Author: doug

Some technologically advanced items work fine with small issues. Other lower-tech items are made useless by the smallest defect. Like this stove igniter with a crack in its ceramic insulator.

We’re glad that Lis’s knee immobilizer (temporarily taken off for some evening relief) is comfortable for someone.

Evidently Boston is a stand-in for New York for filming something in the  Walking Dead franchise. This morning they’re hauling off the prop vehicles from near my office.

My new camera has a dedicated black & white mode, and I had some fun playing around with it at today’s Memorial Day BBQ.

I’m smoking some pork ribs for dinner tonight, plus some turkey tenders to go into other recipes. I think I’d have trouble fitting much more without a bigger smoker.

The cherry tree I previewed last week is in full bloom now.

I think our cherry tree is going to put on quite a show this year

We went to the Tulip Mania festival at the Mass Horticultural Society today.

I set up a pinhole projector to help watch today’s eclipse.

I managed to get a nice small, round pinhole in the foil and so had some pretty decent resolution. Not bad for 15 minutes and $0.

The dirt used to fill the trench in our yard (from last fall’s electric project) was so full of rocks that we despaired of being able to grow grass on it. So today I took off the top few inches and screened it. I also found some artifacts like broken pottery and bits of unburned coal.

Tomorrow I’ll mix the usable dirt with compost and fill it back in. I think it’s still a little early for grass seed.

Bonus: some of those artifacts