Month: April 2015
rDay Twenty-Five – Gangloff, Pioneer and SK8 Parks
A Sunday morning outing with Charley …
rDay Twenty-Four, après-kitchen
rDay Twenty-Four, Sour Cream Ginger Cookies
rDay Twenty-Three, Whatever Happens
Started the day tearing down and testing old computers (3 down, 6 to go), coming upstairs for skylight and escape from the banishment of the basement. Ivi calls. Warmth (seventy degrees!) and (albeit cloudless) blue skies beckon. Another outing to the third of three cemetary venues susceptible to dog-ness. Mt. Emily is everywhere; can’t be avoided. On the way home, we catch a college women’s softball game just as it completed. For dinner, in the Ivi-Kim tradition of homemade pizza for Friday, we take on one of the best yet: asparagus, wine-cooked mushroom, some kind of cheese. Then Ivi calls, again.
This Just In
Today was a momentous day for Ivi. A couple of papers were due, the acceptance of her thesis was up in the air, she was to make a oral presentation of her thesis, she was to learn whether she would be accorded special honors status (she was one of six candidates), etc.
So her mother got a call from her mid-afternoon to find that Ivi had been undergoing emergency treatment for a cooking burn on her hand (seemingly a reprise of the nastiness of one year ago) and missed out on everything. But she called to say that all was under control, she had consulted with her instructors, and was resting and was medicated.
Another call came in at dinner time, intercepted by her dad, to say that she had just learned — about two minutes prior — that she was receiving the honors designation. And she is “resting comfortably” and will be taking it easy, at least tonight.
rDay Twenty-Two
Afternoon shadows around the EOU campus.
Dennis Hoyt in Bahrain – Update
Earlier tonight Dennis sent me some iPhone photos taken in an air-conditioned “glass tent” during the setup of his exhibit at the Bahrain Grand Prix. As followers of my Porsche blog may know, he is in that part of the globe by invitation to show his sculpture during the F1 racing event to be held starting on Friday, April 17. He tells us that he has met with Sheikh Salman, champion Middle East Porsche GT3 racer and Porsche fan/fanatic, is coordinating with Bernie Ecclestone’s (chief executive of international Formula One racing) F1 communication staff, and is scheduled to meet with the Crown Prince. He also says that his exhibit has been written up in something called the Gulf Weekly, an important news magazine for that region. Stay tuned!
By the way, Dennis is the friend who has helped me now and then do bodywork on my own car, in case you didn’t know. And I built a website (temporarily unavailable) for Dennis’ Speed For The Need charitable work and have photographed some of his pieces.
rDay Twenty-One – Addendum
As we prepared for the afternoon Unleashing of the Hound of the Baskervilles, we took notice of how overgrown the front yard grass has become, after only one week of the lawn mower’s downtime in the shop for repair. But we proceeded on to romp about in the abundant grass also afforded by the nearby undeveloped college campus fields.
rDay Twenty-One
In a quick, cold and windy walk downtown for a late morning visit to the chiro, I watch the skies as usual. And glance down at the sidewalk beside me to see a small bird hesitate for a second, inches away from my foot, before flitting off, then come upon the local metro transit bus. My doc, now working only part-time, tells me about self-building his new retirement house in the high desert, with windows and decks optimally oriented so that he can watch the sunset, glass of wine in hand, on one side while greeting the sunrise on the other, viewing from window or deck as weather-appropriate.
