Nothing, as far as I can tell, but ebay just flagged it.  I wrote:

"A+ WONDERFUL seller who really cares about the birds, too - glad to shop here!"

And got this message from ebay:

"Your Feedback comment contains prohibited words or Web addresses. Please revise your comment."

Any body have a clue what "prohibited words" that phrase contains?????

Sign up is HERE TODAY NOW! 

And remember: I need BOTH the auction NUMBER and the TITLE, please. Do not give me the URL.  I have a little template for that, I just paste in the number & title & your ID.  The rest of thew rules are below.  Thank you!

Hosted this week (July 8-15) by rooster613 --WELCOME !!!

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  Here are the RULES:

1. Each person picks ONE auction and starts it at a penny.
2. No mark up fees on shipping & handling.
3. List your auction as a normal auction on TUESDAY (do a 7 day auction so we all end on the next Tuesday.)  And stay within eBay rules. No shilling.
4. Seller has to be willing to let an item go at a penny, if it only gets one bid. Remember this is a game, no guarantees (we do ask that you try and bid on at least one auction -- but remember there is no pressure to bid. This is to be fun.)
5. We are to bid responsibly and within our budget.
6. List on Tuesday & must be listed by midnight your time zone.
7. Post your auction number and title for that week in the post here.  Please give me BOTH the item number AND the title !!!  The reason is, I'm on dialup and if I have to go back and forth between the blogs and the sales pages to copy things, it take a lot more time.  If I can just copy everything to my template right from the blog page it is MUCH faster for me.  Thank You!  

And YES, anybody can join !!!

Note: Please make sure all rules are followed, for your auction to get listed. I will post the game a couple times a day so people can see what is happening EXCEPT on Friday PM and Saturday because of the Jewish Sabbath  (but I'll leave it up on my blog for people to see).   Anyone else may post and spread the word about the game also  -- please do :).

None posted yet -- I'm working on mine now -- hurry up and list yours, then give me the AUCTION NUMBER and the TITLE here!

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Feel free to repost this list on your own blog -- the more places it gets posted, the better for our sales!  But be sure people know to go to Rooster's blog for sign-up, so we get all the sales in one place. 

(The Penny Ante game was invented by a blogger named crazy_mooz.  She later passed it on to ladykikiforever, who passed it on to rooster613, the current host.)

Be sure to bookmark Rooster's Blog and go there on Tuesdays to find the latest sign-up post for each week's game.  

 Not expensive designer ones!  I'm looking for inexpensive 12-packs of cards with cats or kittens on them, to use as the autograpahed card that goes with the feathers for my "help feed Cats" sales.   I'm down to one pack of 12 that I got as part of a big lot last year -- and those 15 cats keep on eating !

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who did not bother to READ DIRECTIONS or contact me first!!!   This was an ebook sale from back in March when digital downloads were still OK to sell on ebay.  The download link was RIGHT THERE in the person's "my ebay" area.  He/she could have downloaded IMMEDIATELY after paying!!!  Or ANYTIME!!!!  But apparently this newbie did not read the directions in the listing, and never asked me about the "item not received" -- so today I get a neg out of nowhere???

I simply HATE people who are too damned lazy to READ DIRECTIONS!!!!  Why should I be penalized for somebody else's laziness and/or illiteracy???? 

Yes, I emailed him/her and explained how to do it, offered to resend the link by email, explained that it is VERY BAD MANNERS to neg without first contacting the seller.  And I requested a mutual FB withdrawal.  (No, I dic not retaliate, s/he already has a positive from me for paying on time.) 

So we shall see....

Here's a nice selection of wildflower and other seeds I collected from my land.  Of special interest are the heirloom morning glories, and the "Genetic Surprise" Marigold seed mix.   I've also got bags of fluffy goose feathers to offer to your nesting wild birds (Tree Swallows love 'em!) and of course, the ongoing opportunity to help feed a colony of furry purry cats.

And don't forget to check out this week's Penny Ante list from your favorite bloggers -- anybody can bid -- see the post below this one on my blog.

Of course, I'm not really selling  dinosaur feathers -- but they could be close to it.

Recent discoveries of dinosaur fossils in China show some with impressions of feathers, suggesting that some species were covered with hairy-looking plumes. (Read more about feathered dinosaurs. ) 

Your dino-crazy kids will LOVE seeing these "living fossil" feathers and imagining how they might have looked on dinosaurs!  You can also press these feathers into  clay and make model fossils.
 

These feathers I'm selling come from emus -- a rather "primitive" flightless bird that looks a lot like a long-necked therapod.  Are emus direct decendants of dinosaurs?   I don't know -- but many scientists think that birds evolved from therapod dinos.   And if they did, then these feathers may be the closest you can come to seeing what dino feathers were like.  Emus have feathers that are hairy-looking and undifferentiated -- that is, they look pretty much the same all over the bird's body.  They are also the only bird that has a true double-feather on each quill. 

These cruelty-free feathers come from a flock of free-range Florida emus.  The birds shed their feathers naturally during their normal annual molt -- no emus were harmed in obtaining them. 

This sale is for TEN emu feathers 5-6 inches long -- with FREE shipping!  The picture only shows six and is a generic sample, but your feathers will be basically the same as these.  Please note that no feather is ever 100% perfect, because the birds use them for a year or more.  (I always laugh at auctions that list feathers as "new."  How can that be so?  The birds used them first!)

Birds are coming back! A whole flock of Slate-Colored Juncos stopped here to scavenge the chicken yard on their way south. This morning a pair of Canada Geese flew over -- the first I've seen -- and a hawk was winging his way north.

It snowed yesterday but I was actually GLAD -- because now I can boil my maple sap to make syrup. The old snow had melted off and the fire danger was very high because of dry fields & brush,  so I was collecting sap but not boiling it.  Now with new snow, not to worry!  I boiled down a bunch of sap yesterday (was lovely out there in the falling snow sticking to everything like a magical fairyland.) Today I finish boiling it on the stove (the last part of the process is too touchy for an open fire) and then I will can it. (After eating some on pancakes, of course!)

And Oh yeah -- a new stray cat showed up.  He appears to be feral -- not tame at all, runs from me, very cautious -- but he was stealing food from my dog's dish. He has a white face with a dark  black mask, so I call him Bandit. He  hides under our old RV when he sees me but will come out for food after I leave it.  He is probably what my dog has been barking at lately.