This is one of my favorite ornaments, and one of the ones that I have had the longest. Years ago, I had this vision that someday I would have a tree with just white lights and gold ornaments, but then where would I put this little fellow?
Category: Life
Aerial Virtual tour of Sydney, Australia
One of my few regrets about our trip to Australia in 1999 is that we only had one day in Sydney. Here, at least, is an Aerial Virtual tour of Sydney, Australia, though figuring out the navigation is a bit tricky.
Happy Thanksgiving
Google celebrates Thanksgiving.
We are celebrating at a friend’s house today. I just made pumpkin pies, and I hope they taste as good as they smell and look.
The Berlin Wall
Boston.com’s The Big Picture has another fabulous photo essay about The Berlin Wall, 20 years gone, including photos of yesterday’s celebration.
Vintage
Jack was dismayed when we found this in our hotel bathroom in Mammoth Hot Springs. He was much happier when we discovered the men’s shower across the hall.
Woodmen Road—Corridor Improvement Projects
The Woodmen Road—Corridor Improvement Project is going to make things very interesting in the northern part of Colorado Springs for a while.
Chattanooga, Colorado
I was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee and just learned that there is also a Chattanooga, Colorado. It is now a ghost town, but had 300 people at its peak.
World Air Traffic
Air traffic in 24 hours shows the air traffic patterns around the world.
Minor Emergencies
So about 11 am I notice that my critter-sitter, also known as R, had just left a message for my cell phone. Unfortunately, the routine that I use to check messages while in the US did not allow me to pick it up in Canada. This wouldn’t have worried me so much but my critter-sitter wasn’t supposed to try to reach me except for an emergency. After several failed attempts at using the cell phones belonging to me and Jack I started begging cell phones from friends here at the convention. (We left one very elderly dog at home and horses are ALWAYS an emergency waiting to happen.) I finally got hold of my friend D who boards my mare and asked her if she knew why my critter sitter had called me. (The friend D who boards my mare has what is essentially our medical power-of-attorney for our critters so I knew she would know what was going on.) D assured everyone was fine including Rion who was playing in her back yard and that R was there. It turned out that Indi (a very sweet, older grulla gelding) had decided to play with the hydrant in D’s barn the previous night. He had never, ever done this before. In fact, no horse had done this for over a decade, which is why there wasn’t a safety fastener on it. It was quite a stretch for Indy to reach the hydrant and flood the barn. When D got to the barn in the morning, all the horses but my mare were up to their fetlocks in water. R was calling to find out where we keep our Shop-Vac, so she could take it over to help the clean-up process. I don’t know if she ever found it, but D reports on Facebook that her barn has been cleaned up.
It’s always something.
Lightning
The Big Picture at Boston.com does a photo-essay on lightning which is a little too topical for me, considering the number of violent storms we have had recently.