I guess both of my Asian Pear trees have a fungal infection. These black spots certainly do not appear to be insect related. I’ve treated with fungicide in hopes of salvaging these trees & this year’s fruit. #Yarden #HomeOrchard 
Flew my hot-rod DHC-2 Beaver to the gravel strip at Lake Pillsbury. My landing was awful as I slammed my right wing into the ground. #XPlane #ThrandaDHC2 #FlightSim #macOS 
DOGE Federal Worker Layoffs Are Causing Trauma – and Costing the Government | US News Opinion
The VA, Ruzek said, is full of people “doing their very best to serve our returning Veterans and reduce their suffering. Vought’s lack of awareness and cruelty is breathtaking.”
Super-duper niche but: if you fly X-Plane 12 with the Thranda DHC-2 Beaver with a Yawman Arrow controller, I have written a FlyWithLua script for multifunctional controller buttons. I am changing it frequently and YMMV with how much sense the bindings make. #XPlane #ThrandaDHC2 #FlightSim
Last Friday, this coyote had plenty of rabbits and birds to consider but instead wanted to check us out. Hope everyone can find the good in this week! #SacramentoWildlifeRefuge #Coyote #Fujifilm #SOoC 
Whoops #SacramentoWildlifeRefuge #GreatBlueHeron #Birds 
The U.S. egg industry has forced us to find egg alternatives. Vegans know! For breading sweet potato & bean croquettes, we used a flour slurry. No differences detected and it was practically free.
#SilentSunday 
My simple X-Plane 12 FlyWithLua scripts that enable aircraft specific multi-button functionality for the Yawman Arrow Controller are now on Codeberg instead of GitHub. Codeberg’s documentation is great! #XPlane #LuaScripting #YawmanArrow #Codeberg
A Northern Harrier from yesterday’s visit to the refuge #NorthernHarrier #Birds #BirdWatching #SacramentoWildlifeRefuge #Fujifilm 
What luck at the refuge today! Among many others, we were treated to Northern Flickers, an Egret feasting on a crawdad, a really tame(😬) coyote, and a gorgeous Pheasant #NorthernFlicker #Egret #Coyote #CommonPheasant #SacramentoWildlifeRefuge #Fujifilm #SOoC
The Albums app for iOS can now save Quick Collections to Apple Music playlists. Now my Sonos speakers can directly play full albums however I like. No more AirPlay! Paradoxically, this means I will use the Albums app less. But it’s very important!
Here’s my first clear keeper ever of an American Bushtit. Such a smoll borb!
Flew the Beaver VFR from Orland Haigh Field (O37) to Round Valley (O09) this morning. Middle Eel River inner gorge to the left and Anthony Peak proximal to the aircraft. I got a later start than I'd like because of DST #XPlane12 #FlightSim #ThrandaDHC2 #macOS
Up an hour early and heating the house an hour early. DST feels like a DOGE thing
The Seattle Times: Trump’s Forest Service firings killed dreams, left big holes to fill in WA #ValentinesDayMassacre #FederalWorkers #USFS
From SFGate: ‘There is literally no one’: Forest service in Lake Tahoe is gutted #ValentinesDayMassacre #FederalWorkers
Mount Lassen from Brokeoff Mountain, October 2019. The trail up Brokeoff is arduous with a massive payoff 
San Luis Obisbo Tribune: Fired Central Coast biologist confronts Musk at Trump speech:
According to the biologist, Musk doesn’t understand the intrinsic value of nature.
Places like Big Sur, the San Rafael Wilderness and Cuesta Ridge “are special wild places, and they have a value that cannot be quantified economically to billionaires,” Vizzachero said. “But all he cares about is the money.”
“He was rude and arrogant and every bit as awful as he looks on TV, but he will never understand what he’s destroying (in) this country, because he doesn’t love it the way I do,” the wildlife biologist said.
Manky1’s Dash 8 Q400 aircraft for X-Plane just got a major update!