Is there any season we greet more eagerly than spring? We’ve tilled up a big new plot. The onions and potatoes are in the ground, with hundreds more seedlings waiting under grow lights to be planted properly. Dozens of trees have been planted, five pounds of wildflower seeds have been sewn, thirty pounds of grass …
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Snow day.
It was a big day here. We got 5-6″ of snow up in the Southwest Mountains, and the dogs loved it. UVA never closes, so I just worked at home. Tomorrow we’ll try to ford the driveway. Getting down is easy. It’s getting back up that’s the trick. I forecast that we won’t be able …
Lady Bird naps on a 20-gauge.
How country is our beagle? Why, she’s so country…
Dusk weinerdogging.
Ado Annie and Lady Bird played frisbee this evening. Lady Bird’s not too bright, and doesn’t really know what to do with it. Annie, on the other hand, is a dog possessed. After three days in Reno followed by four days in Avon, NC, I need a vacation vacation. Seven days off, four of those …
Now it’s real.
One week after the big day itself, I had to record it for the first time today, while getting on the exercise bike at the gym: I’m 30. The next number I had to type in—my weight—has been a constant 176 for many months now. As increasing numbers go, I’ll take age over weight.
The first dance.
Some dear friends got married this weekend. I was the defacto wedding photographer and, fortunately, a few turned out well.
Lunar eclipse.
Last year’s eclipse was cloudy, but the pictures actually came out better. Now I have hundreds of near-identical photos of a red-glowing moon, some shot through my tripod-mounted telephoto lens, some through my 8″ Dobsonian telescope. Why didn’t it occur to me to do something interesting, like take a wide-angle long-exposure shot and use a …
Polydactyl cat needs a home.
This is Domino (aka Willy), the six-toed cat that we’re fostering right now. We’ve had him for a week and a half now while he’s recovered from an upper respiratory infection. Tomorrow we take him to get neutered, and then he’ll come home with us to recover. He’s sweet, curious, and does fine around our …
An accidental drive.
I went to the Washington & Lee Mock Convention today. Or, at least, I went to Washington & Lee. Turned out I’d mixed up the two days’ schedules, and by the time I arrived they were stacking up chairs and sweeping the floors. Determined not to drive three hours for nothing — and hoping the …