House Decorations

Found some old Northstar Trail signs yesterday that I plan on putting up on the wall as house decor.


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San Francisco in November

Spent a day in San Francisco last month.

View from top of Lombard St


(Lombard St)

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Northstar pre Opening 2006

I took a hike up to mid mountain to move my things into the ski school locker room on November 19th. Looks pretty barren of snow





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DirecTV antenna upgrades

Oldest 2 LNB Antenna attached to a tree


Old 3 LNB HDR antenna



Just completed installation of 5 LNB AT9 antenna with HDR local channels. Heater on dish surface will hopefully keep the antenna surface free of snow and ice buildup.


View with cover on dish surface. Hopefully cover will protect surface of dish and heater element from being blasted by county snow blower.


Note Lexan (Polycarbonate) shield I fabricated and mounted to a snow pole to shield the feed assembly from snow thrown by the county snowblower


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Cycle Oregon 2006 (last updated on 10/31/06)

Rode Cycle Oregon again this year. Cycle Oregon. This years ride took place in the NE corner of the state, September 9th through September 17th. The logistics included a trip on Southwest Airlines to Portland, an overnight at the Sheraton Portland Airport Hotel and then a bus trip from there to Umatilla on Saturday. The actual ride would start early Sunday Morning the 10th of September. This year I rode with Eleanor Mark, a friend from mine from Elk Grove California. I took about 75 pictures myself and combined those with Eleanor's Photos and a number of other pictures I found on the internet. Most of the other photos were from the Flickr.com website. More specifically from two main soures, hirano-k and BikePortland.org.

Me heading for fotog.


Me on day 6 downhill


Day 0 Saturday September 9th.
Day 0 Photos

Day 1 Sunday September 10th
Day 1 Photos
Day 1 Oregonian

Day 2 Monday September 11th
Day 2 Photos
Day 2 Oregonian

Day 3 Sunday September 10th
Day 3 Photos
Day 3 left Oregonian
Day 3 right Oregonian

Day 4 Sunday September 10th
Day 4 Photos
Day 4 Oregonian

Day 5 Sunday September 10th
Day 5 Photos
Day 5 Oregonian

Day 6 Sunday September 10th
Day 6 Photos
Day 6 Oregonian

Day 7 Sunday September 10th
Day 7 Photos
Day 7 Oregonian

Me at the finish.


I will update this blog as a get more pictures.

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Updated Haleakala Crash Recovery Video

Shows an updated sequence of photos of my face in the days and months following my Nov 14th 2005 bicycle crash on decending Maui's Haleakala Crater.



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Foxy Fall Century 2006

Rode Foxy fall century on Sunday. Weather was cool and cloudy but felt warm compared to Truckee. I had a great time!

107 mile "Century".


Average speed over 15 mph. Finished at 3:10PM, my earliest finish for a century ride.


Included 3542 feet of climbing.


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Boston Firehouse

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Originally uploaded by bavetta.

This is the firehouse that Ryan is looking at to possibly buy in South Boston

Out with old in with new

Switched out my sunglasses case today. New Oakley case contains 29 sunglass pairs. Well OK I have a sunglass fetish.

New case


Old case temporarily residing in garage.


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Robin

This bird has made a nest on top of the light on the left side of the garage entrance. I plan to restain the house this summer but now I'm going to have to wait until this family moves on.

Hey robin!


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Evening Hike

Took Sam for a short hike last night behind our house about 2 miles to a view spot overlooking the Truckee River and Hwy 89 North between Truckee and Tahoe City. He needed the excercise as he doesn't get to go along on all the road bike rides I do.

Sam enjoying the view with his good eye.


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Mailbox

Put a new mailbox up yesterday.

Old mailbox.


Old mailboxbox removed.


New and improved mailbox relocated to other side of driveway.



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Haleakala Recovery Updated in Fast Forward

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Hike to Donner Peak

Robert, Jennifer, Scott, Lindsey and Jill came up for a visit this weekend. Today we hiked from the top of Donner Pass up to the Keyhole at the top of Donner Peak.

The gang at the Trailhead.


Shady trail part of the way.


In the keyhole.


Sam at the top.


Scott.


Jill


Lindsey


Jennifer


On the way home we stopped at Donner Lake. Here we see Jill, Lindsey and Scott Paddling the east end of the Lake.


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50 Year High School Reunion

Eleanor and I drove down to LA to attend my 50th high school reunion. I went to Canoga Park High School.

Eleanor and I at the Friday night party,


On the Saturday tour of the high school. I'm in center front in purple T shirt. The Assembly Hall in the background was one of the two buildings remaining since I went to school there. Most of the other buildings fell down in the 1972 Sylmar earthquake.


My picture from yearbook.


We went on a road ride around the area on Saturday. This is a foto of me standing in front of the elementary school I attended.


I used to play basketball here a lot. There was a rim mounted above the old firehouse door.


I once carved my initials on this tree. Tree is still standing but initials were long gone. See Mom they were not permanent afterall.


My parents old home (4712 Louse Ave, Encino CA).


Eleanor had the best costume at the sock hop on Saturday night.


On each table


Me and my high school buddy (Sterling P Holloway III) got re-accquainted. He lives in Aurburn only about 70 miles from Truckee where I now live.


Scads of folks wanted their picture taken with Eleaanor,



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High Water on the Truckee

Rode from Tahoe City to Truckee today, part of the way on the bikepath. It turns out the river was ripping, at about as high a level as I remember seeing in recent years. Parts of the bikepath were flooded.











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New Wood Floor

Had a new Australian Cypress wood floor put in in the upstairs living room/dining room/kitchen.

This is what it looks like, or at least what 80% of it looks like. Ran out of wood before we could finish so there is a 4 foot bare spot not shown in the photograph on the eastern edge of the floor. It will be another 6 weeks before the complete job will be done.



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Jackson Meadows Ride

Sunday we rode to Jackson Meadows a 33 mile round trip.

View from road on ride into Jackson Meadows.


Henness Pass tops out at 6920 foot altitude.


Eleanor on the "leaky" Jackson Reservoir dam.


Lone rider heads for home



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