A long, long time ago in a little town not that far away the 1st son of Alice and Clifford Muller. Just how long ago? Look at the prominent magazine covers from that week.
54 Years Ago Today
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Pictures from the weekend
Firday night we went to dinner at Steve & Linda’s. Saturday morning we took a short walk across the road and then went to an open house at our neighbor’s Jeff and Andrea’s. We loaded up the wagon and walked the .7 miles to their house.
Sunday Kathryn helped Billie Jo wallpaper a bedroom while Eric and held down the home fort.
While Kathryn and Billie Jo were wallpapering Dakota got into the mixing bowl for the brownies.
Digital Music Inventory
Over the past few years I have moved all my cds and music into digital format. I inventoried my collection of digital music today (86gb total) as shown as in the graphic below.
National Day of Climate Action-April 14th, 2007
On this one spring day, there will be hundreds of rallies across the country with every group saying the same thing: “Step it up, Congress! Cut Carbon 80% by 2050.” The plan is to link pictures of the protests together electronically via the web resulting in the largest protest the country has ever seen, not in numbers but in extent. Their website shows activities that are planned around the country – use the map to find activities planned in your area.
Free and Open Source Software
I thought I would pass along this link to Mohawke’s Best of the Best Free and Open Source Software Collection. There is an impressive list of over 274 Open Source programs listed by name, title, description, and license. It is worth a review, I am sure you will find something to download.
Easter Weekend
Wednesday night Jennifer came over to play with Eric and make Easter eggs.
Friday night we went to the last of the Floyd Fire Department fish fries with Skip, Steve and Linda. Saturday Eric and his buddy Trevor went to the VFW sponsored Easter egg hunt with a scary looking Easter rabbit.
Saturday afternoon I went to the ADK Mountain Club Iroquois Chapter Open House. Most of it was pretty tame, but I bought a book, chatted with a couple of members and especially had a good conversation with Bill Ingersoll on possible and planned canoe trips.
Later Saturday afternoon we had Ed & family, Billie Jo & family for Easter dinner. Clockwise from lower left, Eric, Jim, Kelly, Ed, Billy, Dakota, and Billie Jo. Not in picture Kathryn and Izzabella.
On Easter Sunday we went to church and then to dinner with Mom, Robert and others. Upon our return home late afternoon we watched the common snipes and flickers foraging on our lawn.
A Rush of Spring
When spring hits it comes with a rush. In the past week the ice has left the stream fed pond and about 1/4 of the spring fed pond is ice free. The Canada Geese are regular visitors to my neighbor Gary’s pond. I am hoping they settle there where they have taller grass and leave my ponds alone.
The Red Wing Blackbirds arrived two weeks ago, Robins last week and this past weekend we heard Killdeers. Last night Eric and I heard and saw a Night Hawk flying high, eating bugs and making their characteristic whoop, whoop, whoop as they dive for bugs.
The snow is largely gone. Here is our yard with a before and after pictures spaced about 2 weeks.
Beating a Dead Horse (SU Basketball Style)
I follow the
- Zone versus Man – 4 million mentions (mostly from one surly poster)
- x is not a point guard – 2 million mentions over many years
- Paul Harris can’t shoot – 1 million mentions over the last year
- Carmelo…Carmelo…Carmelo – 1/2 million mentions since 2003
- New uniforms – love them or hate them (a recent topic)
You have to be a fan(actic) to sort through this stuff.
April Fool’s Day
Kathryn introduced the April Fools Day Dinner into our family and we have always done a “backwards” meal on 1 April with the kids. Basically we all dress crazy, eat the meal in reverse order (dessert 1st), spaghettie is the normal fare and we use kitchen utensils instead of normal silverware. Obviously it is always a hit with the kids. I was talking with Billie Jo last night who intended to do the meal and had told one of her friends, who was doing it with her kids. Here are a couple of pictures from our April Fools Dinner.
Gee but it’s good to be back home….
Home is where I want to be. I been on the road so long, my friend. (With apologizes to Paul Simon….) It IS good to be back home. Much of the snow is gone and I have clean clothes here.
My grand visions of keeping up on the news, checking all my email accounts and regular blogging got side tracked by what I believe is a bad hard drive. The laptop encountered a similar problem a week or so earlier causing me to reinstall Windows and all my applications. I attributed it to a one time problem – but it clearly is not. So now I am on to plan B (probably the subject of a future post).
Our normal golf days consisted of two hours of practice on a driving range, then an hour practicing chipping, sand traps and/or putting. We had lunch at the Country Club and then went out for two hours on the golf course. Given our propensity for swatting the ball everywhere but our intended goal, it took 2 hours for us to play 9 holes.
Nights we returned to go out to eat at night (Tex-Mex prevailed), watch a movie (Pirates of the Caribbean, finally) or take a short hike.
The birding, butterflies and wild flowers were great.
I posted more pictures at /jimmuller.com/trips/2007Tucson/