Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Skritter Retreat and Drone Attack

Mystery photo.  Hint: not camping oatmeal, although I’ve eaten camping oatmeal that looked similar.  Answer: end of post:

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We had a fun time hosting the Skritter Guys Retreat.   They worked:

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They played:

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They work/played:

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And they feasted:

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More Skritter guy photos here:  https://plus.google.com/photos/106916156663153973757/albums/6022654295417079441

Nick stayed an extra weekend.   He survived numerous doggy attacks:

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We hiked:

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Helen and Jazz presented 3 posters at a Brain mapping conference in Hamburg Germany:

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She also enjoyed here visit there with online friend Marina:

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Back home, Doggy learned to brush his own teeth … kind of:

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These boys are our next door neighbors.  Although you can’t see it, fortunately there is a swimming pool involved here:

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Lots more swimming party photos here:

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One of our vacationing visitors brought his Quadra copter:

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It has a built in camera … that’s Bantik captaining the blue floater in the pool:

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His daughter got attacked by giant bubbles:

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Abbey visited with her Boss’s older female Shiatsu.  Batik, not interested in her advances, escaped onto his private yacht. 

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I’ve been Bonsai-ing a bunch of small backyard evergreens.   Some before and after shots:

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I didn’t know there was a rock under the above tree!    I’ve ordered a variety of garden statues to put in the newly open spaces, but I ordered a few too many gargoyles, so I decided to expand, deleting this hard to mow grassy tonsil:

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In other projects, I unsuccessfully installed a ceiling fan.   Looks nice, but doesn’t work yet (waiting on parts):

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Found a few more things to zoom in on:

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Finally, here is a unzoomed shot of the mystery photo:

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I got some pine sap on my arm, and then all kinds of interesting things stuck to it!

Bruce