So the February 19 chase was my first of 2026, which means I am officially 30 seasons deep into my career!  This means I have chased at least once every year since it all began in 1997.  Another streak which I am looking to build on is having seen at least ONE tornado each year since 2003.  The Covid year, 2000, nearly ended that streak, but fortunately I landed a puny landspout and a half-ass birdfart.  While neither will ever make the wall, they count.  Covid year was a slow season, fortunately, but I managed to keep the streak alive…

Another test post, this one for the tripod swap I am doing as I revamp my gear set.  I am upgrading my 10-12 year old Dolica tripod set to Neewer, a brand I have come to like over the years.  I have used their camera bags with great success for the last few seasons, and have found their other products to be really good.  I am also downsizing the collection from 5 to 3, with two higher end tripods for my main shooters and one for travel.

I think it won’t snow at all the rest of February, and that’s sad.  I probably have some graphics to add, but here in the NAMNEST for no reason.  

I am just testing a second blog post, there is nothing relevant here to discuss, but I will add a picture just cause I can.

As I continue to develop my new website, I have decided (and after much debate) to also revive the inter-site blog.  This was a key feature in my early versions of my site (prior to 2011), and it offered some fun insight and a place to journal basically outside the archiving.  This, of course, was before social media was king, but I don’t post a lot of highly personal stuff there, and I figure I can marry this to my Facebook and other social medias without detracted from either.  And it offers me a place to air out my thoughts…