• Glorious colors

    Glorious colors — Early morning sunshine on the aspens at Little Maud Campground, White River National Forest, Basalt, Colorado. Day 4 – Road Trip October 2025. Copyright © 2025 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

  • Camped among the aspens

    Camped among the aspens. Little Maud Campground, White River National Forest, Basalt, Colorado. Day 3 – Road Trip October 2025. Copyright © 2025 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

  • Little Maud Campground, White River National Forest, Basalt, Colorado

    Little Maud Campground, White River National Forest, Basalt, Colorado — Day 3 – Road Trip October 2025. Copyright © 2025 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

  • Independence Pass and Continental Divide

    Independence Pass and Continental Divide — It was a lot busier than I expected given the tortuous drive to get here. Day 3 – Road Trip October 2025. Copyright © 2025 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

  • Empty

    Empty — I stopped briefly at the top of Independence Pass to stretch my legs and get a better look at the mountains. Day 3 – Road Trip October 2025. Copyright © 2025 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

  • Independence Pass and Continental Divide

    Independence Pass and Continental Divide — It was a lot busier than I expected given the tortuous drive to get here. Day 3 – Road Trip October 2025. Copyright © 2025 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

  • View from the top of Independence Pass

    View from the top of Independence Pass — I stopped briefly at the top of Independence Pass to stretch my legs and get a better look at the mountains. Day 3 – Road Trip October 2025. Copyright © 2025 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

  • View from the top of Independence Pass

    View from the top of Independence Pass — I stopped briefly at the top of Independence Pass to stretch my legs and get a better look at the mountains. Day 3 – Road Trip October 2025. Copyright © 2025 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

  • Day 3. Pond and Mountains

    Pond and Mountains — I stopped briefly at the top of Independence Pass to stretch my legs and get a better look at the mountains. Day 3 – Road Trip October 2025. Copyright © 2025 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

  • AI

    Working with AI is like working with a very polite, ingratiating, savant teenager who has odd memory problems.

  • Furnace Closet refurb complete

    No more green paint, and the many years of scratches, scrapes and various holes drilled in the walls have been patched.

  • What hole in the wall?

    Four days later, and it’s all fixed. I also patched the rest of the walls, the ceiling, and repainted the lot. The Dyson battery & charger holder is also in place.

  • Dyson vacuum cleaner battery & charger holder

    Dyson battery & charger holder. Copyright © 2025 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

    This was going to be a simple painted box, but I liked the look of the finished wood, so I treated it with Danish oil instead.

  • Back in the workshop

    Back in the workshop. Copyright © 2025 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

    It must be summer. Unfortunately, it’s now too hot and buggy for hiking or sitting around outside. Time for some work around the house.

    This is the second time this month I’ve taken the car out of the garage so that I can get some work done. The first time I made three sets of kick space boards and mounts for the Utility room and a new section of baseboard for the kitchen.

    This time I’m making a battery and charger holder for our Dyson vacuum cleaner as part of a quick refurb of the furnace closet. I’ve also got one more kick space board and mount to make for the utility room.

  • That escalated quickly

    That escalated quickly. Copyright © 2025 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

    This started out as a three-hour job. I’ll be lucky if I finish it in under a week. It’s been made worse by the fact that I cannot fit big sheets of plasterboard (or wood) into our current vehicle. This means I have had to patch the wall with offcuts.

  • Finally Finished

    Finally finished. Copyright © 2025 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

    The second hall closet has been waiting a long time to be finished. I tend to get my work around the house done in the summer when it is too hot and buggy for me to be backpacking. Last summer (2024), we were in the UK, so this project, which I started in 2023, was not completed. It’s time to fix that.

    This year, I’m home and free to tackle projects. I’m getting started by clearing up some unfinished jobs. The outstanding work on the closet required plastering the wall insert I added because the doors and surround weren’t quite as wide as the original opening. Then the wall had to be painted to match.

    I took advantage of Ginger being away with Katie in Colombia for a week, leaving me free to make as much dust and mess as I needed while I finished this project off.

  • Table Rock Lake was the highest I’ve seen it

    Table Rock Lake was the highest I’ve seen it — At 928.5 ft. It was 18 ft higher than when I was last here in September 2024. Piney Creek Wilderness, June 2025. Copyright © 2025 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

  • Making a cup of tea

    Making a cup of tea. Piney Creek Wilderness, June 2025. Copyright © 2025 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

  • View from my hammock, Piney Creek Wilderness, June 2025

    View from my hammock. Piney Creek Wilderness, June 2025. Copyright © 2025 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.
    View from my hammock. Piney Creek Wilderness, June 2025. Copyright © 2025 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

  • Camped by Table Rock Lake at Piney Creek Wilderness

    Camped by Table Rock Lake at Piney Creek Wilderness. The lake was a lot nearer to my campsite than usual. Piney Creek Wilderness, June 2025. Copyright © 2025 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.
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