Saturday, August 31, 2019

Snaked

Bruce Winter

Aug 31 · 3 min read
Today’s mystery photo:
The Rochester house renovation is complete. New steel siding all around:
And complete up and down interior renovations:
We should close on selling it within a few weeks.
Zach used his profits from the work he put into the home renovation into buying a new van!
He also crashed his bicycle, ripping up his shoulder pretty bad.
This is the same van that Amazon is buying now for their delivery service. 4 wheel drive for those Montana Winters.
Nick’s company just launched a new adventure game, as well as getting some more funding:https://www.edsurge.com/news/2019-08-28-codecombat-dials-down-the-fighting-for-its-next-coding-game-and-raises-6-million .
That mystery photo was looking down the gullet of one of our pond fish
Some of our fish have been disappearing. We suspect raccoons and water snakes, like this guy:
He is non-poisonous, so I grabbed him and moved him up-creek 100 yards:
We rented an interesting house on the gulf. After getting stuck in the elevator for 15 minutes, we stuck with the stairs:
Beautiful view of St Vincent’s Island. Using my finger and guessing the height of a tree, I used geometry to calculate the distance to the island at 2000′, within 10% the 1800′ that google maps said:
We had fun with a kayak, other then when we flipped it in shallow water and broke something in Helen’s foot:
Aya and Eric joined us. They just got a kitten, so the used a kitten-cam to keep an eye on her:
Closing with 2 minute pond tour video:
Bruce

Thursday, August 01, 2019

Old man on a couch

Today’s mystery photo is a 2" blob of hair and bones I found on the trail:
I’m guessing it was a small rabbit who was re-configured by an Owl.
Helen’s turtles enjoy more exquisite dining. The box turtle loves cockroaches, so Helen has gone from squealing in horror to squealing in joy when we spot one:
I prefer veggies. This was my lovingly cooked home-grown birthday meal:
I tried resisting playing with the controversial Russian phone aging app, but was just too curious to see what an old me might look like. It didn’t predict the current me very well, but the future me seems plausible:
For my birthday, I decided to maybe it was time to get a new pair of shorts:
And I upgraded our couch. A friend carted away the old one we brought from Utah:
And two-men-in-a-truck moved in the new mail ordered one:
I promised no more ponds, so I’ve changed gears to flower planters:
Our ponds made some really pretty water lilies:
Eric and Aya came for a fun weekend visit:
Closing with some critter photos:
Check out the detailed veining on this guy. I’m guessing future wings in the making!
Bruce