This could just as easily be titled: “How to Lose Money on a House.” I am not sure what motivated me do to this blog but I have a lot more free time while we isolate in place and this will keep me from getting bored. So here goes, this is just for fun. We […]

I am at a crossroads, I can either blog or do Christmas cards. I suppose it is not hard to guess what I chose to work on this morning. It is hard to generate much enthusiasm for doing cards in this very challenging year. It has been a year of uncertainty, fear and loss. It

There hasn’t been any movement on the camera front. The black Friday and cyber Monday sales were not inspiring enough to separate Mark from his money. For a pittance more, there is a sixty megapixel camera available. I am pretty sure that whatevah I bought would be superseded in a month or two. I hate

It is sooo hard being Mark. I am stuck in the dark ages of digital photography. My main cameras are point and shoot cameras with barely 18 Megapixels. The main camera is a Nikon P900 which has a maximum zoom of 83x. The bigger heavier camera is the Nikon P1000 with a 125 zoom. The

It is the middle of November and the dock at Moody Point has been pulled for the winter. So that is the end of Kayaking from here because the shoreline has environmentally sensitive plants and we are not allowed to launch from shore. I documented the ten fall Kayaking trips to Shackford Point. It was

We have gotten a start on the fall yard work. I thought we finally dealt with the leaves that were down. I was wrong as the oak tree took another dump on me. I think a strong North wind would move the leaves for me but we will get around to it later today and

Still lagging behind on yard work. The dock is still in the water and it is theoretically possible to continue kayaking. I keep thinking there isn’t much of interest to blog about but keep accumulating more and more pictures. So here goes: Boids The bird populations are shifting into the birds that over winter here.

Kayak Adventure VIII This is likely our last kayak adventure of the year. It was a calm morning just after high tide. It was remarkable how much things had changed since our last trip. The berries were stripped from the bushes and acorns were the food source of choice. We did not see a lot

Kayak Adventure V We still have not gotten updated pictures of the pileated woodpecker. So we headed back to Shackford Point to try again. We did not find the pileated woodpecker. But there was evidence that woodpeckers were in the area. We finally saw some woodpeckers. Meg saw a bird she didn’t recognize. Mark saw

I kind of let things get away from me again. I need to be more disciplined in freezing content and getting the ink on the paper so to speak. I had intended to get a blog out earlier but kept waiting for just the right pictures. I was planning to include some more kayaking adventures