I stayed up late last night giving the Polaris star tracker it's first real test. I had a few unforeseen problems, but the thing actuall...

I got up early this morning and watched the milky way core rise in the East before dawn. The morning sky is actually more interesting than t...

It's good to be back on Mount Locke. It was a long, tiring drive out to the observatory, but there wasn't much road construction and...

I'm making progress. I picked up my rental car and I'm almost finished packing. I don't know why it takes me so long to get read...

For the second day in a row we visited some Dalmatians. The dogs at the kennel were in fine form today. This week Candy and Willie joined Ju...

We went and saw Sammy's puppies today. I'd almost forgotten how cute Dalmatian puppies are. Sammy had a large litter. There were ele...

I had to pick up some prescriptions while I was grocery shopping this morning and out of curiosity I asked the pharmacist if I would save an...

Another very windy, unseasonably warm, and largely uneventful day. After our early walk with Dawn and my ritual breakfast of shredded wheat ...

I paid my travel bills today. What a discouraging experience. When I enter transactions in Quickbooks, it always brings up the previous tran...

Yay. Only 500 days to go. Why I ever took on this 5000 day challenge is lost in the mists of time, but I think I'm going to make it. 500...

It was a very busy day. Since our monthly bulky trash pickup is tomorrow, I thought I'd try to remove the remaining leaves from our side...

There was one less dog when we visited the kennel this afternoon. Julip has gone to her new home. Things are looking up for the Dalmatians. ...

We had a very pleasant Easter. It was so peaceful and quiet when we took Dawn on her early walk this morning. There was no traffic noise, no...

I got to sleep a little longer this morning. Even though we are both retired, we still maintain a vestage of our old work schedules. This me...

It was hard to get up this morning. I was still asleep when Janet and Dawn were ready to walk. Janet said that she woke me up earlier, but I...

I'm losing track of the days again. I thought it was Friday for a while this morning. Nope, it's only Thursday. It's an easy mis...

We had more rain this morning, but it didn't last long. The rain surprised us. We took our normal sunrise walk with Dawn, but if we'...