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My left arm has morphed into taffy, my brain is pulsating with fractured leaking cracks, and my body is fighting both sides of a civil war. I pushed myself a bit the past few days.
I decided (or some part of me did at least) that a good way to destress would be to double up on my raptor training sessions this week. Yesterdays session the raptor I was working with (a male Eurasion Eagle Owl) was just a complete butthead and in one of the nastiest moods imaginable. He tried out every intimidation trick he knows hoping to bluff me into giving up. Unfortunately those are the times when you can not give in at all.... they remember who can be bluffed and will use it against you everytime. He tried beaking my hand, biting my finger, hissing, throwing half a mouse at me, letting me get one snap on an anklet and yanking back so it dropped on the ground and he'd fly to another branch when I bent to get it. After about 10 min of rotten behavior, he gave in and let me put on his anklets, jesses, and swivel and stepped up onto the gauntlet. He then 'hooed' at me over and over as I took him across the grounds to the education building. Both me and the trainer knew we were in for a difficult session, but i'd rather learn to deal with him on his moody days so i'll know what to do if he crabs out somewhere during an outreach.
One of the things that can happen when handling raptors is called 'baiting', where they decide to jump off the glove and try to take flight. If the jesses came unhooked or you lost control and he got loose, holy hell would break open. Well he decided to put me through the paces and the first time he was so quick and strong he yanked my arm so hard I almost stumbled. Let me tell you that 6 foot wingspan gives him amazing power and lift, and he spent the next 45 min testing every bit of my reactions in as many ways as he could. In the end we called a truce, he was over heating and my arm was a rubber noodle.
I was on adrenaline rush and he was on excellent behavior as I returned him to his pen for the evening about 9:30pm. Here's where I lost a little sanity because I scheduled myself another session for today right after work. Apparently i became super woman or something in my mind right then because why the hell else would I think I could do that two days in a row? Maybe I thought I had gotten past him testing and challenging me already..... like I was a special case and won him over with my charm. Well did I have another thing coming today. He decided tonight to try a whole new bag of tricks to test me on. We'll despite my arm being a wet noodle at the end, I managed to pass again.... but decided to give myself a few days break so I can learn to use my arm again. I must admit though I am curious what he'll try on me next time.....
I know I must be delirious, but I think we may be learning to understand each other. Most raptors are solitary and don't bond with people, but they will interact individually, and though i haven't earned his respect so to speak, he seems to be deciding I can be tolerated at least.
This has been one of the most mentally, physically, and emotionally challenging things I have subjected myself to in a very long time, but I am loving every minute of it!
This is the reflection of the light through the living room blinds on the cheap frame holding our Levanto picture. I quite liked the pattern.
شعار جديد أيضاً باسم "جو"، كل الأشياء.. علامة تجارية فاخرة، وفي نفس الوقت محببة وقريبة من العامة. (المشروع شخصي)
في هذا النموذج تم تشكيل النمط البصري الخاص بهوية "جو"، بخلاف بعض الهويات البصرية التي تعتمد اعتماداً كلياً على الأنماط، الاختلاف هنا أن هذا النمط لن يتم استخدامه في هوية "جو" إلا نادراً وبشكل محدود، حيث تعتمد الهوية هنا على الصور الفوتوغرافية وطريقة عرضها الخاصة المتزامنة دوماً مع الشعار.
I'm having these patterns printed on "chiffon" to make furoshiki. Most pics were taken at Orto Botanico REA, with many thanks to Regione Piemonte for so beautifully taking care, and a pair in my garden in July 2009. Pics were modified for pure fun with only the ACDSee that came with the computer... please enjoy and feel free to use them.
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Any employee should have the right to throttle at least one client in his working life. Then a client who wants a rainbow, an ottoman pattern and a hittite artifact to be used in the same logo and changes mind when her absurd order is ready, would get what actually she deserve. The pattern above has to be made in a very short time analysing a half picture of an ottoman decoration detail, for someone who does not deserve even a line of it.
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