In an act of isolation silliness, I Frankensteind a new member into our house. We call him ‘The Eye Guy”: Some more details along with some creepy music here: This month’s mystery photo: Mom is happily back home after 1 month in month in hospital. Scott and Terri are taking good care of her: Helen’s…
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ALPIC-19
19 Pictures from our first month of ‘The Great Empty’ in AL. A couple of semi-gross mystery photos: Virus hunter and seamstress Helen re-purposed some of my old muscle shirts (why/how did I ever wear those?!): In other bad news, Mom broke her hip a few days ago. MC hospital staff, Scott, & Teri are…
A $14,000 Nut
Stupid trick of the month: attempt to swallow your daily collection of supplements without noticing that a macadamia nut has fallen into the mix: Silly me. It was stuck bad. I’ve had pills stuck before in Schatzki rings in my lower esophagus, a fun family trait. But this was different, stuck at the top of…
Helen -vs- Heron
This month’s mystery photo (click to enlarge): This beauty discovered our backyard waters: Initially we were enchanted, then we discovered Helen’s beloved little fishes were disappearing. We caught his evil work on our net-cams: This offended Helen greatly, so she bought some alligator and heron decoys, but they were not effective: So now she enlists…
Xmas Bone Head
I learned you can now print 3′ posters for $50, so I updated the drone photo-ed backyard trail map (white lines are the trails) and art-ed our wall: Somewhere in that forest, a bunch of deer hide out: We spent xmas with Mom in Montana. Zach, Nick/Chloe, Max/Clark, and Aya/Eric joined us for all kinds…
Red Beard
We snuck in one more trip down to the gulf before it got too cold: We watched workers embedded a bunch of poles in the sand for a new house. They excavated the holes using nothing but a 15′ pressurized water wand: Back home we had some guests come visit. Elie is a world traveling…