Category: Miscellaneous

Jigsaw

July 28, 2009

I made a jigsaw last week, for the first time in many, many years. And it was a lot of fun!

The white cardboard thing is our solution to making jigsaws in a house with three cats. Since it’s unlikely the jigsaw will be completed in one sitting, we fold over the flaps and carry the thing to another room to put it away between sessions. This is to stop cats from wrecking it.

OR SO I THOUGHT!

You see sometime after the second of the above pictures was taken, Yossie (bless her soul) jumped up on the table and hopped over the box right on to the jigsaw. Something immediately spooked her, and she freaked out and ran away at blinding speed. She went in one direction, and the white cardboard went in the other. The pieces of the jigsaw went everywhere!

So I had to restart from scratch, which I did. And all was well in the end 🙂

I know I bought many of you reading this jigsaw puzzles for Christmas. If you haven’t started making them yet, I recommend you do now! I already have a much more difficult one to do next, which we’ll probably frame when complete. I’ll be sure to blog about it when it’s done.

MHFU Update

July 8, 2009

For those interested in how I’m doing in Monster Hunter…

240+ hours on the savefile now. HR6, 8-star elder quests. I’ve downed some landmark beasts, such as Shao Gaoren and Lao Shun. I’m alternating between a True Devil Slicer weapon (longsword, thunder element) and a Hellstinger (gunlance, ice element). Wearing 3 pieces of the Ceanataur U armor set and 2 pieces of Death Stench S.

In the near term, I plan to hunt the elder dragons, specifically Chameleos and Kushala Daora. In the long term, well I want to upgrade my flame longsword and my Devil Slicer again, so I need to unlock the G-star quests from the guild 🙂

And, completely, utterly unrelatedly, isn’t it weird I know all the lyrics by heart of this song?!

A Little Birdhouse In Our Souls

July 5, 2009

We got a ‘wren house’ and hung it from a tree in our backyard:

< Can you see it?

Now we didn’t know what a wren looked like, or even if they were in our area. We certainly hadn’t ever seen one! But KLS liked the little house so we got it.

At some point, perhaps a week later, we began to regularly hear birdsong. It took a few days for us to realize it came from a bird constantly sitting on the house, as so:

< Bird

Our “Guide to Backyard Birds” identifies this as a ‘house wren’. He (?) has filled the house with pine needles to capacity, and sits on it for twelve or more hours a day happily singing his beautiful song, trying to attract a lady (man?) to have baby wrens with. Our hope is for success, because it would be great for the house to actually be used.

Here’s a brief video of him in which you can hear his song. I wonder what he’s saying?

And – to continue the backyard animal show – here’s another video of this years new crop of baby deer, spotted in our backyard last week. (Mum and Dad, were you hear last year when we had the babies?)

Robot Claw