Crocuses are up!

Saw the first robin on Monday! More are out today.

It is lovely to hear the spring peepers again.

Pretty soon Cloudflare will block all crawlers just to make you pay to use their crawler.

I added a new photo to the Ward Pound Ridge Reservation Chronolog.

I haven’t tied much this winter, but the prospect of some rain and warmer weather melting the snow and ice has me hopeful for getting out on the water. Tied some peacock body little black stoneflies with CDC wings, and some glass bead dark sakasa kebari.

Planning to tie some BWO comparaduns and CDC midges next. Can you tell I’m eager for dry fly season?

The Little Free Library I put up in 2024 is still doing great! The three of us walked over and each put in a couple books. Glad to see it was pretty full with good books.

In some old outdoor writing I’ve noticed the phrase “the Red Gods” multiple times and wondered where it came from. I think it comes from Kipling’s The Feet of the Young Men.

While the poem draws me in with the lust for springtime adventure it stirs after a long, frozen winter, I can’t help but notice the romanticization and appropriation of indigenous spiritual practices. Probably best to leave that one in the old books.

Winter is really going full bore until the end. Yet another snow day. We haven’t had a full week of school in a month.

I woke up early for this lunar eclipse, but unfortunately we have total cloud cover here.

At least I got to see the local skunk sauntering back to its den under my shed after a night of activities as the sun rose.

We’ve turned a corner. Our 4yo decided he loves carrots this weekend after two years of rejecting vegetables outright.

test for the action scheduler in the link fixer

A brook trout I drew for Charlie’s daily lunch note.

lol, Screen Time notification looks buggy this week. I was very concerned that I somehow spent an average of 6 hours a day on my phone, but there is no way I spent:

• 8 hours on DuckDuckGo search
• 6 hours on Wikipedia.com
• 4 hours on RanchoGordo.com (I mean, I like beans, but that is excessive)
• 4 hours on IMDB.com

I did visit those things, but Screen Time must still be recording when I close the browser. I spent 5 mins max on IMDB looking up a voice actor for Zootopia.

The thermometer on the weather station out back read -4F when we got up this morning. The insulation work we did the last two years has been a huge help this winter, but it looks like the low single digits are about the limit, and our high efficiency gas boiler is struggling to keep up. Looking forward to some warmer weather, it has been a frigid winter.

On the bright side, the sustained snow has been nice to look at and play in, and we are hopeful that we’ll see fewer ticks this summer from the long periods of very low temps.

I see that the bird feeder is empty, I better go out and refill it.

Claude task of the day: Looking for a new vehicle and wanted a nice way to compare a bunch of different SUVs on one page. Spit it out as HTML and uploaded it to my server to share with my wife. https://cagrimmett.com/2026_SUV_Comparison_Visual.html

I used to wear a trench coat in the winter 15 years ago, but I stopped because some guy who looked like Dom Lombardozzi driving a Surburban in NYC yelled “Hey ya bologna smuggla!” out his window at me.

I’m thinking of getting a kit to put together my own mechanical watch. Has anyone done this? Send me your recommendations!

I used my UV light from fly tying to cure windshield repair resin!