Photos I took of the yurt this week, before I got the improved...

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from the door looking in

from the door looking at a slightly different angle

looking back toward the door

looking... ok, from outside looking outside, lol

Photos I took of the yurt this week, before I got the improved mosquito net. Taken with a fisheye lens, hence the distortion, but that way I could get most of the room in one shot. The top has the vinyl cover I made on it. The weird poofy thing hanging from the ceiling is the improvised mosquito net I made out of lace curtains. I should take new photos with the better net but meh. Anyway– that’s the setup!
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missbuster replied to your photoset “Photos I took of the yurt this week, before I got the improved…”

I love it!!

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the yurt looks especially fabulous this year!

Thanks! I’m having a lovely time. 

It’s less mosquito-proof than usual this year, and I suspect a higher population of insects is to blame rather than any more structural failure than normal.

I finally, finally have the roof cover worked out– the one I cut and grommeted is perfectly sized, I doubt it’ll hold up over the long term but it’ll hold this summer at least and it cost me like $7 so I’ll take it!– and I think I finally have the furniture kind of laid out correctly to maximize space.

I am idly considering a papasan chair, since i own one and it would probably fit. If I got a mosquito net to go over that, I’d just be in luxury. And of course I’d like to finish the quilted wall hangings but that’s, you know, kind of pie in the sky. Maybe someday though.

And next year I have plans to work on the landscaping to keep mosquitos down in the first place, it’s just too late to do that this year. 

This morning I was getting dressed and a mosquito was bothering me so I swatted it directly into the web of one of my spiders (I’ve got two, at the moment; there were two neoscona crucifera but now I can only find one, I think one ran away from the other, and then the other one is an overambitious araneus diadematus), and it hit the spider web and just– bounced off. I was sorely disappointed, and realized I’ve never seen a mosquito really stuck in one of those spider webs. I don’t think they get caught by spiders! Not orb weavers anyway, maybe funnel spiders though. I’m not going to let funnel spiders build webs in the yurt though, I’m goddamn terrified of those things. 

I’ve spent far too long lately taking macro portraits of the spiders in the yurt so at some point I’ll do a behind-the-cut photo series on them. It’s kind of ridiculous, but then, what else am I to do with myself in the evenings?? 
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lesbi-antigone:

Duo from Duolingo is an owl that teaches languages and encourages his students to study with increasingly ominous messages. There is little information given on where Duo has come from, but his demonic and threatening nature ties him to another teacher owl, Stolas. Stolas is a Great Prince of Hell, commands 26 demon legions, and teaches astronomy. Should Duo be a descendent of Stolas, he would be royalty in hell and likely holds immense power. In this essay i will
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Photos are going behind the cut, of my little yurt

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Photos are going behind the cut, of my little yurt friend, who I’m like, 90% sure is an Araneus diadematus spider. That wikipedia spiral has me reconsidering whether Dolores was really a neoscona crucifera, by the way; she might have been the other kind of “barn spider”, Araneus cavaticus, but I don’t know the difference, exactly?

Anyway. Under the cut, I’m going to give her a name after a blonde starlet but I haven’t decided which one, because she’s so yellow. 

Photos of a spider to follow, cut for arachnophobes and people who just don’t like macro shots of spiders!

All photos, for the sorts of people who care about that, taken with a Nikon D7100 and a Nikkor 105mm f/2 AF macro lens, and some with the camera’s pop-up flash and others with a Promaster LED battery-operated dimmable lightboard thing that I got because the mount was broken/defective, so I just held it in my hand. They’re not all tack sharp but she wasn’t a very willing subject, so these are the ones that best show off her various assets. I’m sort of fond of the one where she’s folded up shyly peering at me; I’d startled her with the light, but it’s the only one where you can see her eyes clearly. And I know that’s only some of her eyes.
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