News from out West, a Granddaughter is being manufactured! I’m manufacturing new trees via a process called air layering, cloning a tree from a branch: Our first ‘campout’ went well, no dog -vs- racoon fights: Helen said goodbye to her kitchen couch: My latest tech video: Cat people -vs- Dog people: Just got my first…
One of my bonsai went banzai during a wind storm and jumped off the deck, but his drip hose saved him: My more sensible bonsai booked some time at a nearby portrait studio: Some of the wood guys joined in the fun: Tom Brady got me a new phone. Silly me tried to watch an…
Zach and Lauren have grown fond of Philipsburg MT, a small ex-mining town between Bozeman and Missoula. They found a 10 acre plot on the slopes right next to town. No utilities and a primitive road, but that challenge appealed to Zach 🙂 I erected our hill-top gazebo in 90 seconds: Getting a futon up…
I broke last year’s count of 117 backyard plants, this year: 152! I made a poster: Also made a how-to video: More detailed lists of our backyard menagerie are at brucewinter.net/iNaturalist . I got this idea of camping overnight in our backyard, but then I got to thinking about snakes and mosquitos. So I dug…
This month’s geek project has my phone telling me who is flying in the skies above us: My outdoor project was to build a uphill water collection pond for the creek fountains and fish ponds. I had to move a couple of big rocks: I dug it deep enough so that those who wanted to…
Hurricane Zeta left us without power for 1.5 days, so I rigged up some solar panels to charge up our phones & laptops: Our 20 year old heat pump died so we upgraded to a more efficient 24 SEER, 13 HSPF model: Mystery photo: My latest trail extension forged 7 steps up a cliff: In…