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DIY: $200 Katana…Testing

July 13, 2025 // 0 Comments

At the beginning of 2025, we started the $200 Katana Project. The goal was to see if we could assemble a high-quality katana by sourcing all the parts from China. The project [...]

RDG Spring 2025 Summary

July 5, 2025 // 0 Comments

Looking at some of our previous posts, we realized that it had been a couple of years since we did a Spring Summary of the RainyDayGarden (RDG)! Some things in the RDG have [...]

THE MOONWALKERS:

June 28, 2025 // 0 Comments

Space Geek One of our editors, born in 1958, has been a huge “Space Geek” ever since he can remember (and probably before that). The first English word he learned [...]

DJI Neo: Accessories

June 15, 2025 // 0 Comments

The DJI Neo comes complete with everything it needs, but there are a few accessories that could make the quadcopter more convenient and/or enjoyable to fly: Extra batteries [...]

DJI Neo : FirstFlight

June 8, 2025 // 0 Comments

We got the DJI Neo when it first came out in October of last year, but we have not had much flying time with it. Our goal is to change that this Summer. To that end, we [...]

The Pear Tree…it’s ALIVE!!!

May 25, 2025 // 0 Comments

We had three 60-foot Cottonwood trees in front of the RainyDayMagazine office for years. They were not our choice for landscaping, but after twenty years, we grew to tolerate [...]

Boxster Project: Auto-To-Manual Conversion

May 18, 2025 // 0 Comments

The convertible top of the 25-year-old Boxster started behaving erratically last Fall. We decided that the problem is most likely electrical, which could be hard to track [...]

The Galobart Books: Codex Madrid II

May 4, 2025 // 0 Comments

It is always exciting when something comes from Galobart Books. We hoped-hoped-hoped that what came would be the companion to the Madrid Codex I; afterall, who [...]

Urban Safari: Great Horned Owlets in Boston

April 27, 2025 // 0 Comments

The Great Horned Owl (GHO) is one of the most common owl species in North America, but actually seeing them is not as easy as we thought it would be, even if they live in [...]
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