Lori is really happy to have her lavender blooming. Similar to my lupine triumph, Lori had tried several times to plant lavender, but kept losing them to the winter floods. Every once in awhile we find something that makes it …
In addition to shooting a second dress rehearsal, today we also shot the group shot of the cast. Laura always does an amazing job of getting all the girls lined up for this. Usually with this large of group I …
Ever since I started my garden in San Jose, I’ve wanted hollyhocks. Problem is they look just like common weeds when they’re little and I usually loose track of them and end up pulling them. So this time I started …
Although very different from his most recent entries, this sculpture from Duane Flatmo was the best of the lot once again. The metallic fish was made primarily from recycled baking pans of various shapes and sizes.
Found this guy as I was picking up some firewood for Saturday night’s fire. First time I’ve seen a scorpion in the wild. Sunday, while at the pond, we had a brown recluse looking spider sit next to us during …
Lori had a business meeting with some Pacific Rim clients in Santa Cruz so we decided to trailer down the bike so I’d have transportation and could go for a ride while she went to the meeting. Tonight I hooked …
While I was backing up to take a picture of the Corkscrew Tree, I noticed this patch of lichen with what I assumed to be spores decorating the ends of its branches. I did a bit of quick research on …
Lori came to the office after work to play Myst V, which she got for her birthday. We didn’t get home until about 8pm, when we found that our house was without power again. Our 200 amp main breaker must …
While I was working on the Sprint, I noticed that several tires were flat on the ATV. It hasn’t really been used all year because when we started on the garage, it sat outside and the battery went dead. So …
Even as much as Lori loves her Macintosh, I don’t think she understands this recent purchase of mine. As I mentioned earlier, I have a bit of a computer museum going on in my garage. Starting with my Commodore 64, …
First Sunday in December means it’s time to put the lights up on the town Christmas tree. This year we were blessed with pretty good weather for the task. No rain, and the temperature wasn’t too bad either for an …
I had to go down to Fort Bragg today for a business meeting and had some time afterwards to take pictures. Under the Noyo Bridge I came across this boat that took a rather unorthodox approach to docking. Not sure …
Three years ago we bought a bunch of molding to trim the ceilings in the parlor and in my room. We installed the molding in the parlor right away, but the rest of it has been sitting in a pile …
A few new pieces of hardware have been added to the desk. First, I finally broke down and bought a tablet. I got a Wacom Graphire 4 that also includes a cordless mouse. Still getting used to using the pen. …
Going out to the truck this morning I came across a doe and her two Bambies munching away in our yard (amazingly they were eating weeds!). I startled them and mommy deerest took off, crossing the driveway and lept over …
Lori loves seeing the fawns every year, and a few days ago she was wondering why she hadn’t seen any. We’ve been seeing a lot of bucks around lately, but no babies. So of course the day that Lori leaves …
With my new workspace in my garage, I’ve been very inspired to get all my tools organized so that I can spend more time working on projects instead of searching for my tools. So today I totally reorganized my three …
The traditional start to Memorial Day Weekend is to go up to Arcata for the start of the Kinetic Sculpture Race. Yesterday we found out that there was a Harbor Freight store in Arcata so we stopped there first as …
The last few days our yard has been visited by the neighbor’s chickens in the afternoon. The same neighbors who we ended up ‘borrowing’ Artie from. So I guess he’s used to them. Their dog Katie, also shows up in …
How far has President Bush’s popularity sunk? Well this business in Fort Bragg wants to make it perfectly clear that the Bush supporter next door has nothing at all to do with their business. I was in Fort Bragg for …
With all the rain we’ve had, the grass is going to explode if we ever get any sun. I guess that’s why our neighbors brought in an extra large herd of cows and calves this time. They seem to enjoy …
As you can see, the garage safely completed its journey west. In the first step towards becoming a two car garage, a hole was cut for the second bay. Since the existing door is kind of trashed, we’ll be getting …
This afternoon we went to see Earl Thomas at the Rep. Watching performers at the Rep is always a great experience because it’s such an intimate setting, but Earl managed to make it even more intimate. At one point he …
On my trip out to the mail box today I noticed a bunch of really big paw prints in the mud in our front yard. I thought this would be a good puzzle for Lauren to figure out, since I …
Ok, you’ve all seen the movies where in the big heist the bad guys can’t touch the floor or the alarm will go off, so the they repell from the ceiling right? So who would have guessed that slugs have …
Here is why it didn’t surprise me to the mountain lion tracks yesterday. Today there were 14-15 rose destroyers in the Bugenig’s field which is the largest herd I’ve seen over there. Definitely time to cull the herd.
Linda commented a while back that it bothered her that the archive menu only went backwards. The reason for that was that I didn’t want to have to re-edit every previous page to update the archive menu every time I …
Here’s the view of Loleta from Tompkins Hill Road close to the peak of the flooding. Unbelievably it got worse than this, but I couldn’t get out of Ferndale to get the picture. Mom and Grandma, this is the road …
While we were taking pictures of Lori, she asked for one of me. I figured the uniform would lend some respectibility to my otherwise dubious character.
What was keeping me very busy all this month was two e-commerce web sites that both wanted to be up by July 15th. The first one, for Celtic Furnishings, had to be finished before the owner left for a trip …
