Coney and Luna

In September 2003 the Lindens created a two region area for an amusement park.  People were allowed their own square of land to recreate a fun ride for all of the Second Life residents to enjoy.
Garth was asked to script a Volcano Ride.

One would hop into a dragon when it came into the landing and it would take you around and through a volcano on a roller coaster ride.

Garth put a lot of work into that ride,  I wish I could remember who built it and commissioned him to script it. 

Linkin and Nyna Slate built this refreshing water ride.
 


In front of Sinatra Cartier’s Spook House (which is still around some place in SL) with some of our old Americana Group friends.  Garth is in the camo and to my right is Ironchef Cook and the green Hulk is Bonecrusher Slate.
I wish I could find the rest of my pictures.  There were lots of fun things to do,  bumper cars, roller coasters etc etc.  I don’t remember how long Coney and Luna were up,  but early on in 2004 Coney disappeared and Luna was made into a Linden sponsored shopping gallery.

More soon!  My next post will be about our Second Life Wedding on November 22. 2003

Love to you all from Pituca…………….

Of Revolutions, Cats and House Warmings

During this time also there was a revolution mounting in Americana led by fleabite Beach.  You can read about it in Hamet Au’s New Word News . He was known as Hamlet Linden then,  SL’s own embedded journalist.
 
Picture of fleabite and me is our revolutionary garb.

Garth (the Cheeky Brit) was stunning in his American Flag Tee shirt!

Unfortunately Americana closed in mid October of 2003, we just couldn’t afford the weekly taxes on a whole region anymore.  Remember this was before US$ were used and we all lived off stipends and what money we were able to earn selling things. This is Garth and me in front of the Memorial Spire that Ramon Kothari put up.  It is still there in the Blue region.
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An ad Garth made for his stunt helicopter.  This is before we combined our names after we were SL married.  That is my lighthouse on our Clyde property.

During that time Garth and our good friend CrowCatcher Valen hired Baccara Rhodes to help them throw a big inauguration of Fairlight Flight and Crow’s Music Store. 
 
It was held next to the Chrysler Building (which Crow built) in Americana (Blue region).  A large number of Avatars attended and oohed and aahed at the stunts Garth’s planes could perform.
 


You can still pick up this stunt plane at our Lighthouse Store in FairChang Calypso.  All free now!
We then hired Baccara to organize us a house warming for our new island home in Clyde.  We named the island “Las Brisas”.  Fey Brightwillow designed and made my dress as well as a a gift of a halter top for the ladies and a matching shirt for the men.

What a wonderful island it was and Bacca did a bang up job decorating it.  As you can see we had a marina and a sea water swimming pool on the lower level then the second level was our home.  Then stairs up to the runway and hangar.  The party was up on the runway.


That is CrowCatcher Valen to the left and Baccara Rhodes, but I don’t know who she is chatting with.  We had a wonderful time.

Remember when Linden Lab changed the sun and the moon for special days?  This is the moon over Taber on Hallowe`en.  Garth and I are hovering over the Apartment House he built.  We got some nice rents on them for a while.  The building was never full tho………….
Then someone built a cemetary in Clyde for Hallowe`en celebrations and put up these headstones!  hehehe

Well it has been a long time since I have blogged here, but time to get the few tidbits I remember down before I forget them all.  I am afraid that a lot is out of order but I am sure you will enjoy looking back with me.
Chat at you later!  Love from Pituca.

My 7th Rez Day

Today I am celebrating my seven years in Second Life!  No party this year though.  I will celebrate by showing you some snaps of parties of years gone by.
Our first party was on the roof (I call it the Widow’s Walk,  as you can go up there and see all the sailors at sea) of our Lighthouse Store.  In 2004 we had it on top of the large island in Tilitr.  Of course Baccara Rhodes decorated it and set up the tables and made cake!  As you can see I finally learned how to zoom out and take pictures from above :-)

We still use the Lighthouse Store, you can visit it on FairChang Calypso SW
Garth made a new car to pass out to all our guests at my first Rez Day party.  Here he is showing it off at a Show and Tell on Stage 4.
  I see Khamon Fate sitting in the back ground!
In 2005 we now owned our own Estate Island – FairChang Island, at that time located  just south of the sandboxes.  Baccara Rhodes and her Spellbound group  set up a large dance floor on the top deck of our liner.  We lived on the Liner at that time.  We held the party in conjunction with Cristiano Midnight, Fleabite Beach and Maggie Miller who all have the same Rez date that I do.


Nyna Slate made the dance floor, it changed texture every few minutes. I wish I remember who the DJ was,  he really dug deep to find the kind of music I wanted.  I think it was Disco that year! 
Garth and me in the foreground,  fleabite just over my head in pink.
Pendari Lorentz
I don’t remember having a party in SL in 2006, probably because Garth and I were married in RL just 10 days earlier.  And I guess 2007 slipped past us also as I can’t find any pictures of it. 
But 2008 was a big year as I turned 5 years old in SL time!  We threw an all day bash on FairChang Expo.  Montana Lauresia was in charge and we had some great entertainment. 
First on the list was Sinatra Cartier,  a great friend and who was there back in August 2003 when Garth asked me to be his flat mate.

We had some great entertainment during the day, including this Japanese Dance troup.


edit at 10am = I just logged into SL and I am wearing the same outfit!  Too funny.
Lots of dancing too, we had a great time.
No party last year either…. 
Chat to you all later!

Burning Man

The first annual Burning Man was held in August 2003, the Lindens had added some new regions to the north with color names,  I don’t remember exactly which ones were reserved for Burning Man,  just that one of them was Chartreuse.

This is a picture of a good friend and former neighbor of mine, Daemioth Sklar.

Someone there at the Burning Man built an altar to Hamlet Linden, now know as Hamlet Au.  Here he is admiring the altar!

Another shot of the Burning Man Venue,  I am in the forefront,  the fellow at the rear with the pony tail and sword is Ironchef Cook.  Ironchef built the Koolaid Man which was a big hit,  unfortunately I have searched and searched and can’t find a picture of it.

Crowcatcher Valen built this cross.  If you look in the foreground you can see a pool.  That was my contribution to Burning Life.  Ananda Sandgrain built some mud baths and made muddy outfits for everyone to wear.  So I had the bright idea to make a pool to clean up in after the mud bath.  I found a foamy seawater texture and made it rotate slightly and voilá a sudsy pool.  It was a hit,,, hehehe

I am in my camo shorts in the foreground

There was a gathering toward the closing of the Burning Man,  I was there but can’t tell you what was discussed.  You can get an idea of what our UI was like in those days.  Wow, I had L$17,074!  Remember those were the days when we only lived on Linden stipend and what we could sell.  We had to pay taxes for rezzing prims, light, land tax etc, etc, etc,

The picture of the Burning Man… 

Chat at you all later!

Trial 1.1 in September 2003

In September the Linden's made a copy of several sims and we were invited to go and try out our stuff for the launching of 1.1.  That's when vehicle scripting came in.

Our good friend Neferon Kuroda rezzed in next to me in one of the testing areas.

I was there when Loki Pico arrived and caught this picture of him still unrezzed.

They had a copy of Prelude there also.  That was what Orientation Island was called back then.  It was interesting seeing a copy of where I had arrived in SL four months earlier.

Following are some of my pictures of residents testing in Test 1.1.  A couple of the residents are wearing clothing that says 'No Texture'  haha

I ran into Linkin Slate testing out one of his vehicles.


A shot of the copy of Bonefacio.  That big tree is a creation of Fleabite Beach.  A few years later she gave us a copy.  We put it out every year at Christmas time.  It is super primmy!  You can also see one that is out all year round in FairChang Expo.

Another shot of the testing in Bonefacio.

I love this shot of Garth and me in Dore admiring the moon.

Chat to you later!  Sorry I left off the blogging the last nine months,  I kinda lost heart after Garth died in September. 

Friends in Clyde

One day in our living room in Clyde these wonderful Avatars landed out of nowhere. They were the newbies Neferon Kuroda and Aynen Kuroda. They continued to visit us when they were in SL. I called them the Viking Twins in spite of their laughing denial saying they were from the Netherlands. They were a stunning pair.




Every now and again violence would erupt in the neighboring sim of Jessie and they would invade Clyde, we would take to the air in one of Garth's helicopters to defend ourselves and drive the invaders back.


Trent Hedges went into partnership with Lola Bombay who was another neighbor of our's in Clyde, Trent's shop was just next to our island parcel. This is a picture of the grand opening at his place.


Another newly minted Avatar, Cubey Terra, bought his first parcel directly to the south of Trent's motorcycle shop. I don't have any early pictures of him. But more later!

The always irrepressible Derek Jones popped over to visit


Shadow Weaver had a very impressive dragon on display in Taber, it was very primmy but a wonderful sight. Here I am perched on Big Red's nose.


A young girl named Jade Lily established residence next to us, but in Hawthorne, the next sim over. We visited her on occasion and she frequently consulted with Garth about scripting. Unfortunately I can't find any pictures of her either.

Frankie Beach had a dress shop in Stanford with her partner Honey Beach. We became fast friends with Frankie.


Chat at you later, Pituca