The Guardian for this meeting was Bruce Mowbray. The comments are by Bruce Mowbray.

--BELL--
 
Eliza Madrigal: Hello Bruce :)
Eliza Madrigal: Catrina! Hello ^.^
Catrinamonblue Resident: Hi Eliza :) I'm testing the waters a bit
Eliza Madrigal: Bruce was here, but seems to be having tech trouble
Eliza Madrigal: Oh, that's great - nice to see you inworld
Catrinamonblue Resident: seems to be a lot of that these days
Eliza Madrigal: both - tech troubles and water testing :)
Catrinamonblue Resident: yes it's nice to be back, I've missed being here
Eliza Madrigal: what did you miss?
Catrinamonblue Resident: here, talking, exploring, support, love all of it
Eliza Madrigal: :) you've been asked about as well
Catrinamonblue Resident: :)
Eliza Madrigal: we've been having some interesting imagination discussions, including fairies.. have thought of you at times knowing you might enjoy that
Eliza Madrigal: Have you heard of Artist's Way?
Catrinamonblue Resident: I have kept up with reading and missed that too, had so much I wanted to say :-)
Eliza Madrigal smiles
Catrinamonblue Resident: no haven't read that book
Eliza Madrigal: would love to hear your thoughts

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Catrinamonblue Resident: on fairies I loved the thought of talking with them, I never got so far as conversations just danced with them a lot :)
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Eliza Madrigal: might be surprised at what the fairies have to say
Catrinamonblue Resident: maybe I was afraid of what they might have to say
Catrinamonblue Resident: hello Bruce :)
Bruce Mowbray: Hi, Cat and Eliza!
Bruce Mowbray: I just had a major crash.
Eliza Madrigal: Hi Bruce, welcome back :)
Bruce Mowbray: TY!
Bruce Mowbray: Had to turn off the whole computer and start over.
Eliza Madrigal: no fun
Bruce Mowbray: Heya, Kori.
Eliza Madrigal: Hi Korel :)
Catrinamonblue Resident: Hi Korel :)
Korel Laloix: Heya
Bruce Mowbray: Eliza, you're looking very "fresh" today!
Eliza Madrigal: sweet chickadee dee dee
Bruce Mowbray: yeppers, I have chickadee friends in both worlds.
Catrinamonblue Resident: :)
Eliza Madrigal: thank you! fresh dress
Bruce Mowbray: Yes! Beautiful spring fresh.
Catrinamonblue Resident: There is a bird sanctuary that I like to go to and the chickadees are always demanding seeds :) they come to your hand
Bruce Mowbray: wow!
Eliza Madrigal: maybe blend with the climbing flowers around here
Catrinamonblue Resident: :)
Eliza Madrigal: that sounds wonderful
Catrinamonblue Resident: it's great fun but sometimes I forget to bring seed and they always look rather confused by that :)
Bruce Mowbray: ;-)
Eliza Madrigal: means they are well cared for
Catrinamonblue Resident: yes :)
Catrinamonblue Resident: or rather spoiled ;)
Eliza Madrigal smiles
Bruce Mowbray: I think many animals quickly adapt to human routines - and come to expect them.
Catrinamonblue Resident: sadly yes
Bruce Mowbray: becomes almost instinctual with them.
Catrinamonblue Resident: there are deer there as well and a spot near the road where people try to feed them
Bruce Mowbray: and 'confusion' happens when humans change their routines.
Catrinamonblue Resident: the deer have no fear of cars
Bruce Mowbray: There was a PBS Nature show recently on deer, and they gave some explanation for why deer stare at on-coming cars.
Catrinamonblue Resident: listens
Bruce Mowbray: Something about how light transfixes their brains -- can't remember all of it, though.
Bruce Mowbray: It made sense at the time.
Catrinamonblue Resident: ah ok :)
Bruce Mowbray: They literally "freeze" in one place.
Eliza Madrigal: their eyes may work in a slightly different way, taking in the light in a more direct way?
Bruce Mowbray: something like that, yes.
Bruce Mowbray: It was an excellent program and I learned a lot about deer -- which I see on the farm almost daily.
Eliza Madrigal: rare treat for me to see deer.... only when traveling really, though not necessary to travel too far -few hrs
Korel Laloix: My half brothers make sure I see deer a lot... in the kitchen.
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Bruce Mowbray: ;-)
Catrinamonblue Resident: :)
Korel Laloix: yummy
Eliza Madrigal: the first time I saw an fully grown elk is still frozen dramatically in memory ... feels like peeking into another world
Korel Laloix: Not seen that outside a zoo.
Bruce Mowbray: Yes.
Catrinamonblue Resident: can you tell us?

--BELL--

Bruce Mowbray: I saw lots of moose in Alaska . . .
Catrinamonblue Resident: Had a moose running along beside our van on a back road in New Brunswick one year :) gave me quite a start
Bruce Mowbray: http://video.pbs.org/video/2365000001
Eliza Madrigal: hahahaha
Eliza Madrigal: trying to picture that
Catrinamonblue Resident: :)
Bruce Mowbray: Moose can be aggressive - especially if there are young ones.
Eliza Madrigal: Oh, ty for the video link Bruce
Bruce Mowbray: (baby moose, I mean.)
Bruce Mowbray: yw.
Catrinamonblue Resident: video link doesn't work in my region :(
Bruce Mowbray: That's a clip from the PBS Nature show I mentioned earlier... an excellent show.
Eliza Madrigal: I've never seen a moose, unless the elk was really one... my 18 year old identification skills might not have been up to par
Bruce Mowbray: I think you'd instantly see the difference, Eliza.
Bruce Mowbray: (Remember Bullwinkle?)
Catrinamonblue Resident: :)
Eliza Madrigal: yes :)
Eliza Madrigal: this was what I'd call a greater, scruffier deer ... is it just size and type of antler?
Bruce Mowbray: I don't know. All I know for sure is that deer shed their antlers every year and grow entirely new sets of them annually.
Bruce Mowbray: Moose and elk are a lot larger than deer.
Eliza Madrigal nods... this was much larger
Eliza Madrigal: maybe one day I'll get to compare
Korel Laloix: A bigger plate then?
Eliza Madrigal giggles at Korel
Bruce Mowbray: maybe so, Kori.
Bruce Mowbray: bigger appetite, too.
Catrinamonblue Resident: http://www.cbantlerart.com/antlers
Catrinamonblue Resident: moose
Eliza Madrigal: oh yea for sure it wasn't a moose, lol
Catrinamonblue Resident: http://www.digital-images.net/Gallery/Wildlife/Studies/Elk/elk.html
Catrinamonblue Resident: elk
Catrinamonblue Resident: was that helpful?
Eliza Madrigal: thought a young moose might be close to an elk, lighter, etc... but yes they're very different
Bruce Mowbray: ty, Cat.
Eliza Madrigal: sorry for sidetrack ^^
Eliza Madrigal: mhm, elk
Bruce Mowbray: np.... Were we starting to talk about freshness? I got knocked off-line just about then.
Catrinamonblue Resident: no worries this has been a great conversation a fresh change from the usual
Bruce Mowbray ponders the importance of "fresh changes."
Catrinamonblue Resident: we come across them every day
Eliza Madrigal: find that sort of amazing
Catrinamonblue Resident: yes
Bruce Mowbray: I still have a list of all the wildlife we saw when we went as far back into the wilderness of Denali National Park as it is possible to go -- without a dog sled.
Catrinamonblue Resident: nice :)
Bruce Mowbray: grizzles, sheep, moose, wolf, and more.
Eliza Madrigal: wow Bruce... what an adventure
Eliza Madrigal: when did you go?
Bruce Mowbray: Yes!
Bruce Mowbray: I have been there twice -- once in 2000 and once in 2006.
Catrinamonblue Resident: awesome :)
Eliza Madrigal: that might be a fresh change of perspective - a wake up - in a sense
Bruce Mowbray: Alaska is an amazing state - especially if you can get out of Anchorage.
Eliza Madrigal: shocking, pristine in ways
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, so beautiful.
Korel Laloix: But it's cold.. that sort of erases all the other benefits.
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, Kori, I couldn't stand to live there all year round.
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Bruce Mowbray: My friend in Anchorage says they are still getting snow ---
Catrinamonblue Resident: brrr
Bruce Mowbray: although right here in Ohio we had frost and freeze warnings last night.
Bruce Mowbray: I had to cover up my new plants.
Eliza Madrigal: I had an advertising video for the glass top train for a while...watched it several times though likely I'll never go
Eliza Madrigal: (Alaska)
Bruce Mowbray: Oh -- I would LOVE to take that train... Canadian Pacific.
Catrinamonblue Resident: I've got to run now, need to pop out to the grocery store before dinner, It's been so great to be back here again.
Catrinamonblue Resident: see you all later
Eliza Madrigal: so lovely to see you again Catrina
Bruce Mowbray: Bye for now, Cat.
Eliza Madrigal: that must be highly unusual? the frost in this season, Bruce?
Korel Laloix: Take care.
Bruce Mowbray: Be well.
Catrinamonblue Resident: I think I'll be popping in a bit from time to time now
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, it is quite late.
Eliza Madrigal: :)) glad to hear
Eliza Madrigal: tc
Bruce Mowbray: The normal date for planting flowers is May 15th,
Korel Laloix: It is supposed to snow this weekend in New England.
Bruce Mowbray: so this freeze is about ten days late.
Bruce Mowbray: really?-- I can believe it! That would be the storm that came through here in the middle of this week.
Eliza Madrigal: @@
Bruce Mowbray: (the same one that was in Oklahoma on Monday).

--BELL--

Eliza Madrigal: guess you know to be watchful etc. We've had pretty constant lightning storms for days ... sudden gusts, downpours and hail, then quick peace
Bruce Mowbray: I sure wish we could get some rain -- It keeps splitting and going around us.
Bruce Mowbray: We were able to get 250 acres planted, but now the new crop needs rain badly.
Eliza Madrigal: goodness
Korel Laloix: The eastern part of the state is in good shape rain wise, but not out west. really.
Bruce Mowbray: Did I show you the gallery of the planting operation, Kori and Eliza?
Korel Laloix: From your farm?
Eliza Madrigal: no, would love to see
Korel Laloix: No.
Bruce Mowbray: A young man (Robbie) planted the entire 250 acres by himself in one day.
Bruce Mowbray: http://hermitdog.com/planting2013/planting_2013.html
Korel Laloix: If you have the right equipment it is easy.
Bruce Mowbray: Well, they don't make better equipment than this planter.
Bruce Mowbray: 36 rows, 90 feet wide, and completely computerized, with GPS, Internet, etc.
Eliza Madrigal: So the guy's name is Robbie? or this planter? :)
Bruce Mowbray: Maybe I spelled it wrong.
Korel Laloix: I am starting to study up on this stuff.... I have a second wave job interview that would be for agricultural epidemiology.
Bruce Mowbray: Should it be "Robby"?
Bruce Mowbray: Wow.
Eliza Madrigal: Robbie is what you used on the page, Bruce
Eliza Madrigal: Kori this is for a second job, or?
Korel Laloix: What did you plant?
Bruce Mowbray: soybeans.
Bruce Mowbray: (Robby did, not I.)  I just rode along in the tractor.
Eliza Madrigal smiles
Korel Laloix: No... I guess they narrowed it down in the first round.. this is the second round.
Korel Laloix: So cramming for that.
Eliza Madrigal: ah, okay - dots finally connecting here and there
Bruce Mowbray: (I know I used "Robbie" on the web page, but now I'm thinking I might have misspelled it.)
Korel Laloix: Not done much on plant disease.
Bruce Mowbray: I wish you the best, Kori.
Korel Laloix: So trying to jump start that before my next class starts.
Korel Laloix: Thanks.
Eliza Madrigal: looks like so much fun Bruce :)
Eliza Madrigal: they might send you to FL if you learn enough about plant disease Kori
Bruce Mowbray: Riding in the tractor was more like being in a neat office than a big piece of heavy machinery.
Korel Laloix: I hope so.. smiles.. but if I understand this right, this is mainly for North Tx, OK and Kansas.. so a lot of travel I guess.
Korel Laloix: Some questions I have to ask.
Eliza Madrigal: interesting.. seems a really exciting time of life for you
Bruce Mowbray: Cotton, perhaps.  Or wheat.
Korel Laloix: Those big combines and bailers are huge and very well equipped for creature comforts.
Korel Laloix: Exciting or scary?... smiles
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, but I can still remember when our tractor was not even air conditioned.
Eliza Madrigal: :) is there a difference?
Korel Laloix: Reeba's ranch grows alfalfa for feed.
Korel Laloix smiles
Eliza Madrigal: there is something so soothing about the sight of a tractor moving around out in a large field
Korel Laloix: Either way, I am looking forward to the change.
Bruce Mowbray: ahhh. I love the smell of alfalfa being cured.
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Bruce Mowbray: We have a lot of them moving around right now, Eliza.
Korel Laloix: I just love the look of it.. huge seas of green.
Eliza Madrigal: yes!
Bruce Mowbray: The wheat up here is doing very well - - has gotten plenty of rain, so large expanses of green.
Korel Laloix: And there is something very soothing about being in the middle of a square mile of most crops.
Korel Laloix: Except corn... just creepy.
Bruce Mowbray: We call it "winter wheat" because it is planted before winter... then comes up from the roots in the spring -- grass.
Bruce Mowbray 's typist loves to get lost in corn fields.
Korel Laloix: Heck no.. worst than a forest.
Bruce Mowbray: he hehh.
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Korel Laloix: And corn rips you to shreds as well.
Bruce Mowbray: Also, the edges of corn leaves can cut you.
Bruce Mowbray: snap.
Korel Laloix: Can?
Korel Laloix: Does?
Bruce Mowbray: oh yes.
Eliza Madrigal: true... that I know
Korel Laloix: Repeatedly... lol
Bruce Mowbray: It's great to take off as many clothes as you dare to and then go walking through the rows of corn.
Bruce Mowbray: very sensual.
Eliza Madrigal: gathering small slashes?
Bruce Mowbray: yes!
Korel Laloix: Bruce, even by my standards, that is weird.
Korel Laloix: lol
Bruce Mowbray: Good for masochists of all flavors.
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Bruce Mowbray: Just kidding.
Eliza Madrigal: something one doesn't have to experiment with in SL
Korel Laloix: Why do I think you are not?.. grins
Eliza Madrigal laughs
Bruce Mowbray: It's really quite a nice experience -- like running in the rain with no clothes on.

--BELL--

Bruce Mowbray: Time for my typist to be scraping up some supper. Thanks, Kori and Eliza. May you both have a fine Sunday and Memorial Day.
Eliza Madrigal: I tease but I can imagine that's so, Bruce... experiencing nature in naked ways
Eliza Madrigal: thank you Bruce... have to go as well to get son to finish make-up work for school
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, my typist is a very tactile person -- and sometimes very tacky as well.
Eliza Madrigal: we were in a two hour break :)
Bruce Mowbray: Bye for now, good people.
Eliza Madrigal: lol
Korel Laloix: Take care.
Korel Laloix: Ciao
Eliza Madrigal: Bye Bruce, and so nice to see you Kori
Eliza Madrigal: tc