Category: 1027: To Vault or not to Vault; iPhone Panoramas; Blizzards and Solar Storms

Grace and I are planning a little motorcycle trip over to New Orleans before we head back to the green mountains in May. We traded our 2003 Victory for a 2004 BMW R1200C which is the same bike that Grace rode on our epic 2001 journey across the USA. Do I miss the snow? Absolutely…

p{text-align: center;}. !http://blog.smalldog.com/images/5011.jpg! When I mentioned cosmic rays in my article last week, I actually had to restrain myself from taking a big tangent to talk about the effects of stronger rays on earth. These stronger rays are often referred to as “solar storms” or the more accurately, “coronal mass ejections”. These ejections are essentially…

p{text-align: center;}. !http://blog.smalldog.com/images/5012.jpg! I’m lucky enough to be in Key West this week work on some improvements at our store here. The temperatures are a bit cool for Key West this week, but at least I wasn’t around for the blizzard that hit Vermont earlier in the week. While I’ve been down in Key West…

_Dear Friends,_ I got a panicky phone call from a dear friend about her computer but the stress was really about the 3 feet of snow that had fallen and all the shoveling that she had to do. But the skiers were happy and the big dump was one of the largest in Vermont history.…