The Old Folks Home

[pennyJo1960]

Nice you made it back home safe

 

[ronott1]

Nice you made it back home safe

It was an adventure. GPS is sketchy up there

 

[pertnear09]

Hey Pert.

 

[pertnear09]

It was an adventure. GPS is sketchy up there

Good old fashioned road map might have come in handy.

 

[microchick]

Always wanted to go to Yosemite. There and Yellowstone.

We saw some spectacular scenery in northern Arizona during our drive down to get married and participate in the Nissan Speedbike Challenge. We took our time driving down and had a ball. The southwest is really a beautiful part of America.

Great pictures @ronott1. Nice to put a face to the name and your wife has such a beautiful smile. Was she getting ready to cycle?

 

[ronott1]

Always wanted to go to Yosemite. There and Yellowstone.

We saw some spectacular scenery in northern Arizona during our drive down to get married and participate in the Nissan Speedbike Challenge. We took our time driving down and had a ball. The southwest is really a beautiful part of America.

Great pictures @ronott1. Nice to put a face to the name and your wife has such a beautiful smile. Was she getting ready to cycle?

Yes! She managed a bit over half an hour and rode to the other side of the Valley

 

[pennyJo1960]

I have new life 1 out, 1 zipped, 3 pipped about 2 days before I expected

 

[Alaskan]

@bruceha2000 so, how long until your wife can get tested?

I just got to have a long talk with a nurse about covid exposure.

Supposedly (but, yeah right, still very little data), if a person sick with Covid (so, symptoms and tests positive) gets close to person A, person A will NOT get anyone else sick within the first 24 hours after exposure.

So.... as long as, in that first 24 hours after exposure, person A falls into a dark hole and never looks at other humans, person A will infect zero.

So.... depending on how good you can quarantine in the same house.... you "should" be fine.

 

[Peep_Show]

Is this the same H. R. Angwin that built the Sahalie Falls bridge in the 1920's?

Yep!
He was given the option of working on Hoover Dam, but Grams didn't want to take her passel of kids to live in the then-nonairconditioned desert, so he opted for Bridges and Tunnels on the coastal states. He lived in Piedmont (border of Oakland, CA) and spent many years working for Kaiser/Bechtel. He designed/engineered the S.F./Oakland Bay Bridge, among others.
He was a real quiet man (well, couldn't get a word in edgewise around Grams), loved baseball and always had his pocket transistor tuned to a game, smoked like a chimney. Got severe emphysema but ultimately died of a stroke.
He had four kids (3 boys; 1 girl) and one of his sons went on to the Oppenheim Project in Los Alamos during WWII and then later was a designer for Westinghouse. Several grandkids picked up his engineering genes, working for Cadence, designing for Tesla, working for Livermore Labs and LANL. Those that didn't go into tinkering ended up predominantly as teachers.

 

[Peep_Show]

I have new life 1 out, 1 zipped, 3 pipped about 2 days before I expected

Yay! LOVE chicks. (Okay, I'm a hatchaholic)
Probably they hatched early due to the warm weather. Even a .1 degree can speed up the incubation process considerably.

I just started an incubator because I ordered up some Dampierre eggs. Got 8 and seller sent 3 extra, plus a bonus mystery egg that will remain a mystery as it and one other egg were crushed in the postal process. (C'mon, it was just a 300 mi straight-line trip!) Don't know how this will go as the eggs all were pretty scrambled with jiggly tops. So they rested and now it'll be a week before I dare look to see if anyone's home. However, I did also set a bunch of my homegrown tried-and-true Marans and Olive Eggers. Love those little fluffy behinds!

For some reason I really want to do an all-French garden this next year in the veggie compound and complete the theme with French birds. Okay, okay... Yes, Marans are French, I know. And they're the mainstay of the chickens supporting themselves with eggs and chicks. But I was captivated by those Dampierres with their crests and coloring. Don't know about the egg size, though. My egg sales clients prefer BIG eggs.