Sunday morning Danielle and I drove towards Carrizo Plain. We stopped at Cottonwood Canyon, 7 Mile Road, and finally Shell Creek. It was pretty rainy in all places. We camped at La Panza Campground. It’s a nice campground but it drizzled almost continuously from when we arrived until when we went to sleep, with occasional [...]

Danielle and I have been saying we want to go to the San Diego Zoo for several years now. This weekend that finally happened. The morning of Saturday April 8, 2006 we started driving south at around 11am. That’s a bit later than we planned, but it can be hard to get up early on [...]

Our rats are getting older, and that means less mobile. A while ago I built a quick and dirty staircase for them to make it easier to get around in their cage. Finally this week we decided that didn’t cut it. So today I built a much nicer set of ramps, so now our rats [...]