Guess who this is: Fortunately it is not a 3d photo, or Irena would have been terrified: A slightly different view of the guy who owns those teeth, here finalizing the circuitry for the Hot Tub solar collector: I got the evacuated solar tubes mounted right above the hot tub: These plots show the various…
Author: brucewinter
Fawns to Bucks
You remember those cute little deer fawns we had pouncing over our pool cover last spring? They grew up: This hawk has been watching them like a hawk: And this wood pecker: Was pecking on our rock siding. Must have been some rock insects in there: Which leads into things that weight about the same…
To kill a lionfish
We started this month with a wonderfully warm trip to St Thomas with Zach and Tiffany: We did tons of snorkeling. This was Tiffany’s first time, she did amazingly well: Zach found some not-so-deep sea not-so-treasury treasure: And we all found tons of fish. Pretty, flat bottom, triangular shaped smooth trunkfish: Spotted drumfish, which look…
Angry Bird
You might guess what this mystery photo is, but you won’t guess how it was made: The challenge with this photo is where was it taken: We had a quick but nice trip to Montana for xmas. Mom’s village was as pretty as ever: With hundreds of interesting characters, like these ice fishermen: We…
Spitting at jets
We took a trip to San Diego a couple of weekends ago, for Helen’s Epilepsy conference. Helen has an interesting, albeit morbid, hotel metric … jump-ability. Our hotel, an Embassy Suites, has a large 12 story interior courtyard, so scored pretty high on that metric! And it had exterior balconies as well. This is the…
Missed it by 1 second!
We had a couple of feet of snow a few weeks ago, so you know that that means! This is a 30 minute 8 footer … that last foot is the hardest (no ladders allowed): Helen helped me give it some more character the next day: He started slowly tipping over, despite my encouragement…