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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2024-10-28 01:10 am

Songs hum off the walls of empty rooms

The traditional carving of pumpkins was observed this evening with my husbands and [personal profile] nineweaving who had brought me for my birthday, all the way from Aberdeenshire, a smoke-fired seal.



It looks in person like a cave painting that can be held on the palm. The potter is named Nicola Seal.



An owl, a cat, and a genius cucurbitae.

We ate pizza and drank mulled cider and wrestled pumpkins into illuminable shapes and my mother figured out how to rescue a salad dressing and I was able to give [personal profile] rushthatspeaks his present of the latest Greil Marcus and [personal profile] spatch and I fell asleep on the couch for two hours as soon as we got home. Earlier in the day we had sighted a dramatic presence of turkeys on the street. Apparently the weird pop instrumental we caught on the radio on the way home was the bassoon solo in Cilla Black's "Anyone Who Had a Heart" (1964).
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[personal profile] selkie 2024-10-28 08:08 am (UTC)(link)
She gave you a pocket selkie! It is inimitably cute and also haunting! The universe just gave me a head cramp because it looks very much like something you of course should extremely own.
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[personal profile] troisoiseaux 2024-10-28 11:11 am (UTC)(link)
who had brought me for my birthday, all the way from Aberdeenshire, a smoke-fired seal

What a cool video, and cute seal!
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[personal profile] sartorias 2024-10-28 12:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Sounds like a perfect eve!
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[personal profile] cmcmck 2024-10-28 12:59 pm (UTC)(link)
A very apt name for one making seals! :o)
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[personal profile] selkie 2024-10-28 02:17 pm (UTC)(link)
This is fine! Your idea is fine!
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[personal profile] thisbluespirit 2024-10-28 05:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Aw, that's great! I love the pumpkins, and that seal looks like maybe the most perfect present for you someone could come up with. <3
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[personal profile] gwynnega 2024-10-28 06:34 pm (UTC)(link)
The pumpkin carving sounds delightful.
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[personal profile] selkie 2024-10-28 07:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Hello! Apropos of nothing, this is for you!

https://jae-fiction.com/asexual-character/
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[personal profile] sholio 2024-10-28 07:05 pm (UTC)(link)
The seal is amazing! I'm not sure if I've seen a modern art item that has such a haunting Paleolithic quality. What an excellent gift.
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[personal profile] de_eekhoorn 2024-10-28 08:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Alas, that bassoon was rather the best choice made in that instrumentation...
Now I am thinking of the bassoon in the instrumental of Joni Mitchell's Down to You.
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[personal profile] thisbluespirit 2024-10-29 08:57 am (UTC)(link)
Aww, thank you! <3
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[personal profile] umadoshi 2024-10-29 11:56 pm (UTC)(link)
I adore the seal, and am delighted by your pumpkins!
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[personal profile] asakiyume 2024-10-30 01:39 pm (UTC)(link)
The little seal just begs to be held in the palm of a hand. I followed that link too--love the creator's method!

And your pumpkins, well. The best ^_^
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[personal profile] asakiyume 2024-10-30 01:39 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not sure if I've seen a modern art item that has such a haunting Paleolithic quality. --Yes!