Ian Schaefer

In mid-December I finally plunged headlong into Facebook. It’s really astonishing how much time I’ve spent attending to it over the past month–to the detriment of this website. At the same time, I’ve noticed just how many visitors end up on this site from Facebook…so I must attend to it, too. Get my house in order for the new guests, namely old friends and new, who are curious what I’ve been doing and why I have a website.

Having left the design unfinished makes me particularly uneasy. I also noticed that there are a few missing photos, victims of the move from TextPattern to WordPress. And then there’s the new band website…a similar port, but with a smaller database, thankfully.

A friend recently asked for my input on building a pond at his mod little house in Lancaster. Now in the second winter on our pond, I have some time to philosophize about the process of designing and building a pond.

I like to think of a pond as a model of nature… (more…)