The snow finally stopped, so I’ve been learning how to run a pool. Not swimmable yet, but getting there. To help manage the solar water heater on the roof, I’ve started instrumenting the house. I put a weather station by the bird feeder so the birds can help me keep an eye on it:
And the neighborhood cats keep an eye on the birds:
And I keep an eye on the mountains! This is a view of our house from our neighbors deck across the street:
Nick came for a visit, on his way to a summer in CA:
We hiked 22 miles on his new 5 fingered shoes, including a trip to an observation deck at the top of an LDS building downtown:
The temple is closed to outsiders, but they have a model of it in a visitor’s center. If you look close in the lower left, you will see 12 oxen under a basin used for proxy Baptisms, allowing after death Baptisms to relatives who never had a chance to learn the LDS gospel:
One of our hikes was up a mountain just north our house. It was a beautiful sunny day, so sunglasses were out in full force:
The snow slowed us down about 5 miles in:
The 5 fingered shoes require periodic stops to thaw out the toes:
Here is another toe thawing strategy Nick tried:
Nick found a happy toady, and he was hungry:
But the toad remained happy even in ‘face’ of almost certain death. So he let him go.
We invented bouncy ball on a Congo drum chess:
We had a nice visit with Tim, Abby, and Luke:
As well as a visit from friend Philadelphia Helen:
Helen’s co-worker Pega showed us wonderful swimming pool on top of a hotel at Alta, one of the nearby ski resorts:
For you iphone users, you gotta try Microsoft’s PhotoSynth app. It allows you to easily create 3d’ish panoramas. Here are a couple:
Here are the less exciting but still fun 2d versions:
Bruce
