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…
I discovered that you can buy a 2 week Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM) for $65, more details here: Here is an example of a typical day of my measurements: I’ve been doing the ‘time restricted’ eating thing for about a year, with a eating window between 6pm -> 10pm. The rise between 9 -> 10…
Eric & Aya came for a visit, part of their ‘Escape from LA’ road trip: They found a condo here 3x bigger than what they had in LA, for less money, so they decided to move here in November! The internets sent me a toilet. Modern toilets are MUCH better at flushing than 1970s toilets:…
Two unrelated mystery photos: I gave our House a nose and some fingers so it now can detect smoke and turn on our stove fan: White Doggy collected a couple of ticks. One was a little too well fed: Made a canvas print of Alabama critters. Except for the seagulls, all these photos were taken…