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…
Author: brucewinter
Swimming with the balls
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…
Karate Kid Quail
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…
Happy Toad Eating
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…
8 foot Muenster cheese
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…
Sexually aroused skyscraper
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…