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Western Vacation

Our vacation out west photos are now up here.

I may try and turn some of the shots I took into panoramas. If that’s successful, those photos will go up there as well.

High Water Photos

A few weeks ago, I took some photos around Monona Bay of the high water. I put some of the best up here.

It's Stupid Graph Time!

more graph humor and song chart memes

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more graph humor and song chart memes

Mama Mia, thats-a-spicy-weed?

In an attempt to enjoy the nice weather today, do some yard clean up, and prepare for the winter storm warning I was doing some raking in the little garden spot between the driveways.
I pulled some dead leaves away and smelled something familiar, yet strangely out of place. I sniffed again and looked at the ground. Fresh, new, tiny green leaves were poking out of the dead leaves. I retrieved a rake and gently pulled all the dead vegetation away. Growing underneath all that dead was a hardy little oregano plant.

I thought the first signs of spring were supposed to be crocuses or tulips, not herbs. I’m not complaining, it’s just… weird, that’s all.

Spring? Sprung? Springing?

Last fall we were inattentive lawn people. No grass was mowed, no leaves were raked in the back. The warm weather of the last few days melted snow exposing our laziness to the naked eye. Soggy, icy leaves covered a significant portion of our backyard. I googled around a bit and discovered that with each passing day we were murdering our lawn. Smothering it, inviting burrowing pests, encouraging moss. Oh, the horror, the shame of it all!

Today I spent 2.5 hours in the back yard cleaning up our mess.
I filled 2 old garbage cans and our compost bin with leaves and there are still more leaves that need to find a home. The 2 densely packed garbage cans are for composting later in the season when good carbon sources are scarce.

Oh my god, someone stole our tree!

Our tree, here this morning, is now but a shadow of it’s former self. By tomorrow afternoon, all that will be left will be firewood.

Speaking of, those of you to whom we promised firewood, come & get it!

Flickr-free photos

After giving it some thought, I decided I don’t need to pay money to “go pro” on flickr when I have oodles of web space ready and waiting for me.

I’ll leave my photos up on flickr, at least for a while. Any that I want to add to a particular group, I will probably still put up there as well.

Otherwise, look for new photos at photos.bloy.org (RSS).

I drank the social networking kool-aid again

Yes. That’s a Flickr photostream you see over there on the right.

My photos.

But I have my pride. I refuse to do MySpace.

Now Taking Snow Fall Predictions for 2007-2008 Winter!

According to the weather guys, we’re 2.1” from the record of 76.1” set in the 1978-79.

The 10 day forecast has 5 days as possible snow fall days, including today and tomorrow where anywhere from 3-6” has been predicted.

So that means, currently on February 11, 2008 we have had 74” of snow in Madison, WI.

How many more inches do you think we’ll have between now and May 15th? OK, we don’t seriously expect snow in May around here, but with this weather you never know.

So, my guess is that by May 15th we will have had 87.6” inches. That covers the rest of February and whatever March and April dump on us.