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We've gone from chilly, cloudy and wet to hot and sunny…..supposed to be VERY hot today….up to 29C/90F.
Dinner on Friday was really good. My cassoulet didn't quite turn out as hoped but it did taste good, which was main the thing. I didn't pre-cook the beans this time hoping that they wouldn't go quite as mushy. That sort of worked but still a little mushier than I would have liked……next time I won't cook it for 5 hours, which was the suggested time. I think 3 or 4 is probably sufficient. I also used my big, deep cast iron pan this time….I really should use it more often for stuff like this!
The meat (chicken, country style pork ribs and that delicious sausage) browned in the duck fat ready to go in the pan with the beans…..
The flavor was great. Not sure it was the duck fat, the pan or just all the meat…..especially the sausage. I couldn't get the sausage I had the last time…..from one of our local meat shops, homemade and absolutely delicious…..so at the last minute I picked up some of Jamie Oliver's garlic and herb sausages….OMG!! They were fantastic….I'll definitely get some again.
Salad, bread and tiramisu finished off the night. We are all organized for our upcoming trip…..it's less than a week away. I just have all the last bit of stuff to do, like packing! I'll get everything that I think I want to take laid out in the spare room and then put half of it back in the closet or drawers….I am determined not to over pack this time. I say that all the time and still do so we'll see how that turns out. And of course I've got to get some money…..just enough UK pounds and Euros to get me through the first day or two then I can use the ATM's over there (only ones connected to banks….NEVER the stand alone ones) And when I was there last September we could even use our bank cards in some of the stores and restaurants! Technology has come a long way! How did we ever plan trips when we had to get all cash or travelers cheques? I guess in a way it wasn't bad in that we obviously had a budget and had to stick to it….now you just find an ATM and spend, spend, spend. I remember coming home from a trip to Vegas when between Ken and I we had about $20. Not sure what we would have done if our flight had been delayed……credit cards I guess….if we even had them back then.
My grass guy finally showed up yesterday. He was supposed to come on Friday, which of course he didn't. He is not going to do grass anymore!! He's working full time and then spends his weekends doing grass…..or at least saying he's going to do grass….and it's just not working out for him. This is NOT a bad thing, other than the timing. I've said I was going to fire him for a long time anyway.
On Saturday when my son and the kids were here we pulled out the lawnmower because I was just going to do it myself……which I CAN do but don't want too. Ken paid a fortune for that stupid lawnmower so I thought I might as well use it. Put gas in it and changed the spark plugs….good so far, except then all the gas started leaking out!! Argh!! The primer bulb has a little hole in it. I went online and watched a couple of videos for directions on repairing it……seems sort of straight forward so I'm going to give it a try….I think! Ah sigh…..Ken would have had it done in no time. If I have success I'll get the kids to do the grass while I'm gone and then decide what I'm going to do when I get back. If I do it, it will save me $40 every two weeks…..I'll have to think about it….is it worth it? I have a weedeater and a blower so have everything I need…..hmmmm.
Lots of little jobs got done outside. Now that the truck is gone and my driveway is empty you can really notice the mess that was made when the garage was being done. I tried to clean that up a bit but there's a lot of gravel and rocks that were dug up when they were doing the foundation…..nothing is going to make look better until I get the driveway redone. Was hoping to do that this year since it really needs to be done but cha ching, cha ching…..it's going to cost at least the equivalent of a trip somewhere!!
I have a guy coming to give me an estimate for power washing the deck and patio. I AM NOT going to do that this year. I've done it the last 3. The first year I quite enjoyed it, the next not so much and then last year I was ready to throw the bloody thing off the deck. It's not a hard job it's just that my power washer isn't a bazillion psi or whatever it's called and it takes forever to do. This guy will be able to do it in an hour or two so I hope he's not too expensive. Then I can get the deck ready before I leave. I can't wait to get the table up. I must admit that I did a pretty good job staining it…..Ken would be proud of me! I know he would have ended up doing it himself cuz watching me would have drove him crazy.
There are some days that I still miss him so much…..all those things that you just take for granted for so long…..like repairing lawnmowers!! It would just all get done! Now I either have to do it or hire someone to do it. Depending on what it is I will also think it to death…..which more often than not is way worse than just doing it. Think for two days and then whatever….actually doing it or making the phone call…..two minutes!! Still a learning curve for me when it comes to this but I WILL get it sorted out eventually!
BBQ at a friends last night. Hadn't seen them since Christmas so fun to get together and catch up. Baseball today, even though it's a holiday (our Victoria Day weekend)….finally a nice day for it and it's the last one now until I get back at the end of June.


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Our May meeting was a small group, but hopefully we were able to spark an interest in a new carver.
We had a visit from John and his grandfather to see if John ( a grade school student) has any interest in woodcarving.
Dennis loaned him a knife and he was given an assignment to carve an egg.
Len was in town for a visit and was able to attend. Hopefully he will be a full time resident soon.
Bob brought his homemade carving table. Here is a photo and print of his cool ( carve anywhere) table.
We were also treated by Dennis to see his floral creation he is carving for every doorway arch in his home. Just the small leaves will require almost 300 hand carved leaves. Good luck my friend.
Bob also traded me one of his cottonwood bark houses for my friendship cane. Thanks again Bob.
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Saturday, July 31, 2010
Rocky Neck Beach
Today Mattingly and I trucked it to the beach for only the 2nd time this summer. We went with my beach partner Laura and her bf Jesse. Mattingly has a great time with Jesse. They dig holes and find treasures together and Jesse taught Mattingly how to twist open bottle caps. Laura and I chatted away and soaked in the sun. The water was nice and Mattingly wasn't too scared this time since he's been to the beach a few times with Grandma Fitch. Someone there even made a comment on how good Mattingly was even with no toys. (I forgot his sand toys) It is always nice when he's well behaved in public. =)
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Last Sunday we met my bff and her daughter at Lyman's Orchard for lunch. Mattingly enjoyed watching the ducks and of course making sure Payton had her pacifier at all times. He'd pinch her cheeks and smile at her. I wasn't quick enough to get any pics of the 2 of them but I got one of him and Mark looking at the ducks and 2 of Payton alone. I want to bite her cheeks off!!
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Friday, July 30, 2010
Mattingly likes to get his bat and ball out at night when the Yankees are playing. Mark will toss him the ball and he actually hits it sometimes. It's amazing. He loves it. Sometimes he passes the bat off to dad and throws the ball to him. And other times he just likes fetching the ball. Either way he knows when the Yankees are on and he cheers and says "A-Rom".
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Sunday, July 11, 2010
July 4th
This year we went to my parent's house for lunch. Mattingly went in the kiddie pool with grandpa again and Mark and I and mom sweated outside. It was so hot that day! I attempted to make angel food cake with cool whip and blueberries and strawberries. Actually it looked pretty good and tasted okay. There's always next year. Mattingly also enjoyed sitting on their new patio table spinning the spinner for food. After lunch grandpa attempted to put Mattingly down for a nap and they peeked out the window at us down below (which is what I have a picture of). After their house we headed home for a minute to let Melky out and feed him and then were off to the beach to visit my bff Em and her husband and babe and his fam. Mattingly had a nice time playing ball and squeezing Payton's cheeks. He adores babies. Finally it was dark enough to watch the fireworks. Mark's brother knows a guy that puts on a show every year so we went down to his house. Mattingly didn't really care for them. He clenched on to me and only me and would say "Mommy, they care (scare) me." Even if you ask him today about the fireworks he says they scare him. Hopefully next year he'll like them a little bit more.
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Aunt Kristin's Wedding
On June 26th Mark's sister got married and Mattingly was one of the ring bearers. He did a really good job. I was so surprised. I ran down with his arms waving in the air and sat down with daddy. He smiled at me a few times while I stood up front as a bridesmaid and while daddy did a ready he sat there quietly. When Mark was done Mattingly smiled and clapped for him.
Oh and at the rehearsal he was also great. Tracy taught him how to put olives on his fingers so he asked over and over for olives. He wouldn't eat them he just wanted to play with them. He also liked chasing around one of the other boys during dinner. He was soooo sweaty!! He passed out in the car right away. I thought he'd wake up once we brought him inside but he asked for a drink and went right back to sleep in the 2min I was changing!
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Monday, July 5, 2010
Essex Steam Train
A few weeks ago my mom, Mattingly and I met my Aunt and her 3 grandkids at the Essex Steam Train station to take a ride. I am not sure who was more excited grandma or Mattingly. He really enjoyed sitting and looking out the window. My cousins kids had fun playing with Mattingly. Making his arms moves and taking his cars from him then giving them back and making sure he didn't stick his arms out the window. Trent is almost 5yr, McKenzie is 3yr and Vanessa is 10yr I think. They had more fun playing with each other.
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Cooling off
My friend bought Mattingly this little crab pool with a shade for him to play in for his birthday. You can hook it up to the hose and it will have a little sprinkler but I just put it on the deck and fill it with a little water and some bath toys for him to play in. It's perfect. He splashed a little and throws the toys in for a little bit and then will eventually dive in. He doesn't stay in though. He constantly gets in and out. He likes cooling off with mom's coffee too. He says it's good and calls it "Mattingly's coff". He's a trip. In fact my friend Laura visited today with her boyfriend Jesse and he told me that Jesse wanted a popsicle and coffee. Crazy kid.
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Friday, July 2, 2010
Father's Day
Mark was obviously working on Father's Day so Mattingly and I went to visit my parents. We ate lunch and Mattingly watched the birds and played in the pool with Grandpa. They stayed in amidst the pouring rain. Grandpa used the picnic table umbrella to shield them. As though Mattingly wasn't splashing anyway. Then we enjoyed some ice cream. Mattingly had to have his own!
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10th Annual Turkey Trot
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|Lori Martin
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Untimed 2.2 mile fun run/walk starts oceanside on Lewes Street in Fenwick Island. The public is invited and leashed pets are welcome. Holiday-themed or other festive costumes are encouraged. There is no charge to participate, but trotters are encouraged to make a donation. Commemorative T-shirts will be available for $25. Pre-ordering is encouraged. Benefiting two local fire companies. Non-perishable food donations will be collected starting Oct. 27 at the Pottery Place Perks Café. The cafe is also hosting a post-Trot complimentary coffee, hot chocolate and oatmeal reception.


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Harmon rose from his seat. The heavy oak chair scrubbed against the pine floor and echoed loudly he thought, probably because the standing room only crowd were all watching him and the chair made the only sound in the tall, lantern lit chamber.
The storm that had been raging for nearly an hour had subsided, but water still dripped from palm fronds just outside the now open windows. The heavy downpour was so loud on the tin roof during the storm that both Harmon and his opponent were now hoarse from making their oral arguments in their loudest voices.
The rain eased as Corbett Thomas made his closing argument. Then it was Harmon who would speak as the silence of a fresh rain washed earth wrapped the tiny pioneer building and then settled out across Gatorbone Lake.
Harmon waited, then walked slowly across the room to the opposite corner, gathered up an easel and the cloth covered frame it held, and walked over to where a dozen people sat motionless under kerosene lanterns and in front of open windows. He knew each one of them could feel the rain cooled night air spill in the windows and across the back of their necks. He knew they did not want to be there making this decision. He could make it easy for them.
He stood before the dozen and looked each one in the eye with no discerning emotion. He just looked at them, slowly, one and then the other. Then in once single graceful motion he lifted the cloth from the image as said simply "How could this be called anything else?"
For years and years as the story was told, it was Harmon's final question that was credited with a verdict being rendered nearly instantaneously:
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Update (10/5/2015): See a video of the performance here. Join us for a theatrical reconstruction of conversations between the Austrian composer Hanns Eisler and the Bertolt Brecht scholar Hans Bunge. The conversations will be performed by Sabine Berendse (Bunge's daughter) and noted director Paul Clements. The performers will be available to sign copies of their…
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dread: (verb) to be reluctant to do, meet, or experience.
So today is a doubly great day as it is both Canada Day - Happy 141st Birthday Canada! - and the first day of free agency in the NHL. Oh how I love them both!
And while all that is fine and good, with Canada Day falling on a Tuesday, that means a middlish-of-the-week holiday. I do so very much love not being at work but unfortunately I have "Sunday night syndrome" in which I am in utter dread of returning to work. I. Don't. Want. To.
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I've kind of got myself a new little blog going. My old one was rather... well, it was all over the place. I hadn't been updating it, stuff was here, there and everywhere and it just didn't feel like a blog any more. I was disorganised and I needed to start again with a fresh page. (You can still view my old blog and my old work but it won't be being updated any more).
So bearing in mind that this blog is all shiny and new, it might take a while for it to fill up. I've told myself that I need to update at least once a week, even if it's only to just say "Hi, this is what I'm doing". It's hard getting into a routine, but it must be done. So it's time to blow the cobwebs off of Blogger and get... well, blogging I suppose.
Updates of my third year major projects and my own work will follow soon :)
((PS - Here's a link to my old blog if you want to see some of my old work: - http://calico-maher.blogspot.co.uk/ )


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Sunday, June 3, 2012
Day 3 at Bead & Button Show
Sparkling Felt class is this evening. Most of the students will want to make one JUST like the photo, so I brought black but, I'm bringing a trunk of merino wool in many gorgeous colors, just in case. The crystals were sponsored by Swarovski, which makes the class a value. Each year that I teach felting here, I ask for a pickle pail which is actually a 5 gal bucket. I use with with my immersion heater to make hot water for the class. Works great. I hope everyone remembers to bring a towel.
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Here's the truth, I'm not feeling very successful this week. We trudged through very little school. Agnes refuses to potty train with a stubbornness that amazes me. My sweet baby boy discovered that the preferred spot for long luxurious naps is in my arms and nowhere else (and if he doesn't get those naps, he's pretty darn cranky). Laundry is backed up. Tonight I'm making lentils and rice for dinner which makes me persona non grata around here. I thought about not posting at all. Life is not perfect or easy. Some weeks I feel like I'm just surviving. This was one of them.
But really, I don't want to leave this post on a downer. Let's say that as difficult as this week has been, there have been moments where I have felt God's grace filling in the gaps. I let that grace sustain me. I would call that a success.


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I'm the cover and you're my pages,
Without you I will be useless.
Without your words I can't give a title,
We are apart by just a little.
They saw me first in black,
But they'll know me more if they move and discover my back.
I was made harder,
To protect you from any danger.
So if any trouble comes to you,
Don't be anxious coz` I'm here covering you.
They can't touch my pages,
If they can't beat the cover's rages.
Thank you for giving me a chance to be the first in line,
I'm so happy that you appeared to be mine.
I'm always praying that they won't tear you,
Coz' if they do my life will be untrue.
My dear pages, thank you for giving me a meaning,
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Turkey on Wednesday slammed as "unacceptable" a US announcement that Washington would supply arms and military equipment to Kurdish fighters battling ISIL Takfiri in Syria.
"The supply of arms to the YPG is unacceptable," Deputy Prime Minister Nurettin Canikli told A Haber television. "Such a policy will benefit nobody".
"We expect that this mistake is to be rectified," he said, days ahead of a crunch meeting in Washington between President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and US counterpart Donald Trump.
The Kurdish Peoples' Protection Units (YPG) has been seen by Washington as the best ally against insurgents in Syria.
But Ankara regards the group as a terror outfit, as it does the Syrian branch of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), who have waged an insurgency since 1984 inside Turkey that has left tens of thousands dead.
Trump on Monday "authorized the Department of Defense to equip Kurdish elements of the Syrian Democratic Forces as necessary to ensure a clear victory over ISIL in Raqa," Pentagon spokeswoman Dana White said in a statement.
The weapons are being delivered for use by Kurdish fighters ahead of the upcoming offensive to recapture Raqa, the last major bastion for ISIL in Syria.
The US announcement came just ahead of Erdogan's visit to Washington next week for talks with Trump, the first time the two men will meet as heads of state.
A Turkish high level delegation made up of Chief of Staff General Hulusi Akar, presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin and Turkey's spy chief Hakan Fidan have already been in the US to lay the groundwork for the visit.
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New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner passed away this morning at age 80. Growing up in the 1970s as a hybrid Baltimore Orioles/Oakland A's fan, I was an avid Yankees hater. Of course, when I was first old enough to follow baseball the Yankees were in the midst of a long franchise drought. Bobby Murcer was supposed to be the new Mickey Mantle (an impossible pinnacle for poor Murcer, though he was a very good player). As soon as Steinbrenner bought the Yankees in 1973 it was clear the franchise of the Bambino, the Iron Horse, Joltin' Joe and the Mick had a new attitude and was poised for a return to prominence.
As a fan of two smaller-market teams, the dawn of free agency was a curse on the game. Steinbrenner was the most adept at using the new system to augment an improving team and make them contenders. Therefore, Steinbrenner became the symbol of the destruction of the old traditions that kept teams together for a longer time.
As I got older, I remained a Yankee hater. However, I came to appreciate George Steinbrenner. He was a winner. He had a responsibility to his fans and his organization to put his team in a position to win. He was successful beyond measure. Steinbrenner was one of the game's great characters. How many other current baseball owners are household names? Steinbrenner will someday be enshrined in Cooperstown. It will be a great day for both the Yankee fans and the Yankee haters.
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Marc Wilmots believes Adnan Januzaj made the right decision to leave Manchester United for Borussia Dortmund on a one-year loan deal and feels he can follow in the footsteps of compatriot Kevin De Bruyne.
The latter developed into one of the most sought-after players in the game at Wofsburg after failing to make an impact at Chelsea, earning himself a big-money move to Manchester City as a result, and Wilmots thinks Januzaj will also benefit from his time in the Bundesliga.
"The step back from Chelsea to Wolfsburg worked wonders for Kevin De Bruyne," Wilmots told Bild.
"I am convinced that Adnan's decision to join Dortmund on loan for one season is the right one. It will help him make the next step.
"Januzaj can enjoy a similar development to De Bruyne.
"Adnan can play as a number nine and on both wings. He has an amazing shot. I had never seen someone with such a shooting technique before. He can really hit a ball incredibly powerful from out of nowhere. I have already asked him once whether he has manipulated his shoes or the ball."
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A Heart Issue...
Scripture Reading: Jeremiah 16:1-17:27 / Colossians 4:2-18 / Psalm 118:17-29
The heart is a hallow muscle that pumps blood throughout our body by rhythmic contractions. The average heart beats 72 times per minute. By the time we reach 66, it will beat 2.5 billion times! The heart is the most important organ in our body and we cannot live without it. In fact, the leading cause of death is cardiovascular disease, the failure of the heart.
We also refer to the heart as the seat of our emotions. Just as physical life flows from our hearts, our emotional, mental, and spiritual life springs from our hearts.
God formed and fashioned us with great precision and accuracy but sin brought death into every area of our lives. Sin greatly altered the condition of our hearts.
The heart was made in purity but was darkened by sin. God describes the heart by saying, "The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? (Jeremiah 17:9) The word deceitful means, "crooked, polluted or slippery." The heart is so entrenched in deceit that it is beyond our understanding and incurable.
Our hearts are easily manipulated and given to the sway of emotions. We are moved by good things such as compassion, sympathy, joy and peace but also moved by anger and personal offenses. We can be like the proverbial yoyo, loving one day and despising the next. Instead of being directed by truth and godliness, we respond with our emotions and sin.
We often want to blame life, others or even God for our failures but it is really an issue of our hearts. It has been said that the heart of every problem is the problem in the heart. It is our worse enemy and often we are oblivious to our heart's condition. The only one who fully understands our heart's condition is God. "I the Lord search the heart and examine the minds, to reward a man according to his conduct, according to what his deeds deserve. (17:10)
God knows our hearts and our propensity to sin. Like Israel, we cannot escape the judgment of God as He examines our hearts and motives. They had untrustworthy hearts that would lead to their death. What is the cure? We can't change our hearts but we can give them to God who can cure them…Christ came to give us a heart transplant!
God formed and fashioned a new heart inside of us, yet we still live in a world of sin and will always battle our flesh. We are to continually bring our hearts to Christ for renewal and transformation. Who has control of your heart…you or God? It really is a heart issue.
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Pastor James Clark has pastored Calvary Assembly since 1985. He is blessed with his wife Yvonne, six children, two son-in-laws, a beautiful granddaughter and hopefully many more grandchildren to follow!
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Embrace Nature
This tube is very me. I love trees and
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So I had to write a tutorial featuring this tube.
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AAA Frames Foto Frame
Open a 600x250 new image.
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Friday, May 16, 2008
Modern Supercomputers vs. Simeon Denis Poisson
Poisson's equation is quite elegant. It can be written in just one line, as you can see below.Yet this simple equation is a nightmare for the latest generation of supercomputers. Here's why.
In the 80's and 90's, advances in computer speed were all about faster processors. In about 10 years, processor speeds went from megahertz to gigahertz. To these computers, operation counts and memory size were the only things that really limited the problems that could be tackled. However, in the late 90's, we started to hit a wall in terms of how fast you could make a single processor. Performance leveled out somewhere around 2 - 3 GHz so that a 5 GHz chip really ended up doing the about the same amount of work as a 2 GHz chip and the 5 GHz processor used far more energy (and created far more waste heat). The solution to this problem was to design supercomputers that had many processors. Today, this leaves us with Ranger with 15,744 quad-core chips for a total of over 60,000 processors. To use more than one of these 60,000 cores, you have to break your problem into pieces and send these pieces to individual cores which do the work and then send the results back to the master processor. The master processor then puts the pieces back together and spits out the answer. That the computer side of the problem.
Now let's look at the other side of the problem - the math. Let's compare Poisson's equation to the wave equation, given below.
When you write the wave equation like this, it is easy to see that you get Poisson's equation in the limit that the wave speed, c, goes to infinity. Since the wave speed is the speed at which information propagates through a system, this means that when we solve Poisson's equation, we are saying that every part of our physical domain is instantaneously aware of every other part of the domain.
You've probably already figured out that when you have a computer that splits a problem into 60,000 pieces solving a problem where every piece needs to know exactly what is going on in every other piece, that leads to a lot of communication. In fact, the communication scales as the number of processors squared. What's worse is that on many new systems, there are fewer network connections than processors. On Ranger, for example, there is one network connection for every 16 processors. That's like telling a thousand people that they all need to call each other but there are only 60 telephones. Instead of getting more work done as you add processors, after some number of processors, when you add more the processors simply spend all of their time talking to other processors rather than doing any real work. So while many hands make light work, too many chefs still spoil the soup.
So how do you solve a Poisson equation on a supercomputer like Ranger? Well, right now the answer is you don't. Our code, ASH, is currently limited to using small chunks of Ranger at any given time. There are a number of promising ideas on the horizon involving multi-grid schemes. Another approach is to solve the more general wave equations which have finite wave speeds so that processors only need to know what is going on with their neighbors rather than with every other processor. Finally, there are some machines on the horizon with faster networks with fewer processors per connection. All of these things, however, are unproven and may or may not improve the situation. For now, we're stuck unable to solve a 300 year old equation.
Simeon Denis Poisson must be laughing his head off.
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Nick, I agree having massively parallel communication is a major issue.ReplyDelete
However, I am confused. Can't you just solve Poisson's equation using 16 processors connected on the same network? Then you shouldn't have a communication problem right? Or solve it on the 4 processors that are on the same quad-core chip?
However, having the whole machine solve it at once would obviously be a nightmare.
Joe, the problem really lies in the fact that we are solving the MHD equations which are all coupled and only one of them is a Poisson equation. Sixteen processors is fine for low resolution jobs, but when we want to push resolution up to something like 512^3 or higher, we really need hundreds of processors in order to be able to do all of the computation required at each point for each time step.ReplyDelete
It would be very handy if we could somehow de-couple the Poisson equation from the rest of the equation, but that requires doing things like assuming that bulk velocity, temperature, and magnetic fields do not influence the pressure balance in the gas, which are terribly bad assumptions to make.
So for now, if we use hundreds or thousands of processors to solve the problem, we have to split the Poisson equation up into hundreds or thousands of pieces too.
"Joe, the problem really lies in the fact that we are solving the MHD equations"ReplyDelete
Oh Nick, I solve equations like this on my personal Core-Duo laptop just as a quick test to see if my MPI libraries are working.
I'm kidding of course. Yeah, I can see why doing Poisson's equations on an MHD level could be tricky on as few as 16 processors.
(Why aren't you using Matlab? I thought as an undergraduate I was told Matlab was the best thing to learn for doing computational physics?) :)


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Maggie, the Iron Ladette, is gone.
She was most of all a Messiah for the Bourgeios. A kind of figure head against the old stodgy conservatism and inverted snobbery and a champion against the overly powerful unions.
The public had no stomach for the excesses of the unions, whose members paid a huge price
for their own arrogance. Unions now do not command the respect they deserve and de-unionisation is still seen as a goal for companies in the UK.
The first "monetarist" was in fact not a tory. It was Dennis Healy. He said infront of the labour conference, that Britain would have to balance its books and tackle inflation in order to be on a better economic footing. The former communist leaned too far to the right now, and this one speech is probably the one turning point to the winter of discontent in 1978.
It was the end for Old Labour , Old Liberals and Old School Tie Conservatives in one day at the ballot box then in 1979.
Strange that of course the Thatcher years did touch my life too, in mildly positive ways directly too.
Thatcher got lucky : first the biggest nationalist party political broadcast in history: The Falklands War, fought quite rightly and bravely. But with no Falklands war there could have been a chance, god help us, that Michael foot and Lib-Lab pact of CND duffle coaters could have got in.
The labour party fell into a CND campaign back room of a dusty oxfam shop: a rabble of former Callaghan cronies and academics. Also then, with the liberalisation of the markets in full swing, the anarchy of black monday in 1987 came with a storm on the other side of the election.
So Thatcher got lucky and eventually her extremes and personality got in the way, allowing for the wilderness years of John Major, which went full term and did little more than take teachers and nurses away from doing their jobs, and privatised the railway.
Gorbachev fell to the hawks and democracy withered in Russia to the state it is in today. The Iron curtain lifted though on eastern europe which is one very positive thing about the fall of communism. Unemployment black spots created in the 80s remain so, and inner city youff are still bored petty criminals.
The irony is how little changed after her stormy three terms in the UK. Change then was needed in 1979 and it was a hard act to follow for John Major because the big plus sides of the freedoms unleashed in the UK though the three previous terms, were done and dusted and showing some down sides already.


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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-109301722018-05-29T02:54:51.176-04:00historymikeHe who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest. -- Dylan Thomashistorymikehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-10930172.post-45023537346732776012014-05-20T14:18:00.000-04:002014-05-20T14:18:05.215-04:00New Book on the KKK

My apologies for the lengthy absence from the blog. Most of the past year I have been busy researching and writing a book on the Ku Klux Klan in Wood County, Ohio.

 The basis for the research was a collection of KKK records that were discovered in 1976 by a man named Tony DeIuliis on top of a burn pile in the backyard of an old house in Wood County that was being cleaned out. Tony recognized the value of the documents and convinced a local archive to store them. I also spent a great deal of time with Census records, old city directories, dozens of local newspapers, and other primary source documents to put together the history of the Klan in this largely rural setting in Northwest Ohio.

 The following link is to a brief description of the book at The History Press, the publisher. The book is available in print and e-book versions, and I am told that they make excellent stocking stuffers.historymikehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-10930172.post-84617104547695620552013-06-22T11:19:00.001-04:002013-06-22T11:19:48.878-04:00Tiger Lilies - 2013

 Today marks the day in which I personally reckon the arrival of summer: the first tiger lily to bloom. This year the first flowers of Hemerocallis fulva  (also known as "ditch lily" to more scornful gardeners, for whom the tiger lily is considered invasive) opened on June 22. This is the latest date I have recorded for the annual event, with the earliest opening being June 9 in my backyard. I suspect that the lengthy winter is entirely to blame for the late blossoming, which seems to have put many of my perennial flowers a week or so behind schedule in 2013.historymikehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-10930172.post-829758895891359522013-05-03T15:13:00.003-04:002013-05-03T15:15:08.492-04:00Tulip Time in Toledo

I noticed that it has been almost a year since I last blogged, so I figured I had best update the site.

Pictured on the left are some of the tulips I planted last fall. The longer-than-normal winter made me somewhat impatient for the new flowers to arrive, but perhaps the wait made the sudden bursts of color more enjoyable.

I hope that your own gardening efforts have been as fruitful.historymikehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-10930172.post-15153123670108738172012-05-16T18:47:00.000-04:002012-05-16T18:47:10.530-04:00Red Poppy

I have forgotten when I first started planting these Oriental poppies, but each spring they return, bringing with them vivid colors in their flowers. I was not paying much attention to their progress, and when I stepped outside this morning to get the paper for my wife I was surprised to see one of the poppies bloomed overnight.

In the middle of the night the flower opened, as if the plant was unwilling to let anyone see the unveiling of the blossom.

Perhaps seeing the flower in the morning light made for a greater spectacle.historymikehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-10930172.post-25342134177246846042012-04-09T14:19:00.003-04:002012-04-09T14:24:58.708-04:00When Planning Goes Well Often my attempts to plan my gardens do not quite wind up the way that I envision. Sometimes plants die, sometimes animals dig up bulbs and seeds, and there are a host of additional variables that can affect horticultural results.

Now, I have been the recipient of many happy accidents over the years, so I am not really complaining here. At best we can sort of nudge nature in a given direction, but if a soil is too acidic or there is not enough light for a given plant, all bets are off.

Anyway, I was pleasantly surprised to see the double-petaled tulips on your left line up almost exactly as I visualized, with a long row of reddish-orange blossoms contrasting with the bright green leaves of the hostas starting to emerge. The addition of the red cypress mulch also helps highlight this color contrast.

Now: off to rescue some lilies that seem on the verge of an untimely death.historymikehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-10930172.post-31087075552947987122012-04-06T14:56:00.003-04:002012-04-06T15:01:00.124-04:00Tulips in Bloom I have been impatiently waiting to see the horticultural results of the 250 or so bulbs I planted last fall. Despite the diligent efforts of local squirrels to dig up and eat my bulbs, enough managed to survive to produce some color this spring.

I did augment a few areas by transplanting some sprouted tulips this spring, as there were a few bare spots. Still, with another 100 bulbs or so this fall I think this area will be very impressive next spring.

Provided, of course, that the zombie apocalypse does not occur between now and next spring. Thnking further, this will still be an impressive display even if zombies take over, since they have no use for tulips, but there will be few if any humans to see the floral display.historymikehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-10930172.post-44497431537560833772012-03-07T16:46:00.003-05:002012-03-07T16:51:21.585-05:00Arrival of the Crocus The warm weather the last two days sent my crocus plants into high gear, and even though I intuitively knew that plants had to be emerging, I was still taken somewhat aback by the bursts of color on this early March afternoon.

The arrival of spring colors is like the return of long-lost friends. I took a few minutes out of my busy schedule to wander around the yard for the first time since early December, and though I did not accomplish much, it was time well spent.historymikehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-10930172.post-52138106544391305852012-02-04T20:48:00.003-05:002012-02-04T20:58:40.959-05:00Super Bowl XVLI Prediction In keeping with my past traditions, I am posting my annual Super Bowl prediction. Now, though I would not recommend taking anything I say straight to your bookie, I can say that last year's prediction of a victory by the Green Bay Packers raised my Super Bowl prognostication record to 6-0 since joining the blogosphere half a decade ago.

This year I see the Patriots coming from behind with a couple of second half TDs to overcome an early Giants lead. I also see the Patriots defense continuing to surprise, limiting Eli Manning and the G-Men to seven second half points.

Other recent successful Historymike predictions:

2011 Prediction: Packers 27, Steelers 21 (Actual Packers 31, Steelers 25).
2010 Prediction: Saints 37, Colts 34 (Actual Saints 31, Colts 17).
2009 Prediction: Steelers 27, Cardinals 21 (Actual 27-23 Steelers win)
2008 Prediction: Giants 27, Patriots 24 (Actual 17-14 Giants win)
2007 Prediction: Colts 27, Bears 21 (Actual 29-17 Colts win)
2006 Prediction: Steelers 24, Seahawks 17 (Actual 21-10 Steelers win)

Feel free to leave your own predictions and/or homer hate mail in the Comments section.historymikehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-10930172.post-48074227271081196692011-11-27T21:21:00.004-05:002011-11-27T21:30:18.874-05:00On Artificial Christmas Trees For many years we had an annual pilgrimage to a local tree farm to pick out our Christmas tree. This was a ritual that even I - someone jaded at Christmas hoopla and commercialism - actually looked forward to enjoying, and our large family would brave even the worst elements to select and cut our own tree.

This year, however, my wife talked me into buying an artificial tree. Actually, it was more like "my wife went out and purchased an artificial tree," and I did not need to be convinced. I am pleasantly surprised at the quality and user-friendliness of this tree.

All told it took me seven minutes to assemble this tree, which was complete with a lighting system. With a natural tree I cannot think of a single facet of procurement and installation that did not take hours to complete, and I have many memories of hacking oversized trees to make them fit our house and itchy arms from pine needle pokes.

It seems to me that we paid $40-$50 the last few years for natural Christmas trees, so the $230 we paid for this tree will pay for itself in just a few years. Add to this the fact that there is no maintenance, and that the tree does not seem to interest our dogs, who in the past have shown great interest in the various smells associated with a natural tree. I recall the year one of our dogs went berserk and destroyed a tree and a bunch of ornaments, and I suspect that the neutral odors of an artificial tree will not provide scents that fire up the canines.

So goodbye, natural trees: we had many good memories, but I am getting too old to be tramping through mud and snow to chop one of you down.historymikehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-10930172.post-64677864204067166992011-11-24T12:30:00.002-05:002011-11-24T12:36:46.136-05:00November Rose Strangely, one of my rose bushes decided to wait until the second half of November to offer up its last blossom of the year. The weather had been in the high 40s (Fahrenheit, for any non-US readers) and almost every leave has fallen from the nearby oak, maple, and hickory trees, yet this rose bush responded to some stimuli that prompted this out-of-season flower.

I did trim the rose bushes a few weeks ago, which might have spurred some growth, but the odd appearance of a red rose so late in the year was a surprise. Beautiful, but still a surprise.historymikehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-10930172.post-14821855607938635552011-10-22T20:31:00.003-04:002011-10-22T20:51:59.510-04:00Target PracticeLeft: AR-15-wielding historian

I took some time out of my schedule this weekend to join some colleagues on an outing to test some military weapons with historical significance. In the image on your left, I am lining up to shoot an AR-15, which is the semi-automatic version of the M-16 rifle.

We fired quite a variety of weapons today, ranging from a Mauser Gewehr 98  to an early twentieth century variant of the M1 Garand. We also fired quite a few different military handguns, and after today's demonstrations I have a much greater knowledge and awareness of military technology.

And no fun, whatsoever, was enjoyed by the participants in blasting away at targets for three hours.

Ahem.

Left: firing range target

I am far from a regular at the range, and I have fired rifles or muskets only a few times in my life. I was surprised that with some training (two of the participants are ex-military personnel) I could hit with some accuracy targets 100 yards away.

This has less to do with any skill on my part, and a bit more to do with the coaching. A larger part of the equation, though, is that military weapons are designed to be as user-friendly and easy-to-learn as possible. The AR-15, in particular, was relatively simple to operate, and on my first ten-round practice I hit in the black on the target five out of ten times.

I was much less successful with the Garrand and the Mauser, both of which I landed in the black three of ten times. The Mauser is also a physically punishing weapon, with a strong kick and an especially loud report. If I were an infantry soldier, I would prefer the AR-15 to the other weapons.historymikehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-10930172.post-45276323618475814302011-09-17T15:03:00.002-04:002011-09-17T15:09:52.988-04:00Fall Colors Not only have I been away from the blogosphere the past few weeks, but I have spent little time tending my gardens. Thus, it was with some amazement that I paused to take in the beauty of a section of my yard that quietly emerged as an impressive patch of fall colors while I was too busy to notice.

I wish I could tell you every flower variety that I planted, but I tend to be somewhat impulsive in my seed selections and placement. Sure, I spend a minute making sure I plant full sun flowers in full sun, but I often forget after a few weeks what it was I planted. I know that there are about six marigold varieties, some nasturtiums, and three or four different types of zinnia in this garden, but I am clueless as to the names of at least six other flowers.

I suspect that the pink and purple flowers are some plant in the Aster family, but I cannot remember what the tall spiky red flowers are.

Anyway, the plot turned out well in spite of the almost total lack of weeding and watering I provided since late August.historymikehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-10930172.post-74128227037175384412011-07-27T16:18:00.003-04:002011-07-27T16:22:10.912-04:00Blog Hiatus I will not be active on this blog for an undetermined amount of time. I have a heavy workload at the moment, and I am also gearing up for an extremely busy fall semester.

I should also add that my blogging Muse seems to have taken flight, and I will also use this time to figure out what this site is supposed to be about. When I was active as a freelance journalist the site complemented my news-related writing, but these days I have a diminished desire to post.

Anyway, I'll be back at some point in the future and we will chat further. Ciao!historymikehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-10930172.post-15492148901295924172011-07-15T20:17:00.002-04:002011-07-15T20:23:06.428-04:00Daylily Season Among the more spectacular colors presented by our collection of perennials are those offered by the dalilies we have planted over the years. Specimens like the one pictured on your left bring unexpected hues to the yard at a time when the spring colors have all disappeared.

I also like that daylilies need very little in the way of maintenance, and they will produce flowers even in the driest years. Of course, they thrive when regularly watered and fed a general fertilizer, but I have some daylilies that I completely neglected while I was still in graduate school that never fail to return each year.

My wife and I, however, are of two different minds when it comes to separating daylilies to split into new colonies. I prefer the thick clusters with bunches of blossoms, while she likes to spread the color more widely. Of course, splitting daylilies eventually gives you multiple stands for the price of a single plant, but there is the lag time to consider as the divided plants grow to the mass of the formerly joined cluster.historymikehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-10930172.post-36559155771250124482011-07-06T09:37:00.002-04:002011-07-06T09:44:38.305-04:00First Sunflower of 2011 I have long been a fan of the simple sunflower, and over the past few years I have planted quite a few in my gardens. This year I set aside a 10'x20' patch of yard to create a massive sunflower garden, and the first of these flowers opened this morning, which is pictured on your left.

My dogs, of course, were uninterested in the project, and they trampled a greater number of sunflower seedlings than I expected In order to keep alive the dream of a wall of sunflowers, I was forced by canine destruction to plant more seeds. Hence, I may not get the simultaneous wave of colors I envisioned, but over the course of the summer I should have non-stop sunflower blossoms until October or so.

Interestingly, there are at least a half-dozen sunflowers that spontaneously emerged from seeds left over sunflower heads mauled by squirrels and finches last year. I originally planned a garden of rows of progressively shorter varieties (taller in back, shorter in front) but at this point it is anyone's guess how this will turn out.

But heck: half the fun of gardening is comparing design with results.historymikehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-10930172.post-50136050566229507972011-06-29T18:20:00.002-04:002011-06-29T18:35:44.314-04:00On Patience in Gardening I started the garden pictured on your left about three years ago, and the idea to create this space was almost accidental. I had a spot that used to contain a rotting tree stump, and I had some flagstones that were collecting dust in another corner of the yard, and I decided to see if I could turn the space into something besides another patch of lawn.

When I selected my initial perennials for perennials for the space, I did not take into account soil pH and sunlight needs, and I was consequently disappointed when the purple fountain ornamental grass I planted did not return. The next year I went with some Stella d'oro lilies and some bright red Asiatic lilies. In the center I added a Rose of Sharon plant, and during the spring there are some daffodils and tulips for early color.

Of course, it was another two years before the plants in this space filled out to the point where I achieved something like a wall of color. Thus, this garden took about four years to emerge as a colorful source for peaceful contemplation, though the happy accidents are more fun than simply filling the space with a bunch of annuals each year.historymikehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-10930172.post-51899003118765743792011-06-18T17:20:00.004-04:002011-06-18T17:31:30.228-04:00The 2011 Arrival of Tiger Lilies Over the last half-decade I have used this blog to record horticultural markers for the seasons, and the arrival of the first tiger lily of 2011 sent me back into my blog archives. The first tiger lily emerged on June 9 in 2010, June 21 in 2009, on June 18 in 2008, and on June 17 in 2007. Tiger lilies, which have the scientific name of Hemerocallis fulva, first bloomed in my yard on June 17 in 2006.

Thus, this year's flowers arrived somewhat near the end of the scale, as today is June 18. With the heavy rains of this past May (23 rainy days) I expected that the tiger lilies would arrive early, but this is not the case. Perhaps they need warmth more than moisture to kick into gear, as this spring was a bit cooler than average.

Still, though many gardeners scoff at the common Hemerocallis fulva  (also known as "ditch lily" to even more scornful gardeners, for whom the tiger lily is considered invasive) I look forward to these orange flowers the way I do old friends. They provide strong colors, they are easy to maintain, and they grow in almost any soils and conditions. I have some in shady areas, dry areas, full sun areas, and even in a rock-strewn patch behind the garage where the former owner dumped motor oil.historymikehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-10930172.post-21192811357552606112011-06-13T14:43:00.003-04:002011-06-13T14:57:03.559-04:00Cornucopia of Roses In the past two years I have begun to pay more attention to several rose bushes my wife planted in the early 1990s. While "neglect" is a strong word to use for my previous efforts at taking care of these plants, suffice to say that I did little more than hack them down when they became overgrown, and they suffered from black spot and insect degradations, despite my wife's suggestions that I treat the plants with rose sprays.

The past two summers I have applied some preventive fungal inhibitors, and I also gave the plants some fertilizer. In addition, I have been much more meticulous in removing dead stems and keeping the soil around the base of the plants free from debris.

We were amazed at how much healthier, vigorous, and blossom-yielding several of the rose bushes were this year. Perhaps we might also add that this was a very wet spring, but the net result has been a veritable wave of magenta-hued flowers in the yard.

Moral of the story: when your wife suggests something, she is probably right.historymikehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-10930172.post-79320313484705186172011-06-05T18:33:00.004-04:002011-06-05T18:46:32.941-04:00Delphinium A few years ago I picked up a small Delphinium  plant, and I was pleasantly surprised at how well this plant adapted to my garden. In my region the Delphinium plant produces multiple rounds of blue-violet blossoms, and last year we had three separate flowering periods with these plants.

The brilliant blue and violet hues the plant produces contrast well with many other colors. As you can see in the image, the bluish colors mesh well with the yellow irises, and the constancy of the blue Delphinium makes for unexpected color bonanzas when later blossoms arrive. From another angle they also pair well with some red and pink poppies that are hidden in this image.

The various species of Delphinium are rather toxic, though, so be sure to keep Delphinium away from small children and pets. The plant produces the toxic alkaloid delphinine, which can be fatal in large doses.

This perennial plant can be propagated from seed, or you can also split the rhizomes and start new colonies in other gardens. In this garden the Delphinium grew from a single stalk to about eight stalks in three years: moderate growth, but not the type of plant that overwhelms a garden.historymikehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-10930172.post-559560085679461902011-06-01T19:50:00.003-04:002011-06-01T19:57:13.765-04:00Asparagus Curse Lifted I recall at least five previous attempts to grow asparagus in my garden, and each of the earlier efforts were dismal failures. I tried a variety of techniques, from adding heavier amounts of potassium to varying water levels to trying full and partial sun locations.

All were busts.

I looked skeptically at the package of asparagus crowns at the Andersons general store a month ago, but I threw them in the cart just the same. Weeks went by with no signs of life, and I was just about to till this space in favor of an easier vegetable like squash when I noticed the first asparagus spears that have ever sprouted at Château Brooks.

Yes, there are only four or five spears, and yes: there is still plenty of time for my dogs to trample these plants. Yet I remain hopeful that I have finally mastered the art of growing asparagus, and I look forward to next spring for the first bountiful harvest of fresh picked asparagus.historymikehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-10930172.post-73212644369287727632011-05-27T20:28:00.005-04:002011-05-27T20:36:40.965-04:00Bearded Iris The seemingly endless rain we have experienced in Northwest Ohio over the past ten days has certainly been appreciated by the plants in my gardens, and my iris plants look strong and healthy. A brief break in the torrential downpours yesterday gave me a few minutes to snap some pictures of the emerging irises.

My wife planted most of our irises a decade or more ago, and they bring welcome bursts of color in between tulip season and when the summer flowers start blooming. I also like that the irises stand up well against the frantic feet of my squirrel-chasing dogs, and a pocket of irises is almost an impenetrable barrier to my scampering canine companions.historymikehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-10930172.post-28908642864363926632011-05-13T14:12:00.004-04:002011-05-13T14:19:31.152-04:00Crabapple Tree in Bloom One of the highlights of the seasonal colors that appear in our yard is the blooming of the crabapple tree pictured on your left. For a week or so the tree produces brilliant pink and fuchsia petals, and local bees become almost drunk in their gorging on nectar and pollen from these flowers.

I too derive a state of near intoxication from the color this tree brings each year. I remember trying to work on my dissertation a few years ago and being almost lured, Siren-like, by the powerful beauty of this crabapple tree.

Interestingly, while this was a wet and early spring, this crabapple tree was about a week behind its usual schedule of blooming the first week of May. Occasionally the tree will burst into color around April 30, but this year it was mid-May before the color arrived.historymikehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-10930172.post-38785598692092474842011-05-09T21:14:00.004-04:002011-05-09T21:27:51.139-04:00Digging PuggleLeft: Puggle in full-blown gurrowing mode

Pictured on your left is one of our Puggles, whose name is Chauncey Gardner. I suspect that pound-for-pound this 20-pound dog is capable of excavating more cubic feet of earth than just about any other dog.

I am not sure what sort of critter Chauncey thinks he is going to catch with his digging. I have been filling in the 3-foot hole every day, but in 30 minutes or so Chauncey is able to revert the ground to its former holey state. I suppose I could just let him dig in this same spot: it is out of the way, it is not near the root systems of any significant plants, and the time he spends on this massive hole he is not digging other holes in my yard.

Left: Momentarily surprised Puggle

I had to set up the second photo, and I was shooting for a Scooby-Doo "ruh-roh" feel in the next image. I called Chauncey's name in an excited voice and he popped up to see what was going on. I managed to get lucky and snap the shutter at the right moment, and the picture came out pretty much as I envisioned it.

It is difficult to get angry at such a happy little dog, and his digging is just a minor quirk as far as I am concerned. Heck, for all I know he might be inadvertently aerating the earth in the places he digs.historymikehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-10930172.post-22486083472227656782011-05-04T13:15:00.002-04:002011-05-04T13:19:47.929-04:00Tulip Time After planting hundreds of perennial bulbs last fall, I have been impatiently waiting for spring to arrive. The recent warm weather and rains have been kind to my gardens, and in particular the tulips have rewarded me with some spectacular color this year.

Unfortunately the curious squirrels dug up and devoured a fair number of bulbs, but that is an annual battle. I figure I will compensate for the inevitable squirrel feasts by factoring in a 20 percent or so shrinkage from rodents, and that by planting a few extra bulbs in each area enough should survive the rodential onslaught.historymikehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-10930172.post-11426518302837178072011-04-24T20:47:00.004-04:002011-04-24T20:53:48.260-04:00Peleliu Fishing Trip, 1945 Pictured on the left is a group of Seabees in 1945 with some fish they caught near the island of Peleiu. My grandfather is in this picture, and he is the third Seabee from the right.

My guess is that these large fish are examples of some type of sea bass, though the many decades that have passed have eroded any memory of the fish type. In fact, even though I spotted my grandfather in about three milliseconds after looking at this picture, he seemed reluctant to give me much more than "yeah, that's probably me, but who knows?"

Not sure if he was just being self-effacing, or if he just didn't want to talk about Peleliu when we visited with him the other day.historymikehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com


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What do you think? It probably won't stay this way; I'm trying to learn all kinds of new stuff like how to incorporate a slide show of our pictures and an album of layouts, but I was really needing some brightness with the predicted SNOW ACCUMULATIONS coming our way!
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10 January 1986 was a pretty typical winter's day, as I recall. I was in seventh grade, and Jess was in fifth. The morning started earlier than usual for us, as Myra called us down from upstairs at 6:30am.
She and Dad were in the kitchen, drinking coffee and having toast. We joined them, half an hour early, eyebrows arched in question of the reason for our early wake-up call.
Mom had asked me, the night before, to "keep an eye on Dad." She went to Bingo at the Legion hall, and was worried about Dewey, apparently, who was having some numbness in his right arm. "Okay…" I said, in the way any twelve year old would say when asked to look after her extremely strong father.
I watched him that night, and saw him fold his hands on our dining room table, and then take away his left hand, leaving his right static, unmoving. I saw him pace for the first time in my life. I was confused, but had no idea why he was nervous. I went to bed before Mom got home from Bingo.
At our 6:30 impromptu family meeting, Mom explained that Dad was having this weird numbness in his right arm, so they were going to drive in to St. Ansgar's to see Doc Brown. Dr. Brown was our family doctor, located 6 miles away in Halstad, but two days a week he spent his mornings at St. Ansgar's Hospital in Moorhead. My dad had called him at 6 that morning, and explained the numb arm he'd had for almost a week. "You're young, Dewey," the doctor had said. "It's probably a pinched nerve. You farmers are always pinching nerves. But you better come in and let me check it out. Meet me at St. Ansgar's at 7:30."
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Everyone was calm, though Dad was unusually quiet. When he got up to put his coffee cup in the sink, his right arm brushed against the jelly jar on the table, and he nearly knocked it over: it was clear that his arm was really, really numb.
Jess and I walked to the elementary school, three blocks from our house, where she stayed for fifth grade and I caught the bus to Halstad, where grades 7-12 were. After lunch, during Phy-Ed, Carol, our secretary, came to the door of the gym and called me over. "Your dad's in ICU, and they're taking good care of him," she said. I returned to running laps, but I knew that no one went to ICU if they were not very, very sick. I tried to focus on the second half of what Carol said, the "they're taking good care of him," but I kept coming back to the "ICU" part. My blood ran cold.
When my bus arrived back in Hendrum, I went to Auntie Bev's, as we'd planned, where Jess had already arrived. Around Bev's dining room table, she explained that Dad had had a stroke, and that Mom would try to be home to put us to bed tonight, but nobody exactly knew what any of this meant. The grown-ups around us were terribly quiet, and Jess and I both knew this couldn't be a good sign.
Mom came home before bedtime, somehow, and brought with her a lengthy pamphlet titled "Someone you love has had a Cerebrovascular Incident (CVI)." I remember Auntie Bev standing next to Mom in our little kitchen, while Jess and I sat at the table. Bev said "No matter what happens, this will make your family so much closer." It was many years before I agreed with her, much less knew what she was talking about.
Dad never walked by himself again, and never spoke, really, beyond muddled "yeah" and "no." My mother went from wife to caretaker in an instant, and Jess and I went from children to assistant caregivers at the ages of eleven and twelve.
Thirty years later, I can barely believe it's been so long. Mom, Dad, and Auntie Bev are all dead now. Twelve year old me couldn't even imagine living in a world without those three people. Frankly, 42 year old me can't quite imagine it, either.
It seems odd to mark this anniversary now, with so many of the major players gone. But to Jess and me, it's still an important day. A horrible, life-changing, childhood-ending day. I'm glad I still have her with me, at least.


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Sunday, November 23, 2008
Samuel and Preton's Baptism
The babies were baptized last night along with Simon Edward Schillmiller. All three boys were very well behaved - well my Drew was sure curious of what Father John was "doing to my babies head"...
Samuel was the only one in a Christening Gown. Preston and Simon were both wearing little suits which were definately cute but I think the gowns are much more traditional. We finally got a picture of Preston and Sam together!!! Preston was once so tiny but he is REALLY starting to catch up with Sammy!
We chose Rachel and Regina to be Sam's godparents because they truly are devoted Catholics and more importantly to us, just very good people who love both of our children so much. We are very fortunate that they are in our lives!
Sam took the cold water on his head very well... He didn't cry at all - I will say that it did seem as if he was slightly shocked by the way he jerked and blinked. Overall, he did a very good job!
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My name is Elle and I'm a 34 yr old Texan. I've been blessed enough to travel all over the United States while my husband was in the Navy. After 15 years he medically retired from the submarine force allowing us to come back home. I graduated with my bachelors degree in Criminal Justice and Political Science, but with moving so much my job became a stay at home mom to my 3 amazing boys. During this time the one constant was my love of books and reading. I seriously put the nerd in book nerd.
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