Irene has come and gone, not much of a problem here. Some neighborhood photos -

A block away:

Rotten to the core:

I've just completed putting up a basic weather station at our new home. This time it's a wireless system from Ambient (WS2080). There's great free software, Cumulus, that I'm using to post the local detailed weather (http://weather.theweissguy.com). No wind data since it's impossible to site it well without getting up on my too steep and many gabled roof. The Brewster station is now history as is our life there. So much going on here.

We are here - our GMTC (Great Move to Cambridge). Computers are finally up and updated, boxes unpacked but still some more to go. Moving from our great big house to our much smaller (but still big for a condo) Cambridge home meant much throwing out, storing in attic and basement. Lugging up and down three flights of stairs helped keep us in shape. It certainly makes for a good nights sleep! Our neighborhood is beautiful, five minutes from Porter Square. Lovely homes, lots of trees and full of flowering gardens.

As a native Brooklynite this Boston Globe picture and caption caught my attention:

Well, it was great while it lasted. My backyard short but fun bike trail has now been closed & posted "No Trespassing" by the owner. I was under the impression that it was on town property but apparently such is not the case. Alice tried to convince Mr. Bassett, the owner (by phone) to allow us walking and biking access to this .3 mile path.

  Closed-

Tropical storm Earl dropped heavy rain (2.3 inches)which, with the wind, caused my weather station to shut down. Restarted it this morning (beautiful, sunny and DRY) with no problem. I need to see if I can fix the software to prevent a recurrence of the problem. With the great weather and a just arrived new crankset (smaller granny gear) back on my mountain bike. The new gearing made a big difference in my climbing endurance but need much more TOB (time on bike) to really get back in shape.

Spring came early and real on the Cape - first time since we've been here (12 years). Here's a video of my backyard trail which I've just been celaring of debris and much poison ivy. Also adding a small but major challenge to my little trail - going to try it tomorrow. We'll see how it goes.

Long hiatus but back from my Whistler mountain biking trip with Christopher. I am now a convert. He built a great bike for me, used up his supply of excess parts so I got a bargain! Here's a video of our trip - more coming later.

A landmark day! Second day of sunshine, and second day of bike riding, getting in shape for a fall mountain bike trip to Whittier in British Columbia with my son. This has been an awful June – gray, wet and cold. Rainfall 3 inches, only 10 dry days, only 9 truly sunny days. Finally finished rebuilding my rotting shed and now back to repairing my weather station and working on my photography. No matter how much time I have, it’s never enough.