Three foraging days over the previous three weeks have been enough to almost refill the wood-store, and more than enough to provide adequate cardiovascular exercise:
If that lot's not enough to keep us warm this winter, we have a reserve stash of hefty bits which I'll need to chain-saw when I can find the time:
My Covid spring booster went in today. The tally is now eight jabs, with the prospect of a ninth later this year.
An update regarding those two resolutions for 2023:
I had those done back in January, and the pics were taken two days later. The text isn't as wonky now that the healing has finished.
Fitted by RCM Chimney Services
https://transit-finder.com/ flagged this transit a few days ago. I wasn't too confident that it would happen, as the ISS sometimes gets boosted or gets redirected at short notice to avoid space debris, but I thought I'd give it a shot anyway.
Everything turned out well - the ISS was there as predicted, and the weather-gods were on my side. The ZWO ASI174MC camera on the 80mm refractor scope captured 27s of full-frame (1936 x 1216 px) raw .avi data at 160 FPS. I reprocessed it 30fps and then hacked out this 10s clip which covers a mere 1.7843s of real-time. It's best viewed in full-screen at 1080p:
