We had lots of fun last week, with visits from Zach, Tiffany, and Nick. After being here for 6 months, I finally got to go see the Great Salt Lake. At 2,000 square miles (4th largest terminal lake in the world), it was surprising hard to find. I knew where it was, but finding a…
Mystery photo (answer at end of post): Spring has truly sprung. The birds have gone wild: This is a Karate Kid / Dirty Harry quail, leering at me with a ‘go ahead, make my day’ stare, ready to kick my head off with his one good remaining foot: And the animals have come out of…
The snow finally stopped, so I’ve been learning how to run a pool. Not swimmable yet, but getting there. To help manage the solar water heater on the roof, I’ve started instrumenting the house. I put a weather station by the bird feeder so the birds can help me keep an eye on it: And…
We had a couple of pretty snowfalls this month: It melted fast. Here the camera caught snow falling from the power line: Our backyard is remarkably private. This is one of the few places in town I found where you can see it, about 3 miles away. You need a high res monitor, middle, 1/3…
We got a new power pole installed near our back yard. The old one was crooked and would spectacularly short wires in wind storms: I took a 1/2 day vacation while the power was out and we walked up one of the trails that starts a few blocks from our house: Helen enjoyed her month…
We made it! We survived our cross-country, mid-Winter migration with some stress but minimal damage. Icy roads and nasty viruses (I discovered you can develop Asthma late in life, given the right conditions), but I reckon that’s nothing compared to what the first Mormon’s dealt with when they migrated West. We stopped in MN to…