This month’s mystery photo (click to enlarge):<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This beauty discovered our backyard waters:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Initially we were enchanted, then we discovered Helen’s beloved little fishes were disappearing. We caught his evil work on our net-cams:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\nThis offended Helen greatly, so she bought some alligator and heron decoys, but they were not effective:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nSo now she enlists our guard dogs, who are an effective deterrent:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\nHere is an expanded view of that mystery photo. Hint: it is not an impressionistic painting of a human head, but it is somewhat fishy:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nFollowing in my parental footsteps, I created an not-so-fancy indoor greenhouse to get some vegetable garden seedlings started:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/a><\/figure><\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\nZach is moved into his van full time. This is how he drove his car, trailer, and motorcycle to Hysham for storage:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nI rigged a motor to our bedroom window so the house can automatically open\/close it for fresh air, depending on temperatures:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The mystery photo was of one of our pond fish, re-configured by the heron into bird poop: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200110-1245-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200110-1245-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200110-1245-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200110-1245-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200110-1245-768x1151.jpg 768w, https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200110-1245-1025x1536.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200110-1245-1366x2048.jpg 1366w, https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200110-1245-300x450.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200110-1245-850x1274.jpg 850w, https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200110-1245-scaled.jpg 1708w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Closing with a foggy vista shot from our swing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200128-1324.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200128-1324-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200128-1324-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200128-1324-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200128-1324-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200128-1324-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200128-1324-850x638.jpg 850w, https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200128-1324.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bruce<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200117-1315.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4290"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4362,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4290\/revisions\/4362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
This offended Helen greatly, so she bought some alligator and heron decoys, but they were not effective:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nSo now she enlists our guard dogs, who are an effective deterrent:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\nHere is an expanded view of that mystery photo. Hint: it is not an impressionistic painting of a human head, but it is somewhat fishy:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nFollowing in my parental footsteps, I created an not-so-fancy indoor greenhouse to get some vegetable garden seedlings started:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/a><\/figure><\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\nZach is moved into his van full time. This is how he drove his car, trailer, and motorcycle to Hysham for storage:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nI rigged a motor to our bedroom window so the house can automatically open\/close it for fresh air, depending on temperatures:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The mystery photo was of one of our pond fish, re-configured by the heron into bird poop: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200110-1245-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200110-1245-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200110-1245-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200110-1245-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200110-1245-768x1151.jpg 768w, https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200110-1245-1025x1536.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200110-1245-1366x2048.jpg 1366w, https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200110-1245-300x450.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200110-1245-850x1274.jpg 850w, https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200110-1245-scaled.jpg 1708w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Closing with a foggy vista shot from our swing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200128-1324.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200128-1324-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200128-1324-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200128-1324-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200128-1324-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200128-1324-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200128-1324-850x638.jpg 850w, https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200128-1324.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bruce<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200117-1315.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4290"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4362,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4290\/revisions\/4362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
So now she enlists our guard dogs, who are an effective deterrent:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\nHere is an expanded view of that mystery photo. Hint: it is not an impressionistic painting of a human head, but it is somewhat fishy:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nFollowing in my parental footsteps, I created an not-so-fancy indoor greenhouse to get some vegetable garden seedlings started:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/a><\/figure><\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\nZach is moved into his van full time. This is how he drove his car, trailer, and motorcycle to Hysham for storage:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nI rigged a motor to our bedroom window so the house can automatically open\/close it for fresh air, depending on temperatures:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The mystery photo was of one of our pond fish, re-configured by the heron into bird poop: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200110-1245-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200110-1245-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200110-1245-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200110-1245-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200110-1245-768x1151.jpg 768w, https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200110-1245-1025x1536.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200110-1245-1366x2048.jpg 1366w, https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200110-1245-300x450.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200110-1245-850x1274.jpg 850w, https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200110-1245-scaled.jpg 1708w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Closing with a foggy vista shot from our swing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200128-1324.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200128-1324-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200128-1324-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200128-1324-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200128-1324-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200128-1324-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200128-1324-850x638.jpg 850w, https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200128-1324.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bruce<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200117-1315.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4290"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4362,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4290\/revisions\/4362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Here is an expanded view of that mystery photo. Hint: it is not an impressionistic painting of a human head, but it is somewhat fishy:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nFollowing in my parental footsteps, I created an not-so-fancy indoor greenhouse to get some vegetable garden seedlings started:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/a><\/figure><\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\nZach is moved into his van full time. This is how he drove his car, trailer, and motorcycle to Hysham for storage:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nI rigged a motor to our bedroom window so the house can automatically open\/close it for fresh air, depending on temperatures:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The mystery photo was of one of our pond fish, re-configured by the heron into bird poop: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200110-1245-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200110-1245-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200110-1245-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200110-1245-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200110-1245-768x1151.jpg 768w, https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200110-1245-1025x1536.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200110-1245-1366x2048.jpg 1366w, https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200110-1245-300x450.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200110-1245-850x1274.jpg 850w, https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200110-1245-scaled.jpg 1708w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Closing with a foggy vista shot from our swing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200128-1324.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200128-1324-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200128-1324-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200128-1324-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200128-1324-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200128-1324-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200128-1324-850x638.jpg 850w, https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200128-1324.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bruce<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200117-1315.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4290"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4362,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4290\/revisions\/4362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Following in my parental footsteps, I created an not-so-fancy indoor greenhouse to get some vegetable garden seedlings started:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Zach is moved into his van full time. This is how he drove his car, trailer, and motorcycle to Hysham for storage:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nI rigged a motor to our bedroom window so the house can automatically open\/close it for fresh air, depending on temperatures:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The mystery photo was of one of our pond fish, re-configured by the heron into bird poop: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200110-1245-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200110-1245-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200110-1245-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200110-1245-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200110-1245-768x1151.jpg 768w, https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200110-1245-1025x1536.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200110-1245-1366x2048.jpg 1366w, https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200110-1245-300x450.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200110-1245-850x1274.jpg 850w, https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200110-1245-scaled.jpg 1708w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Closing with a foggy vista shot from our swing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200128-1324.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200128-1324-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200128-1324-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200128-1324-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200128-1324-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200128-1324-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200128-1324-850x638.jpg 850w, https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200128-1324.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bruce<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200117-1315.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4290"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4362,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4290\/revisions\/4362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
I rigged a motor to our bedroom window so the house can automatically open\/close it for fresh air, depending on temperatures:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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