Dead bush, smart watch, and tiny computer

^{Any guesses on this mystery photo?}

^{Hint1: It is not the doggy’s recently removed testacies. We replaced his post-surgery plastic head cone after a few days with a variety of diapers to keep him from chewing on his stiches:}

^{Hint 2: It is also not the big white bear’s testicles. Doggy verified this:}

^{The bear seemed to enjoy the doggies explorations a little too much:}

^{Hint 3: It is not insect related … I needed an excuse for an insect photo. We have been enjoying a plethora of fall stink bugs:}

^{Hint 4: It IS related to this:}

^{If you are thinking the above is the impression a sea gull makes when if flies into pink play dough, your thinking is flawed. Play dough does not have hair.}

^{Hint 5: It is also related to this:}

^{Give up? These are close ups of various body parts of this guy:}

^{The first photo was from his paw, which he uses in his auto-defense mode whenever doggy comes to play, even when he is sleeping:}

^{The other 2 close-ups are from his hear and nose.}

^{Three of the evergreen bushes didn’t like the patio I put in this summer. So I deleted them.}

^{I’ve been having a lot of fun with a new toy, a Moto 360 smart watch. I interfaced it to the house, so I can now easily talk to and monitor house actions:}

^{I also re-connected to the MisterHouse users group and created some how-to web pages and videos. The video in the first one shows some examples on what I can do with the watch:}

^{The other toy I got was a small, but powerful, computer:}

^{Intel calls it a NUC, for Next Unit of Computing. This one has a Haswell I5 quad CPU, 8 gig of ram, 240 gig storage (SSD), and only uses 7 watts of power! I put Linux on it and use it for MisterHouse, monitoring and controlling it remotely, so it needs no keyboard or display:}

^{The Annoyed Chinese Tea Master from last month took some computer classes and became a Peaceful Chinese Computer Master, employed to monitor the new computer. The monster spider that annoyed him last month dried up and did the Humpty Dumpty thing:}