Good morning. 🍄‍🟫🍄‍🟫🍄‍🟫25 April 2026Charlie let out a brief howl this morning. I’m not sure what set him off — I was in my office and he was in the family room — but it was enough to make me get up and investigate. What did I find? Just Charlie staring at me like I was the one making noise. I let him outside, but he came right back in. The TV was on, so my best guess is that one of those little commercial jingles came on, the kind that flips his internal “must howl now” switch. I’ve seen him do it before, and I still have no explanation for the phenomenon.In other news, I bought a battery‑charger shelf to corral all the chargers and batteries that had taken over the worktable in my small garage, which doubles as a tool shed and storage space. The kit arrived in approximately a zillion tiny parts, but assembling it turned out to be easier than expected.Mounting it on the wall, however, was another story. I had exactly one spot a little over three feet wide, and the shelf itself is about three feet wide. My first attempt — mounting it directly to the wall — didn’t hit any studs, and I didn’t trust the anchors to hold the weight of all those batteries. So off to Lowe’s I went, where I picked up a 3'×2'×½" piece of plywood and a new stud finder. I anchored the plywood to two studs with five screws each, mounted the shelf to the plywood, and voilà — a piece of engineering that surely ranks among the great achievements of modern civilization.Think pyramid‑level accomplishment.The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven, not man’s.” — Mark Twain“Any man who does not like dogs and want them about does not deserve to be in the White House.” — Calvin Coolidge“Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own.” — Scott Adams #photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #nature #morning #mushrooms #dogs #engineering
