You'll get a copy of the 1922 Sears electrical/radio catalog in ePub format, if you'll tell me how the images look ( Read more... )

I'm publishing another e-book. This one is a scanned (and cleaned up) reprint of the Sears, Roebuck 1922 Electrical Goods and Radio Apparatus Catalog ( Read more... )

The other night we saw the 42nd Street Moon production of "Sugar," the Broadway stage musical version of the 1959 movie "Some Like it Hot." I was doubtful going in, but highly amused by the most excellent performance, and recommend it to those of you who like this sort of thing. http://42ndstmoon. ( Read more... )

My part of the project to dig up the back yard has been slightly delayed by some archaeological discoveries ( Read more... )

It's here this week, but based on the reviews I don't expect it to stay long.

Friends kept saying it was great, and so it was! It's mythmaking in the key of adventure, and I suppose the reviewers were expecting something else. Or perhaps they saw some other movie.

Suddenly I have gotten once again involved in the improvement of the estate. Not only have I (mostly) cleaned up the workshop area of the garage, I've been installing insulation boards in the ceiling. This is a formidable task (just ask vgqn) involving ladders through the beams, and much offensive language ( Read more... )

It rained here last night for the first time in weeks. Normally Northern California has a lot of rain November -> February; this is the start of a drought. (We have water left over from last year, which was very wet; the real worry comes if no rain soon, or next year ( Read more... )

Replaced dead outside floodlight by the butler's pantry with CFL flood rated for outside. Replaced NiMH battery in front solar garden light array on front steps and cleaned surfaces. Re-installed other solar garden light array (wire resoldered last night). Bought replacement rubber washers for leaking bathroom faucet. Disdecorated Xmas tree. ( Read more... )

The All-America Rose winner for 2012 is Sunshine Daydream.

http://www.rose.org/2012-winner-sunshine-daydream/

Wow, did somebody spike the punch at the judges' conference?

We had sixty or seventy people come through the NYE party, and the new year did not recoil in fright. Everybody was out by 2, and almost everything is cleaned up (tho not put away). We're about to drive north to an Open House that's been a traditional pass-along and talk-a-lot item for us for years ( Read more... )