Steve and Judy's Travels!

  An impromptu pond in the agricultural field.     We got to practice our long distance waterfowl and shorebird identification without even leaving our park!         Blue-winged teal Northern shovelers Coots Black-necked stilts American avocets Least sandpipers Long-billed dowitchers (or stilt sandpipers; I can’t tell from that distance) Lesser yellowlegs Snowy egrets Little blue heron  

    Surprise!  

  Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge.       To complete the picture, you’ll need to bring up a certain amount of heat, humidity, loud insects, and sweat in your imagination.  

  It takes all the timing pressure out of television.  Don’t want to spend time at the television right when something interesting is on, just DVR it and watch later.  Don’t want to watch live and sit through commercials, DVR it and fast forward through commercials later.   But DVR isn’t perfect.  It will only tape two things at once.  Set something long to tape, like a football game, Formula One race, or golf, and it really limits other choices.  We’re left setting priorities and monitoring skips to make sure we get what we want.  A severe first-world problem.   When the DVR in the house broke though, and we got a new one, we got the Hopper instead.  First-world problem solved!  The Hopper can record up to six programs at once.  Not a capacity we’ve ever pushed.  It appears to have so much memory that we’ve never gone much above 30% full.   Which all makes me wonder if the DVR in the bus is going to break anytime soon….