Ooh, that’s cool!

A few months ago I cut the head off a very small copperhead snake in our front yard. I remember watching it "coiling around like a bit of wire" after it was dead... but it actually was too small to make much of a "horrid mess."

Last month I was working outside with a knife and needed to use both hands to pick up something, so I stuck the knife in a tree. When I took the knife out later, the air escaping from the bark made this weird, faint screaming noise! I was totally freaked out, and then thought, "did I just anger the Dryads?"
I apologized to the tree, just in case. The woods haven't marched against our house yet, so I guess that's over. 😆

lol, so hardcore!

Did I mention the streetlights in my neighborhood are lampposts? A couple years ago it snowed, and the lamppost across the street, which fortunately has trees behind it, turned on in the middle of the day. I went outside and got the COOLEST PHOTO OF MY LIFE. (because MLIN. 😆 )

Last week I was browsing books in a thrift store and found a copy of Prince Caspian and The Horse and His Boy. Outraged that someone would actually get rid of them like that, I made sure to leave them in a prominent place for some one to find them and hopefully begin their Narnian journey. (Though those books aren't exactly the ideal introduction to Narnia 😐 )
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I may have stood for a bit listening to the rustling of the ginkgo trees outside my office the other day, but I couldn't catch the whispers.

I was in a real foul mood yesterday due to frustration with a file at work, but on my way out, I passed a busker playing a right cheerful and fast-paced tune on a woodwind (not sure what kind... piccolo? didn’t really look). Made me smile, think of him as a faun, and thank God for the gift of music and the pleasure by which to enjoy it.

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When reading with my daughter, I was trying to get her to read the word "hat" and said, "What do I wear on my head?"

Minnow: Crown.

I'm glad she understands my world.

A guy on my bus is wearing a red shirt with a yellow rampant lion stitched on.
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One of the many flags hanging in my room is the Lion Rampant of Nar- I mean Scotland. You can guess my motives behind getting it. MLIN

Wore a Narnia shirt to see The Lion King. Because lions... and Aslan’s my favourite one... and because MLIN.

The cashier at Publix today was named Darrin... I immediately thought of HHB and wondered if he had a brother named Dar. 😆 MLIN

Went raspberry-picking today and thought about whether or not the shorter Narnians are the ones who do the majority of that sort of work.
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Went to a flea market today and stopped to stare at a small portable DVD player... mainly because it happened to be playing the LWW trailer for some reason!! 😯

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Today, I decided to look up "#narniacake" on Instagram to see what would come up. (I have an Instagram account for sharing my "sweet fanworks", as I call them, two of which are Narnian desserts and one that is Narnia-themed. Basically, I was checking out the competition. 😉 ) Some were pretty nice, a couple were really good. And then I came across two in particular, the best and the worst.
The worst was not the worst-looking by any stretch (rather, it was one of the best-looking ones), but it was a wedding cake... with Aslan and Jadis as the toppers. Made me go, "What?! Why would you want Aslan and Jadis as your wedding toppers? Even if you know they're not a couple, it makes for one weird impression."
The best, on the other hand, had an abnormal structure to it and I really don't know how much of it was actually cake. On the cakeboard, were Lucy and the lamppost (fantasically sculpted out of fondant) and some trees. Lucy was peering around the lamppost and before her was a towering mound of snow (or more likely a snow-covered cliff), upon which Aslan (also sculpted) stood. This cake really captured the spirit and magic of Narnia for me because it wasn't merely about good cake decorating or being unique in its design. The imagery of Lucy peering around the lamppost to look up and see Aslan in his majesty was just so... so Narnian. I kind of felt that sense of wonder that comes with the description of the kids meeting Aslan for the first time, that breathtaking awe that overtakes them.
Just wanted to share that because MLIN.

Heh, Aslan and Jadis aren't exactly a couple. 😆 Though I think I remember seeing somewhere that Glumpuddle used that on his wedding cake, so you may have been seeing pictures from his wedding lol!
The other day I was playing Skyrim and was attacked by a wolf while armed with a sword. When I killed it, the game showed me this animation of me running it through as it pounced on me, and it got stuck on my sword for a second before the little "death scene" was over. Skyrim's a somewhat *ahem* realistic game in some respects, so my sword was a bit of a horrid mess afterwards... that was when my sister comes in, sees the screen, and says, "You need to clean your sword!" 😆
It doesn't get any more Narnian than that! MLIN