Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Foodbags? -------------------- Mark William Rabiner Photography mark at rabinergroup.com > From: Daniel Ridings <daniel at dlridings.se> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 07:42:11 +0200 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Warning cat picture > > Igge isn't "tame". He or she is extremely near-sighted. I wrote > "porcupine" before, but its a "hedgehog". Same sharp needles, just not > as long. > > If you get too close, it turns into a pin cushion, with the pins > pointing out. The cat knows that. Our other two do too. I've seen when > kittens have their first experience of hedgehogs. Serves them right > with all of those sharp claws they have themselves. > > Ewa and I took a bike vacation this summer and spent two weeks tenting > around the south of Sweden: > > http://dlridings.se/gallery/v/Shoebox/s2010/20100707-_DSC2416-1.jpg.html > http://dlridings.se/gallery/v/Shoebox/s2010/20100704-_DSC2308-2.jpg.html > http://dlridings.se/gallery/v/Shoebox/s2010/20100705-_DSC2385-2.jpg.html > > You can imagine how it feels to wake up in the middle of the night and > here this rustling through your bags in the dark. These things might > be part blind, but they can smell food a mile away. The first two > nights they actually crawled into our foodbags to hide when they heard > us go up to chase them out. We'd have to dump out the whole bag to get > them out. Ewa used to think they are cute. She thinks they're little > stinkers now. > > Google has some better pictures of them: > > http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=hedgehog > > They hibernate and live in our yard. They like quiet, unkept spaces. > > Daniel > > On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 12:09 AM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> > wrote: >> Hi Daniel, >> >> Pretty girls always trump food! >> >> How tame is Igge? ?He/she looks like an interesting critter. >> >> Jim Nichols >> Tullahoma, TN USA >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Ridings" <daniel at >> dlridings.se> >> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> >> Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 2:16 PM >> Subject: Re: [Leica] Warning cat picture >> >> >>> We bought a whole collection of doormats :-) >>> >>> But now it's evening here, and as always, Igge comes to eat up the >>> left-overs: >>> >>> http://dlridings.se/gallery/v/Shoebox/s2010/20100826-IMGP0416-2.jpg.html >>> >>> He really, really, likes Rebecca. It's uncanny. He just waits and >>> waits for her. I'm the one who gives him food, but she's the one he >>> adores. >>> >>> http://dlridings.se/gallery/v/Shoebox/s2010/20100826-IMGP0410-1.jpg.html >>> >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Robert Meier <robertmeier at usjet.net> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Now you need to get a doormat for the door. >>>> >>>> Enjoyed your cat story. >>>> >>>> Robert >>>> >>>> >>>> On Aug 26, 2010, at 3:03 AM, Daniel Ridings wrote: >>>> >>>>> The placement of the door mat was slightly impractical and has been >>>>> adjusted: >>>>> >>>>> http://dlridings.se/gallery/v/Shoebox/s2010/20100826-IMGP0406-1.jpg.html >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Leica Users Group. >>>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >>> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information