Broke 80 Today

Played 18 at Glendoveer today, and finally had a day where I putted well and played well. I could tell I am out of shape though as I faded down the stretch and started leaving things out to the right. No doubles, one 6, one birdie. Drove the ball great, played from the fairway all day.

Hole 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 out 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 in tot

Par 4-4-4-3-4-4-4-4-5 36 4-4-3-4-4-5-4-4-3 35 71

Brian 4-4-5-3-3-4-4-4-5 37 5-4-3-5-5-6-5-4-4 41 78

Land Visit

Margo & I camped on the property this week. Weather was beautiful, shooting stars were infrequent (Persids, next week) but large. We mowed the meadow, cut brush until the handle broke on the machine, and chainsawed. And picked up the tarpaper that winter had ripped off the platform. Margo watered the trees by the road.

Land Visit 08/2010

Social Security

James Roosevelt is right on.

Star Trek In The Park

Went to see a performance of the episode Space Seed, the episode which introduces the character Khan. The performance was a word for word show of the teleplay. Totally awesome. Rode our bikes over to Woodlawn Park with our neighbors Dan & Michelle, and picnicked.

The night before we had attended the R. Crumb show at the Portland Art Museum (NO PICTURES!!11!).

Seal Rock

Lois' Viewing Platform

The Mission: Raise Lois' swivel rocking chair so she doesn't have to climb the stairs several times a day, and can still enjoy her view. Our simple but elegant and sustainable solution was to build the platform from 3 pallets of the appropriate size and lay down a plywood sheet and screw the pallets to the sheet.

We then used two pallets, of slightly smaller size to make a tiered step. We had materials to build one more tier, but lois tried it out at both levels and decided to go with two. I could tell she liked it by the time we left.

I like that it is portable and can be carried out when not needed. Would make a great travelling band stand.

Wine Bottle Brick Wall

Margo has been building a Wine bottle wall in the space of the old garage door.