Day 209 of 2024

GB#5 has selected her seat to be moved to the fire pit 

for tonight's campfire. 

This stump is the perfect combination

 of child-sized seat with built-in arm rest.

 

Day 179 of 2023

It's not raining and it's more than three hours before sunset. 

This is the actual color of the sky

 as we drive into the smoke from the Canadian wildfires.

 

Day 149 of 2023

It was a great day for a gathering. 

We cooked out and had our first fire in the new fire pit

 that we completed last fall right before our first snow. 

Back row: Big D, R, Fireball, me, T-Bone 

Front row: GB#2, GB#5, GB#3, GB#4

 

Day 188 of 2022

Well, this was bound to happen eventually. 

The knobs for the burners on my cooktop run vertically

 on the right side of the burners. 

The order of knobs for the corresponding burners doesn't make any sense to me. 

Every time I turn one on I have to be very deliberate to check

 and make sure I am turning on the correct one.

 Tonight I put a pan on the stove and was chatting with Fireball at the same time. 

I guess I didn't check the burner because after a little bit, 

Fireball noticed there was burning and smoking happening. 

This used to be a bag of tortilla chips for tonight's leftover taco meal. 

Luckily, I was able to get the smelly melted, burned plastic off the burner

 once it cooled down.

 

Day 75 of 2022

A very large distribution center caught fire today. 

This picture was taken eight hours later from about 30 miles away. 

It will likely still be burning in the morning. 

All 1,000 employees are safe and uninjured. 

One firefighter was injured but treated

 and returned to continue to fight the blaze.