It has been 20 years since we started our blog. We started it when we were still in California and now continuing (since 2010) in Arizona. We don’t get that many readers, but we enjoy posting things here as our Digital Diary.
I took these on my morning walk today. The weather mostly cloudy no rain (yet):
Curve Billed Thrasher:
Desert Cottontail Rabbit:
Click on either image to enlarge. Both taken in our back yard.
As of today, July 17, 2025, the vernabob.com blog is nineteen years old. The URL vernabob.com is a bit older than the blog; we formerly just had a web presence with this and that pages about us. When we started the blog, we wanted to convey our daily activities in “Our Digital Diary,” but these days, we blog now and then about things when we get the notion to do so as we enter our twentieth year of blogging.
We thank the Good Lord for His continued blessings upon us and trust that He will continue to do so. And may God bless all of our readers.
As of today, July 17, 2024, the vernabob.com blog is eighteen years old. We keep blogging about major events these days and someday we will resume making daily entries into it like we originally intended (i.e. “Our Digital Diary.”) Meanwhile, we will do the occasional post about holidays, birthdays, anniversaries (like this) and such.
We thank the Good Lord for His continued blessings upon us and trust that He will continue to do so. And may God bless all of our readers.
Well, I think we will not make a big deal out of the fact that VERNABOB.COM has actually been in existence for over 20 years, as that’s not germane to the blogosphere because it was not a blogging platform originally; that came a few years later. However, we CAN celebrate the seventeenth anniversary of posting as a weblog today, July 17, 2023.
We’re still not up to blogging daily, but we will recognize significant events and life happenings from time to time. Here is a photo from our first month as bloggers – Verna and Bob at Grand Canyon in 2006. Click to enlarge.
Oh Look! A Gila Woodpecker!
Old Sidebar Widget from February 11, 2021
I had some problems with making it work with the new versions of the server-side software that we use. There were some minor, but show-stopping changes to the platform that killed the Ephemeris code that ran on the old theme. I spent a couple of hours debugging the code today and now have the prototype running again in the “Bob’s Solar Ephemeris” page. Click on the link or select the page from the sidebar. Disclaimer: it’s still a work in progress and is subject to formatting changes.
One of these days, I might start on an interactive widget where users can put in their own geographical coordinates to see the sun’s daily times for their location.
Our first post on VERNABOB.COM was on July 17, 2006. We put up a couple of photos of us taken in our leisure time since we were still reporting to work in those days.
Now, after nearly thirteen years of retirement, we’re still going strong in our desert abode. We are currently in a phase of summer weather called “monsoon season” where it isn’t exactly a “dry heat” in the Arizona desert. Even so, we’re mostly indoors where it’s a nice cool 80° with controlled humidity. It’s very comfortable.
As we move further into our retirement years we plan to keep blogging here from time to time.
