Yesterday, the writer of J-Walk Blog announced he was discontinuing his excellent weblog. Today, he stated that the emails and posts about his decision made him reconsider. I am so glad that I took the time to send him email yesterday about how much I had enjoyed his weblog over the past few months since I found it. Now, if he would just add a comments feature.
Carved bull
I was charmed by this carved bull at the “Royal Ontario Museum”:http://www.rom.on.ca/explore/current.php.
Carving Gallery
This Native American Swap of carved art was taken from the Native American swap of the Carving Consortium. Also check out the other items in the menu at the top of the page. I have some other soft block carving related information at my “Carving Topics”:http://www.stardel.com/homecarv.htm page.
Citrus Moon
Citrus Moon has free tiles, backgrounds and other graphics. Unlike most of these collections, this site permits “commerical use of these patterns”:http://www.citrusmoon.net/about.html without payment and allows use of patterns if they have been colored or resized. The site also contains “tips”:http://www.citrusmoon.net/tips.html about how to make your own tiles.
Tree by Lake
Toronto Islands
Odd search items
I finally decided to figure out how to download my server logs, and then wrote a small Perl program to help filter out some of the dross. Then I engaged in the time-honored tradition of looking at the referral search terms. I am sure that the person who was looking for bareback riding video was very disappointed. The person who was looking for “sunset sheltie cave creek” was obviously in search of something very specific. However, I am truly baffled by the person who was looking for an orange flannel shirt. Why would anyone look here for an orange flannel shirt? Why would anyone want an orange flannel shirt?
Sidebar changes
Right before I went to New Mexico, I was editing some changes to my sidebar information for this weblog to get rid of a problem that showed up in MSIE. Although I had saved my templates to my desktop machine, I managed to overwrite the important one in the process. I discovered this right after I overwrote the index template with a default version. So I salvaged what I could until I had time to fix it. I didn’t have time to put in everyting including my photo, the recent comments list, and the categories list.
A rainy day gave me a little time to work on it this afternoon. Thanks to “ETC.”:http://www.fortysomething.ca/mt/etc/, I didn’t have to do as much recoding as I had feared I would, since I used the comments code and categories code from the generous examples of code at that site. I wish I had found Jennifer’s site before I coded the stuff the first time.
Rattlesnakes
In Notes From an Eclectic Mind: Snakebit, Rana writes about rattlesnakes. When we moved to Colorado, I had a live and let live, snakes are our friends approach, but three snake bit dogs later, I lost my tolerance. Lacking a shot gun, Jack drove over the one that menaced me in the driveway several years ago.
Chapel, Toronto Islands
The best way …
I think I may have discovered the best way to give Lody pills. I had cut a chunk of hotdog, and noticed that the tablet was long and somewhat spindle-shaped. I used a skewer to piece the middle of the hotdog, and pushed the tablet in. Lody gulped it down like a treat while I watched closely to make sure she swallowed everything.
p. I’ve been encouraged recently by the move to tasty drugs for dogs, but a lot of medications used for pets were originally developed for people.