Unusually quiet day on our street.
So peaceful …
September 10, 2010
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BMW Motorcycle
August 3, 2010
Parked around the corner on Lincoln Avenue. It’s a classic. What year?
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Salad Tonight
July 20, 2010
Our first Early Girl. Notice the next one will probably be Wednesday’s.
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Sunol Regional Park
July 10, 2010Only 45 minutes from here is great place to backpack. Park your car and hike 3.6 miles to the campsites.
You can see our tent at Eagles Eyrie. (Click on image above to see a larger image in a new window.)
Other campsites in the same group are Cathedral Grove, Oak View, Sycamore, Star’s Rest, Hawk’s Nest, and Sky Camp. However, we had the whole place to ourself on July 4th!
There is also untreated water available from a tap of which I drank copious quantities against all recommendations because it was so cool, clean, and fresh tasting. Ask me in a couple weeks if that was a dumb thing to do.
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What Lurks Below
July 6, 2010It was seven or eight years ago when I started noticing a depression on the lawn in our back yard. Jumping up and down on it made me think there might be buried treasure.
I took a shovel and cut into the grass around the edge of the depression when suddenly whoosh! The circle of lawn disappeared. It was a sunny day and all I could see was a dark black hole. I must have turned completely white because all I could do for a while was stand there in shock.
That’s why they call it a “yardstick”, right?
Marleigh wants to know what I’m doing down there.
This deep, brick lined hole was the overflow for an ancient septic system. All the bricks were completely clean, with just one dry nasty pipe poking into it from the side.
One time I surprised some visitors by hiding in our “stink hole” and lighting my face with a flashlight when they peeked into it.
We eventually filled it completely with concrete slurry.
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History on Display
June 22, 2010This iconic image is still attached to one of the buildings downtown. It’s right out in the open for anyone to see. Can YOU guess WHERE it is located?
Click on this image for a close up.
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Malone & Harmil
June 21, 2010
Current Construction
Previous Residence
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Men At Work – June 4
June 4, 2010They’ve started tearing up our street:
At first glance you wouldn’t think there is anything wrong with our street, no potholes or such, but this is what I was told:
We’re prepping for a keep-seal program. What we’re doing is taking out the bad stuff, putting in the good stuff. And then over the summer, or in about a month or so … it’s a two part process. The first part is the gravel and oil. Oil and rock will go down as the first sealer, and in about a month after that we’re going to put a black scooter seal on top of it. The oil is thick enough and has polymers and things like that to seal the cracks. That will seal the street to save it for another twenty years.
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WASP ethic
June 3, 2010With the rise of modern capitalism and industrial society, the WASP ethic is that we fulfill our duty to God by diligence and hard work.
On another note, this humble creature is living under our backyard sliding board:
Not to scale (except perhaps in one’s imagination).
More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasp
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Swan Song?
June 3, 2010Willow Glen Farmers Market is a valuable resource.
The latest word is that it will soon be gone.
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