While FAR from done, you can at least identify it as a dragon now!
After some thought, I'm going to make the heads very strong with a weak point in the neck. Each one will be a different color and I will keep up (best I can) with who 'kills' which dragon. If I remember to take red paint, I can snap the necks, paint the inner parts red and present the severed heads as trophies ^_^
We also made a trip to a friends house yesterday! She's needing word done around the place, it's a big old house and there are a lot of little things needing done. While my husband helped add a layer of tar to the balcony, I helped cut down some saplings growing in bad places.
Quite a few of the resulting sticks wouldn't fit in the car, but I have a couple here!
We also made a trip to a friends house yesterday! She's needing word done around the place, it's a big old house and there are a lot of little things needing done. While my husband helped add a layer of tar to the balcony, I helped cut down some saplings growing in bad places.
Quite a few of the resulting sticks wouldn't fit in the car, but I have a couple here!
These two were from the same plant - it was trying to grow up under and through a cement retaining wall.
While they were fresh, we stripped the bark off. MUCH easier and more fun than scraping bark away with a knife after it dries! This was more akin to peeling a banana. LOL
The one on the left will be mine! They are both closer to a tall cane than a staff. I'll trim and sand down the branches in a bit. (My hands hurt a bit right now. Between using clippers on a lot of smaller branches and stripping one of them with more stubborn bark and a very rough bark, my fingers are rebelling at TYPING.)
That reminds me... need to find out what that tree WAS. Very cool looking - had berries and warty bark.
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searching
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Hackberry tree.
http://www.foragingtexas.com/2007/07/hackberry.html
90% sure that's what it was. There are a few more in the yard so I don't feel too bad about cutting it down (that and it was trying to grow down in to their storm cellar.)
While they were fresh, we stripped the bark off. MUCH easier and more fun than scraping bark away with a knife after it dries! This was more akin to peeling a banana. LOL
The one on the left will be mine! They are both closer to a tall cane than a staff. I'll trim and sand down the branches in a bit. (My hands hurt a bit right now. Between using clippers on a lot of smaller branches and stripping one of them with more stubborn bark and a very rough bark, my fingers are rebelling at TYPING.)
That reminds me... need to find out what that tree WAS. Very cool looking - had berries and warty bark.
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searching
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Hackberry tree.
http://www.foragingtexas.com/2007/07/hackberry.html
90% sure that's what it was. There are a few more in the yard so I don't feel too bad about cutting it down (that and it was trying to grow down in to their storm cellar.)