A Right Pair of Hillocks

After an exciting few months of broken wrists and passing out on toilets, we are hopefully back with new adventures, planting shrubs, building little mounds of stuff, ordering mulch, and so the new season begins....

First off, the original hillock, a couple of Berberis Rose Glow looking after a Cedrus Deodora, Feeling Blue plus some new growth on the Alberta Spruce that we planted last year.

There is an extra hillock and more shrubs in this photo, plus five cubic yards of fine Alder Mulch, delivered this morning.

Meanwhile Back in Sooke....

Winter arrived, after all of us thinking that here in Sooke we would escape the Polar Vortex, well, it has arrived, and it is vortexy.

The Sooke Bus down the ditch on the highway yesterday :

Smaller, yet, more powerful...

On the right, the already modified Lego box Raspberry Pi 2 900 MHz version, and introducing on the left, the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B. A fifty percent or so increase in performance. This one complete with a fancy layered case, heatsinks and fan. 

Midget computers, with all the power.  

Raspberries and Pie

The last post, a couple of pix about what I'm up to at the moment, and in my opinion, total and utter joy and fun, perhaps I am energized by some life force to break me out of what is a long vacation away from something that has been a passion in my life.

It's been about six years I suppose, honing our technical life towards media consumption, computers that run standard operating systems, the Roku, the Apple TV, and I think perhaps boring and I forgot what I love in technology, and that is the learning aspect of it all.

The Raspberry Pi, a credit card sized computer, running a strange, yet familiar operating system.

Welcome.

 

Lost, and then found.

Thing of Beauty (Mark One) :

Meanwhile, back in Gibsons....

This was taken by a friend of ours, Andrea, who lives in Langdale, near Gibsons. It shows the wood barge, recovering from a delivery.  I believe this to be the Straits Logger, the sister ship to the now scrapped Haida Brave. This ship is now a barge with decommissioned engines, it is towed around by a tug and is used for deliveries to the mill area of Langdale. This brings back lovely memories of a misty, rainy passing on a BC Ferry with the mother in law, many years ago.

What a Stunning view of Howe Sound.

Tofino Brewing

In addition to the stunning coastline, the beer isn't too shabby either....