19 Pictures from our first month of ‘The Great Empty’ in AL. A couple of semi-gross mystery photos: Virus hunter and seamstress Helen re-purposed some of my old muscle shirts (why/how did I ever wear those?!): In other bad news, Mom broke her hip a few days ago. MC hospital staff, Scott, & Teri are…
A $14,000 Nut
Stupid trick of the month: attempt to swallow your daily collection of supplements without noticing that a macadamia nut has fallen into the mix: Silly me. It was stuck bad. I’ve had pills stuck before in Schatzki rings in my lower esophagus, a fun family trait. But this was different, stuck at the top of…
Helen -vs- Heron
This month’s mystery photo (click to enlarge): This beauty discovered our backyard waters: Initially we were enchanted, then we discovered Helen’s beloved little fishes were disappearing. We caught his evil work on our net-cams: This offended Helen greatly, so she bought some alligator and heron decoys, but they were not effective: So now she enlists…
Xmas Bone Head
I learned you can now print 3′ posters for $50, so I updated the drone photo-ed backyard trail map (white lines are the trails) and art-ed our wall: Somewhere in that forest, a bunch of deer hide out: We spent xmas with Mom in Montana. Zach, Nick/Chloe, Max/Clark, and Aya/Eric joined us for all kinds…
Red Beard
We snuck in one more trip down to the gulf before it got too cold: We watched workers embedded a bunch of poles in the sand for a new house. They excavated the holes using nothing but a 15′ pressurized water wand: Back home we had some guests come visit. Elie is a world traveling…
Scary things
Dare to guess what this is? This guy tried to look away from that image, but it was too much for him. He lost his s…t and flew away: The Kids and Kid-lets are all doing well in CA and MT: I setup a rig to watch a pine cone open up. I do know…