Twenty Years Ago Today
I was in about my second week at Microsoft when Windows 95 officially launched. It was a big deal on the corporate campus with Jay Leno MCing the event. It seems like just a few days ago and then again it seems like eons in the past. Our two decades in Washington have passed ever so quickly.
Bear Persistence
We had bear incursions Monday andTuesday nights and again around 4:00 a.m. this morning. What a shock, however, to see this largish black bear on our patio just a few minutes ago. Worse, he seems totally fearless. First, I pounded on the windows… to no effect. In fact, he approached the sliding door and looked right at me through the glass. I had fortunately closed the screen portion only thirty minutes ago. He backed off, snatched one of the bird feeders and started to chow down. I banged pots together and shouted at him. No effect. I threw my shoes at him. Unimpressed. Finally, I beaned him with a rock and he ambled away, through the portion of our fence that he tore down to get in.
Mt. Si Club Championship. Ooof!
After a ho-hum 86 on Saturday I wasn’t very inspired to play a second round today. And after pulling each of my first two tee shots well left, my enthusiasm wavered even more. Still, I scrambled like crazy for a 41 over the front nine and realized I was just two shots from the lead in my division. However, the dreaded left-pull hit me again and again on the back nine and I suffered through five penalty strokes, limping in with a back nine of 55: the worst nine-hole score on Mt. Si since the very first round I ever played.
Bee
Posted by nbdog in Uncategorized on 6-Aug-2015
It seems like I’ve see an increased number of bees this year; I hope so. There were lots of them on the copious flowers in Whistler and this one was an unusually cooperative subject.
Anniversary – 31 Years
We spent our anniversary in Whistler, BC, riding up and down Whistler and Blackcomb mountains, enjoying the spa and having a terrific dinner and dessert. A pretty decadent day. Here we are 1400 feet up on the Peak-to-Peak Gondola.
Pre-Anniversary Treat
It’s only the day before our anniversary but Trisha can’t resist at least a modest dessert at the Wildflower restaurant at the Fairmont Chateau Whistler:
Ann Rule
I just read that crime writer Ann Rule died today. Her spell-binding tale of serial killer Ted Bundy —The Stranger Beside Me— was the first and still the best of many true-crime books I’ve read. She was a talented author in a challenging genre.
Obituaries in the Seattle Times and Seattle P-I
Record Rain Day
Who would have thought? After ten weeks of drought we get several rain showers including a huge downpour late this afternoon that brought the total for the day to.90 inches… a record for July.
Rain At Last
We got some rain Friday night and throughout the day on and off on Saturday. Then a good drenching overnight into Sunday with more recorded rainfall (~.38 inches) than in the previous twelve weeks combined.
Rain drops on bleeding heart leaves
More Hot Weather
The National Weather Service-Seattle reported a high of 95 degrees today, tying the day’s record. I see that it was 91 in Miami, FL. So far the average high in July is 72.5 degrees, three degrees more than the July record set in 1941. I notice, too, that we’ve had 0.2 inches of rain since May 15, and 0.18 of that fell in one day. Here’s what an unwatered section of our yard looks like: 
At least with the crumby air quality we get some nice sunsets:
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