Day 482 – Orbital Mechanics

By jspeer

Published: July 28, 2006

Hours of Daylight – 14:56

Shorter and hotter is the rule for the days here this summer. Still i suppose it’s better to have the low humidity of the high desert than the sticky wool-blanket-soaked-in-mineral-oil feel of the midwest.

Talk about a mish-mosh of thoughts, fears, and curiosity. That’s the best way i can describe the past [...]

Day 479 – Portland Ride-a-bout

By jspeer

Published: July 25, 2006

Hours of Daylight – 14:53
It was like sitting in front of a big hair dryer for 7 hours. That’s the unromantic truth of my recently completed motorcycle trip from Boise to Portland. See, underemployment has certain advantages. One is the ability to go just about anywhere i want at a moment’s notice. In fact, i [...]

Day 473 – Hummingbird!

By jspeer

Published: July 19, 2006

Hours of Daylight – 15:04
The shrinking daylight is accelerating. But while the summer progresses and the daylight shrinks and as the apocalypse looms in the Mideast I suddenly noticed a hummingbird on the feeder.
See, the other day i bought yet another hummingbird feeder and hung it in a more auspicious location. Although i’m not at [...]

Day 469 – Food

By jspeer

Published: July 15, 2006

Hours of Daylight – 15:11Another flood day has come. Last week Mark cut the water off a bit too soon; our junipers didn’t get a good dosing. This morning i managed to catch him before he droped the blade back into the frame thus cutting off the flow into our little system. The water is [...]

Day 455 – Flood

By jspeer

Published: July 1, 2006

Hours of Daylight – 15:26
Today is Saturday, aka “flood day.” See, while the Northeast is fretting a fuming about being under water, here in Boise we’re causing a flood on purpose. I may have written about this before: flood irrigation. Basically the Boise river flows from the big Army Corps of Engineers dam at Lucky [...]