Career fair...   Well, as planned I attended a career fair put on by the LDS church for the young men in the stake we live in.  If you'r...

Paradise ponders: easy days and career fairs edition...   The past couple of days I've spent most of my time working on some programming...

Paradise ponders: outrageous fees, orange moon, lonely dogs, and hurdling hurricanes...   Watched the video of hurricane Irma at right ...

Paradise ponders: weird switches, doorbells, dusty sunrises, and fine wine edition...   A while back, Debbie found a really pretty doorbell ...

Sunspots...   Yesterday I read a mention somewhere that there were big sunspots facing the earth.  So I got out my eclipse binoculars and ...

Paradise ponders: orange caterpillars, finished project, shocking breakfast, surprise visitors, delicious dinner, and beautiful morning ed...

Paradise ponders: white dust, finished stairs, and WiFi meshes edition...   Yesterday I did the final glue-up on the stairs I'm building...

Stairway to ... something or other...   The stairs project for Michelle H. is coming along nicely.  At this point I have just one glue-up le...

Paradise ponders: stairs and sunken gardens edition...   Our friend Michelle H. has recently refinished a garage into a usable family room. ...

I have not fallen off the face of the earth...   I missed two days of blogging somehow – didn't even realize I'd done so until I lo...

Perceptions...   A few months ago I bought a new MacBook Pro to replace my aging (2014) MacBook Pro.  Aside from the gimmicky (and, to me at...

A new widget at right...   You may have noticed the new “Irrigation System” widget at right.  I put that up this morning after some experime...

Sprinkler update...   I haven't said much over the past few days, but our sprinkler contractor has been here working steadily away.  It...

Paradise ponders: Trout & Berry Days edition...   As planned, we attended the Trout & Berry Days dinner last night.  We got there ...

Mom would have been 82 today, were she still alive...   I stopped outside my barn for a bit this morning, looking up at the U.S. flag she ...

Irrigation supervisor is installed ... and working!   I got done with the installation late yesterday afternoon, and had time to do one qui...

Paradise ponders: friends, bugs, and a community get-together edition...   Yesterday and part of today our friend Aleck L. dropped in for ...

Eclipse...   APOD has a beautiful photo of Monday's eclipse at totality, at right (click to embiggen, or get the full resolution imag...

Victory!   Yesterday afternoon I watched our sprinkler contractor load a giant steel culvert onto his trailer for transport to the metal r...

We've discovered a new bread...   This one – tomato herb bread – is from Great Harvest , in downtown Logan, where we did some bread sh...