Doves

Posted on April 21, 2020 by kimerer_brian

We have a family of Mourning Doves nesting outside our window.

There is a room at the back of the house that is full of windows and exotic plants. Just outside the room is a fir tree. The illusion of this arrangement is that we are in a continuous forest, but with a sheet of glass in the middle to keep us warm in the winter.

Plant Room

That illusion seems to work for the birds as well for us, and in fact the Chickadees have attempted to fly to the inside plants only to be confused by the invisible barrier.

The Mourning Doves have felt comfortable enough with the location that they have built their nest in the fir tree just outside the window.

The nest

Can’t see the bird? Here is a hint.

Nest circled

I zoomed in a bit closer, and there is Mom sitting on her nest.

Mom bird

Later on, Pop joined her.

Pop

We are hoping that they stick around long enough that we get to see their little ones hatch.

Shhhh. Walk quietly.

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Taxes

Posted on April 18, 2020 by kimerer_brian

DG has been pulling his hair out trying to get his taxes done.

I told him that he should be careful with that, after all he only has one hair left.

DG Hair

Oops. Too late.

Oh well. Maybe it will grow back.

He has until July.

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OK, what month is it?

Posted on April 18, 2020 by kimerer_brian

The title says it all…. what month are we in now?

Festive snow on house

That looks very festive….. for December… but April?

I hope the Chickadees don’t get confused and stuff the chicks back into their eggs.

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Mask

Posted on April 9, 2020 by kimerer_brian

DG decided that he needed to make a mask. That is what everybody is doing, making masks.

“DG”, I said, “Just stay inside. You don’t have anywhere to go.”

“Nope”, DG said, “I need to make a mask”.

“Seriously, DG, you don’t need a mask. You aren’t going anywhere”.

“Nope”, DG said, “I need to make a mask”.

So off he went and got to work making a mask.

It didn’t turn out all that great.

DG's mask

So, I stepped in and helped out and made one for him myself.

Total Face Mask

There ya go. Now maybe we can get some peace and quiet around here.

 

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The Chickadees Have Nested

Posted on April 7, 2020 by kimerer_brian

Amid all of the current chaos and disruptions, some things remain the same. The chickadees are frantically going in and out of the house, which probably means that they have a brood in there. A photo of a chickadee heading into the house.

Chickadee going in

And here is one coming out.

Chickadee coming out

Can’t see the bird? A hint will help.

Annotated

A super closeup.

That is a bird on a mission.

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Looking for something funny

Posted on March 27, 2020 by kimerer_brian

I have been wracking my brain trying to find something funny to post, but honestly there  isn’t much these days that is funny.

So, I drew a picture of DG going Stir Crazy.

Stir Crazy

Hopefully, he will be able to get out soon.

Seriously, stay calm, stay safe, stay healthy.

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Spoth

Posted on March 23, 2020 by kimerer_brian

It has been a while since I have posted a SPOTH. So here is one that just bloomed.

Tylecodon

That’s pretty gnarly.

The flowers aren’t all that strange though.

The Flowers

In case you want to know what it is, here is the label.

The Label

And in case you can’t read it, it says “Tylecodon Ventricosus“, which is Latin for “My ventricles need a Tylenol®”……. or something like that.

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Happy Pi Day

Posted on March 14, 2020 by kimerer_brian

Today is Pi (π) Day. In case you have been living under a rock and don’t know what π day is, it is March 14, which is written as 3/14 which some nerds have equated to 3.14, which is a very gross estimate of the value of π, which is actually, 3.141592653589793238462643383279… (approximately).

So, anyway, Happy π Day.

Speaking of nerds, this morning I was looking for a key to a lock box I need to open. I was looking in my Desk Organizer (which is actually a primo example of disorganization) and found some of my old Nerd Jewelry.

Tieclip

That is a Tie Clip and its attendant cuff links. Remember tie clips? Remember ties?  I won’t even ask if you remember shirts that required cuff links.

The tie clip is actually a working slide rule, which is probably the nerdiest nerd fashion statement ever made.  Here is a closer view of the tie clip.

Closer View

Pretty cool, hunh? And if you are paying attention, you can see that the slide rule is solving the calculation of this blog’s hit counter in comparison to The Google hit counter. Click on the link below to refresh your memory.

Slide Rule Calculation

To clarify further, I have included an annotated closeup of this version of the calculation.

Slide rule annotated

So there you have it…. another get-a-life post on the Nothing Happens at Ten blog.

P.S. I did not find the key.

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Market Crash

Posted on March 12, 2020 by kimerer_brian

DG has been watching the Market crash and is all worried and bummed out about it.

Worried

“Relax”, I told him. “It’s not all that bad. It comes back. It always has.”

But he was still upset.

“Well, just turn the chart upside down”, I said. “That will make you feel better.”

Faceplant

Hmmmm. I guess that wasn’t the very best idea that I ever came up with.

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Daylight Saving Time

Posted on March 8, 2020 by kimerer_brian

It is Daylight Saving Time again. So last night I went around moving all the clocks forward an hour. That was when I discovered that our Daniel Pratt clock had stopped ticking. I tried to get it going again, but it would not run. Don’t believe me? Here is a movie of the clock not running.

Clock not ticking

As you can see, the clock is not ticking.

Oh. Still watching? OK. I’ll wait.

Hmmm. hmmm… dum de dum…..

Done yet? Seriously, you can watch it all day and it won’t do anything.

Anyway, DG said that the clock was protesting Daylight Saving Time. The clocks are fed up with being joggled and disturbed twice a year, he said,  just because some bureaucrat in Washington has made a rule that we have to do that. “It’s a silly rule”, he said, and he has taken up the cause and is protesting in support of the clocks.

DG Protesting (again)

While he was doing that, I took the clock down to the bench and found this.

Broken String

 

That is the cord that holds the weight that makes the clock go. It was all frayed and wrapped around the axle (sort of like DG). I replaced the cord with a new one, and the clock is now running nicely. It hardly even missed the loss of an hour because it spent a couple of hours in the Clock Hospital.

I showed the cord to DG and said, “Hey, DG. This is just like you!”, and he said, “No. I’m a frayed knot!”

HAHAHAHAHA

Sometimes I crack myself up.

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