Sunday Panorama
A Sunday panorama of the pool solar, taken in 2016.
Category: Every Day Things
We interrupt your service…
Our longtime local pest control company was sold to a big chain, so we found someone better.
Time Lapse Footage: North Garden
A time-lapse of the garden outside my office.
Birds and More Birds
An online birding event: 34 species photographed here in one day.
Sunday Panorama
This week’s Sunday panorama from around Purgatory.
The Shifting House
Our 50-year-old house has shifted a bit, and the north hall’s doors show it.
Neighboring Dog
Our nearest neighbor’s dogs visit every day, and once got collected by an overzealous Animal Control.
People are Annoying
People who don’t live here keep driving up our private road to party, litter and crash.
Bringing Outside In
Printing my favorite wildlife shots from the north garden to hang around the house.
No more static
Agent Smith replaces the dying amplifier in the M Coupe, and no more static.
Arcadia
A long-winded story about our many doors, and why they’re Arcadia.
The Small Idiocies
The road committee, and why no one can help us remove a burned-out car that’s sat across from our south border for 15 years.
The unGreat Room
Panoramas of the great room, just before its transformation began.
Shelter in Place
Sheltering in place isn’t much of a change for us up here.
Along Come Spiders
We let a black widow keep the rubbish bin she’d moved into.
Best of 2019
Last year’s “best of” video, a bit later than usual.
Nesting Birds
All but two of our new nest boxes were used this spring, by bluebirds, wrens and a titmouse.
More goats
A half-dozen of the neighbor’s goats and sheep jumped onto our land from a manure pile, and rounding them up.
Good Fences
Our new eastern neighbors’ livestock and fence problems, and the new fence that’s finally going in.
Stega took yet another trip
A week visiting my parents on Longboat Key, with a view of Purgatory from the plane.
Spring is the time for nesting
Back from vacation and back in my office, with a few furniture finds and crafts.
Stega Went Diving
Underwater on Little Cayman, with stingrays, a lobster and more.
Finally, new posts coming…but first, a couch!
The blue couch finally finds its spot, in my office, where it actually gets used.
Little Stegas Arrive in the Mail
Small stegosaurus figures arrive in the mail.
Snakes on a Driveway
Coming home to a gopher snake blocking the driveway. Snakes are our friends, since they eat rodents.
Fog
In San Francisco they call their fog Karl. Here, we call it Phineas.
Samsung Technical Support: OMFG it’s worse that I could ever imagine.
Trying to get Samsung technical support to fix our new oven’s clock. It’s worse than I could ever imagine.
And Again With the Kitchen Appliances
The microwave/oven combo died, so we have a new Samsung, and yet another example of the previous owners’ electrical genius.
Blooms of Purgatory
Flowers from around Purgatory, and a bouquet from my parents dried for the great room.
Our own amusement park of sorts
The visitors who came to Purgatory over the last year to try the machinery, swim in the pool and admire the views.
Last Night’s Storm Damage
A bad winter storm mangled ornaments, toppled the boys’ outdoor cage and knocked over one of our streetlights.
Keeping Me Company
Tenar and Thy are constant companions, and my old homemade PVC play stand finally finds its place in my office.