Okay, procrastinated long enough… here we go! Homestead So hey, Texas had a huge ice storm early in the month! It was two or three days of trees falling down, stuff crashing and creaking everywhere, and people who don’t know better driving into ditches. A lot of folks nearby had power…

It’s the first month of the new year and… what? It’s over already? FINE. Homestead It was a pretty quiet New Year’s here—we both went to sleep before midnight, I think. My car was in the shop (for two weeks, ugh) so we just hunkered down at home with our new…

Work Still working and teaching remotely for Flatiron School as a Lead Instructor for their Software Engineering program. I wound up teaching around sixty students full-stack web development, about a dozen or so in five-ish cohorts. Some things changed and some things are still changing, but I’m mostly just keeping my…

End of the month, end of the year, let’s see how it went! Homestead Not much to report here—it was very cold (for Texas) for a bit, then unseasonably warm (for December, even in Texas). Christmas to New Year’s averaged around 70ºF, which was welcome after a few days in the…

(Published a few years late, just found my notes. Woo, what a year.) 2019 in Review Okay, here’s the quick overview of my 2019: Travel: Went to Niagara Falls and Rochester for NYE 2019 Went to London to visit folks and do tourist stuff Went to Glasgow with Nichole while she taught data science …

Wow, November feels like it just *vanished*. Let’s see what happened… Homestead We’ve been putting our stuff to good use lately, it feels like. Harvested a big bin of worm castings from the three-tier worm farm I made a few months ago, and used those to amend the raised beds. …

October has been kind of a weird fast/slow month, let’s see what we’ve got. Homestead Honestly, not much. Did some minor repairs here and there (touched up the chicken coop, replaced a faucet, and so on), did a little gardening, and tidied up a bit, but nothing major. Pai’s been over…

September feels like it just *disappeared*, but look, I have evidence! Let’s take a look… Homestead Well, it’s “cooling down” some here in Texas, which means that it’s only ninety degrees every day instead of over a hundred. I’m starting to putter around outside a little bit more, getting some garden…

Better late than never… Homestead Not a lot going on here this month. Pozzo has been broody for weeks and being a little dragon sitting in the nesting box. I’ve got a few potted bags of sweet potatoes and a raised bed full of beans that I’m keeping watered through the…