Essential Supplies – What the Brit abroad needs.
At Home
Pictures taken in the places I’ve called ‘home’ over the years.
Fronds and bottles – Testing my new cell phone’s camera in the dark. +3
December 7, 2021 0:14
Gear Closet update – Still plenty left to do. Bottom shelf and kick space, shelf fronts, and … doors to make.
November 28, 2021 16:54
The soft light on a dull rainy day on these flowers Ginger picked and placed on the kitchen table caught my eye, and prompted a discovery. 2
October 29, 2021 16:00
Waiting for watching – it’s a dull rainy day, and I liked the light.
October 23, 2021 10:39
Early morning clouds – Too much work equals awake at 4 a.m. and up and working at 5 a.m. Ginger dragged me away from my work to take a look at the play of daylight on the clouds while the street below was still wrapped in darkness.
October 20, 2021 7:08
Wishbone – The latest of Jim’s creations.
October 11, 2021 14:42
Charging the Garmin. We all know what this means. I’m charging it up ready for another backpacking trip.
October 1, 2021 9:31
Hall Gear Closet – taped and first skim coat applied. Ginger, “Most people just buy furniture, they don’t build things in.” Gary, “It must be the Frank Lloyd Wright in me.” +1
September 26, 2021 13:51
Monitored. Today I had a stress echocardiogram and was fitted with a wireless Holter monitor.
September 23, 2021 11:43
Hall Gear Closet – Framing. New project. We have two-and-a-half closets in the house full of backpacking gear (and some overflow in the shed too). Doing something about it is long overdue. I decided to use the space that used to be occupied by the piano and convert it into a gear closet. Today I started framing the new built-in closet. +3
September 5, 2021 10:31
This would have been a great weekend to get away into the woods. The temperatures are in the low eighties, and the rain has cleared out for a while. Instead, I decided to do some chores at home. One-minute read, +1
August 15, 2021 14:11
Feeding the obsession – It’s not really an obsession, more of a passion. I like leather journals. I enjoyed my new Field Notes sized journal so much I decided to buy another one. +2
July 1, 2021 12:49
Trail journal – don’t knock my writing. It’s not easy to write neat notes while you are hiking. Note the tiny mechanical pencil I bought just for hiking. I included a normal-sized one in the picture for comparison.
June 30, 2021 16:53
Photographs, inks, cell phone, and Buck 110 knife on my monitor stand – and no I didn’t arrange them for the picture. Me, OCD much?
June 30, 2021 12:25
Weekend cleaning – To paraphrase the immortal line from ‘Apocalypse Now,’ I love the smell of gun oil in the morning. Many years of backpacking have certainly taken their toll on the finish of my Beretta.
June 27, 2021 15:20
Blue Jay – Pretty, but not popular as they are bossy, noisy, and drive off the other birds. This one happened to arrive as I was sitting on the sofa in the ‘Sparkle Zone’ cup of tea in hand, and my camera within reach.
June 19, 2021 15:03
Unused pencil and old plans – While the pencil remains unused, the plans at least have been implemented with the completion of the storage area in the garage in 2019. +2
June 19, 2021 11:02
How many journals do you need? I’d say three binders holding a total of seven notebooks. That’s what you can see here, and each has a purpose. 4 3
June 18, 2021 21:45
Tree Frog – it was tiny! Not much over an inch long, laying on one of the wooden boards of the screen on the deck.
June 14, 2021 12:29
Birdbath for Ginger – Thursday was a day of gifts. Carol bought me some farm-fresh eggs, and Jim brought us this wonderful sculpture/birdbath. +1
May 8, 2021 17:47
Behind the lens – I thought I’d grab a quick selfie in the bedroom mirror.
May 8, 2021 17:29
Adult and juvenile male Rose-breasted Grosbeak – this winter we put up four (yes four), bird feeders in front of the ‘Sparkle Zone’ windows. These new visitors arrived today.
May 7, 2021 13:06
Breakfast; crispy bacon, eggs, and tomato – Yesterday, Carol gave me two farm-fresh eggs. She said she wished she could be there to see my face when I cracked them.