OT: A Bad Day For Dragons

Rude awakening time.

I have a shelf for the display of my collection of small, decorative objects (AKA: tchatchky) hanging on the bedroom wall, very near the door and the light switch.

5:30am EST, the Professor (legally blind in broad daylight without his glasses at the best of times) had to get up to go visit the WC. (You can see where this is going.)

He barely tapped the bottom of the shelf in his search for the light switch, but the shelf hopped off one of it's hanging hooks and the tchatchky went flying. Everywhere.

I awoke with that same feeling you get when you hear the cat gakking up a hairball in the living room before the crack of dawn. I was *not* in the mood...

Most things just bounced off the carpeting, and are none the worse for the flight. The only casualties are 4 dragons, all of whom lost wings or parts of wings.

One of the lampwork dragons had lost his wings before (he was a survivor of the fire), so the wings popped off where I had glued them on the first time. All I need do is clean off the old glue and reattach them.

The lead (as in "not quite pewter") dragon is a D&D miniature, and originally came with his wings unattached. They fall off on a regular basis, so it's no big deal. I've got much better adhesives now.

The terra cotta dragon just lost the tip of a wing, and t.c. is also easily repaired.

Unfortunately for the last little dragon, lampworked and perched upon a Swarovski crystal, his broken wing has gone missing. :-( Considering how far some objects bounced when they hit the floor, the little wing could be out in the kitchen.

Interestingly, the larger lampworked dragons are undamaged, and are just sitting there, dazed, wondering what the Hel happened.

The only good thing to come out of this is that I had to dust all that stuff before putting it back on the shelf. I just wish that I hadn't had to do that quite so early in the morning.

Arondelle -- Dragon Mama, and Wing Surgeon

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Arondelle
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Sorry to hear that as I too have a dragon fetish. FWIW, as an old stained glassman, you can easily solder lead for a very permanent repair. Don't let the heat from the iron melt anything though.

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Louis Cage

Awwwwwwwwwwww. I'm sorry. I like dragons too. I just read Eragon and loved it. I think I read it, wanting to find fault, since it was written by a kid. I thought he did a great job!

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Beadbimbo

D'ya need some numbweed for the dragons whilst they heal? :0)

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Barbara Forbes-Lyons

They're all in post-op now, except for the Swarovski. I guess he's just going to have to have a lucky flipper -- er, wing.

Arondelle

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Arondelle

Ah - my fear EXACTLY My son hung a shelf I bought - to put my collection of my miniature liqour bottles up.. But it hangs by just two points - and it is ...near the light switch... I am too chicken to put my babies in there....

Cheryl last semester of lawschool! yipee! DRAGON BEADS Flameworked beads and glass

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Cheryl

Oh Arondelle! Poor you, and poor little dragons! The same thing almost happened to me at about the same time 2 days ago. The cat decided to jump up on the dresser which has dragons perched all over the top of it. Fortunately he didn't get the dragons, but he knocked over a radio and a jewelry box. That wasn't a pleasant surprise at 5am! After the shock of everything falling, I don't think he'll be doing that again!

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Valerie

So did I! Although I can see how influenced he was by other authors...names, and ways of using magic. I didn't really agree with that at the beginning, but he told such a good tale I had to applaud him still. Now I want to read the next one! ;-)

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Valerie wrote: > Oh Arondelle! Poor you, and poor little dragons! The same thing > almost happened to me at about the same time 2 days ago. The cat > decided to jump up on the dresser which has dragons perched all > over the top of it. Fortunately he didn't get the dragons, but he > knocked over a radio and a jewelry box. That wasn't a pleasant > surprise at 5am! After the shock of everything falling, I don't > think he'll be doing that again!

When I was a kid, I had a cat who had a similar run-in with a window sill loaded with cactus plants. And, Jessica Sillywhiskers gave up mountain climbing the day she took a flying leap at the back of the morris chair (the better to launch herself onto the curtains in the living room) only to have said chair flip over backwards. Fat thing!

(Why do cats do that sort of thing? They didn't figure out in their first eight lives that climbing up onto high places unvariably leads to disaster?)

Actually, the Professor is the most stressed out in this situation. He apologized about 20 times. We went to the LBS so that I could show off my latest creations, and he decided it would be a better idea for him to stand near the cash register rather than risk knocking over the seed bead display. =:-O

Arondelle

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Arondelle

So sorry for you Arondelle.

These things have a habit of turning up.... oneday.. I wouldn't give up hope. Mind you I'm neurotic about these things!!! Arrrgh...

Mavis

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AmazeR

What a way to wake up!

Dan has a set of Ducks Unlimited ducks on a shelf right about the light switch. When it's dark I always hit that shelf and pray that none fly off. He has a huge collection in the office and I'd hate to be part of a set that were broken because he put them by the light switch.

Give those dragons some love. Maybe you can find a way for the crystal dragon to find his way.

Starlia

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starlia

Dr. Sooz wrote: > Okay, these 2 things together could have worked SO MUCH to your > advantage, silly girl. You could've said you'd accept his > apologies only if he bought you a whole bunch of beady little > presents. Tsk tsk. ;-)

Well... Since "my" money and "his" money is the same money, he *did* buy me beady presents. ;-) And, he did the driving -- he was "going that anyway" on his Mountain Dew run.

Anyway, I was the one with the Mardi Gras beads. Had to wear 'em to get my 5% discount. ;-D

Arondelle

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Arondelle

In his dreams, maybe. ;-)

Nah, he's just addicted to the stuff. I won't touch it: I had a car that color one time (the ugliest vehicle you've ever seen) and frankly, I think it looks and tastes like antifreeze.

Arondelle

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Arondelle

Oh boy, what a bummer and so early in the moring. I am looking at my beautiful, raku fired, Robin Lees sculpture of a pregnant woman. Her head is no longer attached. My Gram was intrigued by the huge butt cheeks and ran an admiring finger down the, er, crack of the sculpture's bottom. I watched in horrer as the statue slowly toppled and fell against the wall, knocking off the head. It all happened in slow motion. That was about 10 years ago. Every now and then I have to renew the glue. She is on the floor right now, waiting for her head to be re-attached! Like your long suffering dragons, my sculpture seems to have gained character from her exploits!

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Marisa Cappetta

Dr. Sooz wrote: > He's a caffeine man!

Ya think? He drinks at least 2 2-liter bottles EVERY DAY! :-P

Before he had to switch to Diet Dew, I'd have to nail one of his feet to the floor and watch him run around in circles until it wore off. He also has the fastest mouth in the East, and possibly the West as well.

And, sleep? Well, forget that... =:-O

Arondelle

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Arondelle

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