Richard's Personal Ramblings

Winter is finally here for real.  It was 5 when I walked Titan this AM. He really seems to like the cold. Now up to 13 with snow and rain ex...

Colby has the whole hand to mouth thing mostly figured out. Even managed to find his thumb.

First snow of the winter. Only a couple of inches but pretty even so.

Finally got the last part needed to replace the flow meter on my espresso machine. All installed and had first real latte for the last cou...

For some years BB and a group of her girlfriends have taken a holiday to Florida. This year they decided to go for 9 days. Meanwhile I'm...

BB and I went to Rhode Island this weekend to participate in the Round Jamestown Race.  Marc Ladin, a friend, asked me to crew on his sailbo...

Parts are now ordered and hopefully will arrive in the next two weeks. We filter and soften the water in the house.  The service guy way...

On the leak front I've fabricated a better drain arrangement. New drain arrangement with 90 elbow to avoid crimping drain line. Ho...

On the leak front I've determines that the water came from the drip tray overflowing.  One would think this would be a simple problem to...

A sure sign of spring, Erickson's Ice Cream is open!  Never mind lunch!  Erickson's is open!  Oh, did I mention that Erickson's ...

Reassembled machine and with the plumbing parts in hand I've plumbed in the Laranzato espresso machine! As with all plumbing projects ...

I'm just about done with filing taxes and updating the three machines that still run Windows.  The Windows stuff was painful.  The taxes...

Karma had the parts to plumb in the machine and will order the critical parts for the espresso machine. Issues: Should I drain the boi...