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The 37th annual "Human Race"

Posted by: ycd0108, 2:03 AM GMT on May 28, 2012

Today we attended the 37th (or something) annual "Human Race". I was handed the duty of keeping the "Infernal Flame" going (and starting it in the bucket in the photo). All the runners are encouraged to leap over the bucket and I was supposed to take the pictures. This one is the best so far. The young ones run (or bicycle) and the more mature stroll with a dog on a leash. The Elders like me are tasked with starting and fueling the fire in the bucket.
One year my long gone friend just built a fire on the pavement. Neighbours called the police and one officer showed up to tell us we were not supposed to light bonfires in the road. That's why the fire is now in a bucket.
I still hit the pothole we burnt there every now and then.

The Human Race

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Down by the Fish Pond

Posted by: ycd0108, 7:25 PM GMT on May 26, 2012

I got the fish bowl suspended in the lower pond an hour or so ago but when I went out to see if the fish were up in it only one of the bowls in the upper pond had a couple of fish up so I took this picture of the little "Spirit House" perched in the huge "Umbrella" plant. The steep stairway is for those tiny spirits who don't fly. A fellow Tloml met in Cambodia imported a bunch of these so we gave them for Christmas presents and got one for our garden.

Spirit House

Third Fish bowl

Reflections

Updated: 12:20 AM GMT on May 27, 2012

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The Plot Thickens

Posted by: ycd0108, 3:32 PM GMT on May 24, 2012

Here is some information about how our provincial government proposes to protect something:
http://alexandramorton.typepad.com/
I do not think this bill is supposed to protect food safety.
What would you guess it would protect?

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Pond surface is not the limit

Posted by: ycd0108, 12:13 AM GMT on May 18, 2012

The goldfish seem to like the inverted bowl. I'm guessing that the water warms more in the upside down bowl and the pressure is lower.
For some reason they all congregate in one tower. Come to think so do fishermen.

Inverted fish bowl

ponds

Mt. St Hellens

Updated: 6:13 PM GMT on May 19, 2012

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The (last) Lost Post

Posted by: ycd0108, 7:52 PM GMT on May 14, 2012

When I asked "North Oyster Bob" if I could use the publication he wrote back:
"C:\Users\Administrator\My Documents\My Pictures\last lost post - er? No he didn't but that's what was in my cut&paste, I'll have to try again:
"Ya, The Lost Post certainly was blogging. Except it involved typing very carefully on sheets of real paper, cutting it up, pasting it down (cut and paste!) along with line art work and then getting them printed on the sly at (Edit) College's print shop.
Sure, use it. But mention somewhere that it was the official publication of Lost Shirt Productions (for the Cedar Hall concerts) and the Yellow Point Hysterical Society.
Whaddya mean, how do you cut and paste on a Mac? You highlight the text or pic, right click or go to Edit and select cut and then paste."
So I asked if he had any old copies of the newsletter and he sent the one below so I printed it and took a picture of it thumbtacked to a post in my yard.
He also sent an earlier copy which was more elaborate but uses some large words so I have yet to read it.

The Lost Post

Really lost

Updated: 11:33 PM GMT on May 14, 2012

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Due South

Posted by: ycd0108, 4:31 AM GMT on May 11, 2012

The picture below lets you look through and old Arbutus (Madrona) stump. The point of land in the view is nearly perfect "Due South" and the log in the foreground is hollow so I took a similar photo through it.
We finally got back to the cabin and walked around a bit on the small island. I'm exhausted - have not walked that much for a years or two.
I'll post some more pictures, not tonight, though.
Later: I'll try to describe the existing hole these pictures were taken through:
When we purchased the lot on the island in about 1990 there was a massive Arbutus tree leaning almost to the horizontal which had grown completely around a fir tree and killed the top of the other tree. The top of the 10" fir was all gone but the stump was fastened into the trunk of the leaning arbutus and supporting the larger tree allowing the arbutus to reach even farther out to the cliff for the sunshine it was seeking and grow to large dimension for such trees. I wondered if the arbutus was not sustaining the stump of the fir because it was obvious the big tree would not stand without support. Eventually the whole arrangement started to lean toward the cabin we built there and a couple of the guys went over with a chainsaw to take some of the weight off the upper (farther) part of the arbutus. When I saw what they had done I said: "They took the wrong side off." The support system went on leaning into the sundeck and one wet spring the roots began to pull themselves out of the thin soil and the tree lean so drastically we decided to drop it before it reclined on the cabin or the deck. We hired a climber to bring it down in pieces and still lost most of the top over the cliff. Th edge of the cliff is at least 30' from the stump. I get there and see the section of the arbutus with the hole where the fir went in waiting to be bucked up for fire wood and a large handy stump near it. Just for fun I wrestled the hole thing upright on the stump, oriented the hole to look due south (true) and spiked it all together.
I figured we can always cut the arbutus up for fire wood but even "All the King's Horses" could not put that hole back together again. I'll post a picture.