It can be fun and frustrating when trying to figure out a new program. I spent yesterday fighting with my TV's wall mount. I finally had to call my neighbor for a super power tool. When that was finally mounted, there was room on the low boy to display my Dicken's village.
Anita ~ Thats a beautiful village, I can see why you wanted to display it!
Very festive, Anita.
Cute. I LIKE that kind of snow. Couldn't do that at my house - cats with paws and no manners.
Very nice Anita!
Could you describe this"super power tool"?
It was a drill that had more power than mine. All I was doing was stripping the screw, getting blisters and losing my mind over it!!! Needless to say, that screw will not be coming out of that stud unless Jeff comes over with his drill again.
Anita, I love your village. glad you have a nice place to put it now.
pixie what gorgeous snow pics!!! Just gorgeous! We have a bit more snow than you at this time but then again I live wayyy up North LOL
Anita that snow village is awesome! I love the way you have it set up. My mom does somthing similar and I just find something so magical about them. Reminds me of my childhood I guess.
Sarahskeeper your picture is so cute - it made me laugh :)
Thanks - I'd love to get more, but as you can see, I don't really have room for anymore houses!
Hahaha Anita that means you need a new table of some sort!!!
How about a little game. Jump to the boat.
http://www.freeworldgroup.com/games5/gameindex/jump.htm
Andy P
I don't like that game...I was swimming alot...the puppie fetch one was easy compared to that!
Pixie, You saw the puppy fetch? I got VERY frustrated with that one when I got into the Arabian Nights level, arrrrrgh. I'll get back to that one. I'm bored so I tried a few games. Some I can't figure out how to play at all. Can't even get them started.
Andy P
Here is the Puppy Fetch game.
http://www.freeworldgroup.com/games6/gameindex/puppy-fetch.htm
I kept drowing in the boat game - gosh that is hard :(
Andy, I'm a big kid at heart....love games. I even play Nintendo, X`Box, and Playstation 2. I like the Bass Fishing (have to fish some how in the winter!) and quest games mostly. I use to say I was playing w/the kids, but that doesn't work anymore. lol
Pixie, Here is one I got hooked on last Winter. http://www.freeworldgroup.com/games/starship/index.html
I don't play too many games, only when I'm bored. This one took me a couple of hours to crack. It was a snowy day, lol.
I'm sure you will glide right through it.
Andy P
Speaking of games, I have a Game Boy Advance for when I don't feel like being on the computer (which isn't very often since I joined DG). have a game called 'Harvest Moon-Friends of Mineral Town'. you play a character (ok, it's a boy) that inherits a farm and you have to buy seeds, plant crops, harvest to make money, to plant more. to get enough to get started you can fish & sell the fish, or pick mushrooms. and in the winter, there is a mine where you can go to look for gems to sell. when you have enough money you can buy animals, but you have to take care of them or they get sick, feed them every day, keep them out of the rain, milk the cows, shear the sheep. then you can collect recipes and cook. make friends. even get a girlfriend and eventually get married (I said the main character was a boy...freaks out my son when I tell him about my wife LOL). I got absolutely hooked on this game for a while. got both of my granddaughters playing it, too.
ps forgot, there are harvest elves that will help you on the farm if you are nice to them
UGH! The Rabbit Wars have reached a fevered pitch here: Them furry buggers have eaten two of my holly bushes (1 Blue Boy and 1 American Holly), gnawed one of my Hardy Oranges practically back to the main stem (how the heck they actually managed to EAT the THORNS without getting impaled still amazes me), so I made another trip to Lowes to get garden staples and 1/2" square galvanized hardware cloth. Now all the plants that are vulnerable (at least the ones that the rabbits have nibbled on so far) are safe.
I just wish that they'd eat the Japanese Honeysuckle and Multiflora Rose bushes.... It would save me a heck of a lot of work!
Hikaro, sorry about the rabbits. it's so frustrating. it's voles here. for some reason I don't see rabbits. never had voles before. this is the first year I actually saw them ABOVE ground. can't be a good sign. so I'm going to be very generous with the bait this winter. I don't think there's anything they won't eat.
H.T. & Gram, you need a dog. I haven't had a problem with voles, mice or rabbits since Sarah arrived.
Andy P
Gram - I'm not laughing at you playing a Game Boy(because I whoop on my kids at any chance), but am laughing at your picture of it since my kids always ask what I'm doing anytime I take unusual photos like that.
HT - rabbits will eat roses, hardware cloth is the only real defense from them.
Andy - my dog hasn't worked very well on the rabbits here, dogs are so scent orientated it's funny to see a rabbit 10' away and a dog not know it's there because they can't smell it.
Al, lots of people DO laugh at me for playing a GB at my age. Don't care LOL and I cheated and got the pic off the manufacturer's web site because I was at work.
we had rabbits at our old house, but I never noticed any real damage. don't know what they ate.
How about a Spring pic. Every thing looks so drab out there now.
Andy P
mmm, pretty color, Andy. like a robin's egg blue.
Oh la la very pretty pic :) Almost felt like spring there for a sec until I looked out the window LOL.
Al, What you need is smellier rabbits.
Andy, have a name for that pretty plant?
Dave, I think it's creeping thyme. It's a lawn weed with a tiny flower, that's why it's not too sharp. I was pushing my macro lens, lol.
Andy P
Andy: I have two cats... They keep the Voles down to a bare minimum, but are getting too old to catch the grownup rabbits (they do a real number on the baby ones, though). Thankfully, we've gotten some unexpected reinforcements: The other night I heard what sounded like not one but TWO great-horned owls outside the house in the woods. Since rabbit is pretty high up on their menu, I'm hoping that they get some of the furry buggers.
Al: Poncirus trifoliata (Hardy Orange) has thorns that makes a rose bush look downright comfortable. My 1.5 ft high seedlings already have (or in the case of the one that got gnawed on, had) thorns that are over 1 inch long that are not only sharper than a tack, but are also thick enough that when they go in, they won't break off. Anything that tries to eat those trees should, at the very least, poke its eyes out, if not get impaled enough to cause it to bleed to death.
The Camellia currently does not have any flowers, due to the wind storm over the weekend blowing them off, but it does have a few more buds opening now.
Andy, it is a window. It's behind my sink. That tiny kitchen is where I cook and can. It's 10' wide. I have long arms so I can almost reach counter to sink. :o)) Sorry you're going thru a nasty cold. I totally understand the not thinking straight.
We've grown peanuts, and when I was little, my Dad grew them in the sandy soil at the edge of his parent's timber. I love homegrown!
We've been getting shrews instead of mice. The cats were chasing one in the house the other night. They must have been close enough to touch him because he would scream and run again. It was pretty funny. Finally DH caught him and threw him out. The next day I looked out and saw it sneaking the feral's cat food. We put the trap out and caught it. Last night I took a dead baby shrew from the cat.
I baked many many cookies. I've eaten many many cookies. Last night I walked many many blocks.
We get a week of 40* temps. It's a nice change from those bitterly sharp winds.
This is the ''cafeteria'' for the feral cats. We've used it many years.
I guess everybody has come kind of vermin. at least it's not rats.
it got up to 58* here yesterday. very windy again today, though. the snow has all melted.
Hikaro, I looked up the hardy orange. interesting plant. someone in plant files even said the juice was really good if you treated it like lemonade. (I assume that means adding sugar). also looks like it can get pretty large, but maybe not in our zone. how old is yours?
or snakes!
true, Anita, or SNAKES! you can have my share.
Gram: Yeah, they mean by adding sugar.... The fruits are REALLY sour, sort of like Key Lime or ponderosa lemons.... I heard one guy joked that they had a recipie in Texas for making a Trifoliate Orange Drink. It called for 1 barrel of water, 1 barrel of sugar and 1 Trifoliate orange fruit, LOL! You can also find marmalade recipies for them as well.
Mine were planted only this year, but the USDA plants database lists some as having been naturalized in Perry County, PA, which is about 40 miles North of where I live, so I think that they should do fine here. They aren't that big of trees (more like a shrub, really, even in warmer climates), but in colder zones (7, 6 and 5b), they can get up to 10 or so feet tall... I got mine from Gardens oy Vey! nurseries in Tenesee this spring.
Have you noticed all the new growth on the Grape Hyacinths, they are lush and green here.
Some early Crocus are showing their nose, too.
Andy P
Yes Andy. I have quite a lawn above my grape hyacinths.
Andy, they started a good 6 weeks ago. 8-10" of foliage that got matted down by snow so I have a big bright green circle.
seems so odd. went out for the mail after dark yesterday. just a light coat, no snow on the ground, and all the Christmas lights on. must be what it's like living in a warmer zone.
Hi folks, Otis got skunked last night (Midnight, of course). I have a Peroxide recipe that works great. But, does anyone have any suggestion on how to get that rascal to stay away from the yard?
I live in a very wooded area, so they are out there, no doubt. But this guy seems to pop up around the house every December. And, well, Otis, ... he just doesn't learn.
Snowhite,
Get an attractive black cat, paint a white line down her back and send her in a different direction. The skunk will follow. I've seen it work many times.
Dave
Dave, that's funny. Use chalk on the cat, though. lol.
We had a big skunk around for a while. It got Sarah just a tiny bit. But enough.
I've been playing with PaintShop, here is an early effort.
Andy P
