Baldur

At a booksale today I bought the September/October 2009 issue of 'Old House Journal'.
A reader had written in to recommend using a free Google 3D drawing program called 'SketchUp' when trying to visualiz restoration projects.
Having just visited the site Baldur is quite intrigued.
Has anyone worked with that site yet?
How do you like it?

http://sketchup.google.com/

Baldur

visualiz + e = visualize

lynnspotter

: ) POW?

Baldur

What I think of when I see the word 'POW' is the old Batman television series where each punch was emphasized on the screen with a huge 'POW, WHAM, or ZOWIE'.
You definitely made a good direct hit, but it seems to have fallen on deaf ears. Apparently the emotional outpouring was not large to satisfy the needs of our global rootcrop and the added confrontation was unexpected.

Baldur

Happy Birthday to Marion Jones, Hugh Jackman, Chris Botti, Susan Anton, Dusty Rhodes, Sa, Moore, Luciano Pavarotti, Dick Gregory, Alice Childress, Aleister Crowley, Ralph Vaughan Williams and King Edward VI of England.

lynnspotter

Well stated~thought the response was well thought out. : )

lynnspotter

From the adults of TD!

Baldur

Happy Birthday to Ashanti, Summer Sanders, Paul Potts, Nancy Kerrigan, Jerry Rice, Ari Fleischer, Marie Osmond, John Ford Coley, Sammy Hagar, Jerry Jones, Paul Simon, Nana Mouskouri, Killer Kowalski, Margaret Thatcher, Lenny Bruce, Cornel Wilde, Herbert Block, Art Tatum and Lillie Langtry.

Baldur

Happy Birthday to Vanessa Lane, Stacy Keibler, Usher, Natalie Maines, Savannah Sampson, Isaac Mizrahi, Thomas Dolby, Ralph Lauren, Empress Fara Diba, Roger Moore, C. Everett Koop, Allan Jones, e.e. cummings, Lilian Gish, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Thursday October Christian, George Grenville, William Penn, James II of England and Marie of Anjou.

Dragon

Dragon is happy that all the Chilean miners got out safely, but amused that the first story I found on the rescues this morning was about the miner who had invited both his wife and his girlfriend to be there when he was pulled out. This sounds worse than it is, despite the fact that the stories repeatedly call his girlfriend "the mistress" he had, in fact, been separated from his wife for some time (before getting trapped in a hole in the ground) so I don't think it's quite as sensational as the press is trying to make it.

polenta

It's better if we tell jokes about the miners now.... it means they are safe and sound and on the surface of the earth. Of course the psychological evolution will still go on for a long time.... after all this euphoria fades.
Anyway, VIVA CHILE!!! Miracle or technology?

Baldur

It was marvelous watching the miners emerge after such a long ordeal.
Technology can at times be amazing. The fact that they could be reached and extracted safely is pretty impressive.

Baldur

Here is a cat update:

I am up to my earlobes in cats. Shakira is very well behaved but the kittens wreak an amazing amount of destruction each night.
There are 12 potted plants in the room the babies are sequestered in. My job today is to find locations elsewhere in Boughbreak for each of them (the flora, not the fauna) while they are still salvageable.Last year I renovated what was a dark, underutilized area into what is now our media room. There is an entire wall of built-in shelves dedicated to our cds and dvds. The two windows got enhanced with extra deep sills added to make them more conducive a place for my smaller zygocacti and amaryllii.
However none of the plants including several larger 'trees' in pots on the floor are safe from the furred furies.
We wake up each day to find several toppled and unpotted specimens, gravel strewn across the floor and three angelic looking kittens peacefully curled up, sleeping in the debris field.
Several objet d'arte have already been removed and it seems the smaller decorative cushions will be next.

The kitten that most resembles the mother is the shyest of the lot, only twice have I managed to hold her.
Her skills of evasion are quite considerable.
Babies two and three have became easier to pick up and less agitated in the presence of humans,
In fact yesterday I received no new gashes to the hands, which have become crosshatched in scars.

Baldur

Happy Birthday to Prince Christian of Denmark, Takeshi Morishima, Ginuwine, Emeril LaGasse, Duchess Sarah Ferguson, Tito Jackson, Richard Carpenter, Penny Marshall, Linda Lavin, Mark Lenard, Lee Iococca, Mario Puzo, Arthur Schlesinger Jr, Mervyn LeRoy, P.G. Wodehouse, John L. Sullivan, Friedrich Nietzsche and Virgil.

lilalee

What a delight to hear of your new babes!! I just had my big boy put down recently, and thinking of getting another babe. So glad you took these kitty's in, as around here the hawks just fly down and snatch them up. Pretty soon, they will all be greeting you with leg rubbing, so be careful you don't trip!!

Dragon

So sorry to hear of your recent loss lilalee, I just had to put my oldest one down too. I think it would be a lot of fun to have a new kitten in the house, though I do remember those days of wondering just what I'd find broken when I got home from work. I recall a similar experience to what Baldur is troubled with. I spent several hours painting a terracotta flower pot with an intricate design and then potted a new plant in it and put it in the window sill. Being that I lived in a basement suite and the windows were quite high I thought it would be safe there. No such luck, not more that 2 or 3 days after putting it up I came home to find it in hundreds of pieces on the kitchen floor, what's more it was clear that Ozzy had been having a great deal of fun because the soil was spread all over the floor. As mad as I was when I saw the destruction, you just can't look at that fuzzy little kitten face and stay angry. Still, I kind of envy Baldur his furry terrorists, there's something that just energizes a house that's full of kittens.

lilalee

As far as I am concerned.....they can do no wrong!! Lol!! Just love them all!

lilalee

Baldur must be busy with the kitties....

Baldur

I'm sorry about both of your losses.
We had our Seiki develop a cancer in her throat early this year and saw her waste away very quickly. She went from 16 pounds to under 5 pounds.
We tried our best to keep her happy in the last weeks but eventually she was just suffering too much for us to allow it to continue.
Her sister, Heidi, is still with us. She has been just about completely blind for a couple years now but manages quite well.

Baldur

Today Baldur managed to hold each kitten several times. It is gettinf easier to approach them as they become familiar with us.
Robert has had no luck getting them to come close to him yet so I handed the babies off to him to hold them for a while.
A few days of that and they should be quite use to him.