Category: A Daily Tree

Caveat: Tree #1259

A Daily Tree / My Photos / Treehouse

This tree observed the installation of a table saw in the treehouse.
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I borrowed Arthur’s table saw. I told him that I would rather have it in the treehouse, close to my working area. But in fact, that’s not quite accurate. I actually put the table saw in the treehouse because when I use the table saw in Arthur’s shop, he hovers and tries to help, but his hovering is unhelpful and stresses me out – he wants to tell me I’m doing things wrong, he’s always got very particular ways things should be done. By putting the table saw in the treehouse, he’s unlikely to make the long, arduous journey over there just to watch me “doing it wrong.”

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Caveat: Tree #1255

A Daily Tree / My Photos

This tree (on the left) is in Mike and Penny’s yard, next to a table and a dog (on the right). Although it’s less than two weeks after the solstice, you might notice that its leaves are changing colors.
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My garden made some nice zucchini. I chopped them up and put them in my fried rice this evening.
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I also picked a lot of salmonberries along the road today, and made a salmonberry cobbler. I’m not happy with it: it’s more like salmonberry soup, despite having added a quarter cup of tapioca.

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Caveat: Tree #1252

A Daily Tree / Banalities & Journaling / My Photos

This tree is a guest tree from my past. It’s a tree under a giant flag at Juyeop plaza in Ilsan, Korea, which I walked by in January, 2009.
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I ended up working for about 1 hour when Art and I went to town today for shopping. I parked Art at the Veterans Center with Jan (which runs every Thursday) while I did a last-minute framing job for the town police chief (don’t wanna get on the bad side of the police, right?).

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Caveat: Tree #1246

A Daily Tree / Life in Alaska / My Photos

This tree did not offer any assistance while I unloaded 160 concrete paving blocks from the trailer.
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Anyway, it was good exercise. The blocks are destined to add on to the “patio” I built a few years ago – a path along the south side of the lower part of Arthur’s house. This is the first time where I happened to be at the hardware store at a time when they had these concrete pavers in stock – generally they are “out”.

I had a rather distressing adventure on the way back from the hardware store. I had bought some clear plastic PVC panels to use as roofing/siding on a putative new storage shed I hope to build this summer – this would be to replace the destroyed “storage tent” (AKA “studio”) from last winter. Here is what they look like:
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I had put some of the concrete bricks on the panels in the trailer, thinking that would anchor them well enough, but a gust of wind blew about 10 of them out of the trailer as I drove home. It took me a few minutes to realize what had happened, and a few more minutes to get turned around (driving with the trailer, after all). And after I’d turned around, this truck goes zooming by with what very much appeared to be the lost panels panels sticking out of the back of the truck. “Hey!” I called, jumping and waving. But the truck didn’t stop. I went back to where they’d blown out, just to check. No lost PVC panels in sight. I guess that truck had stopped and picked them up.

And no one waiting anywhere along the way with my lost panels. I was feeling a bit disconsolate. I put out to a few people I know that I’d lost the panels (Penny, Jan), and posted a “Lost” notice on facebook (which entailed me logging on to facebook, which always feels like I’m breaking with some strongly held moral stand, though really it’s not).

Finally, around 6 PM, I got a call from a neighbor-down-the-road, who put me in touch with another Port Saint Nick denizen over on the north side, who turned out to have my panels. So tomorrow I’ll rendezvous with that person to get my panels, hopefully. My faith in humanity is restored.

[UPDATE 2022-06-27 for the curious: Yes, I got them back the next morning. I will use them to build a storage shed which has the potential to become an additional greenhouse, i.e. because it has the clear panels for the roof and siding.]

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Caveat: Tree #1245

A Daily Tree / My Photos

This tree supervised traffic on the road as the days got shorter.
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Caveat: Tree #1244

A Daily Tree / My Garden / My Photos

This tree is more of an ambitious shrub: it’s a rhododendron bush that arrived in the mail yesterday. I planted it in a planter bucket in the greenhouse, for now. I’d like to have a rhododendron on my lot – I know it’s possible, since many other people have lots of rhododendrons planted. We shall see. I’m batting less than 500 on trees and shrubs in general.
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Caveat: Tree #1242

A Daily Tree / My Photos

This tree anticipated staying up late to enjoy the shortest night of the year. Party time!
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Caveat: Tree #1238

A Daily Tree / Life in Korea / My Photos

This tree is a guest tree from my past. I took this picture while walking to work in April, 2017. I thought the ball looked forlorn and sad, so I took a picture – but the trees are interesting, too. I remember the exact spot where this ball was, along Juyeop plaza about half a block south of work.
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Caveat: Tree #1236

A Daily Tree / My Garden / My Photos

This tree had been presumed dead – for the last 6 months. It arrived from the live tree order service I use with only one leaf, which it promptly lost. So I left it in its bucket with its equally dead peers, lined up in a “failed tree” graveyard on the western side of the greenhouse. And this morning, I noticed this dead tree had put out two leaves. Interesting!
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Caveat: Tree #1234

A Daily Tree / My Photos

This tree was in order, in sequence directly after the previous tree.
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Like counting numbers: 1, 2, 3, 4.

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Caveat: Tree #1232

A Daily Tree / My Photos

This tree saw heavy clouds and raindrops catching the camera’s flash.
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picture[daily log: walking, 3km; dogwalking, 3km; c109070064084s]

Caveat: Tree #1230

A Daily Tree / My Photos

This tree witnessed a boat undergoing a launching – more reliable than some software I won’t mention.
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Caveat: Tree #1228

A Daily Tree / Banalities & Journaling / My Photos

This tree had an eagle in it (exact center).
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I spent my whole, long weekend working on a particular computer/database problem, related to what’s called the overpass API and overpass-turbo application for the map server.

Not even sure it’s working properly. But anyway, it’s sorta working.

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