Mystery photo (answer at end of post): Spring has truly sprung. The birds have gone wild: This is a Karate Kid / Dirty Harry quail, leering at me with a ‘go ahead, make my day’ stare, ready to kick my head off with his one good remaining foot: And the animals have come out of…
The snow finally stopped, so I’ve been learning how to run a pool. Not swimmable yet, but getting there. To help manage the solar water heater on the roof, I’ve started instrumenting the house. I put a weather station by the bird feeder so the birds can help me keep an eye on it: And…
We had a couple of pretty snowfalls this month: It melted fast. Here the camera caught snow falling from the power line: Our backyard is remarkably private. This is one of the few places in town I found where you can see it, about 3 miles away. You need a high res monitor, middle, 1/3…
We got a new power pole installed near our back yard. The old one was crooked and would spectacularly short wires in wind storms: I took a 1/2 day vacation while the power was out and we walked up one of the trails that starts a few blocks from our house: Helen enjoyed her month…
We made it! We survived our cross-country, mid-Winter migration with some stress but minimal damage. Icy roads and nasty viruses (I discovered you can develop Asthma late in life, given the right conditions), but I reckon that’s nothing compared to what the first Mormon’s dealt with when they migrated West. We stopped in MN to…
This is old news to most of you, but in case I missed anybody, we are buying a house! We haven’t actually set foot in it yet, but we are not entirely insane. We watched lots of videos and pictures, and have had detailed inspections and appraisals done. All looks good, so we hope to…