Sunday, March 27, 2011

Sexually aroused skyscraper

We got a new power pole installed near our back yard.  The old one was crooked and would spectacularly short wires in wind storms:

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I took a 1/2 day vacation while the power was out and we walked up one of the trails that starts a few blocks from our house:

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Helen enjoyed her month off.   She developed a habit of buying a few cactus whenever she ventured out, so we now have a fun collection:

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The theory is we will have a hard time killing these cactus.  That theory doesn’t apply to this 20 year old Bonsai tree …

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Helen bravely and lovingly cares for it.   I’m too scared to touch it.

We have a variety of animals visit our back yard.   There is a small family of deer that live between our house and an unfenced stretch of house next to us:

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And this guy shows up every few days, but is very elusive.  Helen thinks he is feral, I think he is a neighbor’s cat who likes to watch birds around our bird feeders.   Helen is attempting to befriend it with goodies so she can ask him.

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We went on a few bike rides, in search of a bike route to work without killer hills (no luck there):

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Boris and Irena arrived last week to close on their house.   Their car and moving van came a few days later, along with their personal master plumber and carpenter from NH!   They are renovating the kitchen and bathrooms:

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Boris and Helen try to keep them fed, a challenge after a long day of work:

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This is Boris disapproving of Helen’s ‘flatten the meat’ instrument.   Unlike Boris, who has a kitchen implement for every conceivable occasion, like a meat hammer, we are minimalists who like to improvise:

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Nick, Scott, and George are having a good time running Skitter from Costa Rica.  Nick has some photos here:

  http://picasaweb.google.com/livelily

And Scott has a fun blog of activities here:

  http://scott-travel.blogspot.com

I close this month with the standard ‘Helicopter landing on heads’ and ’sexually aroused skyscraper next to a fire’ photos:

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Bruce

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