Julie’s feeder is really popular with the marauders too!

It’s just as fun to watch the squirrels helping themselves.  This guy treats it like a Ponderosa buffet! 

Pretty cool Timex offerings these days….

My dad and I were always Timex guys at heart.  He might have found it interesting how they’ve upped their game! I found this little gem in their newer offerings.  Pretty sharp! Lines right up with some of the fanciest brands out there and holds its own against them for a fraction of the price.  It’s a GMT style, which is a whole other wormhole haha.  It shows a couple time zones (red hand with the triangle) and shows 24 hour time (which I prefer anyhow).  It’s a fitting relaxed way to tell time. i.e. “a little past 10”, “almost 10:30” instead of fretting about the minutes.    

And yes, I may be ill with my collection…🤪

A low carb diet, suuuuure… 🤪



We get the sodas to lure the boys over more often.  It works! Hahaha.

We also keep bite size chocolate around for little desserts on occasion. It seems we had just run out of all of them at the same time coincidentally. 

And what’s with the creepy, scary soda box?! Some kind of video game collab I guess?

Don’t worry about my stickers, patches and badges

I moved a lot of them, the best ones, to my office ❤️

Just a nice view of of the sunset

This time of year, the sun sets so far to the north west that it is on the other end of the house from where it normally is the rest of the year.

This was the species of bird that visited us yesterday.

Julie found this cool pic of one on-line.  We hope to see our little red-headed woodpecker friend again soon! It’s the first one we’ve seen around here. We see several other species frequently, so…🤞🏻

Ok, so I think I found the place I wanna get a clone from…

This is a sample of one of their QC pics.  These copies are so good these days that you have to open the watch, take the movement apart, and examine it under a microscope to tell the differences.  The parts are even interchangeable both directions down to the tiniest gears and springs. It’s created an odd Frankenstein mess in the market which is at once good for the consumer and bad for the brand…

Julie treated Andy to Omakase too…

Since John and I had tried it a while ago, I encouraged them to give it a shot.  Andy’s enjoying the tempura scallop in the top pic.  Their favorites were their fatty tuna (otoro) and the gold flake wagyu beef (lower left). Julie really liked the crème brûlée too.  It was the first time she’d ever had one.   

Get your Lakeside plate❣️

Ohio just released these and of course Lakeside had a cool unveiling party announcing it.  Pretty cool. I like that they incorporated the wright brothers too.  I might have to pick one up next time around…

I’ve always like the facets of my college ring!

My mom and dad bought this for me as a graduation gift.  The stone is cut smooth on the top with facets on the bottom and it’s always caught the light in a cool way!

Johnny and I enjoy reading the old news.

So did Steve.  He saved a couple stacks worth of them over the years.  It’s a good thing, because they stopped publishing them in 2024.  So John and I have some to read through.  It’s a fun collection of storied from centuries ago…

Holding $10,000 in my hand…

…that would cost you $20,000 to actually buy!

On the way back from the dump the other day I randomly decided to swing by the local Rolex dealer (ironic I know) to see if they’d let me in.  They did.  They were quite nice and accommodating in explaining to me the range of brands and models they carried.  This is the model I like.  The price tag is $11K.  But you can’t actually get one.  If you wanted one, you go on a wait list and play a game with them for a couple years to see if one comes up with your name it.  So you can really only buy them on the used market at twice the price of new…

It was fun to look around in such a nice place.  I got to see some Tudor (sister company to Rolex) in the $5K range and a Breitling Navitimer too.  Next time I may take a look at the Omega Speedmaster.  All nice watches but WAY outside of my price range.  

I do really like the GMT Master look, and function. The 24 hour hand and bezel are useful and intriguing to a nerd like me.  I’m currently going down wormholes in the super-clone sub-culture.  I think I will have to satisfy myself with one of those in the couple hundred dollar range.  Plus you can get them in some of the discontinued cool color combinations.  Stay tuned…

When you need a little extra heat!

Andy was brazing again came up with this duct tape duo idea to give him the extra heat be needed to make it go will.  Brilliant and silly all at the same time.  He said it worked like champ!

More 250th pics…?

This one reminded me a lot of my favorite little antique town that I’m happy to call home❣️

Julie’s “Onion” bird feeder is popular with the critters!

We found this vintage feeder in her mom’s stuff.  Julie put it to use outside our living room window and it is attracting quite a variety.  We had a red-headed woodpecker and a red-wing blackbird this morning.