2019-10-22: Western toads in the backyard 🐝😍
2019-10-20: A little more than halfway through The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater and I don’t want it to end.
2019-10-20: So the Shortcuts widget syncs the same shortcuts & order on iPad and iPhone. Too bad, as I have …
2019-10-20: Cooler weather means it’s time to check your tire pressure! A bit low as they need 32 PSI.
2019-10-19: Trees & rocks. 🥾
2019-10-18: 🤦♂️📱 iPadOS 13.1.3
2019-10-15: Mount Lassen. 🥾
2019-10-14: I neglected to post a photo of Lassen National Park’s Brokeoff Mountain. The hike to its summit was …
2019-10-13: I love a sun-dappled wet meadow with accenting volcanic rocks! Yesterday, on the trail to Brokeoff …
2019-10-12: Today: Mount Lassen from Brokeoff Mountain.🥾
2019-10-11: A front yard native garden update! Fuchsias & Cal Buckwheat are still flowering. Coyote bushes …
2019-10-11: Thankful Apple still allows a different iTunes account for app purchases as Apple STILL provides no …
2019-10-06: Praying Mantis on the grapevine. 🐝
2019-10-05: Patecones are 👌🍴
2019-10-05: Worth the tens cents for the bag. 🐈
2019-10-05: Flu shot season!
2019-10-05: Apple knew what they were doing delaying Deep Fusion photography feature in iPhone 11. After I saw …
2019-10-02: The Annie Cat enjoying her heated bed that comes out every fall. 🐈
2019-10-01: Another very good Praying Mantis hanging out in my front yard. 🐝
2019-10-01: Oh cool. The exercise trigger for iOS 13.1.2 Shortcuts finally started working today.
2019-09-29: This Preying Mantis (or others like her) has been hanging out on one of our California wild grape …
2019-09-28: Using iOS 13 shortcuts & iPad home screen widget to set audio output to my airplay capable Sonos …
2019-09-27: California Wild Rose (Rosa californica) flowers are incredibly fragile. This backyard plant became …
2019-09-27: This “Beauty” Japanese plum has been quite temperamental. No idea if it should be defoliated by now …
2019-09-25: My new favorite watch face, from WatchOS 6, is Solar Dial. I’m often outdoors for work so at a …
2019-09-24: Good morning!
2019-09-22: Piano repair in Flatiron.
2019-09-21: This crisp very low IBU Montauk Summer Ale is what I needed this warm late summer evening on Long …
2019-09-21: Love how Mott Street in China Town (Manhattan) curves out of sight like a movie set.
2019-09-20: I wanted all of the knishes.
2019-09-20: Gorgeous day on the Brooklyn Bridge. Walked from Penn Station to Atlantic Terminal. Knishes, Lotus …
2019-09-20: JFK, New York. Scene from last night: a traffic jam in the hourly garage. Was treated to a horn …
2019-09-19: Snow Mountain and St. John mountain are looking pretty good after yesterday’s rain.
2019-09-18: The audio sync feature on Apple’s tvOS 13 is 👌 Also, here’s a🌈 🌈
2019-09-18: My almost 2 year old plum is so fickle. It’s senescing early. After digging into the soil, I think …
2019-09-16: Urban prescribed fire 🔥. Provides volunteer fire department training and reduces city blight & …
2019-09-15: Epilobium canum (California Fuchsia) keeping pollinators, including hummingbirds, happy.
2019-09-14: Mantis enjoying the accommodations of our little Blue Oak.
2019-09-13: Anna’s Hummingbirds fighting over native fuchsias!
2019-09-13: HomeKit is great because it doesn’t require internet for day to day operations. Internet goes down, …
2019-09-13: Ecobee 3 lite seems nice but had to change its default 0.5°f “Cool Differential Temp” to 1°f. We …
2019-09-12: Bye bye Nest Thermostat Gen 1. Hello ecobee3 lite! I revised the Nest’s fancy screws to avoid …
2019-09-11: Almond harvest season.
2019-09-10: Can’t wait to replace the 1st gen Nest Thermostat with this Ecobee3 Lite. A Friday project.
2019-09-10: Going to be jealous of that iPhone 11’s 📱grown up front camera! About time it has near parity to the …
2019-09-09: The package only had to go from one end of the state to another. Instead, it first went across the …
2019-09-08: Tonight’s homemade pizza 🍕
2019-09-08: Preparing to move away from Nest (Google) to Ecobee this week. Just used a spare thermostat wire and …