Major award.

Presenting Major Kaminski!

I headed over to see him promote to Major last night.  Wow.  Next big promotion is the Spaatz!  

Good job kid!

Power company workers earning their paychecks.

 They had to replace 3 rotting power poles in the neighborhood here this week.  What an operation!

(pics are in reverse order, start at the bottom.)

Yesterday's replacement.  Power was off for a little over 3 hours.  Amazing.

Swinging a bag of gravel to backfill the pole.

Crane moved down a bit for the second pole.

Linemen had to climb and had a tracked bucket truck that fit through gates.

Ground wire with the lockout/tagout.

The trucks have everything!  All kinds of fasteners and rigging.

Any guesses on what the digger truck costs?

The crane is $1.2 million dollars and can lift just under 5,000 pounds at the tip.

Never seen a folding, mobile, tower crane before!

Crane!

Weekend pics.

 

Skyler had the cats in and out of the "catio" all weekend.

He started tilling the garden.  I finished after he spread 50 pounds of IFA fertilizer on it between passes.

We got to walk "Sir Reginald, aka, Reggie" down to the grocery store yesterday.  Our fiends on the canal road adopted him a few weeks ago.  What a sweetheart!

I pressure washed the patio last week and re-painted the John Deere G flywheel umbrella stand.

Not shown, the dishwasher conked out Friday morning.  We got lucky!  The solenoid cracked that holds back full city water pressure while we were in the kitchen.  If it had happened at night or while we were gone, it would have flooded the house!  New Bosch dishwasher arrives Friday.

Herriman stairs trail.

Boo!  Highly overrated.  With the exception of the Bonneville Shoreline Trail connection, the trails from the stairs all dead end.

Butterfield Peak.

The stairs.  Every fitness Sam and Sally were on them "getting ripped".

Jesus, I can remember when this was all open land 30 years ago.

Altair exploring another dead end trail.

Good day for contrails (chemtrails?😜) yesterday.

A naughty visitor.

 Mr. Six Toes showed up here in the backyard the other day. Skyler enjoyed his visit but the cat ended up on the roof!

"Hello?"

Look at those toes!

Mr. Kinx was not amused.

CATS!

 

Big tum tum!

Box!

Princess Puffles on her new donut.

Mischief out!

Kinx the Sphinx!

Their favorite time, eating time!

Mr. Kinx sleeps.

Window!

Pakhet on the clean laundry.