Musings

There were two guys who were doing whatever this was planted on a tripod for, but they weren’t paying attention to this old lady walking down the sidewalk, so I was able to sneak a pic of their technology. This’s called a prism, and I didn’t know Pentax makes them, but that’s because I haven’t used a total station in…what?…two decades? Three?

Fact: I trained back in the Jurassic age (meaning before laser total stations like the guys had), rather uncommonly, on a theodolite and not a transit. I soon learned the latter, too. Both involved a lot of careful twisting with both hands, very systematically.

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The movie equipment and orange cones were in the alley and hardware parking lot. I don’t know if they were also over by the green house, as I didn’t walk that way. Is this confusing? All the equipment was parked, and no one was around it, so the only conclusion I could come to: no movie work on this half-rainy day. [But, were they shooting in one of the bars? Or? I didn’t walk that way either, so: unknown.]

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I was so glad to see this azalea, all elegant and delicate. Overwhelmingly, they are more in-your-face—beautiful, yes, but more robust. In any case, I haven’t found one of these before this spring.

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This day began cool and sunny. A penetrating sun, if you found the right angle.

Then, my semi-annual cleaning revealed an oops, and the Doc-Dentist said, let’s take that out now. [A rotted aged root-canal molar, and you do not want to know more.] After a welcomed high-power anasthetic and a short wait, presto, zippo: gone, to the local medical waste facility.

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I neglected to drive the truck around and let the breeze suck the leaves out, and then it rained. Making truck soup. With redbud bud garnishes.

Drained now; truck soup is in the past.

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Seems like a good name for this brilliant rainbowed sun-ray….

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I admit: this is last evening’s moon. Most of today has been rainy, and it’s still too overcast to see that orb at the moment. I’ll look again tomorrow.

And this morning the dawn was pink/red along the horizon, and the Meteor-a said the color indicated that the weather would change and rain was coming. Just like the sailor saying.

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I thought a year ago that new construction in our general area would die down. How wrong I was. Here’s what I call the empty tooth socket stage.

And here is the new underway. I heard four nail guns busy simultaneously.

And even the casserole heat-and-eat place is getting an upgrade…and while that’s underway, they have a temporary parking lot freezer (with its own generator). Yes, the lot is very desnivel (Spanish for un-level).

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It’s redbud bloom season, and I’ve had a difficult time finding blossoms at my level.

Most have been far overhead. [Artsy photo; better idea than what I managed to capture.]

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As in: failure to communicate. Spaced on blogging. Apologies.

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