Cap'n Bob & the Damsel

Trimming the Landscape

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I spent most of the morning trimming the rosemary shrubs that line the back slope of the RV drive. The landscapers put the one-gallon shrubs in a year ago and they have grown nicely – in fact so well that the bottom row were starting to cover the river rocks stacked along the bottom 30 inches of the slope.

I was lucky today, since the sky was overcast (monsoons in progress) and the temperature only got up to about 92 with 40 percent relative humidity – mandatory perspiration while working. In all, there were 26 shrubs that needed attention. I trimmed several earlier in the week, but quit after a while – it was around 105 the other day.

The composite photo above (taken after the work) shows the magnitude of the effort. Click on the image to enlarge.

13 Jul 2012 by Arizona Home & Garden Photography Retirement

Where Are The Hurricanes?

no-cyclones.jpgRemember when all the hurricanes were pounding Florida and the Gulf Coast a few years back? All the greenbats and global warmists were blaming greenhouse gas and other horrible man-made things for the weather; the warming apocalypse was nigh!

Well, it’s the middle of freaking huricane season and if you go to the National Weather Service’s National Hurricane Center website you get the “No tropical Cyclones at this time” message.

This must be An Inconvenient Truth for the Goracle and all the other warmist liars.

12 Jul 2012 by Environment Global Warming Greenbats

Fish Hook Cactus Flowers

Fish Hook Cactus Flowers

Last year, We rescued this tiny fish hook cactus when the landscape crew had to remove it to install irrigation lines. It lived in a pot until early this year, when we transplanted it to the rock and cactus garden beside the RV drive. Today, it is showing these four flowers with two more buds to open. Click on the image to enlarge.

11 Jul 2012 by Arizona Flowers Home & Garden Photography

Sheriff’s Helicopter Flyover

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This is one of Sheriff Joe‘s Helicopters flying just above our little corner of town. It’s unusual to see any kind of law enforcement helicopters out of the metro area, but this morning this one circled overhead twice. I don’t know the purpose of their surveillance, but it was weird to see them circling.

At the old place, we had helicopters coming and going from the Robinson factory all day long. The occasional night time orbiting helicopter with their spotlights would give us concern since their presence usually meant that a crime had been committed nearby.

However, the helicopter overhead today didn’t concern me much, since the crime rate is so low here. Nevertheless, I will still be carrying my personal self defense device with “limited penetration” JHP projectiles, just in case of zombie attacks.

09 Jul 2012 by Aviation Law and Order

Solar Activity

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New sunspot 1520 has rotated into view and is producing C class solar flares according to SpaceWeather.com. They also expect M class and possibly X class flares as the sunspot rotates toward the mid-solar southern latitudes.

I took this image this morning from Wickenburg, Arizona using my Canon SX40 and a Rainbow Symphony solar filter. I annotated the sunspot numbers with my Irfanview graphic editor. Click on the image to enlarge.

Update: 07/11/2012 The group is now closer to facing Earthward.

08 Jul 2012 by Astronomy Environment Photography

ISP Maintenance Scheduled

jackhammer.pngOur internet service provider has notified us that there will be a short outage on Saturday, July 7, 2012 at around 10 PM, PDT. The maintenance should be complete within an hour after that.

Our fiber optic network provider needs to replace some of the hardware associated with our network connections. The purpose of this maintenance is to provide greater redundancy for a more stable network for our services. This maintenance will require the network to be disconnected for a short period while the new hardware is installed and tested.

07 Jul 2012 by Blogosphere

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