Goya Blog – Page 115 – The life and times of a true knucklehead

LED Lights

I have 31 landscape lights in the backyard and while they are 12VDC they still consume some power. In an effort to use less power I tried 10watt bulbs, but they didn’t seem to last very long. I also tried 5 watt CFL bulbs but quality control was spotty (some bright some very dim). I tried multiple LED bulbs but they were not bright enough. I even tried high priced 5 watt LED bulb but they cast a blue color. Now after many attempts I found a 60 SMD LED bulb that cast a warm light and consumes only 4 watts rather than the 20 watt incandescent ones. Pretty geeky eh? But going from a total of 620 watts to 124 watts is pretty ding dang cool.

Sleepless in Redding

Got stuck in Redding, nothing to do… went to the Sundial Bridge at night.

On the drive back I stopped to photograph some Pronghorn thingies. I wished I had my big cam. No compact camera I’ve ever had does well at that end of the optical range.

Battered

Had a call in Sonora today and while driving through Oakdale I spotted this sign. I don’t what kind of business they run, but I was intrigued. Perhaps next time.

Excess Turkey

What do I do with all that smoked turkey I made over the weekend? Turkey potpie what else.

Pumpkin 2nd try

This time I tried a bread pudding in the pumpkin.

Latte

Even though there is no such drink in Italy. We started drinking them again ever since our trip.

Musky

Oh no, what did we start? He comes to beg for food everyday…

BTW Sandy has renamed him. It’s a cross between the actor & that famous duck. We now crown him Ben Aflac.

WTD

What the duck? Saw it in our lagoon yesterday. Just found out it’s a female Hooded Merganser. How does she keep all that hair gel from washing out?

Koa’s Thanksgiving 2010

If it isn’t obvious, I love Koa. I chased her around all night trying to get a good photo of her…oh yeah we got together with family and ate some food too, whatever.

Actually it was good to see everyone even though I didn’t get photos of all of them. The food was excellent as usual.

I had cold turkey for breakfast this morning.

Muscovy Duck

A while back I noticed a new duck in the crowd of the usual Mallards. He always kept his distance til yesterday. For whatever reason, perhaps it was Thanksgiving, he came to our back door and starting honking for food. Oddly enough he didn’t have much fear as he ate right from the bottle. I have identified it as a Muscovy Duck, I think it’s a male. A name is pending…Perhaps Musky.