Scoakat's Blog

I was looking through the pictures I took last week and found there weren't many.  I truly did just try to take it easy, and apparently ...

I've been on vacation this week, and today I turn 58 years old.  Normally I have a certain main project to do on my vacation, plus a lis...

Peregrine falcons are one of the most widely distributed birds in the world, but fascinating none the less.  There is a livestream of a nest...

It wasn't much of a firepit, but last night I did have a small fire to commemorate the summer solstice. When I started the wind was 9-10...

I've been busy this past week, resting and recreating takes a lot of time and effort.  I'm on my first real vacation in a year since...

I haven't really been in a writing mood recently.  I managed to post about the pavilion, but there are a few other topics I've been ...

Yesterday morning, shortly before I had to leave for work, we had to scramble to get my car out of the garage and her van into the driveway....

  Good luck to us all, we're going to need it.  Let's hope his visions don't come to fruition. Party (enjoy your freedoms) while...

Happy Holiday, everyone.   I'm not sure exactly what I'll do today, but it likely won't be much.  I do have some tedious tasks t...

The winter solstice arrived early this morning, hours before I got up.  For several years now I've been having a fire on this day, in co...

Happy Thanksgiving weekend, everyone.  A much needed 4 days off from work here. I wasn't feeling the best yesterday, but I traveled down...

The windows mummy is no more this year, but I did get a neat black skeleton with lit eyes to hang on the front door tonight.  I also got a c...

At some point today I will turn 500,000 hours old, per this website .  (Or 30,000,000 minutes old.  Or 1,800,000,000 seconds old.)  I'm ...

Won't be official until about 8:20 tonight, but unless this bout of covid gets me very soon it looks like I might survive 56 after all.

Happy Independence Day, everyone.  (Those in this country, anyway.)  I don't have a lot to say right now, I'm just enjoying a day of...

Happy belated summer solstice, everyone.  Hard to believe the days start getting shorter already.  I took some pictures out in the yard last...

Today was a beautiful and sunny 69ºF and the lawn has had it's time to awaken and grow tall so after work today I mowed for the first ti...

The last thing to do before having the fence installed was to move the firewood, and we dumped it to the ground this afternoon. We put down ...

Happy Leap Day, everyone.  Not really a holiday, just novel in that it only comes about every 4 years, usually.  (Century years must be divi...