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Garden Expansion

I didn’t get to write about it this past weekend because I was too busy riding, but last week we made some improvements to our

Hail Storm

Good thing I rode indoors this morning. This afternoon we had a nice thunderstorm roll through with pounding rain and hail! It left a nice

Time for a New Receiver?

After 20 years of faithful duty, my Carver AVR100 receiver may have finally bit the bullet. I’m surprised it lasted this long as it survived

Snow/Rain

Even after the snow turned to rain, our snow banks still look mighty tall!

Snowbanks next to a driveway

More Snow

The snow keeps coming so the shoveling continues! This is starting to remind us of Utah winters.

Staining the Fence

Heather is on the homeowners association for our neighborhood and since she’s such a “go getter” she ended up coordinating the fence staining for our

Bees are Buzzing

It finally feels like spring outside and the bees are out in full force. Seems like the snow the other day didn’t affect our apricot

Oh no…snow!

Just when it seemed like spring was on it’s way, it snowed this morning! This could be really bad as our apricot tree was already

Tree Pruning

Each year pruning our seven fruit trees becomes a progressively larger task. It’s amazing how they grow in just one year! There’s a whole art

Lunar Eclipse

If you didn’t know, tonight there was a lunar eclipse. It was pretty hazy in the Boise area so this is the best shot I

Qwest Finally Comes Through

Ever since we upgraded to Qwest’s 4.5 Megabit DSL service, we never got consistent speed from it. During peak Internet usage times, I would “test

The Snow Keeps Coming

We’re waking up to snow almost daily now and the piles on the sides of our driveway are getting mighty high! I thought it would

Moon Crystals

We received a slight dusting of snow last night. The skies cleared by early morning with an almost full moon shining through ice crystals on

Christmas Lights

Since Heather is on our subdivision’s Homeowner’s Association (HOA), she was in charge of putting up the Christmas lights in the median of the entry

First Snow

We woke up to snow and much colder temperatures this morning. Kind of a reality check; it is late November so it had to come

Rainbow

Today I just did an active recovery ride on the rollers. Weather was iffy most of the day, but it did break with a spectacular

Summer Garden

With recent the summer weather, our garden has been growing fast. The tomato plants are doing really well, even the ones I tried to salvage

Name that Tree Disease

Maybe I can harness the power of the web here. Since Typepad does a good job of indexing posts so they show up high in

Wilted tomato plant

Whoops!

So much for planting tomatoes early!? The other night we had a frost and most of our tomato plants, look like toast…well, actually they look

Gardening

With the nice weather and no race scheduled for today Heather and I did some gardening. We went shopping and got everything we needed then