Archive for July, 2005

Cool Blessings

Saturday, July 30th, 2005

I’ve felt a lot like Chaco looks in that picture this week: it has been quite warm, and we have no air-conditioning and sub-par airflow in our upstairs loft. Couple that with the computers dumping hundreds of watts of heat into the air and it gets unbearable up here by about noon usually.
Today, [...]

Pouring

Friday, July 29th, 2005

Now that we’ve moved, the skim milk we purchase on a regular basis is a new brand that comes in a new milk jug. Well, it’s the same looking milk jug, except I’ve found that I tend to “dribble” when I go to pour some into a glass about 90% of the time. [...]

River Swim

Thursday, July 28th, 2005

Today we took Bonzo and Chaco down to the river for a swimmy-swim. It was a nice day for it, being rather warm to begin with and now that the river is lower since the snowmelt is mostly finished. Chaco had fun chasing sticks, and Bonzo simply could not resist watching his brother [...]

Lost Lake

Saturday, July 23rd, 2005

Today we went for a short day-hike to Lost Lake with Kathy’s mech-e friend from Caltech, Gustavo, and his girlfriend, Molly. (Is that spelled right, Gustavo?) Here are Gustavo and Molly:

And here is Lost Lake:

Bonzo came along and hiked for a while before he turned into a blob that had to be carried. [...]

Let there be track

Saturday, July 23rd, 2005

I wanted to show you one of our home improvements, the track:

It’s now up on the balcony wall, white, and 14 feet long instead of under the balcony ledge, black, and 4 feet long. The one under the ledge couldn’t throw light on the ceiling, where we need it for ambient lighting, and the [...]

Tank Treats

Saturday, July 23rd, 2005

I promised two days ago to show you what my six surprises were yesterday. Sorry, I was delayed in photographing. Here they are:

Actually, there are 12 of them in the pic, but I got six of them yesterday courtesy of Kathy’s watchful eye, for there was subsequent sale on the ones I bought [...]