A great day for a bonfire...   It was cloudy and drizzly, exactly as forecast.  From a safety perspective, that's perfect weather for a ...

Paradise ponders, all banged up and blackberries edition...   The area where I live is a big berry growing area, and the biggest of the berr...

Paradise ponders, special request gluey liverwurst edition...   Because one of you just had to ask, here's the redwood sanding dust and...

Paradise ponders, mud, muesli, and Musk edition...   I saw the results of a snap poll taken last night, asking 120 random adult Americans ...

Stairs, continued...   Just finished milling out the four grooves on the underside of the two steps that will accommodate the ribs.  It al...

“Just another bad mutation...”  George Carlin, in a performance I watch periodically just to refresh my perspective...

Stairs ... a little machining...   So this evening I jigged up a router template (first photo) to cut one of the grooves in the bottom of th...

Let the trenching begin!   I've been trying for two years now to get sprinklers installed in our yard.  I could write several thousand w...

Paradise ponders, Medicare edition...   So yesterday Debbie and I visited Sam Winward , our health insurance agent.  He's been very help...

The day I have to wear a tie to fly ... is the day I'll stop flying !

2.7 Billion views...   This says something about today's world, but I have no idea what!  This is the most-viewed video on YouTube.  H...

Our man-killing window holes are now covered...   And very nice-looking they are! These are the two covers that we traveled to Kalispell, Mo...

I don't think I'll go out of my way to try this particular delicacy...   Even though it's seafood, which I love.  Because it...

Paradise ponders, burgers and Foyle's edition...   We had kind of a lazy day yesterday.  I finished some chores in the house, built th...

Back to the stairs project!   The stairs I'm building use a couple of “ribs” to hold up the big landing and the smaller stair.  These ri...

Paradise ponders, sea bass and spinach edition...   My beautiful bride fed us in style yesterday afternoon, with the dish at right.  That...

I'm not really surprised...   But I do feel the doom coming on...

Paradise ponders, floods and snow stoppers edition...   On Thursday morning, before the latest snow melted, I snapped the photo at right. ...

Paradise ponders, 1,200 miles of electrons edition...   Well, we rolled back into our garage late last night, after driving nearly 1,200 mil...

Paradise ponders, eyeball pressures and drained batteries edition...   But first: I stand accused of being an idiot, something I suspect i...