Here Comes The Sun

Michael,

It took awhile, but we finally got the electrons to come down to our garage roof and live with us. The Project Manager (“Joe”) should never see this html opus, or he would be mightily embarassed. The Xcel technician who slacked off on the job should be embarrassed, too, for delaying our electrons an unnecessary day.

You may be surprised to see that shot of sun-obscuring clouds in our sky.  So am I.  With 385 days (or so) of sun per year,  it’s pretty unusual, but it does happen. Snow is predicted again for tomorrow, so the kilowatts may be few and far between for a while,  and I might not get that long-awaited movie of the backwards-running meter until our March lion finishes toying with the lamb.

–rakkity

Upcoming

I’m falling behind and the problem is the number of stunning photographs taken by various people with the two available cameras at Diane’s party.  (You’ve seen many of Goose’s on his slide show) I’ve got to edit them down from five hundred to some manageable number. In the meantime here’s one from the party

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and one I took of Hil B, who flew in from Ohio, after I dropped her off Monday morning at Portsmouth International Airport in NH.

Roast Lamb

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Michael,

The weather gods turned on me after I described our balmy March 1st weather, with blue skies, infinite crystalline views, and crowded outdoor tables at Boulder’s restaurants.

The morning afterwards, we woke to snow and gusty winds. The temp dropped 45 deg overnight.

–rakkity

PS: Am I allowed back to the blog?

Diane's Flowers

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Karen and Goose flooded the house with flowers for Diane’s birthday and then Jeff and Karen’s massive bouquet arrived.

To no one in particular:

Goose: There are so many flowers.

Karen: That’s a good thing, you can never have too many flowers.

Goose: I didn’t say it was a bad thing.

Me: Karen, the only people who’ll suffer are those who read the blog.

Karen: Why?

Me: This means more flower photos.

Accompanying music: “Not Sorry” by the Cranberries.

Diane’s Flowers

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Karen and Goose flooded the house with flowers for Diane’s birthday and then Jeff and Karen’s massive bouquet arrived.

To no one in particular:

Goose: There are so many flowers.

Karen: That’s a good thing, you can never have too many flowers.

Goose: I didn’t say it was a bad thing.

Me: Karen, the only people who’ll suffer are those who read the blog.

Karen: Why?

Me: This means more flower photos.

Accompanying music: “Not Sorry” by the Cranberries.

Hil K

The year Hilary turned 3, we had a very large party for her. We had aunts, uncles, cousins along with a smattering of playgroup friends totally something like 40 people in the house. Fully dressed in her party dress, pink tights, black Mary Jane’s and hair in pig tails, she quietly disappeared from the party. She was missed after a while and a search ensued. After a longer while she was discovered in her bed with the covers pulled up tightly over her head. When asked why she was in bed when there was such a wonderful party going on in her honor, she politely said,

“Mama, can you please ask the people to leave? There are too many of them.”

Comma Carnage

I read like a goat eats. I don’t see punctuation, and whatever is in my way, well, it sure doesn’t effect my comprehension, as it clearly does smiling Dan’s. Btw, Jennifer, nice grenade you launched at him a while back. I’m guessing he didn’t see it. However, whenever I read something I’ve written, say, more than three days ago, I’m astounded by the number of of typos, and, what Adam refers to as my comma carnage.

Does it make a difference that I know I’m repeating myself? It’s all so I can post this cartoon which applies to me more than this one.

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Tracks

Mike,

Nothin’ like a new snow to let you in on the otherwise unseen goings on of one’s “wild” backyard — I’m guessing Felis silvestris catus from back right to front left, with an evidently time-other passage of Sciurus carolinensus middle left to front right.

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Adam