Melted Freeway

Becky and I were driving down this highway a few weeks ago!

Ginny drives by (red arrow)...

...and snaps a photo for us.

(PS - Ginny, I stole this from your flickr file)

Colors of Soccer

Spring Blossoms

Happy Birthday to...

Not only is it Judy's birthday it is Cleo's!
She (Cleo) is now 70 (converting to people years).


The vet said she needs to start brushing her teeth.
Here is the before picture.


And she needs to lose weight.
Before weight loss.

Tulip Farm Equipment

A proper tulip farm needs some really cool machinery for business operation (or at least, display).

This old National is good for parades and sticking on the side of the field to convey a homey farm image.

This farm has chosen a Ford 7710 tractor with at least 86 horsepower to pull the New Holland top of the line forage rake

A deep dish New Holland dirt hauler is necessary for moving soil and slowing down traffic.

The Versatile 895 Candy Stripe is another good choice, and plenty strong enough to pull the John Deere 630 Corkscrew Dicer.

Fallow cropland is a good place to leave old equipment like this six-way whirlly grass comb.

or this nine-way steam powered suction plugger.

And no true tulip farm can do with their Precision Tulip Decapitator

Off to Wisconsin

Jazz Engineering

Barry Griffin*'s famous new "car" designed in his school of Jazz Engineering** attracted a lot of interest outside of Ace Hardware today.

*a Harvard-educated marine engineering consultant
**“It’s a new method of inventing that combines jazz exercises with mechanical engineering,”
link to article: http://www.bainbridgereview.com/portals-code/list.cgi?paper=96&cat=23&id=964904&more=

Window Washers

Sports Highlights of the Day

Tire Swing

Property Research

I gave my seal of approval to the property that Keith and Diane are looking at.

It has this lovely open space with tons of birds chirping away in the trees.
She would have this adorable neighbor.
She would be within walking distance of Bay Hay and Feed (where she could get Ariat boots), and BB substation (to get espresso and super sugary cookies).

Tulip Field, Infrared

Clouds

Car Wash for Lacrosse

Hitting the Slopes

Valentin is back in those trees somewhere. Visibility was poor.

But cleared up a bit by afternoon.

End of the day

Blog to Blog

I stole this picture off Ginny's blog so I would have the set of our simultaneous photos.

More Tulips

Infrared Rendition of Tulip Fields

Babe Pool

The followup to the March Madness pool
Sort of like the swimsuit edition of Sports Illustrated?
Joce, don't you think is totally sexist???
Not to mention a waste of study time. I'd hate for Valentin to fall from that straight A average he got on his progress report.

Crawling through the Tulips

Easter Dessert

Lamb cake with coconut, and strawberries (Gillon couldn't attend so we had plenty) "mit schlag".

Happy Easter

I'd be scared of that big thing, too!

Recap and Analysis of College Tour

Let's analyze what we learned on our California college tour and how it will help with Becky's college decisions.
I've devised a scientific analysis here, awarding a point to the top schools in each category (or a negative point for the worst of the category).

1. Bicycles - How cute were the bicycles?
The best bicycles were found at:
USC (+1)
UCSB(+1)
and Stanford (+1)

2. Infrared photo opportunities
Berkeley (+1)

and Pitzer(+1)


3. Architecture
Pitzer (-1)

4. Good tour guides
Occidental (+1)
Meghan at USC (+1)

5. Interesting classes - this should never be overlooked in a decision for college. It turns out the smallest colleges have the most interesting classes and majors.

Pitzer offers "Sociology of Smuggling" in the first year seminar section and "Cars and Culture" in the Organizational Studies major (not available as a major even at Berkeley) (+1)

Occidental offers "Cowboys, Samurai, Manly Men: Images of Masculinity" in the core program section and "Computers and Reality" in the Cognitive Science major (another interesting major, not offered at larger campuses. (+1)

Santa Clara did not have ANY college catalogues available, giving them a negative point in this category. (-1)

THE WINNER
A tie between USC and Occidental