December 29, 2017
A little backstory: “In 1877 miners built the Sterling Mine Ditch to redirect later from the upper reaches of the Little Applegate River to the Sterling Creek Mine. The ditch followed the contours of the rugged slopes of Anderson Butte and lost only 200 feet in elevation over its 26.5 mile length. Using hand tools, up to 400 workers, most of them probably Chinese, completed the ditch in just 6 months, at a cost of $70,000.”
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November 28, 2017
I ran into an issue with my CLI sass –watch not compliling some new files the other day. I tried closing and reopening the bash window, clearing the .sass-cache as well as cancelling and restarting sass –watch with different paths.
November 21, 2017
A fellow adventurer invited myself and a friend out for our first tour of the year. There is around 30″ of snow as of November 19th at 7000′ feet in Southern Oregon. We toured the smoother slopes of Mt Ashland before they opened. The fresh mountain air is a reset for my foggy valley brain. There is something about the crispness to it that just washes it clean.
February 28, 2017
We’ve been exploring different options for our garden. In the past we’ve done some raised beds, full rototilled beds, and heavily mulched beds… this no till method is our next experiment. I’m pretty sold on this subject… It’s all about the soil!
February 21, 2017
We have a few acres, lots of ambition and ideas to accomplish in the few hours we are not working or sleeping. Staying fit by hitting weights is one of my favorite activities in the realm of exercise, but not always creating the time to do that sometimes bears down on me. However, having meaningful work around our place can, and does, replace this side of fitness.
February 17, 2017
This is more for my own reference but the drywall anchors that you screw in are better than those steel ones that expand. We have an old house and random stud placement. I just hung a mirror in our bathroom and needed to use some drywall anchors. Those white screw in ones in the picture on the left work great, the ones on the right, steel ones, not as well. They were loose. Maybe the guy at the hardware store had my situation wrong but I’m kind of thinking that those steel ones are more for cement or plywood… Not drywall.
February 14, 2017
I listen to a variety of podcasts. Everything form deep metaphysical discussions on meaning and life eternal to politics. Money is a super important subject that my generation hasn’t been doing the best at making work for them. The Motley Fool Answers podcast makes question and answers about money fun and interesting to listen to.
February 10, 2017
I have a pretty large and diverse workload. I work with 50+ clients throughout the year and some days I feel like I am pinged by all of them for one thing or another. Most of them are urgent (!), but the others are really gracious about my time. I try and deliver in a timely fashion and not let projects stall on my-side due to a workload issue.
February 8, 2017
February 7, 2017
This has been my first full year in Oregon in over 20 years. We’ve been living in much drier environments. Drier air, drier soil and drier shoes. If you don’t own a pair of rubber boots you are a soggy footed feirmeoir when you are in the field. This year especially. January dropped nearly 5″ of rain… still about 1.5″ off the record of 6.6″ in 1936. During heavy rainfall, I felt like 5″ fell in one storm… by the way, how exactly do you measure rainfall?