This tree was there at the 7-mile bridge, where despite yet another 2 inches falling in the previous 24 hours, still had remnants of snow piled along it.
[daily log: walking, 2.5km; retailing, 6hr]
Category: My Photos
Caveat: Tree #1111
This tree was next to a house by the sea in the woods.
Inside that house, since I worked today, Art prepared dinner. He found a container of leftover beef-barley stew I had made a few days ago. He found another container of leftover fish chowder I had made a while back. He mixed these two together (!) and heated them on the stove for 3 hours, until they had a black crust on the bottom.
He didn’t notice he’d done these unconventional things until I pointed them out. It was one of those moments when I was quite grateful that the 2013 cancer had nuked about 90% of my taste-buds.
[daily log: walking, 3km; retailing, 6hr]
Caveat: really very old random photos
I’ve been doing some “spring cleaning” of a sort, up in my attic abode. I ran across some quite old photos that were not stored with my other old photos, and therefore had missed out on early efforts to scan and digitize. So I scanned and digitized these pictures. In chronological order:
From 1979, this is my 8th grade class picture. This was a formative year for me in some respects – it was the year I decided to become a nerd. This was, in fact, a more-or-less conscious choice from among the various social cliques and groups I saw to choose from in the middle-school milieu of the era. I’m still recovering from that ill-fated decision, 40 years on.
From 1983, this is me with my brother Andrew. I was a senior in HS – the slight tan seems to indicate late spring or summer. Andrew was… well, quite small.
From 1992 or 93, Michelle (my wife from 1994-2000 when she passed away). I remember this dress.
Caveat: Tree #1110
This tree was trying to hide behind the burned out woodshed on the neighbor lot.
[daily log: walking, 3.5km; dogwalking, 3km]
Caveat: Tree #1109
This tree was there where someone had disposed of deer carcasses, leaving scary skeletons lying around.
[daily log: walking, 3.5km; dogwalking, 3.5km]
Caveat: Tree #1108
This tree down at the mouth of the river was also overseeing a dogless landscape.
[daily log: walking, 6km; dogwalking, 2.5km]
Caveat: Dogwalking #28 and robot dogs that walk
I continue the dogwalking habit. She has good days and bad days in terms of behavior. This morning was a very bad day – somewhat stressful. I generally let her off her leash for a while, when near our house. Mostly she runs around in circles and explores but always within earshot. This morning, though, she went chasing some waterfowl down the beach and completely disappeared.
I wandered and called her name for 30 minutes, then went back to our house, reported the situation to Arthur, called Mike and Penny to let them know their dog had disappeared, and went off along the road calling the dog’s name and hoping she’d hear me and come to me.
Meanwhile, she showed up at our house right after I’d left again – so Arthur, knowing the dog was “lost,” let her in. But instead of keeping her at our house until I came back, he decided to deliver the dog to Mike and Penny’s. So off they went, though I think honestly the dog would have found her way home without Art’s escort. Of course Art didn’t think to contact me that he’d found the dog. So I’m walking along the beach and the road eastbound, calling for the dog and stressing out. Art is walking west, with the dog, without a care in the world, and he and the dog arrive at Mike and Penny’s and Mike gets the dog back on the leash.
I guess I would have preferred to know what was going on, as I spent another 30 minutes walking up and down the road, calling the dog’s name. But eventually Penny came driving along and found me, to let me know the dog was found.
Here is a picture of the dogless beach.
Meanwhile, I have been watching these videos about a guy building an open-source dog robot. He provides an immense amount of detail. It’s all very interesting. In the specific video below, the 7th in the series, he is refining the dog’s walking style.
Caveat: Tree #1106
This tree worked with a neighbor to frame an ancestor against a backdrop made of sea.
[daily log: walking, 2km]
Caveat: Tree #1105
This tree experienced fresh snow beside an icy road.
[daily log: walking, 3.5km; retailing, 6hr]
Caveat: Tree #1104
This tree is very small and it is growing out of the top of a steel culvert.
[daily log: walking, 3km; retailing, 6hr]
Caveat: Tree #1103
This tree foregrounded other, less photogenic trees.
[daily log: walking, 4km; dogwalking, 3km]
Caveat: Tree #1102
This tree saw the return of snow.
The dog likes the snow.
[daily log: walking, 3km; dogwalking, 3km]
Caveat: Tree #1101
This tree has broken down.
[daily log: walking, 3.5km; dogwalking, 3.5km]
Caveat: Tree #1100
This tree oversaw some very strange shapes in melting snowbanks.
[daily log: walking, 4km; dogwalking, 3km]
Caveat: Tree #1099
This tree has a treehouse too: Mike and Penny (neighbors-down-the-road) have a treehouse that is more modest but also more photogenic than mine.
[daily log: walking, 4km; dogwalking, 3.5km]
Caveat: Tree #1098
This tree was next to the Klawock grocery store parking lot, overseen by white, snowy mountains.
[daily log: walking, 3.5km; retailing, 6hr]
Caveat: Tree #1097
This tree saw jupiterian clouds.
[daily log: walking, 3km; retailing, 6hr]
Caveat: Tree #1096
This tree was still holding up my treehouse, despite the weather’s best efforts.
[daily log: walking, 4km; dogwalking, 3.5km]
Caveat: Tree #1095
This tree oversaw a misty, icy road.
[daily log: walking, 4km; dogwalking, 3.5km]
Caveat: Tree #1094
This tree is leaning in to the next stage of existence.
[daily log: walking, 3.5km; dogwalking, 3.5km]
Caveat: Tree #1093
This tree was there as a dog skated on thin ice, again.
[daily log: walking, 3.5km; dogwalking, 4km]
Caveat: Dogwalking #18 and a handy problem-solving algorithm
I took the dog on a walk this morning – first in a week, as the road has been so icy and slippery I haven’t felt inspired to attempt it. The dog was pleased to take a long walk, and was on best behavior. I suspect that’s just coincidence – I don’t think she really thinks things through at that level, being a fairly impulsive beast.
Here are some pictures of the dog – walking.
She pulled hard on her leash till I let her off it.
She found a deer-carcass skeleton – but she didn’t get carried away with it, as dogs sometimes do with disgusting dead things.
She stood still for a brief moment for the camera. Not usual.
Meanwhile, here is a handy way to solve hard problems, as attributed to the famous physicist, Richard Feynman.
The Feynman Algorithm. “The steps are as follows: Write down the problem. Think real hard. Write down the solution. Easy!”
Caveat: Tree #1092
This tree was across from some big rocks.
Art and I drove to town for “shopping Thursday”, despite the road being quite icy and horrible (more rain on top of still unmelted ice), up to the east side of the 6 mile hill. I drove very slowly and only slid around a little bit.
[daily log: walking, 2km; ice-driving (automotive bobsledding), 8km]
Caveat: Tree #1091
This tree was near a lingering patch of snow.
[daily log: walking, 1.5km]
Caveat: Tree #1090
This tree oversaw my morning commute.
[daily log: walking, 3.5km; retailing, 6hr]
Caveat: Tree #1089
This tree (a tree frequently featured here) oversaw a road-to-town still coated in ice.
I drove to town anyway. It was remarkable – it was like driving from Minnesota to California in under an hour. There’s NO snow on the ground, in town, just brown grass and it was a sunny day. Craig, out on a point of land, is just a little bit warmer, but, more notably, it gets more rain and less snow than at our house – just enough that while we still have a foot of snow on the ground, downtown Craig is snow-free right now.
[daily log: walking, 3km; retailing, 5hr]
Caveat: Tree #1088
This tree supervised a superannuated wheelbarrow.
[daily log: walking, 1km]
Caveat: Tree #1087
This tree saw fog roll in off the Pacific like a tsunami. Wait… no, that simile was contrived: there was also a tsunami, today – but it was very small.
The fog reminded me of my childhood.
[daily log: walking, 1km]
Caveat: Tree #1086
This tree is my coast redwood tree that nearly died outside during the super cold spell we had at the beginning of December. Then I tortured it by making it serve duty as our Charlie Brown Christmas tree. But since then its spirits seem to have improved. It’s put out some little light green young needles on the ends of its branches. I put it out on the balcony to enjoy the rain and wind today.
[daily log: walking, 2km; cistern-filling, ~1500gallons]
Caveat: Tree #1085
This tree saw snow melt in strange patterns.
[daily log: walking, 1.5km]
Caveat: Tree #1084
This tree saw a sun rising over an icy road.
[daily log: walking, 1km]
Caveat: Tree #1083
This tree saw much meltage of snow, revealing a nearby pile of rocks.
I didn’t go to work today. The road was too bad to drive on – too much ice. Likely same, tomorrow.
[daily log: slushtromping, 1km; failing-to-retail, 6hr]
Caveat: Tree #1082
This tree saw me fall flat on my butt while attempting to walk on the icy road. I was wearing “chains” on my shoes, too!
I think the plan is: I’m not going to work tomorrow. That’s been okayed by the new bosses.
[daily log: walking, 25m; falling, yes]