2 years before it has to be refuelled, a process that takes a month or two. As the power plant operators have become more experienced, they have learned to operate longer between refuellings and take a shorter time for refuelling.

When an atom of U-235 absorbs a neutron it fissions, i.e. it breaks up in parts. These parts consist mainly of two atoms of smaller elements and some neutrons.

When a reactor is operating, fission of an atom of U-235 generates on the average a bit more than two neutrons.

If each of two neutrons produced by a fission was absorbed by an atom of U-235 the number of fissions would double in a fraction of second and then double again and again. If this were allowed to continue, in a few seconds the reactor would be generating enough power to melt.

When the reactor is turned on, the multiplication of fissions is allowed to continue until the reactor is generating power at the desired rate. Then control rods that absorb neutrons are inserted until exactly one neutron from each fission causes another fission.

Because some of the neutrons caused by a fission are emitted from the fission products only after a delay of a minute or so, it is not difficult to control the power level of the reactor. Nevertheless, there are safety systems that will shut down the reactor if the power level gets too high or if the cooling water stops flowing.

The power to produce electricity comes from the fact that the two atoms produced by the fission of a U-235 atom fly off at high speed, but they don't get even an inch before they hit something and are stopped. Stopping converts their energy of motion into heat, and the reactor heats up. If the heat weren't taken away, the reactor would melt.

The heat from fission is taken up by water or steam pumped through the reactor. The hot steam goes through turbines connected to electric generators.

About 2/3 of the heat energy is lost, and is emitted to the atmosphere or to a body of water, a river or the ocean. This loss is a consequence of the Second Law of Thermodynamics and applies to all power plants, nuclear or coal-burning.

If the highest temperature in the steam plant is T1 and the temperature at which heat is exhausted to the environment is T2, the fraction of the heat generated that can be turned into electricity is (T1 - T2)/T1. The fraction of the heat energy transformed into electric energy is called the efficiency of the power plant. For high efficiency T1 should be as high as possible and T2 as low as possible. How high T1 can be is determined by how high a temperature the materials of the reactor can be without softening. How low T2 can be is limited by the environment. Cold seawater gives a good T2.

After 18 months or two years, most of the U-235 in the fuel is used up, and the fuel rods consist mainly of the products of fission, which remain radioactive and continue to generate heat. The fuel rods are placed in large pools of water which takes the remaining heat. The fuel rods become less and less radioactive with time.

After the rods have cooled off for a while, they should be chemically reprocessed to extract left over uranium and some plutonium that has been produced. The left-over uranium and the plutonium can then be converted to more reactor fuel. The fission products can then be buried in stable rock formations.

France, Britain, Japan and most other countries have their used fuel rods reprocessed. For bad political reasons, the US stopped reprocessing and hasn't yet managed to agree on how to store the fission products. There is no actual hurry, because the fuel rods become less and less radioactive as time passes. 2002 Note: Congress has just passed a bill and the President has signed it that provides for storing the waste in tunnels dug into Yucca Mountain in Nevada. Probably this will happen, but first there will be lots of lawsuits from opponents of nuclear power.

Most environmental organizations mistakenly oppose nuclear energy. The consequence has been pollution from coal burning plants.

OK, the last two points are controversial.

I don't know if this elementary exposition is useful to anyone. Up to:

Sustainability FAQ

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jacewilliams1 · 5 years

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From the archives: Wolfgang Langewiesche on mountain flying

Editor’s note: Wolfgang Langewiesche is famous for writing the bible on flying, Stick and Rudder. He was also a friend of Air Facts founder Leighton Collins and a frequent contributor for the magazine. In this detailed article from 50 years ago, Langewiesche offers some timeless tips for flying in the mountains.

A briefing for the high country: canned experience for sale here

A man who has just got his license buys his first airplane and sets out across the high country of the West. It is his first big trip. As he loads in his wife and kiddies and the luggage we stand by, watching. “We” means the people who taught him to fly, gave him his license, sold him his ship. It also means the rest of us just fellow-pilots who happen to know some of the things he has yet to find out. Do we owe this man any advice?

I think we do. Too many new pilots come to grief on trips of this nature. And this is not from lack of flying skill. They have just passed their flight tests. Nor is it from lack of aeronautical knowledge in an academic sense. They have passed their writtens. In some respects they know more than they will ever use. It’s more from a sort of innocence. They are not prepared for the real-life situations they will meet. They fail to recognize the problems, or, if they do, they have no solutions ready-made in mind. They lack (of course) experience. What’s experience, other than that the problems are expected, the various solutions pre-thought-out? I think it should be possible to give the new man some advance knowledge of the problems and the solutions — equip him with some canned experience, so to speak. This is needed for many aspects of flying. Right here we’ll try to do it for the high country.

First of All

What one thinks of first, of course is the long fast take-off run and the shallow, slow climb. Landings, too, are faster and longer in the high country, but not by very much. That’s a cheerful fact — high country landings are no problem.

The big difference is in take-off and climb. Responsible is the thin air, which cuts engine power and also reduces wing lift. And what’s responsible for the thin air? Elevation and summer heat in about equal measure. Our new man should know this clearly. On a hot day, even a low level airport has thin air, and take-off there is noticeably poor. On a cold day, even a high field has reasonable dense air, and take-off is OK. Our new man will probably do his high country flying in summer, and he’ll have air that is high and warm. His take-offs will be poor.

The numbers can be picked off the clever Koch Chart, and they are startling. At 7000 feet, with the air at 100°F, the take-off run is tripled, compared to sea level, the climb is only a quarter of sea level climb. These, however, are extreme values, the air at the higher elevations rarely gets quite so hot. And the airport designer too, has consulted the Koch Chart, and has lengthened his runways to allow for the power performance. So if our man uses a regular airport, widely used by all sorts of airplanes, he has nothing to worry about. He need not be scared: just aware. He should be mentally prepared for the long take-off run and a very shallow climb. He needs no more skill, just a little more patience. He should not try to pull the airplane off too soon, or to climb it too steeply. Perhaps, before his trip, he might want to have his wheels balanced with more than usual care. If there is any wheel shake or shimmy, the higher speeds of those take-offs make it much worse and this then makes you hurry your take-off.

Mixture

Only one point of special technique is needed. Above 5000 feet or so, lean out the mixture right on the ground before take-off. At high elevations, on a hot day, our engines drown in fuel. The Koch Chart shows the performance of airplanes with the mixture right. The mixture too, responds to both elevation and air temperature. That performance is poor enough. With an over-rich mixture some airplanes may hardly get off. This effect of thin air, via the mixture, may have caused much trouble in the past. It’s been a semi-secret. Pilots where taught to have the mixture full-rich for take-off. Owners Manuals said: don’t lean the mixture until above 5000 feet — and then only for cruising, not for climb. Renter pilots were told: leave that thing strictly alone. On some rental airplanes the mixture control was safely wired in the full-rich position. Nobody wanted to say it — lean your mixture. The reason was, of course, that a lean mixture while using full sea level power can damage an engine, can even cause engine failure right on the climb-out. Nobody wanted to be responsible, let alone liable. Well, the fact is — the double-fact is: a) at 5000 or above, the power output of the engine is so restricted anyway that you are no so likely to damage it even by leaning excessively; b) the mixture runs so excessively rich at 5000 feet in summer on the ground that you can lean it out quite a lot — with a marked gain in power — and still be safely on the rich side. You don’t really lean it; you de-rich it. And of late, some Owners Manuals have begun to say it under “Engine Check Before Take-off.” “Above 5000 feet, adjust the mixture.”

How to Lean

This leaning out is not hard to do — brakes held, wide open throttles or nearly so, move the mixture gradually until you get roughness or a drop in RPM. Then rich it up again “some” to be safely on the rich side of Best Power. With an injector engine you also lean out steadily, but from time to time give it a quick small forward (enriching) shove on the control. When this surge of enrichment causes a surge of RPM you know we’ve past Best Power on the lean side: you richen it up some and there you are. With an Exhaust Temperature Gauge, of course, it’s easy.

The biggest problem at some fields may be to find a place where you can rev wide open without sucking a lot of gravel into your propeller. One therefore learns to do a fair enough job just by putting the mixture control where one thinks it ought to be. With a little practice, you can also adjust the mixture during the take-off run. It is not necessary, after all, to have theabsolutely best power — just so the poor thing isn’t suffocating. The thing to remember is that an airplane climbs on the power it has to spare, over and above the power it needs to maintain airspeed. Therefore a 10% increase in power may well mean a 20% or even a 30% improvement in climb. The more under powered and/or heavily loaded the airplane, the bigger the improvement.

Flap Use

Flaps on take-off? At high elevations, this is a problem. Flaps get the wheels off the runway sooner, thus reducing friction, and that is a gain. But flaps reduce the rate of climb, and that is a loss you sometimes can hardly afford. Probably the best way is to take off with some flap, the immediately, as soon as airborne, retract them — slowly. This takes a little practice, and familiarity with your airplane. In a low powered, heavily loaded airplane, with the flaps partly down you may get into an unpleasant situation. The airplane climbs quite nicely to the top of the ground cushion, say 20 feet or so. At that altitude you now pass the airport boundary. But now the airplane pauses in its climb. This is very unpleasant. The airspeed is low. The drag of the flaps keeps it from building up. The ground is too close, and maybe too rough, to do much nosing down. If you just retract the flaps you might get a sink right to the ground. If you keep them on, you’ll be a long time picking up a healthy airspeed.

Loads

All our small airplanes are being operated all over the West with no restrictions as to gross weight. But our man will operate under the least favorable conditions. The local man flies, as he drives, with his machine half empty much of the time. Our man will probably be heavily loaded. The local man flies the year around, and has the benefit of much cool air. Our man will probably come through the high country at the hottest time of the year. And he will be a stranger.

Our new man should understand that a 10% reduction in an airplane’s gross weight (not: “Load”) improves the climb by more than 10%. (This is because there is less weight to be lifted, and at the same time slightly less forward speed to be maintained; so that there is slightly more power available for lifting less weight.)

For the stranger, in summer the finest special equipment to put into an airplane is an empty seat.

Airspeed for Best Climb

Our man should accurately know his airplane’s speed for best rate of climb. Not all do. In ordinary flying we do not use this speed much. We usually climb at higher airspeeds for good cooling: sometimes, briefly, at lower airspeeds, for best angle of climb. But in the high country, speed for best rate of climb becomes important. Near its ceiling, an airplane climbs only at that one speed. The speed is shown in the Owners Manual — a slightly different value for each altitude, air temperature and gross weight. For practical purposes one figure is enough ― perhaps the one for 10,000 feet in standard air. Better to have one figure in mind, than a whole set of figures in the glove compartment. Still better to make a chalk mark on instrument panel, opposite the right place on the rim of the airspeed indicator. Such a mark has persuasive powers at anxious moments.

The Turn Toward Lower Terrain

This is the emergency exit from bad situations. If you can’t climb any more, or get a sudden sink, you turn toward lower terrain. It’s really obvious. The trick is at that moment to be in a position to do it! The Western pilot avoids sticking his nose into any place where such a turn cannot be made. He flies across a ridge slope-wise; in flying up a canyon or narrow V-shaped valley, he holds to one side; he always keeps that turn open. He is not afraid to fly quiet close to terrific mountain walls and cliffs ― provided he can keep them at his side, not in front.

Downdrafts

With your rate of climb so poor, it is often futile to fight a downdraft by trying to out climb it. The climb, by slowing you up, keeps you in the downdraft longer; and the net result is more sink. Better, usually, to put the nose down a bit, pick up some speed and get out of there in a hurry. (We avoid the word “dive” because it sounds too wild. There are mountain situations with rough air when you want to avoid high airspeeds, because you might get hit by a gust.) Our new man should understand the technique of the soaring pilot who puts his nose down in the downs, holds it up in the ups. That way, he spends less time in the downs, more time in the ups, and absorbs energy from the atmosphere. The pilot of the small airplane can do the same, or at least avoid doing the contrary.

The Landing at High Elevations is no Problem

This is a most pleasant fact and our man should know it. It will put him at ease. Many people almost naturally assume that the high elevation landing is stretched out in the same proportion as the take-off is. If this were true, we would have a problem! But it is not true. The mountain air does not stretch the landing in the same proportion as it stretches the take-off. If a high elevation airport is big enough to take-off, it is super-ample for landing.

I think we should tell the new man: forget the elevation. Land as you would at home. That’s what everybody ends up by doing. Specifically: make your approach at the same indicated airspeed as you would at home under similar conditions of turbulence, load, and field length. If the airspeed indicator feels the same, the wing feels the same, and the airplane power-off, behaves the same.

It is true that there are some fine points of difference. The glide (true airspeed) is faster, by maybe 20% than at sea level; the landing is faster, and the landing run is longer. Bumps in the runway are a little more noticeable. So are the imperfections, if any, in the pilot’s technique ― bounces, drop-ins, not taking all the drift out. The glide angle, power-off, is a little steeper, because at the higher true airspeed, the idling engine exerts more drag. The flare-out is a shade different, owing to the higher true airspeed and the slightly steeper glide angle: it is as if you were landing a slightly more heavily wing loaded airplane. But these effects are not highly noticeable. In fact, it is hard to demonstrate them. I think they fall within that band of errors and uncertainties that accompanies any approach and landing — up-and-down drafts, wind gradient effect, small errors of judgement ― the pilot is all primed in any case to take care of them: something tells him he needs to drop the nose, to apply a bit of power right now, etc.: there high elevation effects wash out in this more general uncertainty. And the practical truth is that there is no important difference between a power-off approach and landing at sea level and the same maneuver conducted at 7,500 feet.

A Wrong Idea

A lot of airplanes are bent in the high country because the stranger, fighting imaginary dangers, burns them on at high speed. You know how it is: he adds a couple of knots for the wife and kiddies, and a few for gusts, and a few more for being a stranger. Maybe his instructor built in a few extra knots at the outset, by never teaching him a slow, tail-down landing. If he now adds ten knots for thin air, it really is too much!

A psychological factor then comes into play. In the over fast approach and flare-out, the airplane is too responsive and jumpy. It reacts to turbulence too strongly, and also to the controls. The pilot wobbles and over controls as he floats and floats. This, in turn, produces a sort of synthetic turbulence; and that makes him want to use still more speed! That way you get one of these landings where the airplane is light on its main wheels, and the brakes don’t hold. Perhaps the airplane “wheelbarrows” on the nose wheel and sidles off the runway.

So I think we should advise the new man; “land as you land at home.” No tricks, of course. No attempts to pull off a real short landing. By all means allow extra speed for extra weight, allow for being a stranger, allow for turbulence. But do not allow extra for the thin air. That allowance is already built into the behavior of the airspeed indictor.

Once this is understood and really believed, we are free to tell our new man about some aspects of high country landing that are a little different.

The Mixture Again

If the pilot goes by the low level book ― mixture full-rich, carburetor heat on, flaps down — he will be in poor shape for a go-a-round. He would have to get his flaps at least partly up, his carburetor heat off, his mixture leaned out, before he could do much climbing: he might forget one of those items, and get into trouble trying to climb in an airplane that won’t do it. So we should tell him ― on the approach, keep your mixture properly “de-riched;” use carburetor heat only as really needed; and in case of a go-around, don’t forget the flaps.

The Power Approach

To maintain the same descent slope as at sea level, and the same indicated airspeed, the airplane needs noticeably more power than at sea level. (Since for the same indicated airspeed our true airspeed is about 20% faster, we need about 20% more RPM than we need at sea level.) This makes a lot more noise. It soundslike a lot more extra power than it really is. It shouldn’t really matter because, in any case, what we do in a power-on approach is to maintain the airspeed with the elevator and adjust the throttle experimentally so as to get the desired angle of descent. It ought to make no difference to us that here in the high country we wind up with the throttle a little further forward, and a little more buzz.

It is not difficult, it is merely different. But in our flying we rely a lot on things notbeing different. We expect certain numbers, certain noises, certain control positions and pressures, to get us certain results. And when they don’t we may be a little slow in noticing it. So, in this case, our man will probably get a little low before he wakes up to the need for more power. And now, having got a little low, he will have to put an extra lot of extra power to get in.

This happens, I think, to everybody. Some let it undermine their confidence in the mountain air. “Gee,” they say, “this air is so thin ― if you didn’t use a lot of power, you’d drop right in.” Not so. A power-off glide would have come out perfectly normal. A power glide needs a little more power, that’s all.

Slope

Naturally, in mountain country many runways are uphill or downhill. Naturally, one would like to land uphill. But this may mean a tailwind. What to do?

Rule: Slope is more important than wind. The higher the country, and the heavier your load, and the less high powered your airplane, the more so. Western pilots land uphill, take off downhill, almost regardless of wind. They accept quite considerable tailwinds. If the tailwind is toostrong, they don’t use that field that day.

Of course, everything depends on the how much: how much slope, how much wind, load, elevation, power, etc. It is impossible to give a rule. Besides our man would find it difficult to judge slope and wind velocity from the air, so a rule would do him no good. But we should bias his mind: respect for slope, comparative disregard for wind.

Slope is a help, not a hindrance. It is what makes those glacier landings possible. Because of slope, runways which look too high or too short on the map may be quite comfortable. Unless you know the slope, the published runway lengths have little meaning and usually make the field look worse on the map than it is in reality.

Committed

The uphill landing has a string attached to it: you can’t go around. At least, not with a low powered, heavily loaded airplane, at high elevation, and if the slope is strong. Here again, everything depends; but if our man tries to go around where he shouldn’t we would have the makings of a bad accident. The terrain rises faster than he can climb. He can’t turn, at least not quickly, because the extra drag of the turn would stop his climb altogether. It is a good situation to stay away from. What follows? Or rather: what comes first? Our new man should be briefed. On the final approach to a markedly uphill landing there comes a Decision Point. If he goes on down beyond that, he can no longer go around, he then must get the airplane on the ground ― even if this means, perhaps, overrunning the end of the runway and bending something. Fortunately, he is quite unlikely to overshoot an uphill land, for reasons which follow.

Landing While Climbing

Uphill landings require extra airspeed.

The flare-out to an uphill landing is a super-flare-out, so to speak: you bend the flight path from downward not only to level but to upward. This takes extra airspeed, or else a blast of extra power during the flare. The usual story, the first time, is that the pilot at the last moment runs out of airspeed and/or elevator control, and makes a hard, bumped-on landing. Well, forewarned is fore-armed. A blast of power at the right moment will remedy the trouble. An extra few mph of airspeed, on the approach, will prevent it. So what seems like a difficulty is actually a pleasant fact. It makes life easier. On the approach to an uphill landing you can afford an ample air-speed and still not float a long way. If you do float, the float, too, is uphill and therefore short. The landing run, too, is uphill. This is one reason why, on an upslope landing, a tailwind is quite acceptable.

Tilt

An optical illusion makes you fly low and slow.

In the final approach to an upslope landing, the pilot is powerfully beset by an optical illusion. He thinks he is higher than he really is, relative to the intended touch-down point. He also thinks he is more nose down than he really is. He therefore flies lower and slower than he intends to fly. What brings on the illusion is that the runway slants up, but the pilot’s eye/mind interprets it as being level. Tilt!

This is illustrated here. Note that Picture A is simply a copy of Picture B, tilted exactly the way the pilot’s mind tilts the situation. Picture A is the illusion. Picture B is the reality. Note that the runway appears to the pilot in exactly the same perspective in both cases. It also appears at the same angle underneath the airplane’s nose, in both cases. All that is needed is the mental tilt, and it will make the pilot misjudge position and attitude by quite a lot. It is a powerful illusion.

There is another version of the same thing ― even more sneaky. The airport lies on a smooth plain, many miles from any mountains. The runway does not visibly slope relative to the terrain immediately surrounding it. But the whole plain is sloping up quite strongly toward those distant mountains. Your eye does not appreciate this slope ― at least, not fully.

In Practice

The pilot has two ways to break the power of this optical illusion.

Pay attention to his airplane ― his airspeed indicator, his trim, his stick forces. “Attitude Flying” is no good if you judge your attitude from a phony reference!

He should let his eye sweep over the whole scenery, instead of getting too hypnotized by the perspective of the runway. His eye will then usually perceive the slope of runway, the slope of the plain upon which the airport lies, the whole lay of the land. The optical illusion will be gone. Will it? Perhaps not quite. It is very powerful. It works on you even when you know what’s happening. It sort of sucks you down.

What is the effect? Here again, it takes the pilot a little time to realize what’s happening. (It will take him less time if we have forewarned him.) By the time he wakes up, he is quite low and perhaps quite slow. He now will have to add a lot of power to drag himself in. I have sometimes goofed so badly that my “final” was really a stretch of level flight, across up-sloping terrain, to the touch-down point. This sequence of events ― the optical illusion that puts you down, the delayed reaction, the subsequent need for a lot of power ― may be another reason why people sometimes claim that the high country air doesn’t hold you up properly. The contrary is true. The mountain air is OK! The best way to calm down one’ approaches and avoid that last minute roar of power, is to plan a high, steep approach, using little or no power. “Land as you would at home.”

Take-Off or Landing

When in doubt about some ranch strip or other non-standard field, why not try it first alone? Park the family and try for yourself, light. Then, when you have the measure of the field, come back and ferry people and luggage, maybe in two trips. This is only common sense. But in the real-life situation it sometimes does not seem to occur to people that they have that option.

En Route

What can we tell the new man, beforehand, that will be useful to him in high country? It’s difficult. Flying is flying and air is air, and once we are up and en route it makes less difference what the country is like. On the other hand, all the factors are so variable; terrain, weather, season, airplane, load. It seems almost impossible to say anything except “Take it easy.”

Just the same, there are tendencies for things to behave in certain ways.

Routes

Clouds, showers, thunderstorms, snow showers tend to build up over the mountains first, and sometimes over the mountains only, leaving the valleys clear for easy flying. It is therefore much easier to follow the early transcontinental airways ― which, in turn, followed the early transcontinental railroads, which, in turn, favored the low and flat passages.

For the same reason, it pays to cross the big humps early in the day, and perhaps cross them where they are lower. On any particular trip this may turn out to be poor advice. On enough trips, it will average right.

The Winds

Local winds tend to blow up the slopes in the daytime, down the valleys at night ― provided, of course, the overall wind is not so strong that it overpowers those local tendencies. Turn-around time is before sunset. By sunset a strong local breeze blows down many canyons. This is the best time to land on a canyon or valley runway ― upwind, upslope. The best time for take-off downhill but not downwind is midmorning after the downhill winds have stopped, but before the air gets too hot.

The higher the country, the tougher it can get. It is not always tough. It can be calm, sunny and smooth among the big summits. But it can turn tougher, faster, in the really high country. The airplane’s performance is poor. The weather is more inclined to violent changes, cloud build-ups, snow showers, strong winds, downdrafts, turbulence.

Rotors

In the very high country, Sierra Nevada, for example, or the Rocky Mountains West of Denver, in days with strong winds aloft, you are in the region of Standing Waves or Lee Waves, and their associated “Rotors.” Here, small areas of really extremely rough air can be found; sometimes with clear air, sometimes with generally smooth air all around. It pays to be suspicious.

More airplanes have been lost in those very high sectors than seems explainable by the standard causes ― weather, engine trouble, out of gas, etc. In my personal opinion Rotor turbulence got some of them. We should caution the new man: Flying at mountain peak level on days with strong winds aloft, be cautious. How? Don’t build up high airspeeds, even though the air at the moment may be smooth. And tighten the seat belt down hard, so you don’t suddenly hit the roof.

It’s True

What else? Oh yes: all that propaganda about oxygen above 10,000 feet ― it’s real.

Lack of oxygen really does make people unobservant, stupid, and clumsy. And this sad state really is not noticeable to the pilot himself.

That sums up what I think the new pilot can usefully be told, beforehand, about flying in the high country. It assumes that he knows how to fly an airplane, knows VFR from IFR, knows about line-of-sight reception of omni ranges, and generally is a man of sense.

Can we put information of this sort into a sort of check list? I have tried that in the following bunch of questions and answers. The idea is that an instructor or more experienced pilot could ask the questions. For that matter, anybody could. If our man can recite the right answers, we can consider that we have prepared him for his high country trip ― so far as this can be done with words.

Note that there are no explanations. If our man believes our statements he will think out, argue out, or read up on the reasons. There are no trick questions. We are not trying to deepen our man’s understanding of flying, let alone test it; we merely want to make sure he has in mind, ready for use, certain ideas, facts, possible courses of action, that may be of value to him.

Note that there is little imperative in this check list. It is not our purpose to admonish anybody to be good. There’s too much of that around! There also are no skulls and cross-bones, no “Always” and no “Never.” What follows is awfully mild and bland. May it be useful.

Q. What is the main difference in airplane performances at high elevation fields?

A. A long take-off run and a shallow climb.

Q. What is the cause of this performance loss?

A. Thin air, caused in about equal parts by high elevation and high air temperature.

Q. What can a pilot do to make up for some of this performance loss?

A. Keep his load light. Take off at times when the air is cool.

Q. What special pilot technique is needed for high country flying?

A. Adjust the mixture for best power before take-off. Do not return the mixture to full-rich for the landing approach.

Q. At what air speed does an airplane have its best rate of climb?

A. The speed is different for each airplane. It is slightly different for each altitude. It is shown in the Owners Manual. For my airplane at 7500 feet, on a warm day, it is 88 mph (indicated).

Q. What is the effect of flaps on take-off?

A. They shorten the take-off run, but lessen the rate of climb.

Q. When a pilot encounters a strong downdraft what should we do?

A. Instead of trying to out climb the downdraft, he should pick up speed and fly out of the downdraft.

Q. When flying close to mountains, what is the main safety rule?

A. Stay in a position to turn toward lower terrain.

Q. In a landing approach at a high elevation field, what should the airspeed indicator read?

A. The same it would read at a low elevation airport under similar conditions of load, wind, and turbulence.

Q. Is a power-on approach to a high elevation field different from a power-on approach to a low elevation field?

A. More power is needed to maintain the same indicated airspeed at the same angle of descent.

Q. If a runway has a strong slope, what is more important ― wind direction or slope?

A. Slope is usually more important than wind. You land uphill, take off downhill almost regardless of wind. If the unfavorable wind is too strong, you don’t use that field that day.

Q. Does a sloping runway present a problem to the pilot?

A. On final approach for an upslope landing there is an optical illusion which makes the pilot think he is higher than he really is and more nose-down than he really is. This tends to make him fly too low and too slow.

Q. In landing uphill on a markedly sloping runway pilots often experience a last moment surprise. What is it?

A. They find they have insufficient airspeed to accomplish the uphill flare and they make a hard landing.

Q. In landing uphill at a strongly sloping field, what should the pilot have in mind as he “thinks ahead of the airplane?”

A. Do not attempt a go-around toward rising terrain ahead.

Q. When in doubt about take-off or landing at some high elevation field, what is a good course of action?

A. Try the field first alone, with a light load.

Q. Is anything predictable about mountain weather?

A. Clouds, showers and snow flurries and thunderstorms often build up over the mountains while the valleys are clear.

Q. How do you choose easy routes through high country?

A. The lower, flatter routes often have better weather.

Q. What is usually the best time to cross big mountain ranges?

A. Early in the day.

Q. What is the effect of altitude on the pilot?

A. Above 10,000 feet unless the pilot takes oxygen he becomes unobservant, stupid, and clumsy. Above 12,000 the loss of ability is severe. It gets worse the longer the pilot stays at altitude without oxygen.

Q. Is this loss of ability noticeable to the pilot himself?

A. No.

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2018--SEPT-19th-2018-Wednesday---in this hellhole state Western Australia...

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Nope....this NEWS item below doesn't happen in this hellhole suburb...instead the usual lot of shithead people just jump residents fences and invade residents properties and steal anything at will...even flowers they tear out and rip out of the ground and pots and carry off pots too.....to for instance decorate shit of criminals who have died including ones who have been killed evading Police capture in car chases and stolen car chases endangering so many innocents. ipso facto, they get 'rewarded' for stealing innocents peoples cars by having stolen flowers from innocent people......

It's about that time of year again when the scheduled crime activities will all erupt......and not just flowers shit.......

Honestly, this sort of shit goes on ALL the time and is often concentrated in certain parts of EVERY year such as is coming up and here already....

And by the way, apparently it's 'illegal' now to go and take flowers from the wild and use them for yourself.......the 'state' owns everything, even grains of sand and even flowers but does nothing good for any of it all let alone people. -- How not lovely Western Australia is.....

Is this NEWS item part of gearing up trying to entice overseas visitors again to this hellhole state? - Maybe a new push against Chinese tourists to fleece them out of any money they bring with them? - That's always popular here in this hellhole state in their forever mad scramble to forever get more money out of any and everything.

I wonder when uniformed official 'flower Police' will eventually be created which will be be a huge smack in the face for all those flower power people of past history...

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BTW, not to worry though, there's an increasingly common seasonal shooting of somebody in the local W.A. NEWS to take your minds off strawberries....

Man shot at home south of Perth -- PerthNow --September 19, 2018 5:58AM

https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/crime/man-shot-at-calista-home-ng-b88965034z

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WA NEWS:------ (yes really)---Visitors drawn to rare wreath flower show/

Geoff Vivian--Geraldton Guardian--Wednesday, 19 September 2018 6:00AM

Pictures: Geoff Vivian

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Wreath flowers attract dozens of visitors each day to a remote dirt track 10km from Pindar

There is still time to view the wreath flowers that grow inland from Pindar to Perenjori.

Dozens of visitors go to a special place along a remote dirt track 10km from the tiny settlement of Pindar to view these unusual leschenaultias.

Wreath flowers change colour, gradually turning from a creamy white to red after insects pollinate them.

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I love you dear Fliss and so very much wish to be with you. - I've been ripping up flowers this morning of ours, specifically to make way for more Sam & Max ablutions...the very stuff that makes the flowers so rampant and out of control in the 'land mine pit' which was created for that purpose by you and me dear Fliss......and this morning I got wet from the very lot of cold and wet condensation (which will all vanish the closer this hellhole heads into hellhole summer....).

Lets's see what seasonal shit today has been....VERY VERY COLD especially in this hovel's interior night and day, a LOT of very heavy condensation so much so as if it's rain (all as a prelude to a deathly hot, airless, furnace-like heat of Summer at this hellhole, damned semi-chewed gumnuts everywhere from eucalyptus addict crazed parrots dropping them everywhere, dog shit from fuckwits who let their dogs roam and shit any and everywhere but NEVER in their own yards (that's why they take them for 'walkies'), big trucks and vehicles and 4WD's driving past our bedroom window spewing fumes diesel and petrol (never any NEWS about that yet) as it wrecks peoples lives but the goverment makes LOTS of money from taxing all that so they simply don't care and don't ever want to diminish their money-grubbing income from any of that.

I fully expect there will be a pathetic scheduled NEWS item of how expensive fuel is blah blah blah and how the government is 'powerless' to do anything about all that...andor will blame Singapore (again) or certain fuel companies they have been told to run down and get rid of....leaving the 'chosen' fuel companies of course alone..... - And there will be rampant offseas fuel importations, and once again there will be NEWS about how doing that is costing jobs...blah blah bloody blah....same old same old shit.....and they will shout they need to 'protect jobs'.....yeah like protecting anything they've been secretly told to protect whilst leaving everything else to go to rot and ruin.....

At the moment there is also the usual seasonal 'NEWS' against certain unfavoured politicians so as to remove them in any way they can, discrediting them, and especially 'handy' is anything against woman they can use or invent in any way they can. (BTW, I HATE ALL POLTICIANS RIGHT ACROSS THE BOARD AND I FAVOUR NOBODY. And I've long given up trying to have anyone in any government that does any good for anyone or anything at any level.)

Anyone else reading this has NO idea how routine all this NEWS stuff is....and how it serves certain interests and how it throws everyone to the wolves...whilst others live the lives of princes.....until.....

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I love you dear Fliss and want to be with you. -- Poor Max is in greater pain and distress. Poor Sam is also getting that way too. (not saying anymore)

Maybe in Australia the poor and needy can do two things at once now and mend their threadbare clothes with needles whilst trying to eat strawberries contaminated with large needles?

Food contamination scares and such like this are also regular engineered scheduled events and has been going on for YEARS.... - How handy eh?

When you see so much NEWS over so many years, you see all this shit...it's not rocket science......

Remember dear Fliss that we ourselves used to grow lovely luscious strawberries at this hellhole area to enrich our own personal lives and were making it a regular thing?

So much for Strawberry jam maybe.....will it become illegal too or just vastly outpriced for common people....? -- How about new Low Priced metal detecting services at your local supermarket for all the food you buy...but then THAT will fail when other deliberate contaminants are utilised and back to square one it'll be again....to line up for the next of bullshit.....

I wonder how soon before growing your own food at all becomes illegal?

It won't happen in at this hellhole since the invisible shit (although sometiems heavy enough to be visible) from aircraft is so prevalent as they increasigly fly more often over this hellhole like the one that just did. - So much for 'peace and quiet'....

Lately the Perth Airport seems to me to be doing yet another load of shit....having different parts of the day determine where air traffic should be the worst and sharing it about to lessen complaints but making it worst in the income poorest areas of habitation whilst the 'better off' wealthier ones have lesser shit over them. -- SNAFU....as usual...until the social upset settles down and the airport can go back to business as usual since they're a corporation that answers only to Federal government NOT the local scummy Western Australian government in any case.

In past years various incarnations of Western Australian government would try to do things with the Perth Airport sitaution and then get royally told to fuck off (the airport area is literally like a foreign island within the W.A. landmass) and the Airport would shout that they answer ONLY to Federal laws....that are centered on the eastern side of Australia and don't care anything about this western state on the other side of them....such politicians there are more centralised and open to constant corruption and the local W.A. ones never quite reach their status......

Dear Fliss experienced this for herself but never wanted to believe it.

Oh, there goes another big jet, tearing VERY loudly over this hellhole as I write this.....

Triple-screened interstate or overseas grown strawberries served up to its passengers no doubt onboard....

Smoke me a kipper skipper I'll be back in time for lunch...don't needle me about with any of those Australian Strawberries....

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Tumblr is fucking me around again....not just seasonal but daily EVERY DAY at ANY TIME.....maybe Tumblr has needles in it's system and the Australian Government could offer ransom payment to fix it?

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I love you dear Fliss and want to be with you.

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