Mar 26, 2025
A bald eagle sits in a snag overlooking Oaks Bottom
—orc Wed Mar 26 22:21:03 2025
Mar 21, 2025
Mar 14, 2025
There’s a lunar eclipse going on (ending now, I think) and took a few pictures of it.
With a 55mm lens :-)
It’s a little red gumdrop with very few surface features!
—orc Fri Mar 14 00:29:54 2025
Mar 08, 2025
Mar 01, 2025
Dust Mite is on bisexual standard time this week
—orc Sat Mar 1 00:27:54 2025
Feb 21, 2025
Watching the clock
—orc Fri Feb 21 23:54:28 2025
Feb 14, 2025
Dust Mite plays in the snow
—orc Fri Feb 14 18:41:29 2025
Feb 07, 2025
Sick today, so everything is fuzzy, including the Dust Mite
—orc Fri Feb 7 23:58:37 2025
Jan 31, 2025
Jan 24, 2025
I tried to make a Dust Mite sugar cookie, but, alas, the finished product only slightly resembles one ;-)
—orc Fri Jan 24 21:09:42 2025
Jan 23, 2025
~36kg of kitty litter. A bit much for the amount of air left in the bob yak’s wheel, but at least I had what I laughingly call a bike pump (the full-length pumps have a sort of retro flair to them, but they don’t inflate tires nearly as well as modern minipumps with better heads do) and it was enough to shovel air into it before I headed home.
—orc Thu Jan 23 14:52:20 2025
Jan 22, 2025
Slowly piecing together post mounts for my emergency randonneuse. So far I’ve done one of four. sigh
—orc Wed Jan 22 23:53:56 2025
Jan 17, 2025
The rear SL23 on the emergency randonneuse wore through last week, so I gathered up a bunch of parts to replace the rim brakes with disc brakes and today finally disassembled the bike so I can glue post mounts (or adapter pads for flat mount brakes) onto the thing.
Aside from being absolutely filthy, I discovered that I’d managed to twist and derake (part of) the fork, so had to rerake & untwist the fork. Thankfully steel is malleable so I can do this without risking it disintegrating out from under me. But I’m still going to glue a reinforcing rib to the brake-side fork leg for paranoia’s sake.
—orc Fri Jan 17 23:14:25 2025
Jan 10, 2025
Dust Mite sits in on my eldest’s newly recased & re-graphics carded gaming PC.
—orc Fri Jan 10 20:49:07 2025
Jan 08, 2025
Milwaukee Road ES-1 #E57B (and bobtail #E34C) were switching in Harlowton sometime in 1973, just before the idiots in Chicago turned off the electrification (and accelerated the railroad’s descent into oblivion.)
—orc Wed Jan 8 00:27:10 2025
Jan 03, 2025
Dust Mite poses with some seatstay/rack tubing
—orc Fri Jan 3 23:47:56 2025
Dec 27, 2024
Dec 22, 2024
Polson Logging Company #2 leads a southbound Holiday Express past Oaks Park this afternoon. I was at the top of the bluff (about a third of a mile away) and despite its best efforts the lens just couldn’t keep the image stable.
Polson #2 is underpowered for the number of passenger cars the Holiday Express usually operates. The ORHF is working on restoring Mount Emily Shay #1 now, so maybe it will be the power for next year’s Holiday Express (and if there’s anything a three-truck Shay is good for, it’s pulling ridiculously heavy trains up steep ramps) and the ORHF won’t have to put a diesel helper onto the train for that steep ramp
up to Spokane St.
—orc Sun Dec 22 23:56:30 2024
Dec 20, 2024
Not very many decorations, but the ones we have are top notch!
—orc Fri Dec 20 23:37:55 2024
Dec 17, 2024
Two fruitcakes, one for me and one for a secret santa gift exchange (to someone in That Paradise That Is California™, so packing it will be an experience.)
—orc Tue Dec 17 00:31:58 2024
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