Pup had her annual today, and did very well! We’re still waiting for fecal and blood test results, but she got her lepto (leptospirosis) and lyme vaccines/boosters. We also got more heart worm tablets for her; this is a year round medication. She has been snoozy all day from her ordeal ( Read more... )

Well, not quite that [The line is from Ray Bradbury’s short story “The Scythe.” I read it in his The October Country, courtesy of Hoopla but there’s sure to be a copy available to read somewhere online.] I mowed the lawn today :o ( Read more... )

The pup and I had the house to ourselves all week as my wife and sister-in-law visited my son in San Diego. The place is no worse for wear ;o ( Read more... )

…or, more technically, three weeks off ( Read more... )

I've come across a trove of old MIDI files that were downloaded here over the years, some going back to my first webpages in the late nineties! These wouldn't play on Media Player, but Win11 offered Windows Media Player Legacy as an alternative. Woohoo! Among the titles was the ScoobyDoo cartoon theme ;o ( Read more... )

A couple of posts ago, I wrote that I hoped I could get a pic of the wood rabbit I saw. Below is a note I dropped into FB this morning-

“Sylvilagus transitionalis” New England cottontail. AKA wood rabbit. It has been years since I saw one here. Last night there were two in the front yard! Moon rabbits.


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Years ago I installed a phone jack in one of the kids’ rooms to allow computer access to the internet via modem. I ran the wire out of the basement hub, through the outer wall, up the side of the house along the tv antenna wires next to the chimney, and back through the wall and into the room. I mounted an RJ11 jack neatly on the inside wall and ( Read more... )

I realized today that the biggest loss from my retirement is the cache of computer related goodies! I’ll start with that. ( Ramble, safe of course )

Another slow day. The heat and humidity returned, of course, because I had garden work to do ( Read more... )

That’s what today was, a bit of this and that ( Read more... )