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[which_chick]

So, am taking the Harry Potter Character Compatibility Test. Come to question 75: I feel I am brilliant and take immense pride in all that I do.

Doesn't everyone?

You scored as Bellatrix Lestrange,You are Bellatrix Lestrange. You are persistent, loyal, and harsh. When you set your loyalties, you never break them. If you make promises and break them, you punish yourself greatly for it. You put your all into your beliefs and refuse to back down even when times get tough or others doubt you. You're extremely resourceful and determined, and after you've accomplished something, you expect recognition. As long as you're pleasing those you're loyal to, you don't care about others' opinions of you.

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*sigh*

Persistent, loyal, and harsh.

Persistent. Today I spent an hour chasing the IRH around the field in order to catch her so that I could hold her out on the tall grass.

Loyal. Today I held Sass (a horse) while Liss chatted up a guy and his granddaughter about buying her and taking her off to be their pony. Sass doesn't have any actual issues, but she also isn't much more than follow-along broke. I didn't mention this while I was holding the pony.

Harsh. I sent the IRH out into her field today with her halter and lead on. She can hang herself for all I care but I will by Jove be able to catch her sorry red ass tomorrow. Not spending an hour stomping around the field again. Not. (She will *probably* not kill herself. Horses a lot wilder and stupider than she is run around with catch ropes on them and suffer no injuries.) Were it not pitiful, it'd be funny. She looked at me like "Hey, aren't you forgetting something?"

I also scraped and primed playground equipment today. Rustoleum Rusty Metal Primer, she sticks to rusty metal. She also sticks to skin. Ask me how I know... My efforts today were so that the summer people could come on "Clean-up Day" and apply pretty colors of topcoat and feel all productive about their bad selves. The real work in painting is in surface prep and priming. (To be fair, last Clean-Up Day, Fuller spent all day doing yeoman work on the old merry-go-round and then it started to sprinkle and nobody ever primed it because they all went home. I just had to dust off a year's worth of rust on that... and it has now been totally primed with the aforementioned Rustoleum stuff. It looks great.) Also, while the swingset is available for painting, I have a sneaking suspicion that I am going to wind up painting it. (It's a BIG swingset. It's high. Ladders are involved.)

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[cousin-sue.livejournal.com]

I am afraid to find out who I am.

[cousin-sue.livejournal.com]

I ended up Luna Lovegood, and *almost* Bellatrix LeStrange...

[brni.livejournal.com]

been wondering this for a while: what is a "summer people"?

not sure we have those here in philly.

[which-chick.livejournal.com]

I live on five hundred and fifty (or so) privately owned acres with a forty-acre lake in the middle of it. In amongst the five hundred odd acres are assorted half-acre and quarter-acre plots that were sold to persons-not-related-to-me who are NOT year-round residents. The vast bulk of these lots were sold before I was of an age to have any say in the matter and houses have since been built upon them. I have more or less inherited these properties and their inhabitants as a fact of life.

Anyway, the aforementioned persons (there are about twenty-five of them) have vacation homes on their wee little plots of land. They pay a (very reasonable) membership fee to access the surrounding five hundred acres and the lake, with hunting and fishing and boating and swimming privileges. They visit their places a couple of times a year, usually on big summer holiday weekends. These are the people to whom I refer when I speak of "The Summer People".

[brni.livejournal.com]

i figured it was something like that, but wasn't sure whether it was long-term rentals or something else.