Nine years since.....

This image has haunted me as being the most iconic. I thought at the time I first saw it on television that it would make a suitable memorial, perhaps not life size or the exact shape but three shards rendered in marble inscribed with the names of those killed that day.

LATER THE SAME DAY....

They got all the shingles off, 30 pound paper put on and the scaffolding to hold the shingles.




If you will click to enlarge,the hole at the top of the roof is where the capped off chimney was, they very kindly knocked it off to below roof level and will sheath, paper and shingle the hole closed. They are coming back tomorrow for more shingle removal on the backside, they will load up bales of shingles, take Sunday off and come back Monday and start hammering on shingles. Waiting for the chimney guy to prepare the flashing.

Day One Roofers

It dawned misty foggy this morning and burned off rather quickly. The guys showed up about 7:30 am and had this much done by 11:30 when I went to go have lunch with my coding buddy, Sue. We had Chinese. Boy it sure is noisy. We have to be careful to dodge falling objects when leaving the house. The roofer guy told us if the crew wasn't having any problems they might get done in three days, if problems, five days. Sounds pretty quick either way. Unfortunately my tinnitus does not block out sharp pounding noises.

Hi Charlie!!! and family !!!

Number one son called to converse and wish birthday greetings,we both agreed that we have a serious number remembering problem; we both remember that his is in October and mine is in September. He finally found my blog and admired the new siding. Woohoo. Hope to be able to post pictures of new roof soon,too much rain so far.

Excitin' day at work!

It's sort of raining today so the roofer will not show up today.

Also, about 10 am everything got all hush hush at work and the HR guy came around and asked us to lower and close the blinds and be on the look out for this guy.

Okay.

Then we had a fire alarm go off and EVERY body jumped about a foot high, except the patients. Too much drama.

Very colorful dream but boring....

Colorful dream: I was in Barrow, I think, quite remote. I was working in the hospital, however, my job seemed to consist of watching patients and touching them when they were in pain. Maybe I was magical or something.

At any rate I was chosen to go on a cultural tour to a local village. The village was located in a valley and near the cultural center were two shamans who were dancing. One shaman wore a cowboy hat, painted face and gloves that had red and white fringes on the fingers. He was waving his hands in the face of the other shaman and also at the group of military people standing around watching. The armed services were represented by the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines.

Then I went into the gift shop to look around but someone drafted me to help prepare a local delicacy. I don’t know what it was called but I was looking at a white bowl of what looked like sea slugs or sponges. They were long green and cucumber like. Some were shorter and brown looking. I was told to cut them in half. I selected a shortish brown looking one and attempted to cut it in half lengthwise. Suddenly the middle mouth part opened wide and it had teeth and tried to bite me. It also had lots of little feet, it jumped onto the floor and hopped scuttled away. I attempted to pick it up but it was wiggling so vigorously it got away.




After that I was still touring and I and another person were walking down a path in the valley. On the right I spotted a water fall and walked over closer to the low stonework wall to take a better look. It was a gorgeous waterfall, a couple hundred feet tall, so I took pictures.
We kept walking down this delightful little valley and there was more stone walls and on the other side I glimpsed something bovine stumping around inside a cave. All I could see were legs.

Um, then I woke up.

Dream interpretation site says this about dancing and seafood.

To see ritualistic dancing in your dream, denotes your need to get in touch with the spirit within.

To see or eat seafood in your dream, indicates recognition and a mergence of your spirituality with your conscious being. You are acknowledging and fulfilling the needs of your unconscious. Er … except the seafood escaped so my spirituality has taken flight then?

Job well done! I think…..

Memorial Day weekend in Pendleton, Oregon

I was along for the ride actually, spouse was attending a convention for his organization. I found a nifty book store, downtown and purchased three books of authors that I enjoy and whose stories I had not read yet or had forgotten, good buy, lousy parking.

While there, I signed up for the Pendleton Underground Tour. Purchased a Pendleton hat for spouse, he did not have one surprisingly enough.



The picture below is of a Pendleton blanket woven in the Hudson Bay pattern. Does anyone know what the four black strips are for? First bar code! The blanket cost four pelts of what ever fur bearing critter was up for grabs, usually beaver.



Below is a picture from below of a side walk grate filled with glass. In the day,the underground part utilized as much solar technology as possible, the entire side walk around the block was glass, there were deep window wells that let in light as well. I was surprised that the hallways were as generous as they were.

Essentially how the underground in Pendleton came to be was that due to the rail head in town, lots of thievery, no law enforcement at all, the merchants hire Chinese to come in and dig the underground tunnels about four miles worth as well as excavate under an entire city block to create storage for the goods shipped in on the rail road. The underground over a period of 70 years or so served as a laundry and bath house run by Hop Sing (Honest!) Ice storage for the ice cream parlor, underground butcher, a speak easy, pool hall, gambling den, opium den, bowling alley and jail. Once back up on the street we toured the Cozy, a former bordello. Outstanding building that closed in 1953. The Madam moved around the corner and quietly continued serving customers until 1967.



After that spouse and I went out to the casino to the plateau room and he had well done very tender rib eye and I had a three tasting dishes and a dessert. My dishes consisted of a salad with candied hazelnuts (soggy) and pickled onions, the second dish was asparagus with a poached egg, third dish was pinwheel of Angus beef with balsamic.

If the chef had watched he would have choked me. I sliced the asparagus and added that to my salad as well as the pinwheel of beef and gently tossed it all together and then down my throat. Delish! Dessert was Fry bread with chocolate drizzle and berries. The fry bread was okay, I have tasted better but the beef was outstanding.