July 15, 2022- One of the little Monarch caterpillars that hatched last Friday. Went from a less than 1mm egg to nearly an inch long. Unfortunately no pics from earlier in the week.
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The day that The Windy City got renamed The Windy City
It was a blustery fall day as the wind whipped off of Lake Michigan and made its presence known in the city on its shore, Chicago. Myself and a contingent of Alaskan youth were well prepared for the weather as we had worn our parkas in a show of solidarity to promote the state we hailed from at the National 4-H Convention being held at the historic Conrad Hilton Hotel there on Michigan Avenue.
I had been given an assignment to prepare a human interest story about the attending Alaskans for inclusion in the convention newsletter to be distributed the next morning. With its completion I took it down to the hotel's basement where the editor, an actual Chicago newsman, accepted the piece. As he reviewed it I received an unexpected complement as he suggested I might want to consider journalism as a career.
Included in the story I made mention of that day's wind by coming up with a phrase describing Chicago as "The Windy City."
Coming from Alaska and knowing little about Chicago I had never heard the term previously and assumed it to be original.
Imagine my surprise several years later when as a college student I had come to Evanston, a community bordering on Chicago, and saw a sentence in a Chicago newspaper article referring to Chicago as "The Windy City." My first thought was that the newspaperman I had met in the Conrad Hilton Hotel basement must have liked my article even more than I had thought and had gone on to perpetuate my term for Chicago as "The Windy City."
And that is how "The Windy City" got renamed "The Windy City."
Here is the launch point from a nearly half mile zip line where we reached speeds of 50+ mph, over 200 feet high. The X2 is the biggest zip in Massachusetts.
Berkshire East, Charelmont, MA.
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Some shots from a morning bike ride
Texas hill country?
Not quite, although it does look very similar
This is Southeast Iowa.
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July 15, 2022- One of the little Monarch caterpillars that hatched last Friday. Went from a less than 1mm egg to nearly an inch long. Unfortunately no pics from earlier in the week.
Vacation... last week in Wilmington NC...
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Jobs that I could not do - even with a safety harness
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Some shots from a morning bike ride
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It’s almost my favorite time of the year (that’s LT).
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The day that The Windy City got renamed The Windy City
It was a blustery fall day as the wind whipped off of Lake Michigan and made its presence known in the city on its shore, Chicago. Myself and a contingent of Alaskan youth were well prepared for the weather as we had worn our parkas in a show of solidarity to promote the state we hailed from at the National 4-H Convention being held at the historic Conrad Hilton Hotel there on Michigan Avenue.
I had been given an assignment to prepare a human interest story about the attending Alaskans for inclusion in the convention newsletter to be distributed the next morning. With its completion I took it down to the hotel's basement where the editor, an actual Chicago newsman, accepted the piece. As he reviewed it I received an unexpected complement as he suggested I might want to consider journalism as a career.
Included in the story I made mention of that day's wind by coming up with a phrase describing Chicago as "The Windy City."
Coming from Alaska and knowing little about Chicago I had never heard the term previously and assumed it to be original.
Imagine my surprise several years later when as a college student I had come to Evanston, a community bordering on Chicago, and saw a sentence in a Chicago newspaper article referring to Chicago as "The Windy City." My first thought was that the newspaperman I had met in the Conrad Hilton Hotel basement must have liked my article even more than I had thought and had gone on to perpetuate my term for Chicago as "The Windy City."
And that is how "The Windy City" got renamed "The Windy City."
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Tonight’s dinner.
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Here is the launch point from a nearly half mile zip line where we reached speeds of 50+ mph, over 200 feet high. The X2 is the biggest zip in Massachusetts.
Berkshire East, Charelmont, MA.
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The first raspberries of the season from the yard:
The very first one picked this morning:
Then by evening a few more had ripened:
Which made for a raspberry treat to celebrate the first day of raspberry harvest with the promise of many more to come:
Added bounty from this season's early harvest:
The garden and harvested kale:
The earlier strawberries:
The first crop of tomatoes as picked, and then sliced:
And a few added views from this past week also taken from and near the house:
Texas hill country?
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Not quite, although it does look very similar
This is Southeast Iowa.
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"A Frenchman tries Coca Cola for the first time in 1950." I guess it's an acquired taste.
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
Mother is getting ready to turn on the switch to charge the electric car
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A room in a Pyramid with the walls and ceiling made of gold
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Kids stacking money
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