Monthly Archives: April 2021

Apparently a lot of laundry detergents nowadays use florescent dyes to make clothes “whiter and brighter”. The dyes absorb ultraviolet light and emit light in the blue part of the spectrum. It counteracts the natural yellowing that clothes get with … Continue reading →

My favorite definition of nerd is, Someone who gets excited learning and obtaining new information for its own sake. Nerds don’t care if the information is useful or not. Yes!! Years ago a friend years looked at me with some … Continue reading →

This is what the greenhouse looked like yesterday: It’s not that unusual. This is what it looked like on April 13th last year: April 18, 2021

April 17, 2021

What I didn’t mention about the gazing ball was how far it is from the house. It’s inside the white oval in this picture (to the left of the fireplace chimney). One of the first things I do when we … Continue reading →

Years ago Andy sometimes had trouble finding one of the corner posts for our land, in spite of the white stake he put up. So Beate and Tim bought him a gazing ball to make it more visible. It helped … Continue reading →

This is a post from July 5, 2016: We saw a double rainbow Friday evening. I couldn’t get a photo of the whole thing, and the second rainbow (very faint and on top of the first one) doesn’t show very … Continue reading →

What a great photo opportunity, thanks to her iPhone and the weather. April 13, 2021

Years ago Andy would sometimes come home and say he spooked a few elk. He would hear a crashing in the bushes and walk over and see them running away. That was neat, but once when I was walking down … Continue reading →

Beate sent me these pictures of elk she encountered on a walk in May, 2016. How cool is that?! Thanks, Beate! April 11, 2021