A few new trees
A very long in the tooth and long in the making story....it basically can be summed up with the sentence...
Update
Predators, Prey and the Occasional Electrification
Carrying on from the last post where I mentioned a number of our apex predators, here's a collection of some...
Feral “Fun”
Since moving here we have been fighting the good fight to trap, neuter (or spay) and then release the feral...
Divesting
While we have had to purchase many things since buying this crazy place, we also have managed to get rid...
Rain Machines
As part of our home automation work, and a setup we actually got up and running last summer, are the...
Neighbors, Drainage, AirBnB and Guns: Part 2
The last post detailed some of the craziness that has to do with living up here: namely a particular resident...
Neighbors, Drainage, AirBnB and Guns: Part 1
Listen to this story Recently there was an article in Bloomberg about the many efforts of AirBNB to silence any...
Birds and Windows
People in glasses houses, besides not throwing stones, also need to find ways to mitigate the needless avian deaths caused...
“New” Desk
Still working through the backlog of images and stories, but this, unlike the last multi-post saga, is a relatively quick...
Related to the Great Room: Kitchen Touch-ups
While painting the great room, one extra thing our painter tackled for us was painting a few of patched areas...
Making the Great Room Great — Foot Notes on Molding
Perhaps my favorite detail in the great room is the very subtle change in the molding. Backing up a bit...
Making the Great Room Great — Step Nine: Ambient Lighting
In addition to deleting the sconces in the great room, Agent Smith got creative and ordered some coloring changing strip...