Massively hot. Today we check on the school construction progress, and notice the presence of an unusual number of Idaho license plates at the site (is the local labor pool so insufficient that out-of-state workers must be imported?). Then we walk past GRH, consider how crazy it would be to hike up Deal Canyon on a day like this, and see the mundane sights on the way back home.
Brother Dennis sends along this Chevy-with-a-message photograph he made earlier.
A visit to the dentist today, regaled with travel tales by my dental hygienist about her recent Bora Bora trip (iPhone videos included of swimming with sharks and sting rays), and a bit of just walking around the old work site neighborhood.
Today, around campus …
The back yard, after the p.m. thunderstorm (basement flooding not shown) …
Morning walk downtown before the fierce afternoon thunderstorm …
And there is no time for grieving or looking back. Yet I had to find this auction result (RNM, high bid $87,911) from BaT (Bring a Trailer), one of my favorite automotive sites, interesting in that the subject is a vehicle that was almost a dead-ringer for my old Porsche (I owned it in the 60s and 70s), right down to year, model, color, trim, deck script, interior options — even its tires and wheels. Read more. And for a view of my old “TPW146”, aka “The Pumpkin”, see here.
Okay, back to our regularly scheduled broadcasting …
His favorite science reads, right here.