I think, frogs are amazing and the same goes for toads.

Over the years I had many toads, gonna search for some photos to load them up and show you.

For now you have to deal with a toon frog. I will make a series with about 10 or 15 frogs to sell at boosty ( my store at boosty )

This is not the original size and I will sell each frog as png, so no background, always one with and one without shadow

Bad weather yesterday and I used the time to scroll threw the internet.
Well, not really THE internet, but many blogs.

First the not so good thing.
Most are hosted at neocities, a page, that uses AI, and being in a webring claiming NO AI, this feels kind of odd.
Not the the blogger have used the AI deliberately, I don't wanna say that, but when the AI is hidden in the script, you get the picture.
People really believe, their blog is clean from AI.

And then there is nekoweb, that claims to be absolute AI free, sounds better, right?
Beside these 2 there is just a handful of people, that really put some effort and work into their pages and blogs.
It would be great, if this would change to many, many more.

And why are o many claiming, they are coders?
HTML is a markup language, no coding.
CSS is stylesheet, again no coding
Writing programs is coding.
But it seems, even the internet language is gone wishy-washy.

Ok, doesen't really matter.
What really matters is the good thing behind.

People are so tired of the "social media", tired of being censored, tired of being told, what is right or wrong from people, who claim to know it all.
Politics, trying to control us even more, threatening people with punishments from bills to even jail.

It's good to see people standing up for their rights.
It's good to see people taking action and leaving the toxic social medias.

There is hope
Hope, that comes glittering and flashing and eye killing colors, telling the world:
Enough is enough, we are taking our freedom back.

Keep on flasing and glittering, shout it out loud!

You all are amazing!

Are you on this so called "social media" like forkbook, x, insta, mewe, vk or what ever?

And you think of yourself as a wake (NOT woke!) person, trying to wake up as many people as possible, to tell them, what's going on?
You are posting memes, links to youtube --- yes of course, that shows, how awake you are --- NOT --- warning people about this or that.
Maybe you have 1000 or more "friends" and follower and you feel so important and great, right?

Let me tell you this:

I'm done with any anti social pages and sorry to tell you, but all mentioned above are anti social.
Almost everyone there is only out for views and clicks, no one is really interested in any real conversation.
Most are there because they wanna WAKE UP the people and don't see, how ridiculous it is.
Because those people they wanna wake up aren't there.

People are living in a bubble, what ever kind of bubble it may be. Telling people in the same bubble, what those people already know.
And so those people again share, what they saw from these people.
It's a cat, biting its own tail.

But do they talk with each other?
Nope, they don't!
All they do, is giving likes, hearts, thumbs up or what ever is used on the different pages.

Btw. it also goes for art related "social" medias.
No discussion, maybe a comment, never any critics --- oh one could be offended!

And the worst with art related pages?
Most are PRO AI --- and I ask myself, why? For heavens sake why?

Social media and mobile phones, both have destroyed something very important. 
Being mindful, for all around you and other people

Do you remember the last time, you had a real conversation with a real person?
Do you remember the last time being outside, without looking at or talking into your mobile?

Having a walk with your dog WITHOUT using the phone, to talk with someone, cause you don't know anymore, how it is, to be with your own thoughts or being just there, in that moment with your dog!
Being in a group and talking with each other instead of staring on your mobile.

Come back to life, cause serious, you're missing out on so much!

A last thought:

Social networks, whatever they’re called, are anything but social.
There used to be a saying:
Show me your friends, and I’ll tell you who you are.
Today, “friends” are collected, no matter what they’re like—the main thing is to have at least 1,000 people following you.
They can be mean, they can be crude, they can be offensive and degenerate.
The main thing is that they’re your friends.
Would you bring people like that home with you? Would you introduce them to your family without sinking into the ground in shame?
Would you introduce them to your friends without fearing that your friends would turn away from you?

Think about it for a moment and ask yourself, if it's worth it, to collect a huge pile of shit!

Oh please people, have mercy ♥

I'm looking through many pages and blogs and have the feeling, as if I'm taken back to the beginning of the internet -- well, at least, when it began to come into the houses around 1990

Flashing, blinking, moving, screaming colors and BOOOOOOOM  I was back in time   
Backgrounds trying to kill my eyes  

Honestly, I am laughing so much, this is hilarious. This is so awful, that it's already cool again.

And it took me back as well to just 15 years ago.
A man with a business for these big foils, used on cars for commercials, wanted an overhaul of his homepage and I thought by myself: Thank God, this page is so outdated, with flash and videos, a loading time that took for ever.
I made some suggestions and he went nuts.
First, he wanted me to make the page with an awful WYSIWYG and he wanted to keep all this blinking, flashing stuff.

I mean, serious? We were talking real business.
And the WYSIWYG, some crap from adobe, if I remember right, something with "dream" in its name.

I denied, my name connected to such stuff? NEVER ever! I had learned to write html, it was the time, when it became almost a crime to use tables in html. 
A new, better way to write pages was there and I was fire and flame to use it. Xhtml and php, to write a page, that was W3C valid, that was my goal.
And this guy asked me to overhaul and use exactly the same old style he had used in years.

Now it has something nostalgic to see pages with all the glittering, flashing and blinking stuff.
Only that I will leave such pages right away.

I have mentioned it before, my eye sight is important to me  

Silver is 12 years old now (2026)
She was found on the streets with her 3 siblings. Silver has a gene, the famous Amber gene, that only some Norwegian forest cats have.
If I had known that earlier, I would have searched for a nice male, for a beautiful litter, but I took her to the vet and she got neutered, before her amber color showed up.
 

She and her siblings came to us, short time after we bought the farm.

My cats were dying, no reason to find, even the vet was desperate, cause she couldn't find the reason.
Luna had a litter at the time, 2 kitten, one died seconds after birth, the second had an open throat, we had to bring it to the vet
She had milk, no kitten, it was gruesome.

I wasn't even searching for kitten, but for furniture on finn dot no, the online marked in Norway.
And the first ad I saw was an emergency call for four kitten found on the street.
One call, we jumped into the car and picked up the kitten.

The woman, who had found them clearly had no clue, the kitten were at least 4 to 5 weeks old and able to eat. 
Luna took over right away.
She was mom for 2 weeks, left the house, like she always did to pee and shit.
Only that she didn't came back
A friend found her2 days later, in the little cabin at the river, laying on a pillow, as if she was sleeping.

She was the last cat we lost in  October 2013, much more were going to follow in 2014, again without a cause to find.

2 kitten found a new home, Silver and one sibling stayed with us.
That one was taken by the grim in October 2014 and with her many more cats.

October 2015 came and I watched my cats like a hawk, but luckily, nothing happened. I was very observant October 2015 and again, all was fine.
But there must be something with this farm and the month October.
My heart attack was in October 2024.

Her name Silver

She was the silver line, the shimmering hope, cause when I lost my very first Norwegian forest cat Lilith in 2014 (she was only 13 years old) she was there to help me through the pain.

Sorry, just another rant, but I really can't stress this enough.

I bought a character for the G8F, it was on sale and it was pretty cheap. I had already a bunch of pictures in mind, perfect for a child, cute little pictures.
And the horror took of!

If you're not familar with 3d figures, a short explanation.
Genesis 8 female is a 3d figure and for this one can buy character. And hair, and outfits, and shoes and anything a human in real life could use.
Hair, outfit and shoes will auto fit, so one don't need to fiddle around.

A picture says more than a thousand words

Bugga Boo is disappointed and has a very bad hair day.

I haven't done a thing, no scaling, no moving, nothing to make the hair to fit. And the hair looked very messed up as well. Just selected Bugga Boo and loaded the hair, as usual for any G8F character
Bugga Boo using Miranda hair, one of the hair, shown in the promo render at daz3d
Same hair is to see on the bust right beside her in the render. Still waiting for a note on the sale page for this G8F character.
That's all I was asking for, when I wrote to the support.  It's a horror to get a hair fit for Bugga Boo
So if you wanna buy Bugga Boo, be aware, that you need to buy one hair, that fit her (and there is only one!) or you have to deal with a lot of work.
Bugga Boo herself is worth the money, she is cute as can be! But the hair and, not to forget, the shoe problem (not as bad as the hair) should be mentioned, in fairness to the customers.

I've made this problem public, this is the third time now and I won't stop, until daz3d dot com has put a note on the side!

This is a screenshot from the sales page.

and the one, who made the render, has used exactly the same hair as I did in my render.
The support gave me a tutorial, how to fix it and I said thanks, but I know (for heavens sake, I'm not new to this) and that it's not, what I'm asking for.
A newbie wouldn't know and would bite the bitter apple and buy the only hair, that fit.
This is money grabbing, this is unfair to the customers!

Come one people, there are tons of color solutions for a website, a blog or where ever you wanna write something.

But please, have mercy with the eyes of your readers!

Black and white photos can be stunning beautiful, the reason is, because it's no harsh difference.
But white text on a black background is cruel.
Ok, there are many other bad color decisions in the internet. I remember the homepage from a friend, that luckily don't exist anymore (the page, not the friend!) written with yellow text on a middle to light blue background. Like the Swedish colors on the flag, and, awful enough, used there on street signs too.

It hurts, really, it's a pain to look or read, it's an eye killer!

Found an interesting blog today, and nope, won't link to it, and had to close it short after again. White text, black background
Serious WHY?
Is it lazyness? Is it trite? Or do people just don't care?

Well, maybe there are people out there, who say exactly the same about my choice of colors.
Haven't read one complain yet - maybe because no one is reading here? Possible *laugh*

But I'll stay with soft colors, that won't make me blind in an instant.
My eyes and my sight are important to me.
So I'm sorry to tell you, but if your page/blog is white on black, I will leave right away.

Yesterday, on our way back home, we came close to a VW Caddy and what we saw was too funny.
I took a video, but since this kind of transport is forbidden and I don't wanna make any trouble for the young woman, I took a photo from my video.

She was driving very carefully, very slow in every turn, so the calf had no problems standing, even turning around and looking out from the side window.
Most hilarious was, when we came into Hvittingfoss, a car waiting for us to pass, so he could drive onto the main street.
The calf just looked out to the right side and the face from this man, oh how I wish, I had taken a photo.
My son and I were laughing so hard, he looked as if he had seen an alien :D

My trees have started to bloom, this is one of my cherry trees

I really hope, the new owner of my farm will love them as I do.

Spring and Summer can be so beautiful, sadly enough Norway won't give us a guarantee for a warm time.

One thing is sure, where ever I'll move to, I will plant again as many trees as possible. And maybe I can take some saplings with. Cause except for one cherry tree I bought 14 years ago, all others are saplings from that one (a yellow cherry) and my wild red cherry tree

This beautiful moon kept me from sleeping

Taken at 02:13 01.05.2026

And I made a wish, since it's Beltane and it wouldn't be the first time, a wish made in this night came true.
This wish would be great for many people I know.