23 May …
The Science Festival was last Saturday. Mark and Kamille were out the door by 0700 for set-up. Paul and I stayed home until noon. We spent the morning working (weeding) in the courtyard. We got to the festival about 1300.
Of course we went to the amateur radio booth first.
Then Paul toured and learned about volcanoes and catapults and making woven baskets and planting trees and …
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Weather has been giving us chilly mornings followed by warmer temperatures and thunder storms.
It is raining lightly this morning. So much for drying soil so we can plant.
However, the lilacs are loving it …
as are the wisteria …
and the apple tree.
May is the time of year for the fantastic green buds on the fir trees …
and Mike found a cluster of morels.
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The chicken house has undergone a renovation. The flock of chicks is rapidly approaching pullet size and the poor old coop wasn’t ready for them. Pictures to follow.
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Remember the young woman I spoke about in the Van Gogh paintings and wondered about? Well … last Thursday the following turned up in Facebook … “Early in his career, while living with his parents in the small Dutch village of Nuenen, Vincent van Gogh painted an extensive series of character studies featuring local peasants. The woman depicted (in the portrait) is the only one whose name is known: Gordina de Groot. Locals called her Stien, but Vincent, for reasons he never shared, called her Sien.”
That still leaves the question of their relationship unanswered, but it is interesting in that he painted and drew her many more times.
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Monday evening I discovered an insect bite on my left forearm. I didn’t see the insect, but the bite was surrounded by a round, target-like ring so I saw the doctor yesterday. I’d been working in the brush clearing out for spring in an area which is a deer path and am hyper-aware for Lyme disease. Doc said there was an 80% chance it was Lyme so I am on doxycycline. Supposedly, if treatment is started within 72 hours all goes well.
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I will be off again this afternoon to help with the food bank in Mt Shasta.
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Last monday George has been gone six months … so to close the week …
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
‘til next week …