The smaller bridge supports have appeared…

OSGuy made a stealth delivery and two beautiful bridge arches have appeared by the driveway. Thank you, OSGuy! We can now join them with 2×4, paint them, and deck them, and we will have the Lesser Glorious Bridge finished!

Teenaged koi…pond destruction.

We cleaned up all the algae. I am going to have to let some grow…because the koi are getting hungry, and we are going to have to feed them often. Bigtime often. What have our darlings done? Well, our largest, white-gold Ari, patchwork quilt Kenpachi, Renji...

thoughts on a tourist accident in the Grand Canyon…

…and a teen was very, very lucky. He fell 75 feet, and is in ‘good’ condition in hospital, after having to be lifted out by rescue chopper. There is, incidentally, a sign near the rim that says that that chopper ride is somewhere around 30,000...