the Pip officially has strep throat, and thus had to stay home today, but the antibiotics he started yesterday (over his very strenuous objections) have worked wonders, so his energy level was pretty much back to normal. Which means that we spent a while out in the back yard raking up a big pile of leaves, whereupon:
The Pip mid-leap into the leaf pile in the back yard of Chateau Steelypips.
This is a small fraction of the leaf pile we used to be able to get, before we had the big maples that used to be on the south side of the yard taken out. It's not even everything we can get now, as you can see in the background. I did rake up some more later, but this is the best action shot and thus the photo of the day.
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Does your back yard slope up, away from your house, or does it slope down?
Unranked ASU is playing #14 Oregon.
When Kate and I were looking for a house back in late 2002, one of the things that sold us on this place was the back yard. The lot is very deep, unusually so for this part of Niskayuna, so there's a lot of space in the back yard, and it was pleasantly shaded by trees.
Let's start with some good news.