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June 20, 2004

The two STARS! Evelyn and Ivey!

June 19, 2004

Evie at the St. Mary fest.

Ann, networking with Teresa

Sunset at the festival

June 18, 2004

Oh oh! The church festival is today, and it just started to blow up a storm. Really blowing hard, maybe it'll blow right on by?
Ivey and Evelyn after the last day of school. Ivey has one more year at Mt. Erie.

Ever see anything like this?

Jerry sends this of his 'Demonic Duo' twins at last years Dream Cruise.

June 17, 2004

Last day of school! Moving UP! Ceremony was yesterday. Evelyn will be going to the middle school, next fall.

Evie with Gram and Grampa

Evie with friend, Andi

June 15, 2004

The following photos were taken at the Mt. Erie elementary school yesterday evening. The occasion was a class picnic for the kids to sign each other's yearbooks.
We started out in the gym, then headed to the playground after eating. I hasten to point out that Ann and I did not eat. We are on day 5 of a cleansing fast.

Ever wish you could read minds?

Jeanne is helping to make these pictures more interesting! I wasn't going to shave until I got to eat real food, again. I changed my mind after seeing this photo, and shaved last night before bed. Grandma always said that was the time a gentleman should shave. Photo by Blair. (Who cut off my horns!)

Don't you just love candid photography? Ivey, Jeanne, her husband, Jerry, and Niomi are caught here.

Evelyn is caught thinking, "What to write in a friend's yearbook?"

Ann and Jeanne in conversation.

Jeanne

Evelyn

June 13, 2004

Anna, playing 'Meditation' from "Thais" by Massenet, a classic. Anna memorizes her music.

Evelyn played the third movement of Sonata number three by Handel.

This may be Wai Chan's last year as a teacher. We will miss him.

This picture of hogan came today! Reaching for the camera.

June 11, 2004

Brett sends along a picture of Hogan, in fine form.
"And, if you'll give me your vote. . ."

Likewise, Adam sends along recent shots of Talia, Anne, and Devon.
Devon, recently graduated from MIT with honors.

Anne with Talia - already doing post grad work, of course. . .


Great mother daughter picture!

June 8, 2004

Fae's creative hair styling wins her a trip.

Studio photo.

June 6, 2004

Adding the finished picture to the (motorcycle) story below. . .
Since the sun shone all day, also cut the front and back, weed whacked, trimmed the edges AND THEN degunked the lawnmower. I cleaned it. Now it looks like new.

June 4, 2004

What is this? A motorcycle blog?

The problem with the faring is more than evident in this picture. An earlier (15 years?) fall cracked the fiberglass. We'll attempt a surface, cosmetic patch. And maybe wash it?! Someone had attempted a prior repair by adding a piece of aluminum to the inside and pop riviting the broken pieces to that. There is also evidence of some kind of 'fill' work. There is also a glaring hole where pieces are flat missing, at this point.

The finished incarnation. I added epoxy to the inside of the crack on the wee hatch cover, but forgot to Bondo the outside! The steps not shown were the several sand and fills, the masking for paint, and the painting.

The large hole is hidden by a patch, in the form of fiberglass strips dipped in resin and hardener. This will also (hopefully) keep any flexing from cracking the repair, later on.

This will still leave the problem of the flaking finish on the rear 'trunk'. I'm trying to remember the mechanic's advice -
JUST DRIVE it! Remember, this motorcycle will go 120 miles per hour. Not with ME on it, but it will!
Watch me sell this thing next year for nearly two grand!

Now, over the cloth patch, fiberglass is applied. This is a product that you have heard of, called 'Bondo'. The towels are in preparation of the sanding, which happens next. Sanding and filling happened several times, easier each time.

Happy Birthday to Anna! (yesterday)

Well, might as well show you the finished ('til next time) shower arrangement. After several false starts, it is ready to go. I am reminded that pictures without folks in them are not very interesting. However, no one wanted to volunteer to be photographed in the shower. . .

That copper piece in the middle of the pipe going to the shower head reflects a change in direction, when it was decided to get the new faucet, and it supported the old pipe, which had been cut to accommodate the 'ugly' attempt.

June 2, 2004

Hey! It's summer! Send some summer pix?!

You will recall that we are trying to reinstall some sort of shower arrangement for Evelyn.
And that it was either going to be this ugly collection of patched together pipes and fittings,

OR - something new, and different.
Here are the old and new faucets, just prior to switching them out.

The new one is finally installed. Now to hook up the shower part. (the plumbers putty gets knocked off later.)

Just look at this shiny rascal!