One of our Copper Marans Chickens, Veronica or Betty, I don’t know which, has given us a deep purple-brown egg. That’s it on the right. On the left as a normal medium sized egg. These are very valuable eggs ($30 a dozen) and are supposed to be the best tasting eggs in the world. (The […]
Wanderings
Resources for Science Fiction: Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction. – Ray Bradbury
Monthly Archives: October 2013
Kenny Barnett
Monday, October 21, 2013
Kenny died last week. He was a sweet guy and will be missed. Kenny was a few years younger than me or Larry. I remember him as a skinny kid who followed me around as I delivered papers. He has been my friend and my brother’s friend for 50 years. He played pretty good bass […]
Garden Gate
Monday, October 21, 2013
This is our Garden Gate. The String Beans went crazy. Some of this is Morning Glory vine. I have to remember to bring my camera out in the morning when they are blooming. They are all gone by the time I get home at night.
October Fungi
Monday, October 21, 2013
Cleaning out the camera… Here are some very nice pictures of some fungi growing on logs in the back yard.
Working on the new Heat
Monday, October 21, 2013
My old boiler is gone and I ordered a new one which arrived in the driveway last week. It weighs 480 pounds and is more that I could handle. Larry came over and brought a neighborhood kid named Brian to help. Larry and I guided the unit into the cellar while we let Brian do […]
TSO
Thursday, October 3, 2013
Yesterday I logged into TSO for the first time in more than 30 years. It is hard to believe but this was cutting edge tech in the 1970s. TSO stands for Time Sharing Option and it was a way for programmers to work on mainframe programs. This mainframes cost millions of dollars and had as […]