Today’s mystery photo is brought to you by cholera: We had the last of our summer visitors, Ina and family from New York. The standard protocol for entertaining guests in Salt Lake City is to throw them into the Great Salt Lake: If you look closely (click to enlarge), you can see Helen way off…
Today’s mystery photo: To hopefully confuse you further, this is related: We had a nice visit with Noah who came for Helen’s Birthday. He also gave a nice piano concert to a local Russian group: Helen’s co-worker gave her cake with 50 no-blow-out candles. Irena helped and after much smoke they finally got them out…
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…