A mommy racoon discovered a crack in my fireplace chimney. I tried to evict her with loud rock music from a Sonos speaker, but apparently she is a metal head. Will wait to see if she sprouts babies, then will try other eviction methods<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Neighbor Art made owl box V2. I added an indoor camera but inadvertently epoxied on the wrong lens. Nothing a vice couldn’t fix \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Embarrassing metric of an extreme homebody: someone who takes 2.5 years before adding his first tank of gas. The BMW 330e hybrid has 20 miles of electric range, enough to cover most of my trips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Our neighborhood had a fun block party:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Closing with more photo animation fun:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\nBruce<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An unwanted guest, an updated owl box, and an embarrassing tank of gas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Animated_Mushroom_Eats_Viewer4.gif?fit=960%2C540&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7482","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=7482"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7508,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7482\/revisions\/7508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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