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That would be moderately cold for 2:30am in April. At 2:30pm I think it might be a personal record. And the snow is really starting to come down and stick. The weather’s been miserable all week but this is the … Continue reading →

So precisely on the first of April the weather went all to hell. Days of gale wind, temps that never got out of the thirties, followed by a couple of dustings of snow. Quite seasonal for early April, really – … Continue reading →

I overslept this morning, finally waking at 6:15 from a vivid dream about folding laundry.

My poor engineering strikes again… My new dueling tree started misbehaving. The top target worked okay but the bottom one kept stopping in the middle of its swing. Not super hard to understand why. The weight of the swinging targets … Continue reading →

…and maybe it’s too early to say whether my problem is solved. Honestly with a new leg it’s always too early to say that. There’s “this just isn’t right at all” and then there’s “this is just new, I’ll get … Continue reading →

What can I say? He’s a scratcher. Tobie is working on destroying his second bed – it’s only one year old and he has already clawed holes in it. With the first one I let matters go until he annihilated … Continue reading →

A bedroom heater that goes “foop” on command first thing in the morning… Fresh hot bread in a chilly cabin… The first bike ride of the season… To go get a gift from a Friend of the Blog! My ammo … Continue reading →

Tobie likes to bark at exciting things happening outside the Lair, which I normally encourage. For several days now he has found one particular spot in the Lair’s front yard very interesting, and I finally decided to see if whatever … Continue reading →

In hindsight it shouldn’t have come as any surprise: The compass app could hardly know where north is if I had all location permissions turned off. Truthfully I never really believed turning that feature off did anything – and I’m … Continue reading →

I needed a compass this morning and recalled that there was (supposedly) one on my smartphone. Opened the app, and it was more than 120o out of whack. If there’s a way to recalibrate it to reality, I’m not seeing … Continue reading →

It’s still March, you never know what the weather’s going to do except each day will at least start cold and the wind is probably going to be an adventure. So the old man is mostly staying indoors and reading. … Continue reading →

I had to look it up to remember: Big Brother sent me my current weather station a little over four years ago and to be honest I didn’t really expect it to last as long as it has. But we’re … Continue reading →

So no surprise, I woke this morning to a little snow on top of a lot of frozen rain… And it took a while, since it stayed cold all day, for the ice to let go of my solar panels. … Continue reading →

No thunder, mind you; not a bit. But around here rain usually comes with thunder and Tobie decided there was no need to wait for it before beginning his meltdown. So I put up with him panting and pacing for … Continue reading →

Several years ago Landlady added a grain mill to the capabilities of Ian’s Cave. I used it to gradually grind up the wheat berries that had been sitting around for longer than I’ve lived here, to no purpose. Took a … Continue reading →

They’re more fun, so you use them more. I’ve been beating up my new little dueling tree so much in the past few days it’s starting to eat into my ammo stash. In ze old days the closest thing to … Continue reading →

Every damned year. After a couple of unpleasantly blustery but not especially cold days, March let winter back out of the box… Cold AND heavy overcast isn’t the usual combination, but yesterday had me running the Honda on the porch … Continue reading →

So the first Wednesday of the month is Senior Day at the Palace of Food, which Neighbor L and I hit most months. On the way back she graciously agreed to stop at the post office to see if the … Continue reading →