Kerfuffle

Even at my advanced age, I still like to stop and appreciate the beauty of a rainbow in the summer sky

From the paddock behind our barn, looking east over Cam-Rock park...

 

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Romeo and Juliet stand into the prevailing southwest wind

Water tower at Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin, Spring Green, Wisconsin posted remotely via iPhone

So nice to have the green back for the season

View from our deck looking out over the oak savana in Cam-Rock Park.

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Map, schmap: Making the case for GPS in every rental car

[Calistoga CA] The wine country in Sonoma and Napa counties is beautiful. With our trusty rental car, an iPhone and a Blackberry, we figured we didn't need GPS or a map. While we're not lost, as we've been here before, we are learning how quickly one becomes dependant when every car one owns has a GPS in it. 

The wireless phone works, to a degree, but it needs cell towers to triangulate a location. Not a lot of towers out here. Tasting wine doesn't exactly sharpen one's own internal compass either. Not wanting to drive back the exact route in reverse when we return to San Francisco after dinner, we fell back on that low-tech standby: a map. 

How 20th century. 

Since dinner here in Calestoga will include more wine, a map is probably worth the cost of a latte (the new universal cost-comparative standard it seems.) 

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Shopping for Friesians? Have I got a deal for you!

[Sonoma CA] Black Sterling Farms is where you'll find Dutton. And for just $19,500 you can ride him home. (Saddle not included.)

This trip might get kind of expensive.

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We're asleep on the job

Sorry there haven't been a lot of Kerfuffle posts of late. We've been napping, but we will be back at it shortly. (It ain't easy being Bosco, as you can tell.)

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Merry Christmas from Cambridge, Wisconsin

White Christmas? No problem. Nearby Madison broke the record for the all time snowiest December with a week to go. Awesome. Here's wishing you a very merry Christmas, where ever you may be.

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Sunday morning at our farm in Cambridge, Wisconsin

This is the view from Sam and Gigger's pasture looking northwest back at the house. The granary, which Tom turned into a studio, is to the left.

Big Wood River, south of Ketchum ID

Idaho's Big Wood River

[Taken and uploaded with an iPhone en route to Hailey ID]