Author: doug

We had an electrician out to install a 2nd car charger in the garage. I also had him re-wire the rest of the garage to the new subpanel, abandoning the old circuit carried in a circa-1935 buried conduit. I was worried about the condition of that conduit given its age, but it turns out it was in great shape because inside the conduit was the lead-jacketed cable you see here. Ah well, at least it’s all up to code now, but I do have to figure out how to safely dispose of this old cable.

Jeff and Claire hosted us at their place in Provincetown for a few days, and we rented a boat to go tooling around the harbor looking for seals.

Two red-eyed vireos from a fun nature walk with Claire. Neither Lis nor I had ever seen these in the wild before. So I guess I could say, “nothing for 55 years, and now twice in one day!”

Boston Light from our ferry to Provincetown.

We went to a drone art show in Boston, drone sky painting accompanying a live string quartet. Here’s a swan (for Swan Lake, naturally) over Harvard Stadium.

We stopped & got ice cream (and cheese, not shown) at High Lawn Farm, which makes its products right there on the farm from their own cows’ milk.

The nature highlight of our trip to Lenox was getting a really good look at this common yellowthroat, a species of warbler. He stuck around for a good 10 minutes moving from branch to branch, giving us a lot of good views.

Relaxing in the backyard of our B&B in Lenox.

I unexpectedly received new licence plates in the mail today. Why? Typo: somehow the plates wound up with “O” (capital letter O) instead of “0” (digit zero) the first time around.

Go home, Christmas cactus, you’re drunk.