GalaxyBoy
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Making bagels again using this recipe except making them a bit bigger. They are a lot of work but are awesome.
Power washed our driveway. Cut some branches off trees, bagged pine needles. Found an in-ground bees nest!
We have, behind us and over the fence, a young couple who have apparently named their child "Ant Knee"
No chance of another neighbor with a daughter named Cleo, I suppose?
I also had a good experience at the doc's office (oncologist, for the melanoma found last winter).
Spent much of today and the last couple of days cleaning up my two telescopes that have been sitting in the basement for the last seven years while I was either traveling out of town on business or just too pooped from w*rk to use them.
In some ways they aren't as bad as I thought they might be, but some repairs are needed. The commercial scope, which is computerized, won't power up. Replaced the dead power supply but still won't. Web searches revealed they are prone to blown capacitors so that's for tomorrow.
The homemade (big) scope's mirror was filthy but at least didn't have a mouse nest on it. Washed it and it doesn't look bad. The scope needs flat black paint applied to the inside but after wiping everything down and blowing out the literal cobwebs it should be basically good to go. However, I motorized it about ten years ago, and some of the drive components need replacing. All hardware store stuff; the electronics package on that scope seems to work.
Hopefully, I'll be living up to my screen name again soon. Maybe not this new moon, but definitely by the next.
I love having time to do these things.
Making ricotta cheese to have with grilled peaches and candied ginger after dinner. Extremely easy to do and well worth it.
Found the blown capacitor in my telescope control panel and ordered replacement. Various web sites say the manufacturer used an inappropriate type and I'm lucky it didn't burst into flames. There are a handful of others in the circuit board that I'll replace as well. This thing is over 20 years old and no longer supported.