Chickadees, juncos and finches know, Time has come for winter's new snow. Days are short and the nights are long, Quiet are the woods, devoid of song. Ask the coyote, hawk, fox and deer, They all know the time is almost here. It won't be long now for shadows to show,...

As I reported in the last journal, I discovered that the heating system was thermosyphoning from time to time. The fluid in the pipes is only suppose to go in one direction: from the solar collectors to the tubing in the sand bed. This is what occurs while the pumps...

  (Click here to see a full-sized image from on top of our bluff.) With pocket protector and slide rule (Slide rule?...What's that?) in hand, I went to work this week writing a computer program and installing an A/D (Analog to Digital) converter to remotely...