Week in pictures

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As if usually the case, I’ve carried my camera around all week taking pictures of things. But, nothing really stood out as a stand alone post for them photos.
Today I want to clean off the memory card before sword practice, so I’m going to try and force it into a narrative.

Except for Friday, with it’s cold rain, I walked around the work area each lunch this week. I’ve taken to walking clockwise around the place by myself instead of counter clockwise with everyone else. While I don’t mind being social, I like to stop and look at things, and they’re trying to walk around as quick as they can for exercise. (They’re all much skinnier then I am too, so I can’t say their way doesn’t work.)

As is true of so much of New England, there is a big mixture of trees, almost all of which I’d consider new. You can still see all the stone walls running through the woods that show that this was cleared farmland no more than a century or so ago. So, all the trees are new then that. And, most of the ones around the actual buildings were brought in and planted so have nothing to do with local plants.


Carted in for the purpose or not, the decorative trees do look nice.


And, they are blooming. That makes it harder for me to breathe, but it does look nice.



Even the pine trees are blooming, even if not as flowery as the other trees.


The dandelions have not only bloomed, some of them have already moved into seed. This is of course why there are so many of them. I wonder just how many generations they go through a year?


Individually, I’ve got nothing against this plant sex. It’s the scale of it that really gets to me.


I don’t know what this tree is, but it seems like every parking lot in New England has them and they are blooming to beat the band.


It was a bad week for my ankle. In all I twisted it three times this week as each time leaves it weaker for the next. It was this fairly harmless looking place that started it.


In good news, I think I found one of the characters from the movie “The Never Ending Story.” Isn’t this that rock guy?


Yesterday my wife and I went to see The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I think the international title of “Men Who Hate Women” is much closer to the plot of the movie as the tattoo one of the main characters has is only seen once and never discussed, while there is a LOT of bad stuff going on in the movie.
It was well written, well made and well acted. But, I can’t say I liked a movie about rape and murder.

After the movie, we drove up to Tom’s to help him finish off his house.
blue_micha fixed the wiring and hooked up a new light in the entrance way while the rest of use sanded the walls and woodworking of the upstairs bedroom.


Once the lights were down in the kitchen, Tom and I took down the suspended ceiling that had been there. Although the tiles were already out, just taking down the grid seemed to make a lot more space in there.


Everyone thought the lights and ceiling looked much better.


But, they’ve got cats and we raised a lot of dust with the sanding. I’m not sure what we raised on the ceiling grid, but dust doesn’t cover it.
My wife and I both had trouble breathing as a result. She was very sick when we got home and I’m hoping she feels better today.

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I dig a post that includes flowers AND ceiling removal.