Morning doves: “What the heck are those crazy bipeds up to now?” (fyi, doves don’t swear) Biped: “Feeding insects to my Venus Fly Trap” The tricky part is that flies are not often interested in being digested by a plant. So we attracted them with stinky wet cat food: But flies seemed to have been…
Mystery photo. Hint: not camping oatmeal, although I’ve eaten camping oatmeal that looked similar. Answer: end of post: We had a fun time hosting the Skritter Guys Retreat. They worked: They played: They work/played: And they feasted: More Skritter guy photos here: https://plus.google.com/photos/106916156663153973757/albums/6022654295417079441 Nick stayed an extra weekend. He survived numerous doggy attacks: We hiked:…
I’ll start this month’s post with some friendly bug photos, and end with some scary ones (you spider-phoebes probably will want to skip the last few). I don’t know who this guy is, but he posed for me, so I like him: Bees are trickier, as they are constantly bumbling about, not standing still: But…
I’ve been saving my credit card cash back bonus for 10+ years, waiting for something special to spend it on. Behold … the ‘free’ camera: An Olympus OMD EM-10, along with 3 lenses, zoom (150 –> 600 mm equivalent), macro/portrait (120 mm, f2.8), and a portable pancake (28->84 mm). It is a ‘micro-4/3’ camera, so…
Challenge of the month: wear a stinky boot over your head and pick up a dog toy at the same time. I’ve seen it done: We had wind blow down some copper flashing off the garage onto the deck: I enlisted the help of my handy handyperson to put it back up: I took an…
Big fire downtown last week, 150 foot flames! This is as seen from our window, 2 miles away: A drugged up electrician torched 4 story wooden apartment under construction, for unknown reasons. They had 4 big ladder fire trucks, one at each corner, and managed to keep it from spreading: It was so scary, some…