Archive for February 2015
A couple of years ago I went and filmed the amazing people of the SCA organization and made a music video for a class assignment. This was such a fun challenge for me and a wonderful experience indeed. First of all, the fact that I am a little obsessed with the midevial times, ancient cultures, ect really fed into my curiosity of this outstanding group of people.
I was invited to come to the March Hare Event, that was held in Kansas and not only was there awesome battling going on, but there was also a contest on who could cook rabbit the best. Yes that is right, I said it, rabbit.
This was such a fun experience and I cannot thank the people of Calontir enough for letting me film them for my assignment. I wish I had better video editing software then... this video would have turned out even more amazing.
I don't think this group gets enough recognition though. They told me that they don't reenact history they recreate it. It would get boring if they knew the out come of all of the battles.
The SCA is a global oranization and has thousands of members that all acurately recreate the historic cultures of this time period. The SCA holds events all of the time and has a lot to teach. It is a great community of well rounded individuals that love history.
For this particular group you can visit their website at: http://calontir.org/
And for more information on the SCA: http://www.sca.org/
And lastly, Here is another video that will astound you with how many people are actually involved with this organization. I always love a good battle! Check it out!
New Leopard Gecko Hatchlings!
A few months ago I obtained a pair of leopard geckos (my lovely husband thought of me) and they were a first for me. We own quite a few reptiles. We have a small collection and we do reptile husbandry as a side hobby. We have bearded dragons, a Tokay Gecko, a Veiled Chameleon, Ball Pythons, Uromastyx, and now we have Leopard Geckos in our collection.
Check out our website I built www.radioactivereptiles.org
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| Tremper Sunglow Male |
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| Super Hypo Female |
These guys are absolutely adorable. They are probably one of the easiest reptiles to maintain. (I do exhaustive research on all of my animals I own, so if you have questions I would gladly help out!) Anyway, the first two leos I received (after much research on my morphs) a super hypo (the female) and a Tremper Sunglow. They were already breeding and and after a couple of weeks she had laid eggs for me!!!
What is really neat is that the babies come out looking completely different than they will as adults. Their banding fades into spots or to patternless depending on the morph!!! A small reward for being a reptile owner is when you do produce eggs you really have to collect memories on the punnet square and you become a small time geneticist. You really have to understand the terminology of genetics as well.
So I wanted to share my results from breeding a tremper sunglow male to my super hypo female. I have two beautiful hatchlings that are eating great and are growing super fast.
I'll make sure to post progress pictures of their color changes!!
If you have any questions please ask!!!
So... I've been doing a lot of reflexive thinking and I have decided that I am not going to blog to cater to an audience anymore. I am going to write what I feel like writing even though it might not fit into the nerdy genre. I have a life full of experiences and to limit myself on just what I would consider nerdy, or nerdy cool is just hindering my experience as a blogger.
For example, I have recently started practicing yoga and I've been dying to share that on my blog (this will be a future post). I am a strong advocate of doing something physically active and for me not to be able to write about it really started to bother me. I want to use my blog for what ever I feel like writing about and I think that is what this world needs. This world needs more authenticity and less care for monetary value that you will gain. Sure it would be absolutely fantastic to earn money from writing on a blog, but I found that it was extremely difficult to just stay in one topic.
This was a problem when I started a previous blog. I stuck myself to one topic and it got extremely difficult to keep writing about it, I wanted to write about everything. For one, this is more of a personal thing for me. It will help me develop my writing skills and I can come back on later days and reminisce over the progress I have made in some aspect of my life.
It doesn't always pay to short cut yourself to make a little money. Limiting myself just to cater to a certain audience really started to hurt me. I started to put off writing posts (even though there are not that many) and it wasn't that fun anymore. I created this blog so I could have fun and share my experiences (even though most of them are nerdy) I do have other things to talk about as well.
So... I guess this is a cautionary warning ha! I will be writing about everything and anything under the sun!!
And the most important lesson here: Be Yourself!!! The right people will come along!
