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Brian Bilbrey May 8, 2022

8 May 2022

This weekend, we celebrated my birthday a few weeks late. Marcia had been unwell (no Covid, but no fun, either) and she's now mostly much better, thanks for asking. The best part is that in the interval between birthday actual and birthday celebrated, we took delivery on our AlumaCraft 165S boat. We got it into the water on Friday, and took it out for some fishing both Saturday and Sunday. Note that I said fishing, and not catching - it's pretty early in the season here yet, and we have lots to learn about fishing techniques/baits that vary with the…

Brian Bilbrey April 4, 2022

4 April 2022

In the last few days I managed a variety of outdoor chores around the new homestead. This includes stuff that should have been done during the Fall cleanup, but weren't since Lorraine was getting ready to move out, and we were not in, yet. By the time I got settled enough to do a small amount of yardwork, there was a tiny window of time before the snows started. So all I managed was to get the bulk of the leaves off the lawns, then. Now a couple of the front beds have been raked out, and the leaves blown…

Brian Bilbrey March 13, 2022

13 March 2022

Friday the thirteenth falls on a Sunday this month. Sorry for the lag in posts, but settling into a new house and getting a new rescue mutt makes for a busy time. Georgia is settling in pretty well. She's testing a lot of boundaries, and it'll be a few months of getting her expectations aligned with actual reality, we're sure. We are doing formal training with this dog, as Marcia can't walk her right now - Georgia would pull her over right away. But it'll all work out. Hardest thing at the moment: finding her toys that she can't destroy…

Brian Bilbrey January 31, 2022

31 January 2022

Snow days are ... different up here. It snowed 20" or so in our immediate vicinity on Saturday. The roads seem to have been plowed and treated by 7 AM on Sunday (and the plows were keeping things clear enough on Saturday). No schools are closed or delayed this brightly chilly Monday morning that I can find. I was up at 7 AM on Sunday morning. I got the coffee started on brew, and geared up. I moved the car back, shoveled out the front porch and a couple of feet in front of the garage doors by hand. Then…

Brian Bilbrey January 13, 2022

13 January 2022

Of course, a Friday the thirteenth that happens to fall on a Thursday this month is the perfect time to fix some broken things. In this case, I fixed the broken 2FA bits on all of our sites. Better yet, I fixed up the broken sites - once again you can delve into the deeper history of this place, probably by starting at https://legacy.orbdesigns.com/bpages/metajour.html. Now I can do silly stuff like point you at what was going on twenty years ago today: https://legacy.orbdesigns.com/bpages/2002/z20020107.html#sunday. You're welcome - I sure liked seeing a couple of pictures of our very first rescue dog,…