You may remember that back in January, I posted some photos of the jewelry box with the dragon lid.
Well, I have made another box, this time for my daughter. Since my daughter likes turtles, I carved a turtle on the lid.
It has, of course, the required figured maple and the dovetails….
…. and a turtle on the lid….
We have not been idle….. well actually, we have been idle, but that is a different post.
The robins have taken up residence in a bush outside of our laundry room. After watching the birds sit patiently on the nest for many days, they finally had success. I just happened to catch them feeding the new chicks.
Sorry about the terrible quality of the vid, but I took it through a window pane through at screen through a bush in shadow on a cloudy day.
Ledebouria socialis … or … Silver squill, wood hyacinth, leopard lily.
We are into SPOTH’s again. This one is really tiny.
The whole plant is about 6 inches tall. This is what the flower stem looks like.
Each of the flowers is less than a quarter inch across. Here is a closer view of the flowers.
Pretty nifty.
I wonder where you can find bees that are small enough to pollinate ’em.
Wow. That’s a mouthful, even for a SPOTH.
I guess they get the name from the tiny little flower. It has a spectacular blue color.
Unlike our usual Man-Eating entries, this one looks kind of cuddly and huggable.
https://worldofsucculents.com/cyanotis-somaliensis-pussy-ears/
I was perusing the morning newspaper when I came upon this article.
Instantly, I jumped up and ran to the garage to see if our vehicles are safe. With great relief, I discovered that this upgrade has already been installed on our 2002 Corolla.
That was a close call.
I haven’t done a SPOTH for a long time, so here is a new one.
In case you have not been reading this blog for a while, a SPOTH is a Strange Plant Of The Hour. You see, my son keeps and raises strange, sometimes dangerous, some times man-eating, plants down in our basement, and on occasion I will post photos of them.
Here is a photo of today’s SPOTH.
OK. So what? It’s a stringy clingy little plant. But check out the tiny little flower ( highlighted in the red circle below)
Yikes. It has gecko fingers in the middle of it. Or maybe it just ate a gecko, and the lizard is still trying to get out.
The base of the plant is pretty strange too.
You probably can’t read the label, but it says “Euphorbia globosa”. So, it’s a globby plant?
But that ain’t nuthin’. This one is the baby. Here’s the Momma Glob
If that isn’t strange enough…. well I’ll go take another look down there. You never know what you are going to find.
(If I don’t come back up, call the Mounties).
I had some curly maple cutoffs left over from other projects that were too small to do much with, so I started making little jewelry boxes out of them. I asked my son if he would like a jewelry box, and he said:
“If you carve a dragon on the lid.”
Yikes. I had never done any significant wood carving, much less dragon carving, but I am usually up for a double-dare. So I got my hands on some carving tools, and this is what I came up with.
It’s the box with the dragon lid.
Not bad for a first try.
I have not found time to create a bigger, better, louder fireworks display this year, so here is DG holding a sparkler.
Sorry, but that’s all you get.
Happy New Year anyway.
DG was admiring his Santa suit in the mirror when he noticed the bunny tail that I had tacked on it.
He was not pleased.
So he put a big lump of coal in my stocking.
Since it is Christmas Eve, I said I was sorry and removed the tail. We are now pals again, and DG is ready for Christmas.
Merry Christmas, everybody.
With Christmas getting closer, DG and I got together to compromise on his getup for the season.
He promised to use his Santa Suit if I promised to design him a suit that doesn’t make him look like an idiot. So, we tried some things and negotiated.
Here’s our first try.
OK then, how about this one?
Well then, how about this?
Cool. Now, off you go.
Snicker.
