dragon lab

Women

dragonbard — Thu, 10 May 2012 22:38:27 +0000

Women are capricious, devilish creatures who can take something simple and turn it into something horribly complex.
Women are loving, angelic creatures who can take something horribly complex and turn it into something beautifully simple.
In short, women are logically impossible creatures who cannot be reasoned with.

Why I don’t use chainsaws.

dragonbard — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:12:29 +0000

So most of our laurels are destroyed by the ice. And they are on a slope and under lots of strain. Very bad conditions for use of a chain saw. You get much better control using a hand saw, or an axe. And if you miss, or get it stuck, you are less likely to loose a limb.

Of course, all that being said, I did end up buying a chainsaw because I simply have too many trees to cut up. Though I still do most of the felling with hand saw and axe, and almost all of the limbing with either an axe or bypass pruners.

So that was what that noise was

dragonbard — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 04:05:47 +0000

Tree fell on the house.

Snow and more snow

dragonbard — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:40:44 +0000

One of our trees.

Snow

dragonbard — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:42:29 +0000

This is the view this morning from my front door.

Rest in Peace Dear Snake

dragonbard — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 01:41:48 +0000

This morning I found my 17 year-old amelanistic cornsnake dead. I’ve had her since she was a hatchling in 1993. Her name was Mel.

She lived a very comfortable life in what many would consider a palace of a habitat for a little ol’ cornsnake. It is five feet by two feet, and two feet in height. It sits on a cabinet purchased specially for it. It is very lonely now with no inhabitant.

My daughter Carys took the news pretty hard. Lilia ran into the room and said that I was wrong, Mel was still here. She isn’t quite old enough yet to understand death.

I’ve been very sad and melancholy all day. I’ll try and add some pictures to this post later.

Icicle, icicle where are you going?

dragonbard — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 01:34:10 +0000

Came home today and found this icicle hanging off the eaves of my house. The icicle is over a foot long.

Auditory Processing Disorder (APD) Links

dragonbard — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 06:56:08 +0000

Some links I want to follow up on and read more.

http://www.capdsupport.org/

http://www.webring.org/hub/capd

http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/voice/auditory.html#aud_07

http://www.ncapd.org/

http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/living-with-auditory-processing-disorder/

http://www.judithpaton.com/

Pruning

dragonbard — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 23:59:57 +0000

We have quite a few laurels that were once bushes, but are now trees. I’ve been working on getting them back under control. Last weekend I pruned them all by quite a bit.

I still have quite a bit of work to do, but it was a good start.

Android blogging

dragonbard — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 23:37:48 +0000

I am testing out the wordpress app for android. So far so good.

It seems to work quite well.