Having additional insulation blown into the attic today… I can hear them walking over my head. I wonder how often they misstep and come through the ceiling.

Engineering 📷

Lots of cool engineering in my life, but not always so photogenic. I really enjoyed this visit to the Vicksburg National Military park to see the USS Cairo. One of seven shallow-draft City Class river ironclads. So many interesting engineering problems to solve!

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Tile 📷

Our bathroom remodel is finished. The new tile looks great. Much better than the giant unused bathtub that used to take up this space.

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Zip 📷

A lovely night for some sous vide steaks. A ziploc works almost as good as a vacu-seal bag. Seemed like a good entry for the micro.blog march photo challenge.

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Solitude 📷

When it is cold and the dead of winter and you are at your lake cabin and nobody else is around…

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Weather 📷 This is taken from my patio in Indio CA. The mountains in the background are usually tan not covered in snow. In fact we are looking directly at Joshua Tree National Park which closed due to bad weather. About an hour before I took this picture we could not even see the mountains.

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Secure 📷

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Another big day of home improvement DIY… New ceiling fan in the bedroom and new LED lights for the guest bathroom. 100% LED compliant now.

We were so tired of waiting for hot water to get to our shower. Running a recirculating line would be very expensive. But then we found this: Pressure Differential Recirc Pump. It took me a half hour to install and now we have instant hot water.

Some of the coolest clouds ever in the desert.