This tree a sugar maple tree – about 2 days old. I had mentioned a month or so ago that I had bought some seeds for exotic trees that I was going to try to germinate and grow and eventually plant on lot 73. Well, out of the 4 little planters, this one is the only one, so far, to germinate: a little baby maple tree.
[daily log: walking, 4.5km; retailing, 6.5hr]
This tree is entangled with its siblings.
[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 6hr]
ㅁ a lone radish seed survived the mouse-pocalypse and grew pale and round.
– a pseudo-haiku.
This tree is about 2 years old. I have been monitoring its growth since it appeared on the berm of the upper parking area on lot 73.
[daily log: walking, 1km]
This tree has a funny shape.
[daily log: walking, 2km; chowdering, 4quarts]
This tree has an island.
[daily log: walking, 2km; boating, 35km]
We went where fish weren’t. Evidently.
We gave it a try, though. And unlike the previous two outings, nothing went wrong with our equipment. So I view it as having been a positive outcome, relative to recent experiences.
The downriggers worked – both the old one (which I repaired a total of 3 times) and the new one we bought this week (which we had to wire a new plug for and add a new mount for). They are quite different, the old one is a Cannon brand, the new one is a Scotty brand. Moving from one to the other gave Art’s brain quite a workout, but we managed without any major issues, and only bonked the bottom once with a weight.
We caught a couple of too-small fish, so we threw them back. No salmon though. We went up to an area at the north end of San Fernando Island, along the San Christoval Channel, called Palisade. After there weren’t any fish there, we decided to troll along Cemetery Island and in through the North Entrance to Port Saint Nicholas, just southeast of Craig – in view of the town. There were a lot of commercial trollers operating in the area. But still no fish.
Year-to-date totals:
This tree oversaw a deer’s approach.
[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 7hr]
This tree is not sideways, but I am.
[daily log: walking, 2km]
This tree is southwest of the treehouse.
[daily log: walking, 3.5km; retailing, 6.5hr]
This tree is near the stair up into the treehouse.
I saw a first tomato flower in my greenhouse.
[daily log: walking, 3km; retailing, 6hr]
This tree was photographed by me in February, 2011. I was looking out the stairway window of my apartment in Hongnong, Jeolla Province, South Korea. The building in the background is the rural public elementary school where I worked from May 2010 until May 2011.
[daily log: walking, 2km]
This tree is trying to be amphibious.
[daily log: walking, 2km; boating, 25km]
This tree is north of the treehouse.
[daily log: walking, 1.5km]
This tree saw me sitting in a boat messing with wires and looking up at some fluffy clouds and distant, still-snow-covered peaks.
[daily log: walking, 2km; boating, 20km]
This tree and others of its kind malingered in the morning mist.
I spent a few hours this morning working on the electrical problem with the downriggers on the boat. I think I got them both working.
[daily log: walking, 2.5km]
This tree is alive.
[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 6.5hr]
This young alder tree is growing near some small blue forget-me-not flowers – Alaska’s state flower.
[daily log: walking, 3.5km; retailing, 6hr]
This tree experienced an unprecedented meteorological phenomenon.
[daily log: walking, 1.5km; peasouping, 1hr]
This tree is attempting to grow on top of a pile of rocks – because I put it there. I’m not sure how it will like it.
[daily log: walking, 2km]
ㅁ So, sometimes out on waters still, at dawn, I'll see a boat. They park there when the sea is rough: they'd rather stay afloat.
– a quatrain in ballad meter.
This tree has its own angle on things.
[daily log: walking, 1.5km]
This tree is a dawn redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides) – as is its near twin beside it.
I am fond of these trees – they were abundant in my neighborhood in Goyang City, South Korea, where they’re planted all over as ornamentals. They are strange trees – they closely resemble the redwoods I grew up among in northern California (although smaller), but they like to lose all their needles in winter, like deciduous trees.
Here are some dawn redwoods in Ilsan, Korea, in the snow. I took this picture in January, 2017.
I ordered these seedlings as an experiment to see if a mail-order tree could survive the unusually long shipment time to this island. I think it might work out – they arrived in a damaged shipping tube, but were seemingly intact and healthy when I opened it up. If they survive, I might buy some other exotics to plant around my lot. I like trees – you might never have guessed that, right?
Incidentally, the company I bought these seedlings from (Jonsteen Company) was founded by a guy I went to high school with, and the company is headquartered in Humboldt County, where I grew up. Jon and I graduated in the same class. He was a very popular guy, and a musician, and an athlete – all things I wasn’t, in high school. But he was always kind to me. Once he let me drive his corvette.
[daily log: walking, 1.5km]
I haven’t posted one of these in quite a while. Actually the frame shop hasn’t been that busy, but I have done a few in the past month.
Mostly I’ve been working on a “vendor inventory list” – transferring knowledge in an old, somewhat broken-down filing cabinet into an excel spreadsheet.
Here are some frames. Some of these frames are being handmade here on Prince of Wales Island. That’s kind of cool.
This was a repair.
I like this bird.
A teacher was retiring.
The next five are locally-made frames.
The mat cutting in this one was the most challenging I’ve done, so far.
There were also three large frames that I forgot to take pictures of, because they got picked up right as I finished them. They were large frames for very nice, professional paintings, for the hotel that the Shaan-Seet (local Haida Tribe’s corporation) run.
This tree (on the left) saw a seiner (a net-deploying fishing boat) abduct all the fish from our front yard. Well… I guess we weren’t using them. So okay.
[daily log: walking, 2km]
This tree was in the background of this picture I took of a little baby deer hanging out beside the road.
[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 6hr]
This tree is a guest-tree from the past. I took this picture at Bryce Canyon National Park in southern Utah in late 2009. It was a snowy day.
[daily log: walking, 3km; retailing, 6hr]
This tree saw me down in the boat, in heavy rain and wind, making sure the batteries were charged so the bilge pump was working – when there’s lots of rain, the boat fills up with water, which needs to be pumped out of the bottom of the boat.
[daily log: walking, 2km]
This tree saw a little boat tie up at the dock.
[daily log: walking, 2.5km]
Finally, much later than originally intended, we have managed to get the boat launched and tied up at the dock.
We need a fairly high tide to launch the boat – that has been one impediment, as most of the super high tides have been in the middle of the night, this past month. But this morning, at 4 AM, we had a +11 foot tide. 4 AM might sound like the middle of the night, but at this time of year, it’s already getting light – sunrise is around 4:30. It was drizzly, but the tide was high at 3:55 this morning when I took this picture.
So we successfully lowered the boat into the water and floated it around and tied it to the dock. We had some issues with starting the motors, but finally got them running too. Unfortunately, there’s an electrical problem with the downriggers, such that there will still be no fishing happening. We need to get and wire in new connectors for both the downriggers. My evaluation is that it’s just corrosion on the connectors that is causing the issues, but Arthur’s generalized and wide-angle pessimism seems to feel that there are other things to worry about.
Here is the boat down at the dock, as seen at 5:30 AM. We were running the big motor for a while to make sure the batteries are charged up properly – now that it’s out in the water, the bilge-pump needs to work.
This tree is green despite gray skies.
[daily log: walking, 2km]
This tree (the small alder on the left fairly far back) saw me plant a bunch of raspberry plantlets that I got from my boss Wayne who was weeding and thinning his raspberry patch. I was thinking that if they establish themselves here, on the berm of the flat area that’s over the septic field on lot 73 (left side of photo), I’ll have a nice raspberry patch in future years.
Meanwhile, in my greenhouse, my single healthiest plant right now is a pepper plant I bought at discount in town because it was looking decrepit. And now it’s flourishing and has a charming little 3/4″ green pepper growing on it.
[daily log: walking, 3km]
This tree saw the sun.
[daily log: walking, 3km]
