I finally convinced Helen that our dark red and brown kitchen would be better in white. A mid-project photo: Rather than go all white, we gambled a bit and decided to be Panda-fie it with a black trim. Left photos are before, middle photos are the left photos magically gimp-ed white to see what it…
Author: brucewinter
Wall Down
Houston, The Baby as landed! Clark Kaiming Winter arrived on 7/29 weighing in at 8lb 10oz. Max is taking good care of him: We are over the moon. Back on Earth, Helen had a nice trip LA to visit Aya & Eric: I’m enjoying retirement with various activities. I started with Irina’s house, finished cleaning…
Cleaning house
I had a great trip out to Rochester. “Hung out” with Zach for a week. His pull-up bar is the centerpiece of the living room: We got a lot of house cleaning done. When we finished, we discovered a new room in the basement: We filled up a big dumpster and took 600+ lbs of…
Unlucky frog
Better version of this post over on Medium: https://medium.com/bruce-photos/unlucky-frog-3e2ac4730c6f We had 10″ of rain this last week, complements of tropical storm Cindy. In the thick of it, I toured our backyard trails to see how they were holding up: Turns out there was a tornado touching down 5 miles from here while I was out…
5 second waterfall
A mystery sound puzzle. During a dinner party, we heard a loud sound in our backyard that sounded like big waterfall. But our creek was not gushing and the sound only lasted for 5 seconds. Any guesses? Hint 1: It was not flock of angry killer birds, although we have seen a few baby birds…
Irina
Irina died last week. She had been heroically fighting ovarian cancer for over 3 years, traveling to specialist that she respected all over the world. She recently had a dream about meeting Boris, who passed in that same bed 9 months ago. She was ready. We are very sad, but glad she didn’t have to suffer…