Hunting ghosts - part 1

So, as you all know, our appartment here in Copenhagen is haunted. It's most likely a poltergeist which is here as lights and the water in the bathroom has been turned on by itself as well as one incident with a door moving. Knocking on doors (in the middle of the night when nobody is up) and loud sounds have been heard from my room.

Me and some friends, who also find the subject interesting, have long talked about having a séance, to try to make contact with the spirit(s). I was talking to Helene (the singer in the shitty punk band I play in) and she was up for it on saturday. Our method for this night with be EVP (Electronic voice phenomenon), which is recording ghosts on a tape. We will basically turn on a tape recorder, recording everything we say, with 'white noise' from the TV playing in the background. We'll ask a set of questions, leaving spaces inbetween the questions, for the ghosts to reply.

I don't really know if we expect to get anything else than a good scare out of this... I'll be back with results later on

Winterwonderland

These last two weeks have been tiring. Horselogging is hard work and my hands and fingers hurt from holding the lines so tight and trying to control the horses. It is going a lot better though, and these two weeks things have been good. The first week I had lots of trouble with Lady, but she is much better with me now. Now it is more Skip and Pride that is causing trouble. But there is definitely improvement. On Thursday I suggested we’d take Pride and Skip out, which Rolf was hesitant to do since Skip is so hyper. It worked well for the first hour or so until I lost the lines and they ran back to the truck with the log behind them. I could not get them to go back into the forest after that. I froze my ass off while waiting for Rolf to finish cutting and come down to help me get the horses back into the forest. Skip was being a real pain, and he was difficult with Rolf as well. Eventually they got back in again, but they were causing trouble for most of the rest of the day. I was exhausted at the end of the day from being angry at them. Skip even ran over both Rolf and Tyler, luckily without stepping on any of them. I think we have to take Skip and Lady on Monday since Pride lost a shoe, and Penny’s harness is still broken. I think Skip is a bit better with Lady since she is the highest ranking horse and is very calm. But I have to give both Skip and Pride some credit, cos they did work well together when they weren’t giving me hassle. The picture is of one of the pigs up here. They are so cute in the morning when I come to the barn at 7 am, snoring and sleeping.

Americans are NOT stupid

A friend of mine sent me a link to this youtube clip that I think you all should check out. It's pretty far out!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJuNgBkloFE

reclaim the word

Gay, a word is commonly used for homosexual. This means that people often think of you as a homophobe if you say something's gay! I intend to reclaim this word! Who's with me??

Gay: cheery: bright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer; "a cheery hello"; "a gay sunny room"; "a sunny smile"

Updates from up north

We haven’t done much horselogging this week. The first day some potential horseloggers came by and we (Rolf, not me) talked to them for a while. On Tuesday after lunch, the horses decided to strike. The weather here is quite warm, so there is shit loads of water in the forest, and the horses refused to cross a creek into the forest so we couldn’t do any skidding. Penny even fell on her bum in the creek, which she didn’t like. On Wednesday, the weather was really bad and too windy to do any logging, so Rolf and I just repaired feeders at the barn. Betty was around us all the time while we were building her feeder, which was quite interesting. She didn’t mind the hammering, but got scared by the chainsaw. Yesterday we did get to do some proper horselogging. I got to use the chainsaw for a bit to de-limb some trees, and then I did lots of skidding with Skip and Lady. It is quite hard work, but going up hill the horses almost pull you up with them. I did have rather a lot of problems getting them to turn around on the landing and go back down into the forest. They just didn’t wanna do what I was trying to tell them to, which is also probably because I don’t know what I am doing yet. I have today (Friday), Saturday and Sunday off. But apparently I am supposed to feed the horses on the weekend as well, which I did not know was part of the deal. No way am I going in to a pen with five hungry big horses. Someone else will have to deal with that instead.
And I just wanted to mention how beautiful my walk to work was yesterday. It was cold and clear and fresh snow and lots of animal tracks I could follow. It was very nice and calm. I hope it wasn’t the hybrid dog/wolf that had got loose……

The random picture is a mousetrap haliburton style

Haliburton Forest

so we have moved up to Haliburton forest, and we are living right next to the wolf centre. each morning we can see out to the wolves. we even got to see a feeding today, although not from our apartment. tomorrow i start work, horselogging. i start at 6:30 in the morning, so we'll see how that goes.
more stories to come later.....