Wednesday, May 24, 2017

5 second waterfall

A mystery sound puzzle. During a dinner party, we heard a loud sound in our backyard that sounded like big waterfall. But our creek was not gushing and the sound only lasted for 5 seconds. Any guesses?
Hint 1: It was not flock of angry killer birds, although we have seen a few baby birds that look pretty angry:
We had 2 nice visits, the first from Helen’s good friend Olga:
The 2nd from Aya and Eric:
They are a high tech couple … it takes 4 computers to keep them going:
Hint 2: This helped create the mystery waterfall sound:
Zach finished his nursing program! He looks pretty dapper in a bow tie, but I doubt he will be using it much when he starts boot camp in August:
The big news (old news for many of you) from grand-baby land is Max is expecting a baby brother end of July!
Max now knows about 1000 works, 70% english and 30% Mandarin. Nick created an excellent video of his 2nd year:

This was his first year:

I did a much less engaging video comparing a couple of WiFi routers:

Last, and lame, hint: These guys, while they do live in our back yard, they are usually pretty quiet, so you can exclude them from the loud sound mystery:
Recent rains have given us some pretty, but unfortunately poisonous, mushrooms:


That mystery sound came from a large 2'+ diameter tree falling down:
It trashed one of my trails, but fortunately missed our power line.
Closing with some forest flowers.





Bruce

Thursday, May 04, 2017

Irina

Irina died last week.
She had been heroically fighting ovarian cancer for over 3 years, traveling to specialist that she respected all over the world. She recently had a dream about meeting Boris, who passed in that same bed 9 months ago. She was ready.
We are very sad, but glad she didn’t have to suffer the pain any more. We buried her and Boris’ ashes together in a peaceful spot in our backyard forest.
I collected some photos of her here:
Here are a few of my favorites.
I love this childhood photo. She looks like Wizard of Oz Dorthy:
She was beautiful lady:
At all ages:



e:
She had a playful side:






She loved her gardens and sunshine:






And she loved her pets:








But most of all, she loved her family:
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And her family loved her.