I got wood

I've spent the last two days hauling wood up the hill from by our well up to the wood pile. I'm pretty sure we have enough wood for the rest of the winter and maybe beyond. This is for the only source of heat in the house, the same fireplace insert Tricia had in her house growing up. Since the ground was all overgrown and I was using a wheel barrow I laid down the old pool solar panels. These provided a very smooth ride for the wheel barrow but were very, very slippery. I'm guessing I moved about 10 cubic meters of wood, my hamstrings are tighter than a fat lady's g-string.

Field Guide Update

I spent some time updating the infrastructure behind the field guide. Now it's even easier for us to add animals to the field guide. This new system also allows me to publish an rss feed so you can see new additions easily. If you use google reader you can add it here.

Rain update: 18.99"

A Blustery Day

On Sunday we had 6.62" of rain in 24 hours, the previous day we had 1.32" bringing our season total to 12.53". I expect it to be even higher tomorrow and it looks like rain for the rest of the week! Right now there's lightning and cars crashing outside. Nothing appears to be leaking, so that's good news. How do we know all this? We have a WMR968 weather station.

In other news, Tony finished painting and staining the windows inside the house and I'd probably give him a C- grade on the job he did. The color of the big bay window isn't close enough to the woood around it to make me happy. The guest bedroom looks great though and the windows he painted look o.k. too.

Pimping it MTV cribs style

Here's our new TV on a shelf I built (with my biscuit joiner). It was a super cheap Costco deal (27" LCD for under $600), it looks a little cheap, but the picture from DVD's is awesome (to us plebs).