Author: doug

For some reason, the earpiece ends of both sides of my sunglasses snapped off while in the case in my briefcase. For the second time in my life, I don’t have time to get my glasses repaired before we leave for the Vineyard. But in this case, my home repair — electrical heat-shrink tubing — may be the permanent fix.

Chipmunks undermined part of our front walk. I re-set some of the pavers today, and took the opportunity to make the side where there used to be steps a bit less awkward-looking.

At some point it just turns into burning the end of your stick.

A sharp knife is a safe knife.

Note: If you come to dinner at our house, your steak knife will be sharp enough to cut your thumb clean off. Be forewarned.

On our way out of North Conway, we took a quick stop along the Kancamangus to enjoy some waterfalls on the Swift River.

It has been years — perhaps decades — since Lis and I have been to Lost River in New Hampshire. So as part of our Conway trip, we drove the Kancamangus Highway for a return visit. Here we have a granite pothole, accentuated by the fisheye lens.

Bonus: I took this photo because I was unable to read these words in the dim light inside one of the caves, and wanted to know what they said. Amazingly, the new camera focused properly and produced a usable shot.

This is Brody, the resident Shelty at our B&B in North Conway this weekend. Brody is fat. He has 3 things going against him: 1. he lives at a B&B with guests who sneak him bacon; 2. the awful winter of 2014/2015 robbed him of the pad skin on one of his feet, so exercise is difficult; 3. he’s adorable, making #1 all the more likely.

That’s funny, I don’t remember buying a cat statue for the living room. Oh, it’s Gandalf.

Today marks one year that our house has been powered by solar panels. They have produced around 6.5 MWh of power, roughly 105% of our electricity consumption over the same period. By fall we should have produced enough credit to sail through next winter without an electric bill.

Yellow is solar production, grey is our consumption, and red is the difference — negative on sunny days, positive on extra-cloudy days or when we run the ACs.

My father’s favorite ice cream, in honor of his passing, one year ago today.