Fawns to Bucks

You remember those cute little deer fawns we had pouncing over our pool cover last spring?   They grew up:

This hawk has been watching them like a hawk:

And this wood pecker:

Was pecking on our rock siding.  Must have been some rock insects in there:

Which leads into things that weight about the same as a woodpecker (150 grams), we switched phone carriers and somehow our phones magically grew in size, from iphone to Galaxy S3 and Note 2:

Speaking of notes, note to robot.   Do not pick a wrestling match with a Norfolk Pine … you will loose:

And while we are on the topic of pretty (the Norfolk Pine tree is pretty), we had some pretty fog recently:

That streak of light at top of this photo is a jet landing at the SLC airport:

And speaking of lights, I bought a couple of fun LED lights.  I put a 3 watt spot light on the glass sculpture on the piano:

And pointed a 20 watt colorful ‘water effect’ light onto the ceiling.  It looks like the rippling water reflection we sometimes get from the pool:

And speaking of pool, we are not swimming in it because we had record snows this winter.  I got some good snow shoveling exercise keeping up with it:

Last months snowman, the 12 footer that quickly fell over, had a re-birth:

Then, as nature dictates, started his life cycle:

Then we got even more snow:

So he got a face lift:

And a new buddy!

Then the sun took their arms:

They leaned back to worship and appease the sun:

But, like it was with Icaras, it didn’t work out:

The massive snows also collapsed the left side of our pool cover.  I rescued it from the bottom of the pool this weekend.  Now I need a wet suit to jump into the 45 degree water to bolt it back on:

The lower left of the above photo shows my solar water collector experiment.   My next step is to put some sensors on it to make it more efficient, turning the pump on/off when at optimal times:

These little microprocessor boards have the power of PCs of just a few years ago.    That $20 white SD card on the right has both a processor AND a wi-fi radio built in.    It is a fun time to be a tech geek!