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Wednesday Jul 30 | ||
| Bicycling 8:00 [1] | |
| ...
Socializing is interfering with the Plan again... | ||
| Note | |
| 5/12/17
Morning: dealing with stuff at home & the garden instead of running. Evening: drove to a concert in NH, then on to a rest area on 93 where I spent the night. | ||
| C • concert 3 | ||
Tuesday Jul 29 | ||
| Bicycling 37:00 [2] | |
| To the Fells, southern tip of the Boojum map. Took a little longer than usual; I think my legs are tired, and maybe I was more law-abiding with the lights. I didn't start until 6:52 am, so traffic was beginning to pick up. On the way I thought about how bicycling really isn't a true sport because you're sitting down so much of the time. Same with rowing. | ||
| Running 33:00 [1] | |
| My easy loop in the Fells. | ||
| Bicycling 35:00 [3] | |
| Lots of traffic, and this direction I was traveling with it, and during what I expect is the peak commute: 8-8:30. The worst congestion was on 28 starting a few blocks before the Mystic River. At this time, the cars were so packed that I was going (a lot) faster than them, which feels pretty safe. And the breeze was blowing from my right so I wasn't breathing the exhaust. A beautiful day.
Earlier, I did yell at a car that wasn't looking for bikes as he pulled out. I figure I'm doing my duty on the front lines of teaching bicycle awareness, so future generations can travel more safely. I also swore roundly at a guy who cut me off, but that was my own damn fault. I was riding on the right hand side of a right-hand turn lane, and I should have taken the lane instead. | ||
| C • That's a breathe of fresh a... 1 | ||
| Bicycling 12:00 [1] | |
| Around town. | ||
| Note | |
| 9/12/17. Things went downhill starting when I had a beer with a former colleague to pick his brain about how to do things at my new job. After that I skipped yoga and made a big dinner... | ||
Monday Jul 28 | ||
| Bicycling 35:00 [3] | |
| Running 30:00 [1] | |
| Bicycling 30:00 [1] | |
| Yoga 1:00:00 [1] | |
| Extremely gentle. | ||
| Note | |
| 14/12/17 | ||
Sunday Jul 27 | ||
| Bicycling 1:30:00 [3] | |
| To the Fells a meandering way; home an even more meandering way. Started out at 8:08 am. | ||
| Running 33:37 [3] | |
| Running around in the Fells. | ||
| Strength 15:00 [1] | |
| Machines at the gym. | ||
| Note | |
| Brunch with Dave ended up being mostly from our garden.
Dish 1: greens Saute a couple sliced garlic cloves, some sage, tarragon, hot pepper, kale, green beans in olive oil. Only the olive oil and garlic was not from our garden, though we do have garlic growing. Dish 2: kibbutz combo Combine chopped cucumber and tomatoes and possibly some kohlrabi with yoghurt. Top with dill. We should be making the yoghurt ourselves, but we're on vacation from that at the moment. We found a whole big cucumber in our garden today, from a plant we didn't even know had started to make the fruit! Dave said, look at this, Barb - he had found a tiny 1/2-inch cucumber. We lifted an adjacent leaf and - whoa! - there was a 2-incher. It went on like that until we had a, well, describing the final cucumber's dimensions seems somehow dirty. Dish 3: eggs Beat eggs, water, thyme. Use hot skillet after sauteing the greens. Cook eggs, pulling back from the sides every so often. Sprinkle with cheese. OK, we don't have any chickens or cows, but we do grow thyme... This all led, via talking about raising and milking goats, to a silly discussion about making [for our fantasy home-grown gourmet cafe] mouse milk yoghurt - and serving it in thimbles. | ||
| C • Size matters 1 | ||
| Bicycling 1:10:00 [3] | |
| To Menotomy Rocks where we met Nate and Suma. Then to Arlington Arts Center where we met Geoff and he gave us pizza and wine on the grass. Then we dropped in at Jamie's house for a beer on the porch. Then we dropped in on the Gibbs family (David, Jocelyn, Ozma and Zachariah) just when they were sitting down to dinner so we got a fine trout dinner with rice & collard greens. Then home where Ann Marie met us with brownies. Wow! | ||
| Note | |
| 11/11/17 | ||
Saturday Jul 26 | ||
| Yoga 1:05:00 [3] | |
| One of the more intense yoga sessions I've ever had. Several hours later, I'm still a little shaky. New teacher for me. | ||
| Note | |
| 13/11/17 | ||
Friday Jul 25 | ||
| Bicycling 10:00 [1] | |
| Not a good day for points. Biked to work and back and to the grocery store. That's about it. Spent the early morning on an unexpected pleasure: spending time with my sister-in-law and niece who were stranded last night in Boston by a canceled plane. Had dinner with the neighbors, eating a bunch of different kinds of things from the garden. Then watched Batman I and a very nice B.G. episode ("What was that middle part?"). ...
I've been thinking again about the junior high outing in September, and I am thinking of doing this: Teams do two stages. First stage, they get the map days ahead of time, and plan with the team how they are going to execute it. Who will do what. How long it will probably take. They do a course from the north side of Boojum to the south. With epunches so they will have some data afterward. In the south, they pick up a map they haven't seen before to orienteer back up north. Maybe their experience planning the first stage will help them plan better on the fly. Then layer extras on top of that. A set of items to be retrieved that all teams know about; they decide ahead of time which team will get which item. And/or the 1st and 2nd graders to be interacted with. And/or the hash idea, where they get to a place where the control could be in any of three locations, and they can send out scouts. It would be neat if the epunches could somehow be programmed so that there is a locked box that can only be opened if the epunch has visited a set of controls prior to being read by the epunch reader at the locked box. I guess I could have a physical combination lock on the box, and then the program reading the epunch could spit out the code for the combination lock only if the team has visited all their controls. | ||
| Note | |
| 5/11/17 | ||
Thursday Jul 24 | ||
| Note | |
| Still stuck in Toronto. Hopefully I'll get home this morning, as I have meetings all day at work...
Highlights from the conference: Hanah Margalit on regulation of gene expression by non-coding RNAs. Her group developed an algorithm to find targets of non-coding RNAs, and identified viral RNA that inhibits host immune response. Clare Fraser-Liggett (Craig Venter's ex-wife) on the microbial pan-genome. Exchanging genes is rampant between species; individuals in a given species of microbe might have only a small fraction of the total set of genes in the DNA of all the individuals of that species. At the PLoS Computational Biology meeting, Editor in Chief Phil Bourne proposed that the journal start a software section; authors of accepted papers would be required to submit their code and test data to a public repository. I got to have dinner with Trey Ideker, Gary Stormo, Fran Lewitter, Melanie Bourne, Evie Browne, and others. Phil told me over drinks that I'm quiet but effective. Gene Myers talked about the imaging work he switched to after finishing off the human genome assembly at Celera. I have a thing for Gene, having watched the evolution of his career starting when he was a professor at University of Arizona. Plus he looks like Superman and sports an earring. Now he's working on problems including tracking mouse whiskers in 500-frame-per-second videos, and imaging every single neuron in brains. Hagit Shatkay's talk on using simple text mining to greatly improve subcellular localization prediction got me thinking. Aviv Regev gave a nice plenary talk on biological modules. David Haussler's talk yesterday on genome evolution was supposedly stellar, but I missed it in order to spend 9 hours at the airport not getting to Boston. I had an idea I want to tell Louise Bergeron. I want to tell her by showing her the Battlestar Galactica episode where Chief is subordinate to that well-meaning but fatally not-a-good-leader NCO. Chief is a truly Tragic character. | ||
| C • Nice highlights 6 | ||
| Yoga 1:15:00 [1] | |
| Talk about relaxed. Was pretty close to falling asleep at the end during the part where you just lie there. | ||
| Running 15:00 [5] | |
| I ran fast! | ||
| Note | |
| I got home, and spent the day at work.
I met two of the scientific founders today. The other one I'd already met. I like them. | ||
| Note | |
| 10/11/17
ack | ||
Wednesday Jul 23 | ||
| Bicycling 50:00 [3] | |
| To High Park from the hotel. And back. Started at 5:30 am so I could back in time for an 8 am science meeting at my new company (by phone). | ||
| Orienteering 1:03:00 [3] | |
| Orienteering in High Park - using a map that Ralph gave me. High Park is BEAUTIFUL! Lots of wetlands, gardens, thick stuff, mowed grass, art, vegetable gardens, and one of the best playgrounds I've ever seen, with a wooden castle you can go inside. I watched two kingfishers fishing. They have a somewhat raucous call. | ||
| C • O in the AM 2 | ||
| Strength 12:00 [3] | |
| One round of the machines - then had to leave to go to the meeting. | ||
| Note | |
| Bummer - flight was canceled. Supposedly I will fly to Laguardia tonight and then to Boston tomorrow. And I have to meet with the company founders tomorrow... | ||
| C • Cancelled flight 1 | ||
| Note | |
| So next year's conference is going to be in Stockholm! There's got to be some good orienteering there. Although it's been interesting in that when we were in Europe, the local clubs were a little fussier about helping us put on the event than in places where orienteering isn't so big. Let's see - the history:
2002: Edmonton, Canada - local club sold us a bunch of maps and I put the event on myself. We walked from the conference center over a pedestrian bridge to the site. 2003: Brisbane, Australia - Robin Spriggs and clubmates put on a great event at a park. We rented buses to take people there. I didn't have to do anything; the local club did it all. 2004: Glasgow, Scotland - The local club put this event on for us. Walking distance from the conference. 2005: Detroit, Michigan - we orienteered on Belle Isle. The Detroit club ran this event for us. We bused people to the event in schoolbuses. 2006: Fortaleza, Brazil - this seemed too hard, so we punted. I had exchanged a couple emails with an orienteer or two in Brazil, but it didn't go anywhere. 2007: Vienna, Austria - the local club put on the event. People took public transportation to get to the event. I biked. 2008: Toronto, Canada - local club provided control locations and answers to trivia questions; I made the map and clue sheet, and ran the event. So on most years, the clubs have done most of the work. I just made the arrangements, hung around during the event, figured out the results, and handed out the prizes at the end of the conference. People who do it like it. Some of them have been coming for years now. | ||
Tuesday Jul 22 | ||
| Strength 30:00 [1] | |
| Used the machines in the hotel basement. | ||
| Bicycling 1:05:00 [3] | |
| Tried going east again, along the lake to another bike trail along the River Don. Not so nice. West is best.
The river, like the Humber, was brown and bloated, but seemed more dangerous and carried a lot of detritus along, including large logs. Notable sighting: a dog wearing shoes. Four little doggy shoes. | ||
| Note | |
| 12/12/17 | ||
| C • 12 points! I'd guess that's... 2 | ||
Monday Jul 21 | ||
| Yoga 30:00 [1] | |
| Bicycling 2:45:00 [2] | |
Approximate route. This marvelous bike ride was enabled by Bash, who invited me on a run. Unfortunately I wasn't able to get hold of her in time, but I took my bike on the train to a stop near the airport just in case we did hook up. From there I took an absolutely lovely bike path back to the center of Toronto. I used the bike map the guy at the bike rental place gave me. I was on a bike path nearly the whole way, winding its way along a creek that becomes larger and larger until it meets the lake.
Tree down in path. 
The weather was great: cool, sometimes windy - but in the distance the clouds were glowering. This all dissipated by the time I got to downtown Toronto; the sky was blue with a few wispy clouds.  | ||
| C • Excellent Route Choice 5 | ||
| Note | |
| With all this eating and drinking, and the dropping G, I'm afraid I may not stay below it. | ||
| Note | |
| 11/11/17 | ||
Sunday Jul 20 | ||
| Running 14:00 [1] | |
| To Greg's hotel for some brawny weight-lifting | ||
| Strength 40:00 [2] | |
| Various mostly upper body weight-lifting experiences interspersed with stretching | ||
| Note | |
Toronto street-O (clues, results):
Start triangle is mysteriously in the wrong place but I think everything else is OK. | ||
| C • Wow!! 8 | ||
| Note | |
| 10/10/17. Phew, barely squeaked by. I'm up late and had way too much to drink, and eat. Conferences are tough that way. My perosnal G is unacceptably high. I'm sure that is the wrong usage. Sacrilege. The B. Whatever.
Dinner was nice; met Hanah Margolit, from Israel, whom I've been assigning papers for a while. She does a great job. Also was with other PLoS people: Gary Stormo, Phil Bourne, Fran Lewitter, Evie, Catherine, Phil's daughter (wish Izzy was there!). Tomorrow night is the big PLoS dinner - 25 people. More eating and DRINKING. Better make sure and floss. To make up for it. Just looked up the name Starbuck cried out as she was making love to that slimy scientist: WIkipedia says it was "Lee". (Dave sent back the DVD before we could doublecheck.) Hm. I was half convinced it was Hilo. | ||
Saturday Jul 19 | ||
| Orienteering 1:30:00 [1] | |
| Checking controls for the street-O. I think it looks nice. Ralph from the Toronto club did a GREAT job picking controls. Toward the end I happened upon a farmers' market and spent $20 on fruit and vegetables. They're open on Wednesday morning too.
I went back to the hotel and made the map and clue sheet and sent them off to the printer. My lower back hurts a lot. I stopped and stretched - couldn't run very fast. Greg had arrived from the redeye while I was out and when I returned to the room he gave me some naproxen. Felt better after about 30 minutes. | ||
| C • Street-O 4 | ||
| Bicycling 50:00 [1] | |
| Along the Toronto waterfront in the other direction. Much nicer day. There are lots of fun things for families to do along the lake.
I am feeling down. | ||
| C • Down 2 | ||
| Note | |
Rogaine photo:
(But why is he sitting down?) | ||
| C • Just trying to stay relaxed... 1 | ||
| Note | |
| 12/10/17 (i.e, 12/17; target was 10) | ||
Friday Jul 18 | ||
| Bicycling 45:00 [3] | |
| To Logan for a flight to Toronto.
In a pissy mood last night and this morning. Maybe it's all the stress of watching so much Battlestar Galactica. Or IT problems at work. | ||
| Bicycling 1:15:00 [1] | |
| Along the Toronto waterfront. Ugly day. Plus 10 minutes on an exercycle in the hotel fitness center. | ||
| Note | |
| 11/10/17 | ||
Thursday Jul 17 | ||
| Bicycling 1:10:00 [3] | |
| To the southern tip of the Boojum Rock map | ||
| Running 10:00 [1] | |
| Around in the woods
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| C • Competitive Orienteering 2 | ||
| Yoga 1:15:00 [1] | |
| Note | |
| 11/10/17 | ||
Wednesday Jul 16 | ||
| Note | |
| Happy 11th birthday to Isabel!
Got up at 5 am to take Matt to the airport and then go to work to prepare a presentation (my first!) for 9 am meeting. I am really sleep deprived - rogaine has totally caught up with me. Vague plan is to go home and get some sleep now that the meeting is over, before the next one starts. Work is sucking me in... But I like it today! (Yesterday work was intimidating.) | ||
| Note | |
| Got some rogaine training in! It does involve a little white ball. We played ping pong with badminton rackets and it was surprisingly fun. The rogaine training part was the bare feet.
Did pretty well yesterday about it being Isabel's birthday and not being with her until the evening, after watching 3 straight episodes of Battlestar Gallactica, when I burst into tears and told Dave I missed her. My theory is that watching or reading fiction encourages me to read a little too much meaning into things, and to get all sentimental. Or maybe Starbuck reminds me of her. | ||
| Note | |
| 6/10/17 | ||
Tuesday Jul 15 | ||
| Note | |
| Crazy day. Worked, prepped for the party, held the party (fun), stayed up too late watching yet another nerve-wracking episode of Battlestar Galactica. The party was nice; a mix of work people and friends and even orienteers. Some fine live music. I hired four girls to work the party and they did an awesome job. Matt, Dave and Katia picked controls for the street-O, and we had a few takers. Ping pong and badminton were popular. Toward the end, the Edible Garden Tour of lower Cambridgeport came through - about 30 people. Dave and I told them about our garden and got a few tips (need to fertilize...). Not much exercise. Drank alcohol. Not even going to try to add up the points. | ||
| Note | |
| 6/10/17 | ||
Monday Jul 14 | ||
| Running 40:00 [3] | |
| Woke up before 6 am (probably from all the caffeine for the drive to Sunderland) and felt pretty good - did the famous run to the power line and back; very lovely woods! I even ran FAST some of the way (downhill), which gets me a point. Overshot the turnoff to the Gagarins' because I was daydreaming, so did something more than 3.5 miles. Not sure of the time because I forgot to bring my watch. Afterwards I drove home and came to my new job, which I really like so far. | ||
| C • new job 3 | ||
Sunday Jul 13 | ||
| Rogaining 11:23:00 [5] | |
| 2nd half. The main event.
Saw lots of birds and wildflowers. Fun orienteering. I was mostly in the back seat offering back seat driver opinions. There were a couple times I should have spoken up more; I can think of one time near the beginning and once near the end (by which time I should have known better since I'd even talked to Peter about the earlier occasion). Generally we had excellent communication about the navigation, and it felt really comfortable. Once toward the end I was moving slowly and Peter got ahead and I didn't like it because I'd not been following the map closely enough and stopping to look at it meant getting further behind. So I resolved to keep up better and told Peter, and then he was great about staying closer and talking more about the route. This was an accomplishment for me because I generally have trouble saying things that might be interpretable as complaint. I was all proud of myself. I had trouble keeping track of the pace count when I was tired during this second half. At one point I tried to talk to Peter about this psychological phenomenon that has happened to me where in the middle of the night my rogaine partner's identity seems to shift among different people, or they lose their idenity, or they become some universal-identity spirit companion. Peter indicated he'd be more likely to phrase this as "losing it". I was psyched to see my former Millennium co-worker Victor there! | ||
| Note | |
| 8/9/17 but I get a pass on missing my target number of points by one, since I was actually doing a rogaine and the point system is all about rogaine training. | ||
Saturday Jul 12 | ||
| Rogaining race 12:00:00 [5] | |
| weight:129lbs | ||
| First half of the rogaine - aka the prelude.
I'm sure PG will have all the details. :-) Very wonderful experience, in retrospect, as always. Awesome partner. And, I got to stay in Sunderland Fri and Sun nights, which meant getting to eat Gail's excellent dinners! I like the moss. It feels good on the bare rogaine-tenderized feet. Felt nauseous sometimes. Candidate reasons include: heat, diet change (eg sugar), sugar ups/down, needed a more substantial breakfast than iced decaf coffee + corn muffin, fanny pack belt pressure on the GI tract. Next time, bring Tums and salt. Feeling sick is no fun during a rogaine. Just one blistered area on the back of the right heel. Legs and joints felt pretty good. Really good. Feet hurt again but were not quite as intolerable as they felt last rogaine. I sure am grateful to the folks who go to so much trouble to put on these rogaine experiences for us! Thank you! Thanks also to Barb & Mark for the hot shower! And Charlie for bringing me food when it was too painful to walk to the food table! I have lots of questions about how/what the other teams did. What routes? Did any of them end up in the really thick stuff? What was hard? How did the team work together? | ||
| Note | |
| 8/9/17 | ||
Friday Jul 11 | ||
| Bicycling 1:10:00 [2] | |
| To the Fells and back. Plus work commute, which I think is now 3 minutes. A lovely morning to be biking. Tried to take it "relaxed" except for a couple sprints to make a light or keep up with another biker. Started at 6:15 am after lounging in front of the computer too long. | ||
| Orienteering 45:00 [1] | |
| Finished Brendan's line-O. Found 5 flags for a total of 10; he said there were 11. So maybe that one I thought I saw along a path was the 11th. There were mosquitos. Saw no one else in the woods. | ||
| Note | |
| One of my new co-workers is Louise Bergeron. Which is uncannily similar to "Louis E. Bergeron". I expect Eddie may end up getting the occasional email from me about top-secret work stuff. | ||
| C • Eddie's alter ego 6 | ||
| Note | |
| Timed the commute today. 1.5 minutes on the bike. (If I take a shortcut involving a little bit of wrong way riding.)
9/9/17 | ||
Thursday Jul 10 | ||
| Bicycling 1:10:00 [3] | |
| Medford
5:50 am Yesterday I read news stories in the morning before heading out to the woods on my bike. One story was about a guy who shot two men for no reason in the woods. Another was about a 22 year old woman who was killed by a truck just riding in the bike lane in DC. This morning I didn't read the news first. I felt hot in my long black tights and Swiss O shirt, which is what I'd been planning to wear for the rogaine. So I began to wonder what else I could wear that will be cooler, given the weather forecast. Let's see, what is the forecast now? Sat high 90 low 69 partly cloudy Sun high 80 low 59 scattered t-storms (when?) | ||
| C • Sad news stories 2 | ||
| Orienteering 45:00 [1] | |
| Did about half of the line-O Brendan set recently. Found 5 flags; there might have been another on a path that had been torn down. I'm planning on going back tomorrow to do the rest. I ran out of time; had a 7:45 am breakfast get-together in Central Square. I struggled a lot at the beginning of the line-O trying to figure out what was going on; even where the start was. It took me about 15 minutes to get into it. After I quit the line-O and was just running around on the trails, it was very relaxing. I think this is the perfect thing to get into rogaine mode... | ||
Wednesday Jul 9 | ||
| Bicycling 1:35:00 [3] | |
| Started 5:30 am. To the Fells and beyond to see if Harvey was home (he wasn't), then parked and ran around in the woods, then back home for the first day on the new job. | ||
| Running 40:00 [1] | |
| Note | |
| 14/9/17 | ||
Tuesday Jul 8 | ||
| Note | |
Another photo of Diego and his new siblings:
I am looking forward to meeting him! Which will happen in about a month when I go to pick up the kids. | ||
| C • cute kid !! 4 | ||
| Note | |
| ack - last day of work at Millennium. Had been hoping to get to the CSU orienteering but I'm not going to make it. :-(
So today will not be a good day, points-wise. 7/9/17 | ||
| C • Points 9 | ||
Monday Jul 7 | ||
| Bicycling 1:16:00 [2] | |
| 6 am ride to the Fells. Work commute. | ||
| Running 37:00 [1] | |
| around in the Fells starting around 6:30 am. Saw 1 human, 1 canine, 1 (swimming) reptile. | ||
| Yoga 5:00 [1] | |
| Note | |
View of the container garden from the upstairs porch:
 | ||
| Note | |
| 12/9/17 | ||
Sunday Jul 6 | ||
| Note | |
| OK, our first party will be Tuesday July 15th 4-8pm. You're invited. Live bluegrass, ping pong. No street-O planned but it's not inconceivable. Officially it's my leaving Millennium party but we figured we'd also start celebrating the new job, this domestic partnership thing, and Dave's birthday (7/21)...
And there is another thing to celebrate!! David and Isabel have a new little brother, Diego! Their dad and stepmom have just adopted him from Guatemala; they all went down and picked him up last week. Here are David, Isabel and Diego in Guatemala City:  | ||
| C • adopting from Guatamala 6 | ||
Saturday Jul 5 | ||
| Bicycling 1:05:00 [2] | |
| To Middlesex Fells.
Past the pigeon house, where the pigeons hang out in droves on a fine day. On a rainy day they stay under the 28 overpass, on the beams. The Fells seemed gloomy. Still, oppressive, dark. I could hear the airplanes taking off 7 miles to the east. On the way back I approached a red light at an intersection with three lanes. The SUV in the right lane did not have a blinker on, but I thought it might be turning right. If it had been signaling a right turn I'd have pulled up to its left. But instead I pulled up on the right. I thought for a while about people I know (like John) who don't use their turn signals as much as I would. I figure you never know when someone you don't see could benefit from knowing your intentions. What are these non-signalers thinking? That they don't want to give away what they're going to do? They think they'll look like goody goodies by signaling? | ||
| C • blinkers 7 | ||
| Running 34:00 [2] | |
| In the Fells. | ||
| Yoga 1:00:00 [2] | |
| Went to the Black Yoga studio. The instructor looked like Eric Bone. Afterwards, I realized Bodo was there; he came up and reminded me who he was. We talked for a little afterward about things. He's now Director at Harvard's Center for Systems Biology. He likes mentoring students, post docs and fellows. | ||
| Note | |
This container is spooky. Twice I planted chive seedlings in it, and both times they were gone in a day or two. Each plant was just sliced right off near the ground. There are a bunch of small black ants in the container; could they have done it? Dave recently planted some basil in the container; we'll see how that goes.
Cabbage behind; eggplant in front: 
On the right is the new raised bed for growing things that will tolerate shade, watered by Giovanni's automatic watering system. The grass lawn is looking fine, thanks to Giovanni having dug it all up and buried long pvc pipe reservoirs that hold rainwater from the roof and gradually release it through holes. Then he groomed the dirt and planted shade-loving grass. We recently added some clover seed. We miss Katia and Giovanni! And not just for the manual labor!  | ||
| C • Container gardening 3 | ||
Friday Jul 4 | ||
| Note | |
| More garden photos.
We're growing several kinds of potatoes; some are shown here in the white containers. We started by planting the potatoes in a little dirt at the bottom of the containers. As the leaves emerged, we added more dirt until the dirt was nearly up to the top of the container. Makes more room for the potatoes, I guess. 
A couple potatoes were planted in a really big garbage can:  | ||
| Note | |
| weight:134lbs | ||
| 8/17 by the skin of my teeth. Skipped the fireworks to get to bed by 10. Maybe I'll write 8/8/17 from now on, indicating that I got 8 items out of the 8 I'm supposed to, out of the 17 to choose from.
The weight is down a pound, which I attribute to the orienteering and hiking in Alberta, along with not drinking beer and feasting every night, just some nights. | ||
Thursday Jul 3 | ||
| Bicycling 55:00 [2] | |
| Home from the airport with heavy baggage. Thursday 5 pm, truck route. Past the airport car rental places. Through a passage cars can't get through. Into Chelsea. One-way streets around the tunnel entrance/exit. Across a metal-grate liftable bridge. Under the Tobin Bridge far above. Past the Chelsea City Court. Then vegetable wholesalers and energy processing plants, across another grated drawbridge, under Route 93, past the personally infamous Holiday Inn, under 28, through Somerville's square (what's it called, where I lived with Mike and Cindy and Mike - Union), hot out but a stiff breeze and really dark clouds to the west. Merge into the left of 2 lanes, then into the left turn lane toward Central Square in Cambridge. Head off on Columbia, past a heavily attended basketball game (last time: rocking swaying gospel church service), past Toscanini's and the Asgaard and work and into Cambridgeport and home just before the storm hit. | ||
| C • infamous 1 | ||
Wednesday Jul 2 | ||
| Hiking 2:09:00 [1] | |
| Up to a lake and back. No bears, cougars, wolves, badgers or foxes. | ||
Tuesday Jul 1 | ||
| Hiking 5:30:00 [3] | |
| Really really nice route in Peter Loughsheed (sp?) area south of Banff. Julie from Seattle at the O meet told us about the general area and let us use their maps to plan the hike. Didn't see any grizzlies so I didn't get to use my new bear spray. Maybe I can use it on the truck route to the airport sometime.
The smells were divine. Christmas spruce. Snowmelt spring fever. | ||
| C • Lougheed 2 | ||