Scattered Thoughts . . .

The hot, humid weather has finally broken!  Let's hope that the rain goes back to normal rainfall amounts and frequencies too! Now that the weather is cooler, I have tons of energy again.  That is great news!  So, I started working on the house again yesterday. I decided to continue the renovation that involves replacing most of our waste plumbing.  In particular, I started working on our new half bathroom yesterday and figuring out how to tie this into my waste plumbing plan. I had replaced all of our supply plumbing a few years ago.  That was a major upgrade and I can't tell you how comforting it is to know that all of our supply plumbing is brand, spanking new!  Now comes the much dirtier job of doing everything I can to upgrade and fix our waste plumbing (not to mention being a much stinkier job).  This waste plumbing project must be completed in order to install this new half bath. Test fitting fixtures... We have almost everything we need for the bathroom...  

As many of you know, I have tons of video files of sailing from our latest visit to Lake Groton to use for producing a relatively short sailing video.  I have already sorted through all the video.  That alone took hours considering most of the video clips are 30 minutes long.  So, now I have a pretty good list of shorter video clips to cut from the longer clips. Now that I've put together a storyboard and am now trying to produce this video, I am running into a problem with my video editing software freezing up on me and crashing.  I spent hours working on an ending last night and never accomplished a thing because my software kept freezing up. I've figured out how I want to start the video and have created most of that already.  Now I am playing with a couple of ideas for ending the video.  I want to put together a couple of different versions and then put them aside and work on putting together the meat of the video...  the middle.  Then after I have the middle put togeth

If you've been following this blog, you know we had a mama squirrel and her babies living in our attic space through the winter and spring.  We constantly heard mama running across our ceilings all winter and suspected that she was making a nest for babies.  Then, in early spring, the pitter-patter of little feet across our ceilings did indeed foretell the arrival of some babies. We then found a few areas around our roof and facia where the mama squirrel was entering and exiting the attic space and closed those access points.  We caught and released mama but soon found that the babies were difficult to catch. I think the babies had difficulty finding their way from the ceiling areas between ceiling joists to the attic space where we positioned the trap.  When the babies gained more mobility, two of them eventually found their way to the trap following the sweet aroma of some hot peanuts and peanut butter.  Again, we released both of these young squirrels in our yard, under the