Bonkers and Norio in the living room in Kitahiroshima in December of 2020. Bonkers died in July of 2020 and Norio still hasn't fully recovered from the loss - they were each other's best friends.
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Bonkers and Norio in the living room in Kitahiroshima in December of 2020. Bonkers died in July of 2020 and Norio still hasn't fully recovered from the loss - they were each other's best friends.
Norio on his nest in the living room (with styrofoam insulation to help keep him warm) in December 2019.
Tigger posing next to the living room door in December of 2019.
Bonkers on the bed in Kitahiroshima in December of 2019.
Friday, 10 January 2020: temperature this morning is -19C (windchill -26C). Sunrise is at 8:36 am, sunset at 4:51 pm. A dangerous Deep Freeze has arrived here and will stay for the next week, with temperatures dropping as low as -28C, windchills as bitterly cold as -35C. Nightime temperatures for next Monday and Tuesday are forecast to be -36C! Stay warm, everyone!
The weather forecast for 24 December 2019 did say that any fog would clear in the afternoon, but, trust me, it didn't. I made the huge mistake of driving east of the city in the hope of maybe finding a Snowy Owl. I only drove 100 km, then turned around and drove in dense fog back to the city, where the sun was shining. Talk about a white-knuckle experience! Visibility was down to maybe one power pole away. All I did was drive along three very short backroads, knowing that there was one particular tree and this fence line that would be there, so that I would at least go home with a handful of photos.
On 5 January 2019, a similar thing happened to me, though I ended up driving 235 km in extremely dense fog. I took an almost identical photo of the tree on that day.
The weather forecast for yesterday, 24 December 2019, did say that any fog would clear in the afternoon, but, trust me, it didn't. I made the huge mistake of driving east of the city in the hope of maybe finding a Snowy Owl. I only drove 100 km, then turned around and drove in dense fog back to the city, where the sun was shining. Talk about a white-knuckle experience! Visibility was down to maybe one power pole away. All I did was drive along three very short backroads, knowing that this particular tree would still be there, so that I would at least go home with a couple of photos.
On 5 January 2019, a similar thing happened to me, though I ended up driving 235 km in extremely dense fog. I took an almost identical photo of this tree on that day.
Test of updated code in my camera program. This shows extruded, randomly selected kanji characters as drawing elements. Unfortunately, given how many curves and lines are in kanji, this mode is extraordinarily slow and takes about four to five minutes to generate a single image.
Picture of Bonkers on the bed last night.
Test of updated code in my camera program. This shows extruded, randomly selected kanji characters as drawing elements. Unfortunately, given how many curves and lines are in kanji, this mode is extraordinarily slow and takes about four to five minutes to generate a single image.
This is the Christmas Eve picture I took yesterday in the -5°C wind.
Test of updated code in my camera program. This shows extruded, randomly selected kanji characters as drawing elements. Unfortunately, given how many curves and lines are in kanji, this mode is extraordinarily slow and takes about four to five minutes to generate a single image.
Last night's picture of Norio resting on the floor in the coolest spot in the living room.
Test of updated code in my camera program. This shows extruded, randomly selected kanji characters as drawing elements. Unfortunately, given how many curves and lines are in kanji, this mode is extraordinarily slow and takes about four to five minutes to generate a single image.
Picture of Bonkers on the bed last night.
Test of updated code in my camera program. This shows extruded, randomly selected kanji characters as drawing elements. Unfortunately, given how many curves and lines are in kanji, this mode is extraordinarily slow and takes about four to five minutes to generate a single image.
Picture of Bonkers on the bed last night.
Considering that we have not had any visible sunspots for months it is nice that Santa Claus brought us four. I had to shoot through high clouds to get photos of these small sunspots.
Bonkers exhibiting his normal catitudeness on the bed last night.
Argent on the bed last night, slightly out of focus and appearing to be back-lighted. She really prefers the taste of normal cat food to her bladder infection medicine...
Naomi and Tigger last night. We had finished dinner but Tigger was still eating...
A very sleepy Norio on the floor near the heater (but not in front) last night just before he got his regular tummy medicine for the day.
Sunset over the railroad tracks leading into (or away from) Kitahiroshima Stations to the north, seen from an icy parking lot. It was about -5°C (23°F) at the time with a strong wind.
Tigger wants us to hurry up and go upstairs so she can race me up the stairway.
Yuba (left) and Tigger (right) on the floor in the living room last night. They thought we were slow and wanted us to go to bed so they could sleep on it with us. (They can go up at any time they want, but require us to be there with them in the night.)
