Scoakat's Blog

I had the occasion for work to visit our local Henry Vilas Zoo again recently.  Not a group outing this time, just me and a client taking a...

I had the occasion for work to be at Olbrich Gardens recently.  Our group was among a couple dozen people waiting for the doors to open prom...

It was -2ºF (-19ºC) when I got up this morning, and I believe we only got up to around 10ºF (-12ºC) this afternoon.  It was damn cold, the c...

We had gyros some time ago from a delivery restaurant.  I got the regular gyro meat and my wife hasn't cared for their chicken version s...

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

Shortly after starting the fire on Friday night I had two interesting visitors, as a welcome distraction.  A Brown-headed Cowbird couple cam...

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 ...

It started snowing by 2:00 this afternoon, a heavy, wet, accumulating snow.  It's due to snow through tomorrow and into Thursday morning...

Well, winter finally caught up to us.  We got about 8 inches of snow on Tuesday and about 2-3 inches overnight last night.  There has been a...

If you know me then you'll know I've not been happy with my job in a pretty long time.  New management came in after the beginning o...

I managed to bake two types of bread on Sunday morning, classic baguettes (left) and simple French bread (right).  Thankfully I was able to ...

It's been awhile since I've written much of anything online since I last posted here.  It was nothing I planned but just turned into...

The sunflower looks exhausted.  This holiday weekend is the second heatwave since it was at peak bloom, here , and still not much for rain c...

Today's weather report is seasonable temperatures and mostly cloudy, still long pants and jacket weather.  On Sunday we had very light s...

Temperatures are about the same as around 1 year ago when I posted this originally , but more snow and icicles now.  At least the sun is out...

I did this last year , too, but I'd been watching the last tiger lily to see if it would open, and happily it did.  There are plenty of ...

Things have seemed a little busy around here recently.  A couple larger purchases and gearing up for the end of the fiscal year at work.  Fo...

 I still have the weekend but my vacation is essentially over.  All my vacation projects have been completed and I find myself today a bit b...

A few weeks ago my counterpart at work took 3 of 4 weeks off, so I took Thursday and Friday off this week as a little reward for myself and ...

Well, things happen and you get too busy or just too tired to write anything, then a day goes by, then a week.  Before I get any more backed...