What's New 
Sunrise, Lower Falls, Tahquamenon, July 2007
I who have copied down this story or more accurately fantasy do not credit the details of the story or fantasy. Some things in it are devilish lies and some poetical figments. Some seem possible and others not. Some are for the enjoyment of idiots.
Irish scribe, eighth century-from the Tain bo Cuailgne
May 2008
Palm and needle whipping.
May 12
Have begun rigging Pangur Ban. Sail delivery is likely to be in July. I'm in no hurry there, as it just puts off the inevitable day of reckoning with my checkbook.
May 10
There is a large Asian Boxwood at one corner of our garage, near the bird feeders. Every time I walked close to it, a Robin has burst from it and headed to a nearby tree. About the tenth time (I never claimed to be all that bright) it occurred to me that there just might be a nest in there somewhere. Sure enough, there is one, right at chest high.
May 9
Over the last couple of years I've scanned the thousands of negatives I have. Now I'm using those scans to go back over some of the oldest bits of this web site and increase the resolution of the images. Some of these have been on the web for better than a decade. When they were new, a 100K image file took forever to load. I'm probably half done with the upgrade. You can see results in the examples to the left.
May 5
After a largely inactive winter, it's good to get back to work. The project for this weekend is to complete the move of my lathe to the newly-renovated machine shop in the basement.
On the boat front, the sails are on order and should arrive in June, and I've been spending way too much time and money on all the little bits of gear a boat needs to be water-ready.
Link of the moment
No, it's not work safe.
Off the Radar
Things that used to be on this page can be found in the archives:
Alarums and Excursions
Be forewarned, there is a fair bit of nudity in the photography section of this site and scattered about elsewhere-if that offends you, or you are not legally allowed to view such, go elsewhere.
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All images and text Copyright Dale Austin, 1962-2008