Cat--glad the DVD player fills the bill, but the details are a bit foggy in my mind… as I recall it was a reasonably priced digital multi-region wide-screen DVD player. Am I correct?
We had a good 50th year High School reunion; I even recognized some of the attendees (although I DID double-check the name badges)! One person I recognized instantly was my 10th-grade Spanish teacher, Mrs. Huber--92 years old and going strong. We played tourists and found some souvenirs. When the artists were forced out of Carmel by rising property prices back in the 1950's, a number of them relocated to our area, and over the years their influence has been considerable. Although there is plenty of the standard tourist pap to buy, there is also a lot of good quality work from local artists available.
On the way up we had a close shave; we exited the freeway in Richmond (SF Bay Area) to use the (ahem) facilities at a fast food place (we bought something as a trade). As I was preparing to turn from the street into the parking lot, an idiot in a purple car flew past us in the curb (parking) lane. I managed to jerk the wheel left just in time to avoid a collision, but the two cars did in fact touch. (Miyoko and Naomi felt it, I didn't.) A slight scratch on the outboard edge of the right rearview mirror, maybe an odd wiggly scratch on the right front door, and a tire scuff mark on the edge of the right front wheel well. There was no time to be frightened. As it happens, I have some spray paint of the right color. Other than that, the drive up and back was uneventful.
One thing I noticed at a previous reunion (20th?) but hadn't really thought about was that in the area near where we used to live (it was also obvious at one place in town), several marshy areas had disappeared and small perpetual streams had ceased to flow--indeed, there was no obvious sign of either. The trees and shrubs seemed to be growing less luxuriantly as well. Granted that this is a dry spell, it wasn't twenty years ago. But just as a rough estimate, there must be at least three times (maybe four times) as many people living in the area as there were fifty years ago, and all of them using well water. The water table must have fallen. Back in the day a thirty-foot well was considered deep; a twenty-foot well was plenty.
Hereabouts we continue to have problems with smoke from fires in the mountains, and temperatures in the high 90's or even slightly higher; but the weather prediction is for cooling come the middle of the week, and no hot weather thereafter until next summer. Hope so.
I remember when Howard Dean's presidential campaign had a full head of steam...
ReplyDeleteThis photo seems to be shot through the inspection port of a large boiler's heat exchanger. Maybe on board the Ticonderoga?
--Alan
ALAN!! SPOT ON!!!
DeleteHow on Earth did you know that?!
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Cat--glad the DVD player fills the bill, but the details are a bit foggy in my mind… as I recall it was a reasonably priced digital multi-region wide-screen DVD player. Am I correct?
We had a good 50th year High School reunion; I even recognized some of the attendees (although I DID double-check the name badges)! One person I recognized instantly was my 10th-grade Spanish teacher, Mrs. Huber--92 years old and going strong. We played tourists and found some souvenirs. When the artists were forced out of Carmel by rising property prices back in the 1950's, a number of them relocated to our area, and over the years their influence has been considerable. Although there is plenty of the standard tourist pap to buy, there is also a lot of good quality work from local artists available.
On the way up we had a close shave; we exited the freeway in Richmond (SF Bay Area) to use the (ahem) facilities at a fast food place (we bought something as a trade). As I was preparing to turn from the street into the parking lot, an idiot in a purple car flew past us in the curb (parking) lane. I managed to jerk the wheel left just in time to avoid a collision, but the two cars did in fact touch. (Miyoko and Naomi felt it, I didn't.) A slight scratch on the outboard edge of the right rearview mirror, maybe an odd wiggly scratch on the right front door, and a tire scuff mark on the edge of the right front wheel well. There was no time to be frightened. As it happens, I have some spray paint of the right color. Other than that, the drive up and back was uneventful.
One thing I noticed at a previous reunion (20th?) but hadn't really thought about was that in the area near where we used to live (it was also obvious at one place in town), several marshy areas had disappeared and small perpetual streams had ceased to flow--indeed, there was no obvious sign of either. The trees and shrubs seemed to be growing less luxuriantly as well. Granted that this is a dry spell, it wasn't twenty years ago. But just as a rough estimate, there must be at least three times (maybe four times) as many people living in the area as there were fifty years ago, and all of them using well water. The water table must have fallen. Back in the day a thirty-foot well was considered deep; a twenty-foot well was plenty.
Hereabouts we continue to have problems with smoke from fires in the mountains, and temperatures in the high 90's or even slightly higher; but the weather prediction is for cooling come the middle of the week, and no hot weather thereafter until next summer. Hope so.
--Alan
Unholy Moly! That was a VERY close call indeed!! So glad you have rapid reflexes!!
DeleteThe look kind of looks like some kind of embroidery and/or quilting, at first glance. But it's clearly not. Some kind of apple cider maker?
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