{"id":48,"date":"2016-01-05T00:16:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T00:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5265.temp.domains\/~brucewi2\/photos\/2016\/01\/05\/my-fancy-pants\/"},"modified":"2019-09-03T01:12:24","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T01:12:24","slug":"my-fancy-pants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/my-fancy-pants\/","title":{"rendered":"My Fancy Pants"},"content":{"rendered":"
The clue to this mystery photo:  I hunted our backyard for 2 days to find it.   Answer a few photos below:<\/div>\n
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<\/a>This year’s flu hit us both hard.    5 days I’d rather not repeat, a good 2 weeks before we felt normal.  I was so delirious I saw bears in our bed:   <\/p>\n

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This guy doesn’t get the flu.    Probably how he has survived longer than the dinosaur (300 million years).   Helen calls it a winged beetle, as she doesn’t want to admit that we have an occasional cockroach in the house:<\/div>\n
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Doggy was disappointed to find a neighbor boy broke his favorite river bridge:<\/p>\n

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That mystery photo was where our 100+ feet of mostly underground 120 volt backyard lighting wiring had shorted out.  Looks like squirrel teeth marks.   It was not on a safe GFCI circuit, so whoever was having lunch there got quite a shock.   I re-did the wiring, adding a GFCI as well as a few LED spot lights.   Looks really pretty at night now:<\/p>\n

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We had a big storm recently, 5 inches of rain in a few days.   This photo was taken around midnight, but looks like noon as I caught it in the middle of a lighting strike:<\/div>\n
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Our timid little creek knows how to roar when it has to:<\/p>\n

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For you non-electrical people who feel cheated by the first mystery photo, here is a 2nd one:<\/p>\n

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Boris and Irene stayed with us for a week while waiting for their stuff to be shipped from Salt Lake to their new house here:<\/p>\n

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We enjoyed having a 2nd cook in the house.   This photo legend should say something like: Boris, Rose, and an air plant playing with Hanuka candles:<\/p>\n

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It took about a week to unpack most of their boxes:<\/div>\n
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I blackified another household item, this time an old spare, unused, rusting refrigerator.   Seemed easier than removing it:<\/div>\n

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I would have blackified the piano, but it was already black, so I did surgery instead, fixing a stuck key:<\/div>\n
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I gleefully discovered the ground here doesn’t freeze in the Winter, so I spent much of the xmas\/new years off days playing with dirt and rocks in the backyard.     This slate path was bumpy and uneven:<\/p>\n

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So I broke out my special fancy pants:<\/p>\n

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And scared the rocks back into proper form:<\/div>\n
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That got me fired up to create a new trail down to the river.   This is a before shot:<\/div>\n
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I first moved the white bellied Buddha to a spot where he could properly laugh at me, then used a come-along winch on some of the bigger rocks (those granite rocks are heavier than they look):<\/p>\n

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A couple of weekends and a few sore muscles later, we ended up with 15 steps and 50 feet of new trail:<\/p>\n

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I hopefully engineered it so this new little patio spot will not wash away in the next storm:<\/p>\n

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That 2nd mystery photo was a closeup from this guy.    We don’t really know what it is.   Helen picked it up from a garden center.   Possibly an ancient squid tentacle, but more likely a now rotting gourd of impossible length:<\/p>\n

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Finally,  this month’s geek video is about a magic button:<\/div>\n
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