Tag: Harding
The bobcat and the peacock
While enjoying the morning, I saw a bobcat skulking across the street. He disappeared into the neighbor’s back yard. Moments later, he was followed by a peacock who was honking all the way to warn the neighborhood about the danger. The peacock’s family was about a half a block away doing their morning forage.
A quiet neighborhood photo from the porch. A small bobcat enters the frame at the corner at 11:57:08.
The bobcat walking down the neighbor’s driveway. He’s very easy to see against the white driveway. Taken at 11:57:11.
A close up as the bobcat crosses the neighbor’s yard at 11:57:15.
The bobcat skulks into the neighbor’s back yard at 11:57:22.
The peacock following the bobcat moments later at 11:58:03.
Tips on how to change the spray nozzle on a Rain Bird 4" pop-up spray head with just a screwdriver. Periodically some sprinkler spray heads can become partially plugged due to debris in the sprinkler system which affects head performance. Often this problem can be cured by simply changing the nozzle on the sprinkler head. Video also covers how to adjust the pattern of the new nozzle after installation.
In this video I go in depth in Replacing a broken sprinkler head and riser. I also show you what parts you need to fix your broken sprinkler head and riser.Help, My sprinkler head popped off.
I swapped it out in July and it should still have had a few weeks/months left in it, but the fires apparently have caked it up. Based on previous changes of filters in the house every 3 months, this looks like about 2 years or more of dust build up. Changed it because the filter seemed to be whistling in the ducting.
“Eaton Canyon Natural Areas & Trails are closed for the rest of today & Memorial Day, May 25, due to overwhelming crowds that were not following the COVID-19 public health requirements. No walk-ins” the Los Angeles County Parks & Recreation tweeted on Sunday.
The neighborhood has been overly busy since Friday at around noon. I’ve never seen so many people parking (even past our block) in the neighborhood to go hiking over here. Memorial day would have been insane if they didn’t shut it down.
Eaton Canyon was crazy yesterday, but it’s positively insane today. Parking extends beyond Harding now.
It’s drizzling down here, but 4,683 feet up (and a scant 4.167 miles from the front door) it’s snowing!
The view from the webcam on the 9th floor of the Caltech Millikan library about 4.8 miles in the other direction.
Weather graphs for Mount Wilson today indicating a temperature of 29 degrees F.
A view of snowy evergreen trees from Mount Wilson’s web cam.
A web cam image partially occluded by snow build up, but with a snow covered Wilson Observatory in view.
Mount Wilson elevation: 5,713 ft
My elevation: 1030 ft
It’s been raining so frequently since it finally got hooked up that I’ve only just gotten out to program the Hunter water sprinkler system for our yard/garden. Hopefully everything stays as nice and green as it’s gotten with all the rain since early November.
It’s probably all for the best that this peafowl is in off the street.
Spent about 3 hours today pulling out weeds from the yard as a result of the horrific job that Armstrong Nurseries and their sub-contractor did or more specifically didn’t do.
