This tree has got it going on.
[daily log: walking, 2km; retailing, 8hr]
Category: My Photos
Caveat: Tree #634
This tree reflects on the passing river.
[daily log: walking, 7.5km]
Caveat: Tree #633
This tree felt itself to be in contrast with the sky.
[daily log: walking, 2.5km]
Caveat: Tree #632
This tree is about two miles from the house.
[daily log: walking, 8km]
Caveat: Tree #631
This tree is leaving.
[daily log: walking, 2km]
Caveat: Tree #630
This tree is not exceeding the speed limit.
[daily log: walking, 7.5km]
Caveat: Tree #629
This tree shows its true colors.
[daily log: walking, 3km; retailing, 6hr]
Caveat: Tree #628
This tree is along the road less taken.
[daily log: walking, 3km; retailing, 8hr]
Caveat: Tree #627
This tree is in a forest.
[daily log: walking, 3km; jogging, 1km]
Caveat: Tree #626
This tree provides a backdrop to fall.
[daily log: walking, 2km]
Caveat: Tree #625
This tree found the sun.
[daily log: walking, 7.5km]
Caveat: Tree #624
This tree witnesses the shapeless sky.
[daily log: walking, 4.5km]
Caveat: Tree #623
This tree dwells near the pond.
[daily log: walking, 6.5km]
Caveat: The Saga of the Boat Rail
As mentioned before, last Friday the boat rail pulley on the lower end failed.
On Tuesday morning, Arthur and I got up super early (4:30 AM) to catch the low tide and install a new eye bolt for a pulley to anchor the lower end of the boat trolley cable.
I didn’t take any picture, but this is what an eye bolt looks like.
After I went to work, Tuesday, Arthur tried to pull the boat out of the water on his own at the mid-day high tide.
The new eye bolt failed. So it looked like this.
It left us questioning our choices. Not to mention, it looked like a question mark, right?
Yesterday morning (Wednesday), we got up early again, and tried to re-engineer an anchor for our pulley. We drilled a second hole, and installed a U-bolt.
It looked like this.
Then I went to work, and though the boat was out of the water, Arthur decided to lower the boat back into the water because the boat was crooked on its cradle.
As Arthur attempted this, there was a catastrophic failure of our U-bolt. I found this piece of our rail, and the loose pulley, near the tide line when I got home.
And this was the base of the rail in the morning.
So now there was no chance of getting the boat back into the water to “re-float” it and straighten it out. You can see the crooked boat, here.
Instead, we decided to use a come-along and chains to pull the boat around on its cradle. I didn’t take a picture of this process, because I was working hard. But this is a come-along and a chain, which we used (somewhat blurry).
We got the boat straightened out and up into the barn using the come-along and the trolley winch (but only “uphill” would work, because of the broken pulley at the bottom, so each time we needed to “reverse” we had to set up the come-along).
We paused during the uphill trip because Arthur wanted to wash off the boat. I said it would be a multi-day job, but he plowed into the effort.
After about two hours, he said he agreed it would be a multi-day job, and decided on second-thought he’d just like to get the boat put away in the boat house. So we did that.
Yay.
Caveat: Poem #1523 “Fish spirits”
ㅁ Then, further along, the fish's cool spirit rose... and decoalesced.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Tree #622
Here are some trees and some road and some sun, from a few days ago. The daily tree is among them.
Arthur had more problems with the boat rail while I was at work. Big problems. Our second repair to the bottom-end pulley failed much more catastrophically than the first – the boat is okay, Arthur is okay, but we have some work ahead of us.
More later.
[daily log: walking, 3km; retailing, 8hr]
Caveat: Tree #621
This tree provides double the usual tree-type entertainment.
I got up extra early and Arthur and I attempted to repair the broken cable pulley at the base of the boat rail. I say “attempted” because I learned that later in the day, Arthur attempted to operate the trolley and the pulley broke again. I came home and found that the eye-bolt we’d used at the base was clearly inadequate to the task.
Meanwhile, I went to work and had an unexpected success: I got the video security camera system working. Apparently, that system has not been working for 12 years or so. Jan said, jokingly: “Impressive, but don’t let that success go to you head.” Fair enough. It was just trial and error, mostly – it turned out the power source for the cameras was faulty, and I solved it by “hijacking” the power source for the recorder box.
[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 6hr]
Caveat: Poem #1521 “Time for fish to die”
ㅁ the fish was seeking... but it landed by the dock and gave up its ghost.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Tree #620
Here’s a tree on a fallen tree.
[daily log: walking, 3km]
Caveat: Tree #619
This tree, too, is sideways yet alive.
[daily log: walking, 2.5km]
Caveat: Tree #618
This tree finds its own way.
[daily log: walking, 3.5km]
Caveat: Tree #617
This tree is from my distant past. It’s there in the fog beside the road.
In fact, Arthur took this picture, from his car, as he followed my father’s car down the road in some tandem driving odyssey. That’s me looking out.
We had a long day today. One of those days when Arthur lives to the fullest his maxim: “Better to be lucky than to be smart.”
[daily log: walking, 7km]
Caveat: Tree #616
I can’t decide if the featured tree here is the one up on the ridge or the one down in front of the cliff.
[daily log: walking, 6.5km]
Caveat: Tree #615
These trees test the sky’s patience.
The sky always passes these tests.
[daily log: walking, 3km; retailing, 8hr]
Caveat: Tree #614
This tree is in Rockpit – featured before, I’m sure.
It was very windy in town today while I was working. The wind blew open the door of the store and damaged some merchandise.
[daily log: walking, 3km; retailing, 6hr]
Caveat: Tree #613
Arthur and Alan drove the boat into town, while I took the Tahoe with the boat trailer, so we could pull it out of the water. I took this picture of Arthur and Alan in the boat departing the dock. I was standing on the neighbor’s lot, and the picture prominently includes the burnt tree from the house fire last summer.
Driving into town, I saw a rainbow.
While in town, we saw another.
[daily log: walking, 2km]
Caveat: Tree #612
This tree has lots of moss.
Arthur announced that we would be taking the boat in for service tomorrow. As usual, the discussions about this must have happened in his head at some point without telling me. The military life: always be ready to jump when they say “jump.”
[daily log: walking, 2.5km]
Caveat: Tree #611 “An unbuilt lot at five-mile”
This is a tree but there are other trees which make distinguishing (or deciding upon) the tree more difficult.
I suppose it better fits in with my recent interest in capturing pictures that I could label “Alaskan Gothic.” Alan and I had taken a very long walk and this container is in front of the water plant at 5 mile.
[daily log: walking, 11km]
Caveat: Tree #609
This tree is one I saw on a side street near my place of work in Ilsan, Korea, in October, 2012.
[daily log: walking, 3.5km]
Caveat: Town Day
It being Thursday, we went to town to do the weekly shopping, as usual. But with Alan visiting, he came along too, and we ran extra errands and socialized with some people.
One thing we did was we went to visit Richard, who was working on his landing craft. It’s progressed a lot since I last got a tour last year (when I put in a day helping work on it), and obviously even more for Alan, who last saw it in 2017 when he visited up here.
Richard is installing a crane. So he built a shed over the front of it to cover the work area to weld the base area of the crane.
Looking around, I saw a view that felt like a nice addition to my “Alaskan Gothic” theme.
We also stopped by the gift shop, so Alan and Arthur met a few of my coworkers.
Finally, since today is supposed to be the last day of sun for a while (by the sometimes-not-so-accurate weather forecast), Alan helped me replace the tarp covering the GDC.
Caveat: Tree #608
This tree is near my treehouse project.
I saw a raven on a truck in the parking lot after work this afternoon.
I was very tired from work today. Not sure exactly why – I felt the weight of responsibility or something.
[daily log: walking, 2km; retailing, 8hr]
Caveat: Tree #607
This tree is by the water a mile west of here.
[daily log: walking, 2km; retailing, 8hr]
Caveat: Tree #606
I captured this tree’s image because of the fall-hint below and in front of it.
With hardly a summer worth mentioning, fall is upon us.
I spent the day cooking. I made my slightly well-regarded Chilean-style chupe de pescado (fish chowder). I’m not sure what my uncle Alan thought of it, but Arthur has said he likes it a lot.
And for some unfathomable reason, I made a chocolate cake.
Earlier, Alan and I walked out to around 6.5 mile. He’s a much more intensive walker than Arthur is. I should follow his example.
[daily log: walking, 7.5km]