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 Mourning Dove on her nest |
 Giant Crab Spider |
 Triple mutant toad in the pond |
| Fauna: |
 Young Desert Jackrabbit |
 Gray Catbird in Sandwich, MA |
 A Costas? Hummingbird in Joshua Tree |
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 Hummingbird nest eggs, March 13 |
 Hummingbird chicks on March 28 |
 Canon PC1742 taken with Windows phone |
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 Hummingbird chicks and mama |
 Hummingbird young on April 5 |
 Hedgehog, Red Pencil Cholla, Prickly Pear |
| Flora: |
 Agave Salmiana Ferox under a Eucalyptus |
 Buckets catch kitchen sink drainage. |
 2010: Our first grey water pond, 133 gal |
| Pond: |
 A blanket of algea on empty pond |
 Measuring our old pond-patio |
 Lowe's delivery 275 gal MacCourt pond |
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 Biggest preformed pond available online |
 Removing old 133 gallon preformed pond |
 Leveling new 275 gallon preformed pond |
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 The burlap hides the black plastic |
 Hiding PVC pond filler pipe with burlap |
 Pond filler camouflaged with burlap |
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 The interlocking flat rock patio |
 Home Depot's TotalPond 1200 GPH pump |
 Dividing the pumped water jet in two |
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 Numerous sources of water feed to pond |
 Flat rock patio around a 275 gal pond |
 A full moon on February 10, 2017 |
| Scenery: |
 A dwindling waterfall |
 The Palm Springs (PSP) United patio |
 Highway 101 California to Washington |
| Travel: |
 Stearns Wharf at Christmas |
 Cabrillo Hwy-1, Big Sur |
 Point Sur light station |
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 Pfeiffer Beach |
 Keyhole Arch at Pfeiffer Beach |
 Horses on road to Pfeiffer Beach |
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 Kerr Christmas 2016 |
 The 40 acre Kerr Farm |
 Kerr family dinner at Tuscanos |
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 Central Point, OR near the CA border |
 Broken air conditioner package |
 Measuring for air conditioner hole |
| AC: |
 Old bedsheet covers cutting area |
 Aligning Frigidaire air conditioner |
 Bolts lock air conditioner in place |
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 Wiring outlets for new air conditioner |
 Wire shelf protects air conditioner |
 Setting Wasserstein 7 day timer |
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 Hills towing to start our Prius |
 A Deltran Battery Tender plugged in |
 Deltran Battery Tender to Prius Battery |
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 Rheem RTG64-XLP tankless water heater |
 The Rheem RTG64-XLP burner assembly |
 The Rheem RTG64-XLP interior |
| Power: |
 Pritchett installing another solar rack |
 Topping batteries with distilled water |
 New golf cart battery for battery bank |
| Water: |
 Broken PVC ball valve |
 Water truck delivery |
 GreenLeaf bolted ball valve |
| Renovation: |
 The unbolted shed has moved off center |
 Lag screws anchor our Lifetime shed |
 Building a rack under our home in 2003 |
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 Window blind slat doesn't stick to glue |
 Necessary renovation supplies |
 All sides have been taped and repainted |
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 Fiberglass taped back together |
 Taillight fixed with "Liquid Tape" |
 Masking with Frogtape |
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 Sprayed fiberglass seals door bottom |
 Sprayed fiberglass tape seals door top |
 Painting with Behr Swiss Coffee paint |
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 Priming with Behr 'Swiss Coffee' paint |
 Spilled and recovered the can of paint |
 Painted the screen door |
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 Outside walls needed work in 2010 |
 Yellow paint was used in 1968 |
 Considered "Hunters Hollow" paint |
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 Considered dark blue paint |
 Repainting with Behr 'Swiss Coffee' first |
 Repainted with Behr 'Swiss Coffee' first |
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 Masked with Frogtape |
 Trellis hung between hollow steel tubes |
 Lopsided Trellis between weak tubes |
| Trellis: |
 Hanging the trellis with Velcro |
 Don't hang the trellis with Velcro |
 Painting angleirons and bolts black |
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 Angles to stop trellis from bouncing off |
 Emptying the eComposter |
 Stinger 2.5 gallon wet dry vacuum |
| Other: |
 A clean well made bed |
 Crosley freezer with Johnson controller |
 SolarWorld SW 325 XL MONO solar panels |
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 Solar panel racks |
 The Country Kitchen |
 Our 'faux wood' window blind |
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 Our homesite |
 Fiberglass taped together and painted |
 Fiberglass taped together and painted |
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 Adhesive sprayed tape covers splits |
 Sprayed tape locks metal & wood frame |
 Fiberglass taped together and painted |
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 Photoshoping light green is considered |
 Fiberglass taping plywood splits |
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