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It’s beginning to look a lot like . . . .

Posted on December 19, 2024

Sunday was tree day! Normally we get our tree the weekend after Nora’s birthday, but last weekend our living space was smothered in a gentle covering of dry wall dust from the interior work being done, so we put it off one week. Photos below. Some butts as we (I) cut down “Little Plumpy” as it was named by Nora. It took 30 (!) minutes to cut down. Fortunately the haulers were exceptional in their efforts. Hilarity ensued as we cut the bailing string. it was too funny. 🙂 The tree top being placed on by Santa. It was a purchase from the Dollar General store when we lived in Floyd, Virginia in 2005. Still have it and it still works. And yes, it…

West of the sunrise & Leading Lines

Posted on October 4, 2024

Here are a few photos from this morning . . .I stopped by the Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact to grab a coffee on my way to work and decided to take the sky bridge from the Knight Campus to the main campus. The sun was rising and the light was lovely. Plus a memory from high school photography: leading lines. West of the sunrise, looking east from the skybridge. Knight Campus is the glass building on the left and Franklin Boulevard is below. The giant oak tree sits on the north edge of campus with the University of Oregon sign near one of the entrances. Looking back towards Knight Campus from the sky bridge. Yep, leading lines. As I took this photo,…

Felling and bucking

Posted on September 27, 2024

Last weekend, I went to my friend Tom’s place to fell and buck up a Douglas Fir tree that he needed to have taken down on his property in the Coast Range. It was tough work. We figured out that the tree was about 35 to 40 years old. The wood will be used to create its second warmth after the physical labor created the first warming of our bodies. Preparations are underway It’s down. Tom’s cutting rounds out that we’ll roll down the hill and then we’ll take care of the limbs Heavy rounds. But they roll. 🙂 Limbs are coming off. We loaded a bunch up and hauled them off to the woods. Not quite done, but done for the day. A…

Late July (not the chips)

Posted on July 30, 2024

Back to work and doing stuff with family and friends . . . photos below . . This was a customer’s MacBook Pro with a swollen battery. Yikes. It was replaced. 🙂 A baseball game with tickets provided by Sara’s work. The photo was a slight surprise . . . Jonah’s robotics team was presenting their robot, “Marvin,” at the Eugene Asian Celebration at Alton Baker Park this past weekend. Here are few of the South Eugene Robotics Team (SERT) kids being silly on a break . . . . Clouds over the valley from my morning run to the top of Spencer Butte. It was a rare cool day in Eugene for July. We’ve had a couple of them now, but we are…

Pamelia Lake – 2024

Posted on July 24, 2024

This past Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, Nora and I did our annual backpacking trip to Pamelia Lake. We had a lovely time as usual, but for some reason, the hike to the top of Grizzly Peak seemed harder than usual. Was it really harder or are we just a tad bit older? Hmmmm . . . . Still, Nora wants to keep going back each year and I’m all in. We’ve been going since 2019, with the exception of 2020. In 2021, we spread my father’s ashes there, which is where he worked in the forest service for two summers as a fire-watch. Once the area became a designated Wilderness Area, the cabin he lived in and the fire lookout was taken down, but…