5 Comments » Published by Mostly Lisa on June 13th, 2007.
I am 13 years-old.
Archive for June, 2007
No Comments » Published by Lisa Bettany on June 12th, 2007.
Watch Steve nerd out at the WWDC 2007. I love a good Keynote.
7 Comments » Published by Mostly Lisa on June 9th, 2007.
Who’s your favourite Pez head?
4 Comments » Published by Mostly Lisa on June 9th, 2007.
Anyone for a quick game of badminton? I have a wicked serve, so you’d better watch out. Plus, I’m uber competitive and have been known to smash rackets into abstract shapes in the heat of passion. That’s why I always carry a spare racket. Games are intense these days. Everyone just needs to chill out… jeez wiz, it’s summertime after all.
5 Comments » Published by Mostly Lisa on June 7th, 2007.
Jo Rees, You are beautiful, lovely, sweet, thoughtful, creative and talented. I wish you success, happiness, joy, and health this year. Big Hug!
2 Comments » Published by Mostly Lisa on June 7th, 2007.
My mum has a beautiful garden surrounding her home in Victoria. Her Cadboro Bay garden is always filled with colour and texture during the spring and summer months when all the flowers bloom and the strawberries ripen.
There are many wandering critters around our neighbourhood who think a nice, juicy strawberry makes a delicious snack. Mice, raccoons, squirells, strange fruit loving cats, bats… Whichever sneaky critters is nicking our strawberries seems to have good taste as I have only found nibbles in the very best ones in the bunch. Pesky? Yes. But their damage is usually minimal and they are polite enough to leave a few good strawberries for the rest of us.
But lately, my mum has noticed entire patches of tulip heads, daffodils, crocuses, buds and tree blossoms gone. The petals munched off in one chomp, leaving behind a wilted chewed stem. Oh MY!! How unsightly! Martha would never approve.
Who could possibly reach the cheery blossoms trees and attack the rhododendrons with such reckless abandon? I don’t think Skippy the neighbourhood squirrel could do such a thing. Getting his fat belly stuck in the bird feeder is an entirely different matter…
In order to prove who the snack-happy, flower-munching critters, my mum was set on capturing the mystery perpetrators on camera.
Here are her photos:
Up to no good. There is definitely mischief in those big brown eyes.
makin’ a run for it.
escape up the driveway… no doubt eyeing the neighbour’s fabulous garden for some more snacking!
Oh Deer!
3 Comments » Published by Mostly Lisa on June 5th, 2007.
Anyone for Croquet?
8 Comments » Published by Lisa Bettany on June 3rd, 2007.
(according to Jesse Tucker, guitarist extraordinaire, co-writer of Jessie Farrell’s first single “Let’s Talk About Love”, and lover of all things pocket vortex with a mild to extreme crackberry addiction)
This is my first time restringing my lovely Larrivee so let’s take it from the top…
Step One: Acquire some new guitar strings. I was very lucky to have these bad boys given to me by Tucker. Thanks Muck. You’re Awesome. The strings are awesome too. They are coated with Nanoweb (not exactly sure what that is, but it seems pretty high tech and kinda makes me feel like a superhero… “ah ha! You try to infiltrate my layer Beast Master, but what you do not know is that I am protected by an ultra thin Nanoweb… stronger than a thousand steel spider webs and wired with a million tiny electrode sensors!!!! Hiyah!!” Anyway… geeknerdgeek.
Step Two: Unwind guitar string with “stringer tool” (which looks like a New Year’s noise maker and probably has a name…)
Step Three: Take pin out the bridge with the other end of the “stringer tool” which will release old string. Take old string off.
Step Four: Get new string and unravel it.
Step Five: Line up the the ball end (looks like an eyelet) of the new string in the hole of the bridge and use the peg to push the eyelet down into the hole. Push down on the peg to make sure the string is secured.
Step Six: Stretch the string into the nut and thread string through tuning pegheads (make sure that the eye of the tuning peg is parallell to frets.)
Step Seven: Kink string to prevent it from slipping. Remember to give the string some slack for winding. The “E” string needs about 2 full wraps around, “A” string needs about 3..etc. If you wind it to tight it might snap! SNAP!
Step Eight: Wind it up (counterclockwise) a lot. Make sure that each wind of the string goes below the previous one. I had to hold the string and tug on it a little to keep it winding properly. Also, keep a watch on the pin in the bridge to make sure it doesn’t pop out. I had to push it in a few time during the winding to keep the string in place. You should stretch the strings a little with your thumb and index finger and then re-tune a couple of times until the string settles into its groove.
Step Nine: Cut string with wire cutters as close to tuning peg as possible (cuz those ends are sharp… ouch!)
Hooray! You’re done.
(All photos taken by the Beast Master himself, Ryland Haggis)
