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lol you're close, but off just a tad. I'll let everyone keep guessing until you all give up

Nope, wrong answer :3

lmao the answer is simple. But I'm not revealing it just yet I will give a couple of hints. It does involve the time zones. And you would need to start drinking the first can at midnight. Those are the only hints I'm giving out. You're on your own from here heh.

Here's a quiz for everyone. Give your answer and explain why you would need that number of cans. We'll see who gets it right first Here's the question: If you planned to drink a can of root beer for every hour it's your birthday somewhere on Earth, how many cans would you need to buy?

lmao! I love my duckies to death. Sadly though, Beatle will never get to enjoy flying. He's got angel wing, which is a deformity in their wing wrist joint. It normally affects the left wing and starts when they're little. It can be fixed if it's treated in time, but I didn't have anything to bind his wing with at the time, so he's stuck like that now. Aside from keeping the feathers on that wings trimmed down, he's happy as can be with his older brother and little sister :3

@Garret- Thanks These three are my babies and I love them to death! I can't wait for spring so I can try for a few more duckies. Can you tell I love ducks? xD Started with four, now I got seven and I'm hoping to add to that number So we'll have to wait and see what happens this spring once the girls are laying again. @Roger- Yep, I'm still doing my artwork. Sadly though, my hard drive decided to bite the big one and most of my stuff (things I hadn't gotten online yet) was lost, then last night my tablet cable crapped out so I need to get a new cable lol I can find them for a $1 here, so it's no biggie. I'm thinking of saving some of the pics I managed to save on a website and either do a new topic for them here or add them to my album here. I've gotten into the habit of doing a kind of paleoart, if you can call it that, lately. I've been finding different pictures of different kinds of dinosaurs and morphing them together into what I call hybrids. And then I've been doing some fanart of an anime I really like and some new stuff of one of my OCs. @MeadowMufn- It's best to hatch them out yourself, then they're more likely to trust you than if you got them as ducklings from a store or what-not, but either way they're still great The adults I have don't care much for people, though they'll come around me since I feed them and such lol. The babies on the other hand, still follow me around the yard, love to beak around (it's what I call that nibbling thing ducks do) on my pant legs and shoes and they still haven't quite realized they can't swim or take a bath in snow lol They hate being picked up though xD But I've had my babies since they were nothing more than eggs and I was the first one they saw after they hatched. It was supposed to take around 28 days to incubate them, but the little stinkers came almost a week early. I'm really hoping I get some more crested ducks (that's what you can call Quackers because of the little afro he's got lol) this year. It's tricky getting them though. If the parents both have the gene that causes the crest and one passes it onto the baby, then there's a 25% chance one duckling will have it. So pretty much 1 out of every 4 ducklings will have it. But if both parents give the gene to the baby, it'll die in the shell and there's no chance at all to save it. Incubating is a lot of work, but in the end it's more than worth the effort. I want to do turkeys this year, but I think my incubator is too small for turkey chicks :/ But as long as I can hatch at least one more ducky, I'll be happy :3

Sgt right after hatching.

Here's some pics of 3 little ducklings I hatched in September. The little duck with the funky hairdo is Sgt Quackers, the other little black one is Beatle, and the little silver one is Lucky. My babies are getting bigger everyday and now, almost 4 months later, they're almost the same size as their parents. Lucky is a girl, Sgt. and Beatle are boys. All three have the same daddy, but Lucky has a different mom than the boys. Sgt Quackers was born 9-9-12. Beatle and Lucky were born 9-10-12.

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Thanks Roger I just did a few animations of a couple of my OCs. Here's the one I'm most happy with. It's a lot smoother than the other. I can't wait til the transit. Hopefully it'll be clear where I am so I can watch it. Gonna make my little sun watching device a few days before the transition. If they call for clear skies that is lol. Might still make it anyway, just in case.

Thanks The dragon is one of my faves. I'm currently working on a comic that I hope to post online in the future. If all goes well, I'll post some pages here later. I'm also gonna give a try at animations again. Got some ideas I wanna try out :3

Thanks guys I'm glad you like them!

Got some new stuff for anyone who wants to see it

Yep!

Thanks Glad you like them.

Been busy practicing realistic drawings. Kinda getting bored with my cartoonish ways of drawing people/things lol. Anyhoot, since I've been in a Beatles mood the last couple of months, I decided to try my hand at drawing one of them. The Beatle I chose to draw this time around, was George Harrison. The first pic is the drawing and the other is the original. All I used was a .5 mm mechanical pencil and a black crayola colored pencil. Not sure how long it took, but either way, I'm happy. My practicing is finally paying off. Only thing I've noticed wrong, was I kinda messed up on his eye and his hair isn't highlighted in the right places, the shading is off in a couple of places and some other little things, but otherwise, it's as close as I can manage right now. Next month = new tablet and new Photoshop, so I can kiss pencils and paper goodbye! Gonna try my hand at sculpting too. Just need to get money for the clay, tools and oven.... >.< Pics will come of my sculptures whenever I get to make them.

Thanks everyone Unfortunately my trial of Photoshop expired and until I get money to get the version I used, I can't make anymore space pics. All I have left is a very ancient version of Photoshop elements xD and it sucks for stuff like that. But in the meantime, it's pencil and paper time! In a couple of months I should hopefully have the good one again and a better tablet too.

Thanks It's my favorite planet one. I like the first nebula the best though.

Some more space pics I've done.

Looks like I'll make it tonight. I'm actually there early so I don't forget it ^^

Alrighty. I'll try to make it. But like I mentioned earlier, I can't make any promises. But I'll try my best to be there.

Sounds like fun ^^ Maybe it'll get the chatroom going again lol

I've never experienced a normal hurricane. But in '08, Ike came through and transformed into an extratropical cyclone, but it collided with a cold front that was coming through the same time and made the storm worse. We usually just get some rain, maybe a thunderstorm, from hurricanes after they weakened inland.

Yeah. tonight on the news, they said 18 confirmed deaths from it. It's sad. And it's only the beginning of hurricane season too.

Today at 1:51 pm Est, a 5.8 earthquake rattled the Eastern US. States as far away as Ohio felt the tremors. No deaths were reported, but there were some injuries and damage. I live in Knox County, Ohio and I was taking a nap in my room, which is upstairs (I live in a 2 story house) at the time. I felt my bed shaking and woke up and looked around, but didn't see anything out of the ordinary, but I noticed my birds were making more noise than usual. My cockatiels and parakeets are usually quiet when I'm sleeping, but even they were making noise. When I went downstairs, (about 2 hours later...yes, I stayed in my room that long xD after I woke up) my mom told me there'd been an earthquake in Virginia. I got online and looked it up and now I know what the shaking was from. Scary stuff, especially since it was my first ever experience feeling a quake like that. 18 counties in Ohio reported feeling it. As far north as Cleveland and as far south as Dayton. Ones I know for a fact are Knox, Franklin, and Licking counties (Central Ohio area). Did anyone else feel it? And if so, where at?