Final Product
On the Porch, we arranged all the flowers for the reception tables. Here they are, all ready to beautify!
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Very welcoming!
ReplyDeleteAnd Howard is first.
Beautiful, sunny morning here. The kind of day that makes you glad to be alive. And it takes a lot to make me feel glad to be alive these days. But this glorious morning h as done it. The whole morning is a song.
ReplyDeleteNice weather here, too; we only used the air conditioner a bit after going to bed last night--not needed during the day, and today seems a bit cooler. A bit of smoke visible in the distance (and probably present here) from a forest fire.
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Just thought I would give it a try, but sure enough, a phone call to ROchester 7-8900 doesn't give the time anymore...
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When I was a kid I used to call Time, well, all the time.
ReplyDeleteIf you can't call Time anymore, how do you find out what time it is? Oh, wait, all you have to do is activate your iPhone. :P Do you know, recently I asked my friend Peter what time it was and rather than looking at his left wrist or pulling a watch out of his pocket, he reached for his iPhone and activated it. O brave new world!
Oops, that was supposed to be a reply under Alan's comment.
DeleteI just ordered some audio items from musiciansfriend.com; I can recommend them highly. Great service, good prices. We have a very nice stereo system Miyoko bought when we married, with her audiophile uncle's advice. Even to my poor ears it sounds VERY nice, and professionals still go to great lengths to find the amplifier (Sansui). The volume control on the amplifier has a bad spot from being left in the same spot for decades (running the knob back and forth doesn't cure it), and I figure that if I put a variable attenuator on the output, I can turn up the main volume dial past the bad spot, attenuate it, and all will be well. (The amp probably has enough power for a small concert hall--certainly enough to exceed the threshold of pain in our living room.) Getting a replacement OEM volume control seems unlikely, and installation would not be cheap. Splicing the attenuator in may be a bit of a challenge because of needing to make custom cables, but I don't see why I can't do it. And it gives me a chance to show off! [grin]
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Think I will go to the store and get a bit of lemon or lime juice to mix with ice water. Warm but not really hot here today.
Oh--I found another raft of cousins in Canada and Michigan...one of my great great grandfather's sisters, who was recorded by my great uncle as having two children actually had eight--or maybe nine.
I'm home! Got back early evening, but VT*Grand is here through early afternoon tomorrow, so I've been a bit busy. :-)
ReplyDeleteThe painting class was good. The teacher nice, though with something of an edge which, given the bits I learned of her life, I understood and it simultaneously made me wonder if I were irritating her some some way. Ha! I completed a painting a day and two would probably have been par. But then I usually complete at painting over a two week period. I didn't come home with anything I'd frame, but I didn't expect to. And I learned a LOT about complementary colours, values, intensity, perspective, what makes a good painting, and so on.
It was lovely to be at the Inn again!! The last time I was there was two weeks before Irene hit. It's AMAZING that everything is back to how I remember it, and better....!! I'm very much looking forward to Christmas there!
Last night I fell asleep reading and about 3:30am rolled over and my knee hit my eyeglasses which apparently had migrated south. I thereby managed to knock out BOTH lenses, and as they're the kind with a plastic wire rather than a lower frame, I could not get them both back in successfully. So I painted all day wearing my sunglasses, despite the driving rain. Heh. But I did it. And it was good.
From time to time I fall asleep in bed while reading, and Miyoko tries to sneak my glasses off--she succeeded once not long ago. I must have been REALLY sound asleep....
DeleteGot a good part of my desk excavated; but enough is enough. Back to Darkover and then to the Land of Nod.
--Alan
Alan, the funny part is that I'd taken my glasses off and set them over aways, at about the height of my shoulder!
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