The Thing.

Yesterday on the dog walk I said to Syd, You know, if that thing suddenly started moving, we’d be in the middle of a helluva a horror movie.

Decent sized lizard, that

Seriously large claw marks. That’s a size 13 shoe for comparison. We haven’t seen a live lizard longer than two inches long in a very long time. There was that one once, though….

That would be Colombia, not California

Though it does look like the older license plates we saw when I lived in California as a kid.

Love birds

We’ve had a couple pigeons hanging around for several years now. The pair I saw the most in the past were gray and white. This year they’re both white. They nested on an air conditioning unit upstairs. I saw one eggshell and once the two of them with another, full grown, black and white. Much more interesting than just gray.

As you’ll no doubt agree. Here’s what two two gray pigeons look like.

Yesterday evening

Just more clouds 😉

Nothing deceptive here

A yogurt maker we picked up at someone’s moving sale. A little slider for adjusting temperature, I guess?

Problem is, the slider only goes to the left as far as 3/4. It stops at the indicator light. Which is not why I took it apart, but…

…lo and behold, the slider is connected to nothing. Purely decorative. Unbelievable.

Something about economics?

OK, OK: too clever by half.

Design notebook 20250917

Hi neighbor

Here’s a cozy place where you can sit for a few and watch the world go by. Lovely!

The protest

Friday evening as I went out with the dogs for a local walk, I noticed our neighbor dragging a huge pile of brush from the left of his driveway into the center of the intersection (which is pretty busy, considering the mini-market to the right of where I stood).

He told me it was a protest, since he had called the intendencia at least 13 times since June to pick this stuff up. But on the beginning of a weekend? I wondered.

Saturday it was all dragged into the ditch behind the blue trash container. Which wouldn’t have pleased me too much if that was my house.

And on Sunday morning the whole pile was dragged back to the right of the original driveway.

I think I will be asking no questions.