Two pictures for Sunday

Adventures in computer hardware installation (I hate installation): The scanner/copier portion of our printer/scanner/copier went out on us yesterday and, unfortunately, that is one of the necessities of life here at CrabAppleLane. It was time, I suppose. It was 9 years old. After purchasing a new one yesterday, I determined that a desktop reorganization was required. Almost all printers nowadays use USB ports as opposed to the parallel port I was using. The USB cable I bought, which seemed long enough at the time, was woefully short to put the replacement PSC back where the old one was. Anyway, the upshot is that the PC and the printer are now both on my desktop. And the reason for this long-winded setup? The first thing you do when you go online after this ordeal is register your new product. They ask for some minor stuff like name, address, email, etc and, then, the big one: The serial number. Know where it is? It’s on the back of this now installed, plugged-in, and jammed into place piece of equipment.

We offer female-dominated and male-dominated today in the CrabAppleLane pictures.

And then there was one (See yesterday’s entry). I suppose we know what was for supper last night up there in the trees here at CrabAppleLane. Male spider stew.

A female Ruby-Throated Hummingbird hides out and relaxes a bit in my Bradford Pear tree. Every two minutes or so, she heads to one of my feeders to have a drink or chase off one of the other female hummingbirds she feels doesn’t belong there. She comes back about half the time alone and the other half with a male Ruby-Throated Hummingbird just a few inches behind in hot pursuit. Essentially, there are two or three males here squabbling over feeding rights. The males chase off the other males and also chase off the females they don’t like. Somehow, they all manage to survive. Fun to watch, hard to keep straight.

7 days until CFFL Draft Day (Go Ragpickers), and 18 days until football season (Go Saints) begins...............

Quote of the Day

In fact, immediately after the consummation of her marriage to the smaller and weaker male of the species she kills and eats him.....oh, she is delicious...And I hope he was!

Vincent Price, Alice Cooper’s The Black Widow

Blog of the day here.

Quote from said blog: "For those that know Dan and I well, you know that we absolutely LOVE ice cream. Even at our rehearsal dinner for our wedding we had a sundae bar. So, on to the best. For those of you that don’t know, I’m in Minnesota visiting friends for a few days. And last night I was introduced to Cold Stone."