Archive for January, 2016

New Dog!

Thursday, January 28th, 2016

No, we’re not replacing Duncan Madog… yet!

Holes dug by dogs?

Well, no, not exactly. Our neighbor just got a cute Cocker Spaniel puppy for their kids and realized they needed to put up a fence in the back yard for the dog to have some playing room. They hired a “construction” company from the town of Wellington to help put up the fence this winter. Problems developed right away as the ground was frozen and there were periods when it would snow and not melt in the afternoon like it always had in the past. The contractors didn’t have a clue where to dig. One of them was observed using a dowsing rod; I asked him what he was looking for. He couldn’t or wouldn’t tell me. I convinced the owned of the property to call 811 before these idiots dug any holes! They also needed for me to find my sprinkler heads which was hard to do in the winter.

The picture above is a partial result of their work. Can you see the cut cable? Yes, it seems they cut our Comcast cable in at least three places! God, what idiots!

And even more holes

OK, these holes were dug and then a few days later, posts and concrete were placed in the holes (by a technique that defies explanation). Now a snow storm is coming! Will they finish the job before the big snow? Stay tuned.

NCCC

Monday, January 18th, 2016

That’s Northern Colorado Climate Change:

Just Snow in the park, right?

No, it’s OLD SNOW! We don’t get old snow! It melts within 24 hours after falling. Not this stuff you see here. It’s more than a month old. Like Chicago snow. Dirty. Disgusting. Chicago snow.

The Swetts, part third…

Monday, January 11th, 2016

Hell, it looks like I took a lot of pictures. Some are posted Here and then some are here. I went to this auction instead of RAGBRAI on 2015.

…Could be more to come.

Yet Another New Year?

Friday, January 1st, 2016

The tree still looked good!

Duncan Madog not paying attention

Jeannie’s fingers can be seen on the left trying to make Duncan Madog look cute for the camera.  Duncan never liked the little Santa hat attached to his head and he would always seem to avoid being around when the camera is out, so this is the best picture we could get.

Jeanne and a ceramic horse

Yes, the local Budweiser plant had their Clydesdale horses for view in the stables but none were posing for the camera so this ceramic horse will do.

A Tanpura

Or close to it, depending on how it’s used. It is a home-made instrument that apparently can provide a continuous harmonic drone that works well with an Australian didgeridoo or Indian sitar.