🤠 Rodeo Roundup 2019 /April
📷 New camera. I upgraded from a Canon EOS M3 to a Canon EOS M6. A lot has changed in the 2 years since the introduction of the EOS M3. The M6 has WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity.
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🤠 Rodeo Roundup 2019 /March
⚒ Completed several additional DIY projects in the kitchen. 🏀 Casper basketball team placed 2nd in their league. ⚜ Troop 633 has a new scout: Casper. 🌸 Spring is here.
🤠 Rodeo Roundup 2019 /February
🎨 Hair dyeing with Henna. 🔨 Many DIY projects. ⌚️ Immediately lost my Fitbit. ♻️ Spring cleaning.
🤠 Rodeo Roundup 2019 /January
We started January in the cloud forest of Monteverde and finished the month celebrating Casper's 13th birthday. We saw sloths in the wild, ate great food and now all wear a Fitbit. My nerd side project this month was switching over to Pushover.
📖 The Nightingale
The Nightingale, written by Kristin Hannah, tells the story of two French sisters during World War II, and their struggle to survive and resist the German occupation of France. ★★★★★
📖 East of Eden
East of Eden was my first John Steinbeck novel. Living in Santa Cruz, I'd heard of Steinback, who lived in the area, but he wasn't the same household name for as he is in American literature. ★★★★☆
📖 Killing Floor
Killing Floor is the debut novel of the Jack Reacher series, introducing ex-military police major Jack Reacher ★★★☆☆
📖 Die Trying
Die Trying is the second novel in Lee Child' s Jack Reacher series. Jack is being a gentleman helping a young woman with an injured leg, Holly, when they are captured and tossed in a van. ★★★☆☆
📖 Tripwire
Tripwire is a classic Jack Reacher story. This 3rd book in the series follows the usual plot line of Jack being pulled into some injustice despite minding his own business. ★★★☆☆
🤠 Rodeo Roundup 2018 Week #52
🌴 We closed 2018 out in the tropics with Tatyanna's family in Samara, Costa Rica. 🏄 We surfed. 🐬 We saw dolphins. 🌅 And we saw many lovely sunsets.
🤠 Rodeo Roundup 2018 Week #51
🛄 A last-minute travel purchase: day pack(s). 🏠 We prep our house for house sitters. 🇨🇷 And we're off to Costa Rica!
🤠 Rodeo Roundup 2018 Week #50
🔨 The shed is complete! 🎥 I'm experimenting with the GoPro: shooting Timewarp lapses and editing footage on the phone. 🛒 The GoPro needed accessories. 👓 I've got my glasses
🤠 Rodeo Roundup 2018 Week #49
🏹 I had a fun offsite with the Google Play Movies & TV team in La Honda learning Kyudo. 🍸 Tatyanna had a seminar in San Francisco over the weekend and we made a date out it. 🎥 Last but not least, I got Go Pro, to document our upcoming trip to Costa Rica with.
🤠 Rodeo Roundup 2018 Week #48
A quiet week. 🤓 Casper had his optometrist appointment to get his eyes checked. 🏀 He started basketball practice at the Boys & Girls club. 👓 While I ordered the Öga frame I'd selected for much less in Canada.
🤠 Rodeo Roundup 2018 Week #47
🦅 I came across a beautiful hawk. 🦃 Heidi and the cousins came over for Thanksgiving. 🛠 I continued to organize the workshop. 🛏 Casper has a bed in the shed.
🤠 Rodeo Roundup 2018 Week #46
🌐 I said boodbye to Dreamhost. 🔧 We dealt with an unexpected bathroom sink repair. 🎨 I tried a color sample on the shed. 🌕 Tatyanna harvested pumpkins. 🎥 Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
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🤠 Rodeo Roundup 2018 Week #45
🗳 We voted as a family in the midterm elections. ➕ I learned about Google emergency preparedness trailers. 🕶 Bart & Tatyanna visited an optometrist to measure their eyesight. ⚽ Casper's soccer season ended in smoke. ⛰The NKBV ends travel insurance for overseas members next year.
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🤠 Rodeo Roundup 2018 Week #44
🐒 The Google campus has Halloween decoration everywhere. 🔍 And still, thousands of Googlers like me hold a Google walkout for better equality. 🐦 At home, a baby duck is born. 🏗 I finish the bird guards for the shed's roof.
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🤠 Rodeo Roundup 2018 Week #43
⚜ Tuesday evening, Troop 633 held their Court of Honor. 🏕 The troop camped out at Fremont Peak State Park over the weekend. 📱 Great opportunities to try out the awesome camera of my new Pixel 3 phone.
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🤠 Rodeo Roundup 2018 Week #42
🚲 Tatyanna and I go on a mountain bike ride. 🐔 Our livestock is under attach from coyotes.
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🤠 Rodeo Roundup 2018 Week #41
💡 I went to town with additional Philips Hue lights. 🔲 One of my Tiles died prematurely. 📒 We filed our 2017 taxes! 💲 Casper & Honey help at a Pioneer yard sale.
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🤠 Rodeo Roundup 2018 Week #40
🚜 The shed gets roof tiles. ⌚ I lost my Fitbit. ⚽ Casper's soccer team takes team pictures.
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🤠 Rodeo Roundup 2018 Week #39
💡Expanding the capabilities of Philips Hue lights with iConnectHue. 🚜 Laying underlayment on the shed's roof. 📒 Completing our 2017 accounting, so we can file out taxes.
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🤠 Rodeo Roundup 2018 Week #38
💡 I'm making a "dumb" LED lightstrip smart. ⚽ Casper starts in a soccer league. 🏀 Tatyanna registers Casper for a basketball league. 🛠 I got myself a machine try square. 🎫 Tatyanna is a Drive for Schools raffle champion.
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🤠 Rodeo Roundup 2018 Week #37
This week I replaced some livingroom lights with 💡 Philips Hue smart lights that can be controlled from the 🗣 Google Assistant.
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🤠 Rodeo Roundup 2018 Week #36
⚜ Troop 633 refreshed the chips of the playground of the church where they hold their weekly meetings.
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🤠 Rodeo Roundup 2018 Week #35
🚜 We discover a dead deer next to our mailbox and bury it on the farm. 🎂 Casper & Tatyanna go all out for Bart's birthday weekend.
Books
📖 A Wrinkle In Time
★★★★☆ A quirky mix of science, fantasy and spiritual battle between good and evil across multiple dimensions.
Books
📖 Ready Player One
★★★☆☆ Ready Player One romanticizes '80 pop culture and computer gaming (of all decades).
Greater Northern Loop
🗻 Greater Northern Loop - Return
⛺ We leave White River Campground listening to the Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place. 🗼The next day we fly home after playing Seattle tourists for 24hrs.
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🗻 Greater Northern Loop - Day 9
⛺️ I'm glad to leave Fire Creek. ⛰ Casper & Tatyanna hike up Burroughs Mountain for the view. 🌱 Grand Park is a fantastic meadow. 🌲 Berkeley Park is just as pretty. ⛰ The family reunites below Sourdough Ridge.
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🗻 Greater Northern Loop - Day 8
⛺️ An early departure from Cataract Valley. ⛰ The sun breaks through the clouds at Yellowstone Cliffs 🌬 Hardly any wind at Windy Gap. ☱ No swimming in Lake James. ⛺ Fire Creek is nothing to write home about.