Mount Rainier and in the far distance, likely Mount Adams. Flying east from KSEA to KMSO
Mount Rainier and in the far distance, likely Mount Adams. Flying east from KSEA to KMSO
787s at KSEA. I’m on board that E175 from earlier today & now going to KMSO
I appreciate that we’ll be on this exact E175 later today for a connecting flight to MSO
I’ve been enjoying X-Plane 12 Early Release (now beta 3) even if my MacBook Pro (x86) frame rates never get above 33. Compared to MS Flight Simulator 2020, it’s a change that my actions are the typical reason for incidents rather than bugs or lack of functionality.
The very first storm of meteorological Fall and White Crown birds have already descended upon our backyard. It’s cool that they prefer our warmer backyard to cooler stormy mountains. We’ll see them consistently until June. Welcome back!
In California, our baking season has begun. Inaugurated with Pineapple Upside-Down Cake.
Today at the Orland Flea Market.
To no one in particular… Please remember to wipe your smart phone camera lenses off before taking photos. You don’t need to suffer with that fog in your photos.
My @raspishake detected the M4.4 earthquake out of Santa Rosa, CA. Too far for me to feel though.
Today the weather was very nice and we had to make molè. An indulgent start of heavy comfort food season.
Our volunteer conifers seem happy. First year they’ve developed cones‽ 🌱🌲
Used to be ddclient for dynamic DNS updates required
web-skip=’IP Address:’when checking the web for the WAN IP. But uh, seems like that’s been breaking my ddclient updates for a while now. Troubleshooting showed that removing web-skip in ddclient.conf fixes the problem.
Covid booster ✅ Flu shot ✅
06:54 AM and was 82°F & rising in the backyard here in Orland, CA. Amazing.
beestat says it’s too hot for the A/C to keep up. It’s also a Smart Day / which means we need save energy. That’s easy: increase the AC from 77°F to 83°F.
Got a proposal back from a contractor. It includes a ducted mini split which is a new concept to me and they are awfully tempting. Seems to be better in almost every way than than a classic American-style central heat pump system.
Pacific Gas & Electric SmartDay today and I bet tomorrow, too. Between 1600-2100, we’ll be setting our A/C to “away” and being more mindful of our general electrical use. For the greater good!
For the next week, ~record hot temperatures! Once again, time to protect our Hosui Asian Pear’s central leader with shade cloth. I had to lash an old pruned apricot branch to the tree stake for height for the shade cloth. The tree put on several inches in the last week! 🌱
Had a standoff tonight. White had just rolled the double sixes.
Seems the first contractor I asked for an estimate from for a heat pump ghosted me. Takes a lot out of me for me to call anyone and have them in my home so I’m probably more dismayed than most would be.
Hope this leaf bursting bud on the central leader of my young Asian pear tree survives today’s max 114° heat in Northern California. A few more days of this too.
Smoke from the Six Rivers Lightning Complex earlier this morning creeping in towards our home in the North Sacramento Valley. It’s now smellably (😜) here.
We’re very happy with Trader Joe’s Bavarian Bratwurst. Pretty close to Nürnberger style but much bigger. Of course we had no choice but to prepare it as part of Currywurst.
For All Mankind finale was a heck of a roller coaster. Woah.
Our home heat and air conditioning is 18 years old. We were planning on replacing it with a heat pump & now with the Inflation Reduction Act passing & Europe going all in on heat pumps, it’s time to get in on this before supply becomes a bigger problem.