Resurrecting The Dead--the All New Horror Hounds Weekend Report

Nope, Boston is safe from the 9. I'm big into animal rights, and he's just a soft and fluffy harmless sheep.

for the animal rights

I'm all for animal rights -- not the crazy ones though. And with the rabid raccoon I did call the police, the county sherriff, animal control and they all told me I was out of city limits. I finally got the number for the county game warden who informed me he was in the middle of the lake fishing and to "go git yer gun en shoot it."

ahh, sweet country life. I grew up in Kentucky (not born there) and I can hear the banjo now...although it's nice not having city laws to abide by...sometimes....

When I was working at the Lab there were several occasions when we had to call Animal Control or the police down in Berkeley to come up and deal with situations involving animals near or around places people were (usually deer injured in deer vs vehicle accidents, but the occasional rattlesnake, raccoon, and mountain lion). If the animal was injured, dangerous, or rabid, invariably the solution was to shoot it if it could be located (we left the mountain lions alone though - monitoring the area and staying out of their way was considered the safest solution).

There was one occasion where we used a paint bucket to capture a rattlesnake in a parking lot. The animal control officer came up, saw the situation, and carefully moved the bucket over to the nearest grassy area where he released it.

With injured deer, the only solution was to shoot the animal (same with raccoons which were showing signs of rabid behavior).

We also had wild turkeys which could occasionally become rather aggressive (during mating season - the males can get very large and we had a couple people actually surrounded by these massive birds with outstretched wings and spurred feet).

Ha! That sounds great! Ever had to deal with rabid opposums? I'm not kidding, those things can be very dangerous...unlike normal critters that play dead, rabid ones go nuts, biting and scratching...very dangerous. Don't mess with rabid wildlife (holds up left hand to reveal only two fingers left) *sniff*

I totally get to a report a nice wordcount today.

400 words on a plot outline, medival style (AKA Pencil and paper).

Shail said:

400 words on a plot outline, medival style (AKA Pencil and paper).

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people still do that??

Yeah. Some of us still live in the dark ages. I make my own candles too.

LaurieD said:

I'm all for animal rights -- not the crazy ones though.

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but... but... I think I fall under that category....

Shail said:

Yeah. Some of us still live in the dark ages. I make my own candles too.

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yeah, but see... candle making is cool.

Yeah, it is cool. And you have back up lights for black outs and stuff. You'll never believe how glad I was that my dad likes old fashioned stuff when we lost out electric over the winter.

yes, actually I would. It's why we keep oil lamps and other things around my house, too.

You too? Cool. I like my old hurricane lamps. But the chimney's are a pain to clean, and fragile too.

Meddle not in the affairs of Haggis, for you are crunchy, and good with ketsup.

Haggis said:

I loves me some animal rights peeps. Especially with catsup.

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Hmmm...I think I probably taste better with mustard or maybe a splash of vinegar.

bsolah said:

I totally get to a report a nice wordcount today.

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Good job B!

I'll post my actual word count for this week when I get home as I've been compiling a spreadsheet on a flash drive - that I left at home.

Total word count 1193 - just about 800 shy of my goal.

RL - what can I say?

Revamping of the schedule this week and since I'm not sure how much time/energy I'll have for writing, I'm going to try for 1500 words total on existing projects.

These were my goals:
• Finish Ink edits
• Finish Ink edits
• Finish Ink edits
• Anything else the word machine inside my head wants to do will just be icing on the cake.

What I did:
Ink Edits:
Done and out to betas!
Ink Query:
Tightened up a bit more
Poetry:
Hope - Dog's Life Poetry Challenge
Drift
Subs:
1 Poem
3 simultaneous subs for The Depository

Goals for this week:
• Finish Ink query
• Finish Ink synopsis
• Work on my August prompt story
• Maybe jump back into Into the Grey

bsolah said:

Goal: 500 words this week.

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After my failure to write anything last week, I dropped my goal down a notch.

This week, I surpassed that goal easily and wrote 1,555 words including a 1,300 word scene toward my novella All Fascists are Zombies!

This week I'm aiming again for 500 words. Me and Margo are heading to Sydney to visit friends and family on Friday night till next Wednesday so writing might be a little hard during those days.

I've also done a wrap-up on my July monthly goals and set news goal for August. You can read all about it on my ever-beautiful blog.

Excellent Solah! I'm off to work for the day but plan on writing when I get home...I finished Dgrintalis prompt but it needs a little polishing (and anxious me went ahead and posted it anyway...oh well) Keep going dude! And my best to all!!

LaurieD said:

Total word count 1193 - just about 800 shy of my goal.

RL - what can I say?

Revamping of the schedule this week and since I'm not sure how much time/energy I'll have for writing, I'm going to try for 1500 words total on existing projects.

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Laurie,

Still a good word count! Good luck with your goal. RL likes to always get in the way. If we could only get paid for being creative and charming the world would be a better place...Hang in there. You get 12 pushups and a pair sheep's eyeballs. I hear they are best boiled.


Hugs and pushups,


Tigress Tyrant