Raccoon in the blue spruce

Originally uploaded by rgdaniel.

This morning, without even having to get out of bed, we were treated to the sight of this raccoon, scrambling up the blue spruce that fills the view from our window. He may have been after the nest the mourning doves have made, but if so he was [...]

Red Wigglers, The Cadillac of Worms

Originally uploaded by rgdaniel.

Lynda just came home with this moist newspaper-wrapped bundle of composting specialists. Genuine Red Wigglers, made famous by WKRP.

This from “Joel on Software“:

“One of the hallmarks of a broken system is when there’s just no possible way that the programmer who is writing code that talks to customers can ever get feedback from those customers about bugs, because the call center is outsourced to a different company than the software development project is [...]

(via Rocketboom) More on the fine art of Getting Things Done, aka knitting a cover for the typewriter.

Princess Tiger – a photoset on Flickr.
At Lynda’s suggestion, and with her assistance, Tiger deigned to pose in her tiara. Actually it’s Doreen’s traditional New Year’s Eve tiara, but we hope she won’t mind.
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