Sunday Panorama
From December 28, 2025.
Author: stega
A Whale of a Tale
Across from the front doors sits a console table, and for years its centerpiece was a bunch of artificial flowers stuffed into an old broken…
Sunday Panorama
From December 10, 2025.
2022 Aerial Images
It’s been a while since the last batch of aerial photos (April 2019, for those keeping score). These are from three flights in summer 2022,…
It’s Always Fence Repair Season
It’s important to mention that between the wind, the neighbors’ livestock, the race team and the occasional lost driver, the fences around here take a…
New Roofs, No Pavers Required
Regular readers know the wind up here does not mess around. In the winter of 2023–24, one of our typical storms brought hurricane-force winds that…
New Paint, Same Purgatory
If things look a bit different around here, you’re not imagining it. After running the same theme for years–and I mean years–I finally rebuilt things.…
Weed “Abatement”
This week I finished another documentary about another county department.This time it’s all about weeds…and not the good kind.
The End of the Pit Saga
A few weeks back, the Pit Saga of the last several years finally wrapped up completely. I spent a month putting together a documentary about…
And the mud…
In addition to the wind and rain, we get mud. The sort of mud that will suck the boot off your foot. Or get things…
Weather and Wind Stuff
Over the years we have experienced lots of weather. While we don’t get the snow those up on Mt. Hamilton do, we do get a…
More Miscellaneous Crafts
Here’s a rundown of some of the crafts I managed to get through this year. First off, a bunch of one-dollar balsa-wood stegosaurus puzzle things…
Some crafts from this past year
It’s been a busy but rather productive year. I’ve even managed to squeak out a few crafty projects. A quick-and-easy upgrade I crafted was blocking…
Scanning, Shredding and Rethinking
This past year, my goal was to reduce the seven filing cabinet drawers of paperwork for stuff here down to “fewer.” All the drawers were…
Parrot Destructions
Living with two twenty-five-plus-year-old birds means dealing with things such as small slippery landmines that resemble watery guacamole, regularly repairing bits of doors that have…
Lots of News Coming
So, carrying on from the last post earlier this year–after I did my huge data cleanup, my OWC drive enclosure started experiencing issues, namely the…
Visit Purgatory and Support SFBBO.org!
In partnership with the Los Gatos Birdwatcher, we will host an event at the ranch on October 11 to benefit the San Francisco Bay Bird…
Fewer Terabytes
I’ve been working on a lot of other projects of late, including a bunch of computer related “stuff”–mainly going through a couple terabytes of media…
Scooting Off
When we lived in San Francisco, I got around the city mainly by scooter. My first scooter was a little Aprilla 50cc, but after a…
The Turkeys
In late 2023, two orphaned turkeys were released here. This is their story. (cue “Law & Order” dun-dun)
Sunday Panorama
From February 25, 2023.
Home Automation, Take 2
Over the years I’ve written about various facets of our home automation setup. First we just had a Sonos that started and stopped at set…
My Own Music
Nowadays most people stream music from services like Spotify or Pandora or Apple Music. It’s easy to just like a few things and have data…
Those Old Planter Boxes–An Update
If you’ve read most of the posts here, you might remember the tale of the old planter boxes we purchased when we lived in San…
Sunday Panorama
From May 16, 2024.
Another tree update
When writing the last post I realized I should create an update on the pepper trees we planted several years ago. For a quick refresher,…
New Trees, and then New, New Trees
Around this time last year I purchased and made arrangements to have a half-dozen large trees delivered and planted at the ranch. I went to…
New Fencing
Last year I posted a video of our–what is the word I’m looking for–I’ll go with godawful-probably-drunken-idiot neighbor arguing with me regarding the need for…
Sunday Panorama
From January 22, 2024.
There Be Race Cars, Part Nine: Dajiban
It’s been a while since the last race car post, as there were no new race cars to detail. But in April of 2023, the…