Draagon the Dragon

After a long flight and customs officers who repeatedly put Draagon the Dragon back and forth trough a X-Ray machine for about 15 minutes at the Trondheim airport, I finally got my new Dragon back to my home. For now he's spending his days in my living room, but I will find a place for him (yes, it is a he) somewhere in my garden when spring/summer arrives.

Draagon the Dragon

Hi weigh 15,2 kilos and is about the size of a big cat, and rather cute, right ;)

And by the way... Some of these old and small town houses up in the Peak is just fabulous.... Take a quick look at some of these marvelous houses and places...

Villa in Bradwell

Town Center Recreational Park

A beautiful entrance

Bradwell Methodist Church

Garden Dragons

 This days I'm in Peak District National Park in Northern England, and I am using some of this days to visit gardens centers to get inspired and to by one or several dragons for my garden at home in Norway. Take a look at some of the dragons I have been looking at :)

Since my wall around the entrance of my house is starting to come along quite well, I really do think that some dragons behind rusted iron spikes, situated in small cells/rooms in the wall would look pretty cool and amazing....

Bats and mosquitos

Bat babies, kind of cute right!

Bats and mosquitoes....

For many years now I have been harassed by quite an amount of big and small mosquitoes and flies when I have the doors and windows at my house open in the summertime. But finally I think I have found the perfect solution.


I talked to the janitor of my workplace and he told me he lived very near the Nidelven river, and that river is quite big. But even though he lives near the river he doesn't have any problems with mosquitoes and flies in the summertime. And the reason is quite simple, there are huge amount of bats in the area.

They eat a lot of bugs...

So when I did a little checking on the net, I found that they eat from a few hundreds and up to several thousands of mosquitoes, flies and other small flying insects each night. In other words, they keep their area more or less clean from the little bloodsucking buggers we all hate.


How to get bats in your area. Well, it's quite simple actually. You just have to make bat houses/boxes (birdcage) and put them up around in your area. And then... If you get bats to live there they will make the summer nights pleasant instead of more or less bloody!!!



 
Ant that is because each bat is typically able to consume one third of its body weight in insects each night, and several hundred insects in a few hours. This means that a group of one thousand bats could eat four tons of insects each year. If bats were to become extinct, the insect population is calculated to reach an alarmingly high number

And they really are kind of small and vulnerable creatures

Bat box

Another bat box

A more than beautiful view

Taken from inside the living room

Took these two pictures from my living room and my terrace just a few seconds ago... It's just incredibly beautiful right! Sometimes I really wish I had someone to share precious moments like this with...

Taken from the terrace

Beautiful

Took this picture around 12 O'clock to night.... Amazing

View from my terrace

The Garden

A few pictures taken today... And 22 more bricks in the Pathway wall

A view to the guest cottage

Some flowers

Foooood....

Living the healthy path is not always that easy, BUT one can try....

Homemade healthy and rather nice, tasty food

Today my breakfast is this ---------->

It is four baguettes with spinach, cheese, some different types of green leafs, balsamico oil, mustard and a bit chili.

 

And by the way, I just love my new and improved living room :D

Part of the living room, I just love to mix new and old style furniture

Another brick in the wall

Today I put 13 more stones in the wall witch is surrounding the pathway up to my house (At least in the future it will) I know that 13 don't sound much, but it does create a little work anyhow....

It WILL look much better :)

And here are some pictures of the Pathway and the surrounding's that I have made in the last year.

Making my CASTLE bit by bit

I finally had time to build a bit more on the house, and what is going to be the pathway in to the house was laid with 23 more cobblestones.

This is earlier today

And this a few hours later

The Cobblestone Pathway June 2011

Cleaning up the Tool Shed

Some of the tools from the shed

Cleaning up the Tool Shed, and it's about time.... I truly did not know I had that much old tools and crap in the shed... And the "crap burner" is still going strong burning loads of burnable crap for about 5 hours now...

The crap burner

The new windows made a really HUGE impact on the livingroom

The new windows and the old American Case and my Saddler Chair

I do thinkt the livingroom got about a100 times more light and pleasant after I put in the oval windows in the corner ....

The cat is quite pleased too...

Stuebord

Satt og sorterte bilder i dag og kom over ett bilde som er ca. år gammelt og som jeg tok av stuebordet mitt rett etter jeg hadde laget det. Og det så i grunnen så bra ut at jeg fikk lyst til å legge det ut :)

Endelig ferdig :)

 

Det vindusprosjektet mitt har virkelig tatt lang tid, men så har det jo blitt bra :) pluss at det var selfølgelig mye mer å¨gjøre enn hva jeg først forestillte meg, men det er jo vanlig på gamle hus....

Først måtte jeg rive masse gammelt dritt... huset er fra 1934 og det var mange lag med vegg! En trepanellvegg og flere varianter av tapet....

 Så måtte jeg snekkre rammer til vinduene. Vinduene er 170  høy og 30 centimeter bred, en skikkelig drittjobb fordi en måtte være så særs nøyaktig og samtidig når det skulle monteres viste det seg at huset er skakt som en gammel gyngestol...

Så ble alt montert, og alt var bevisst totalt overdimmensjonert :)

 Så ble alt isolert og kledd med plast.

Det gamle kvadratiske vinduet som var midt på veggen ble fjernet og nytt veggpanel montert og malt

Så ble det listet og malt i gullfarge :)  Jepp, gullfarge.....

Så dreide jeg en fot med litt fasong på og skar ut og freste kanter på en plate under vinduet, har bare laget til et vindu enda, men skal gjøre det samme på alle fem.

Sånn ble det om en legger hodet litt på skakke :)

Og vips... Masse arbeid men veldig bra reultat. til høyre i bildet  er min hjemmedreide og freste bokylle, til venstre henger det noen gamle glasskuler til fiskegarn, under de står det en salmakerkrakk og en amerikakoffert.

Bildebrev 3

Da kommer det noen bilder tatt tatt i dag! :)

Overste er stueplantene mine.

Stua klar for vorspiel litt senere i dag.

Medaljen fra Tromsø Marathon.