From the monthly archives:

January 2009

30 Minutes with Photoshop

29 January 2009

I have a desk­top wid­get that acts as a sideshows photo frame on my devel­op­ment machine. Hav­ing some­thing pleas­ant to stare at when my mind goes blank on a prob­lem is nice. This morn­ing, dur­ing a par­tic­u­larly intense “now how the hell is that sup­posed to work” spell the photo below came up. Click on the photo […]

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New Gallery Software

25 January 2009

I have added an instance of Zen Photo for Ms. Shoes. The first album is a set of pho­tos that I took this morn­ing of birds vis­it­ing our bird feed­ers. (yes that is snow, again.) Click on the pic­ture to go to the gallery!

Tagged as: birds, feeders, snow

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Jim Moves Up From Rock Band

25 January 2009

Last week Jim got a new gui­tar — some­thing a lit­tle more challenging…

Tagged as: guitar, jim

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Garden Report — The Aftermath

10 January 2009

Now that most of the snow is melted it’s time to have a good look at the gar­den and assess the dam­ages. There aren’t really any sur­prises. Most of the dam­age was done by the very cold tem­per­a­tures on Dec 19th (10.4F) and Dec 20th (4.1F) Among the casu­al­ties: I don’t know if the euphor­bia will […]

Tagged as: butterfly bush, euphorbia, mint, sage

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Flood Update — and Gallery Test

9 January 2009

We drove to town this after­noon to get the mail (Yeah, I know no way for us to get out = no way for the mail to get in.) I got these shots of Cherry Val­ley and the Sno­qualmie River (from a mov­ing vehi­cle…) <click for larger images> Note that the lit­tle white peaks in the […]

Tagged as: duvall, floods, roads

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Wooza

9 January 2009

This photo of Woodinville-Duvall Road through the Sno­qualmie val­ley was sent to Jim by Jerry one of the fel­lows in SVARC. The “un-official” ver­sion is that it will take 4 days to fix. We sur­mise that it’s dam­age to the road sur­face and not to the under­ly­ing bridge struc­ture because the traf­fic cam­era showed an […]

Tagged as: duvall, flood, roads

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Snow Report — a Little Late

9 January 2009

The snow has just about all melted — now we’re hav­ing floods. But here are a few of the best pic­tures from the Decem­ber snow storms. We are very grate­ful to have Adven­ture Truck on our side.  He got us off the farm and safely back every sin­gle day of the storm except Christ­mas. Somedays […]

Tagged as: birds, farm, ivan, snow, tugger

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w.t.f

5 January 2009

so the other day as i was look­ing through some of the thou­sands of fold­ers of pho­tos we have i found this one. other than the catchy rhyme it’s a lousy sign. i just want to know who they (the peo­ple who designed the sign) think is going to under­stand that this is where you should go […]

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