My birthday picnic at the Jamestown steam train

Old No. 3

This was fun. For my birthday celebration we went to Railtown 1897 in Jamestown. We had a picnic lunch and then rode the steam train. Afterwards we drove through the Red Hills looking for wild flowers. We found a few and stopped to take some family portraits.

Chase

Audree

First day with a new Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi

My Raspberry Pi arrived today. I have some vague ideas of what to do with this tiny computer, but the list of things I have to learn (or relearn) is very long. Nevertheless, I successfully booted it and have briefly played with it through a command terminal session and through a GUI.

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Hiking and geocaching in the Phoenix area

McDowell Mountain Sugauro

For our first day of hiking in the Phoenix we went to McDowell Mountain Regional Park near Fountain Hills. On the way I realized the location of our motel was not the best—it took nearly an hour to drive to this park. This was a nice hike, densely packed with geocaches and […]