Care to guess what this is and where it came from? One of these birds would be happy to eat it, the other would not: The white dog birthed it. He developed a 1″ bump on his side with a small hole in the middle: We thought it was a spider bite, but after seeing…
I found some interesting tree roots deep in our backyard forest and transformed them into root sculptures. I was calling them root-tures, then sculpt-a-root, now I just call them pretty . This one is our new doorman: This beauty weighs 80 lbs! Also made a few wood-mats from a newly fallen hickory tree: Helen made…
My geek project this month is a likely futile attempt at anti-bark training, using a neural network to detect barking: Helen finally gave up after spending many unhappy hours swearing at her $100 sewing machine. She splurged on an old fashion cordless version: I varnished some interesting pieces of wood, one of which Helen is…
In an act of isolation silliness, I Frankensteind a new member into our house. We call him ‘The Eye Guy”: Some more details along with some creepy music here: This month’s mystery photo: Mom is happily back home after 1 month in month in hospital. Scott and Terri are taking good care of her: Helen’s…
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…
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…