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Category: Every Day Things
Time Lapse Footage: North Garden
I’ve been tinkering with some time-lapse stuff again. Here’s one of the garden outside my office.
Birds and More Birds
Saturday I took part in an online birding event sponsored by the San Francisco Bird Observatory. It was pretty straightforward: go out and take pictures…
The Shifting House
Our house is now over 50 years old. While not old compared to many other buildings, it is old for up here. There are at…
Neighboring Dog
Our nearest neighbor has several dogs who love to come visit each day–probably because near the door I have a bag full of tasty freeze-dried…
People are Annoying
As mentioned before, our road is a private road. That means no city, county or state authority oversees management of said road. (There is actually…
Bringing Outside In
One of the perks of having so many windows is that my desk sits right next to a few large ones. When working at my…
No more static
In addition to the race cars built at Purgatory Auto Works and Dinosaur Farm, we–well, Agent Smith really–work on our daily drivers as well. While…
Arcadia
A somewhat odd fact about the living space at Purgatory is that we have many exterior doors for both the house and studio buildings. The…
The Small Idiocies
Since tackling the creek embankment that was used as an illegal dump site by people who don’t live along our road, Agent Smith and I…
The unGreat Room
Once the furnace work was done, it was time to take stock before moving on to the next projects. I took a handful of panorama…
Shelter in Place
California, like most of the country, is currently asking residents to shelter in place. Except for the fact that Agent Smith isn’t going into the…
Along Come Spiders
We tend to have a live-and-let-live mentality at the ranch. This even carries over to some of our more daunting neighbors, like this beautiful Black…
Best of 2019
A bit later than usual, but here’s last year’s “best of” video. And I really am working on posts. So. many. posts.
Nesting Birds
This post a few weeks ago covered the story of 10 nesting boxes installed at Purgatory over a year ago. Last summer nary a bird…
More goats
(This was originally posted to stega’s FB page, but since it’s a continuation of the last post, I figured it’s worth adding here.) Things with…
Good Fences
This post should really be titled “not being asshats makes for good neighbors.” In May 2018, we got new neighbors at the property to our…
Stega took yet another trip
At the end of April 2018, I traveled east yet again, though this time there was no diving involved. Instead I spent a week visiting…
Spring is the time for nesting
Back from my vacation, I was delighted to move back into my office. I wrote about the new wall colors last November, even though the…
Stega Went Diving
While on Little Cayman, I was not about to take my big rig (a Canon Mark IV) 100 feet underwater, so I used two other…
Finally, new posts coming…but first, a couch!
It’s been a busy few months at Purgatory, but I’ve been writing new posts this week as I sift through the huge backlog of pictures,…
Snakes on a Driveway
Nothing like coming home and having the driveway blocked by a lovely snake. Before you go “ewwww” or mentally scream in terror, or wonder why…
Fog
Agent Smith said, “In San Francisco, they call their fog ‘Karl.’ Here, I believe we shall call it Phineas. Phineas Fog.” And what fog we…
Samsung Technical Support: OMFG it’s worse that I could ever imagine.
So the last post was about our new oven, and after it went live, I decided to finally try again to tackle the annoying issue…
And Again With the Kitchen Appliances
Since buying this place, we’ve had to replace the refrigerator because we couldn’t actually open the door–because the POs were…well….idiots. We’ve replaced the dishwasher because…
Blooms of Purgatory
It’s been a while since we’ve posted pictures of some of the flowers of Purgatory. I also need to get back in the habit of…
Our own amusement park of sorts
Visitors to PAWDF get to try out some of the machinery here, swim in the pool, or just admire the views. Over the last year…
Last Night’s Storm Damage
We had a rather bad winter storm on February 1, 2019. The winds howled through the night, and we awoke to find a lot of…
Keeping Me Company
While we don’t often write about them, Tenar and Thy are always part of the ranch. They have their own room with painted trees and…
Chimes at Purgatory
The POs left behind a tiny windchime outside the kitchen sink window. We grew fond of the little thing and its tinkling charm, so much…