Arte De Timo

Category: My Old Mini House

  • Apples!

    First time multiple grafts have produced in the same year. Small in numbers and size but very true to variety and yummy!

  • Day two of Detector

    Got a metal detector to entertain myself and my son out in the back yard. Found this (1946,s Wheat cent) in the morning along with a bunch of nails, plumbing fitting, and a broken lock.

  • Avocado Picking

    Here are some pics from my wife, taken wile I was picking the first wave of Fuerte avocados off the tree. I didn’t even have to move the ladder to get 20 pounds worth. For reference, I am on a ten foot ladder with a twenty foot picker, and in this position could only go…

  • First Racking

    I took a wild guess, and racked my one gallon of Viozinho this morning. As you can see it isn’t very clear at this point, but the smaller jug was very clear before I messed with it. It’s a little on the brown side, too but I’m not too concerned with that right now. All…

  • My First Try at Making Real Wine

    I have very little idea how to make wine, but it is something that has always interested me, and living in California, it is something that’s just part of life. Anywhere you travel in this state you are bound to come across vineyards and wine tasting rooms. Go south from the Bay Area on US…

  • Eco Friendly Bed – Cool Packaging!

    This is how our new bed looked in our room when I brought it down from the truck. Here is how it looked out of the box and unpacked. Did I mention this is a Queen size full spring coil mattress? We decided to go with this Keetsa bed, because it was surprisingly comfortable, reasonably…

  • Loquat (A.K.A. Nispero) jam

    This last winter was a particularly warm one, and though my apple tree and pear trees are barely scratching out fruit and staving off disease, the loquat tree went gang busters with fruit. The combination of weather, dispatched rats, cats keeping the rodents away, and a neighbor with a BB gun has produced a bumper…

  • Jade doughnut from the backyard

      I mentioned that I found a jade doughnut in the garden in a previous post. I finally found it and snapped off a picture. What do you think? Ancient, rare artifact? Or kids pendent lost to play and adventure in the yard? It could even be a relic of the generations of pack rats…

  • The new member of the household – shoot 2

    The little chick hatched and the mother is hard at work. I took about 30 minutes to get this, then left them alone. Nice to meditate on nature and its raw beauty. Also, nice to capture a little keepsake of it, and nicer yet to know my yard harbors new life this spring. Technical note:…

  • Photo shoot with a visitor.

    I had a photo shoot today with a new resident of the house. She did very well for her first shoot. She’s an Ana’s Hummingbird; common to the area, and is sitting on one little egg according to my son. I couldn’t see in, so I lifted him up and he reported down to me…