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2009-12-14T12:04:00.001-08:00

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Blogging shall continue from there.

Anna Made Me A Special Shelf

2009-11-27T18:22:00.000-08:00

One of the many things Anna has done. I should take more pictures i guess.

New Ride!!

2009-11-27T18:01:00.000-08:00

So, a good friend sold me his car he's getting rid of. I did a bunch of work to make it look purdy again. . Here's some pictures.

Found a Queen

2009-10-17T14:52:00.000-07:00

This was an interesting find today. I had the drippings left over from extracting honey. The stuff that comes from the was you get decapping. This lady flew right in and got herself stuck. This late in the year there is little chance that she's a viable queen. Most likely unfertilized and pretty much doomed. However, I let her loose on a empty box that I've been letting the local wild bees clean out for me on the back deck. Maybe she'll find something to do there or follow some bees home or something. I dunno.

What I've been up to

2009-10-13T11:40:00.000-07:00

Just a couple pictures about what I've been up to recently.

Did some stairs work today

2009-09-20T13:47:00.001-07:00

Finally got the stain and the poly on the stairs (2 coats done)

Hummus and more

2009-08-09T16:07:00.000-07:00

more hummus that is!

Kewaunee Vacation?

2009-07-06T15:46:00.001-07:00

Well it wasn't all vacation but I did get quite a few pictures taken.

The evening sky over the Blomer farm in Onamia as seen from Jo and Al's Barnhouse.

Dan and Adele's house in Canyon, MN

Neat little hummingbird in the trees near Bloomer, WI

Hummingbird at a feeder at my Aunt Tina's house near Bloomer, WI

More hummers

Dad doing what he does best

The skies were pretty vivid

Geneva and Mom up on the foredeck

A wind farm from far out at 300mm. We were about 3 miles away from the farm, this was the best shot I could get from the water.

Pops driving

Geneva, Inga, Justin and Mom near the pier at Kewaunee, WI

Working in the Kitchen

2009-06-02T10:52:00.000-07:00

Anna and I have been doing some house repair recently. We repainted the kitchen ceiling after pulling out a few cabinets and put up a stainless steel dish rack for drying dishes where those cabinets were. Then we started the big job. . . Stripping, staining and polying the cabinets. Here's a shot of the stained bottom cabinets before the poly went on.

2009-05-23T14:27:00.000-07:00

Trellis I made on the back deck

Moar Pictures.

2009-05-10T14:28:00.000-07:00

I've got some zoom on the camera now so I grabbed a picture of this hummingbird.

Here you can see about how far the lil guy is away. He was on the very top of that tree that hasn't leafed out yet in the middle of this shot.

Another shot of the lil guy.

My Hiabiscus Plant keeps flowering pretty. Wish it would do better on the growing leaves part.

The black bamboo is going crazy and doing what it's supposed to. See those husked over shoots? It grows up as a stalk coated in those, probably 2' per day. Then it branches out over about a week and now, the ones that are about 1.5 weeks old are STARTING to leaf out. It's a wierd, ugly process but. . . they'll look nice soon.

I like Ruby Glow. . Anna knows it's scientific name, I do not.

I have new lenses!

2009-05-10T12:42:00.000-07:00

It takes pictures, THIS BIG!

Anna thinks we should go here soon.

She's not so sure about this place though.

I can zoom out now. (actually, this isn't ALL the way out)

Or zoom in (this isn't all the way in either)

Or take pictures of the moon. Zoom in on this =)

I just thought this was a fun shot.

Beez!

2009-05-02T12:38:00.000-07:00

These knees have some bees!

Not all the bees were IN the cage. . Went pretty well except they didn't put the candy in with the queen and she got away from us. . I wasn't expecting that one. We'll have a new queen on the 11th.

Anna made Pretzels!

2009-03-30T16:01:00.000-07:00

Yummy!

My little fall

2009-03-30T09:34:00.000-07:00

So, I got hurt a week or so ago. . .

2009-03-15T21:05:00.000-07:00

Driving back from Amanda's wedding, Anna, Zach Beth and I took the long route up between Nevada and California. We went through Death Valley and up the border to Yosemite. Of course, I forgot Yosemite is closed for the winter along with just about all of the passes. Eventually we ended up going through South Lake Tahoe to get over the mountains. It was raining and pea soup foggy up there but we made it through. Took like 12 hours total, we were tired.

Beth got to meet some cows, it was a good trip for her. On a side note, Zach is afraid of cows; who knew?

There were lots of mountains. . . Lots

But that was ok because there were fun roads to drive fast down.

Though, sometimes when you drive fast, you do things you didn't mean to.

And after driving for like 10 hours straight, you get a little tired.

So you stop to look at the cool clouds and stuff.

Night Shots

2008-12-29T19:13:00.001-08:00

Night shots with the new camera. . Just playing.

2008-12-29T19:06:00.000-08:00

Anna and I went for a walk after Christmas morning was over. . A much needed walk.

2008-12-29T19:02:00.000-08:00

Anna and Anders made some Christmas breakfast.

Dad unwraps with Inga's HELP!

2008-12-29T19:01:00.001-08:00

Planted Garden Finally

2008-11-15T19:56:00.001-08:00

We've got 3 different kinds of Kale, spinach, radishes, beats, green beans, yellow beans, cranberry beans, peas, 4 different types of lettuce, broccoli, cauliflower, bok choy, cabbage, swiss chard and turnips. Also put the cotton seed fertilizer, green sand and algae stuff on it.

Ben and I Started Gardening

2008-09-03T17:16:00.000-07:00

My friend Ben has a backyard with some extra room and soil. What he doesn't have is experience gardening. Together we make a team. Anna and I went with him to Stanford on Saturday to get some toys and on Sunday we started making his garden. Wow, double-digging compacted soil is HARD. Mostly sand with fat clay. Not much for organics however, I did finally find one worm once we started getting out of the super compacted areas. We got Ben's side done and now just need to work on mine and get compost. We're also going to do some heavy metal testing.

Hinkley In Pictures

2008-08-21T08:41:00.001-07:00

So I got sent on this business trip quite possibly to hell. . Hinkley,CA, the PG&E Hinkley Compressor Station more commonly refered to as the Erin Brokovitch Site. You've seen the movie, here's some pictures I've been snapping with my phone of the 'scenery'.

Alemany Farms

2008-08-01T14:42:00.000-07:00

So, Anna and I have been volunteering at Alemany Farms recently. I've been asked to figure out how to take down the windmill and get it rebuilt along with our gardening. It's been a lot of fun and I thought I'd throw up some pictures of it.

Plants are green

2008-06-30T10:27:00.001-07:00

I have added some plants and made planters for other. Check out my greenification process.

Ahhhhhh, home

2008-06-27T08:43:00.000-07:00

I'm really enjoying working at Arcadis so far. The commute is a breeze even if I can't park my bike in the building. I'll figure out a place to stash it this weekend. The bus ride, should I choose to take it, is comparable to the bike ride, about 20 minutes easy each way. People in the office are nice and it's a nice group and they seem to take care of their own. Sorry for the blurry pictures, camera phone.

Preperations For a New Employer

2008-06-17T11:45:00.000-07:00

So I bought a bike yesterday. 64cm StarFrance. Yeah, it's going to be a pain being a french spec bike and all but I'll manage. It's tall enough for me and the price was right. Anna scored a nice bike about a week back as well and we're scheduling a run over to a bike store Wednesday for new brake pads and tires which we both desperatly need.

I start Arcadis on the 25th of June. I don't think I'm going to bike the FIRST day as I don't know where I'll put the bike when I get there. Day 2 however, bike day beings.

Ric, better be ready with that soda blaster.

New Employer

2008-06-06T11:11:00.001-07:00

Looks like I'm going to be working for these guys. I just got word this morning that corporate has approved my hire and I shall get the paperwork tomorrow morning. This means a shift in work from San Jose (45 miles each way) to Financial District SF (3.3miles each way). These guys are the ones who designed this:

Graduation Cake

2008-05-29T16:25:00.000-07:00

Andrew Hyder graduated from SF State last weekend and had a graduation party. Anna and I decided to make him a cake. . . It got a little out of hand.

Working on my weather RSS Feed

2008-05-29T14:01:00.000-07:00

Developing: Over on the right you'll see the current weather at my place in San Francisco. You can also view it (probably better) at http://www.finn.ws/weather.py. I'm still working on the kinks and stuff on this blog rss feed stuff so I don't know if it will truely work. . I may need a non-cached image to make it work correctly. We'll see.

Startup

2008-05-29T12:44:00.000-07:00

So, I keep getting told I should start a blog. . why, I say, no one's going to read it. Anyway, my sister started on for pictures of my niece so I signed up to post comments. Who knows, maybe I'll blog some. . . . . someday.