{"id":117,"date":"2011-03-27T22:35:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-27T22:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5265.temp.domains\/~brucewi2\/photos\/2011\/03\/27\/sexually-aroused-skyscraper\/"},"modified":"2019-09-02T21:51:25","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T21:51:25","slug":"sexually-aroused-skyscraper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/sexually-aroused-skyscraper\/","title":{"rendered":"Sexually aroused skyscraper"},"content":{"rendered":"

We got a new power pole installed near our back yard.  The old one was crooked and would spectacularly short wires in wind storms:<\/p>\n

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I took a 1\/2 day vacation while the power was out and we walked up one of the trails that starts a few blocks from our house: <\/p>\n

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Helen enjoyed her month off.   She developed a habit of buying a few cactus whenever she ventured out, so we now have a fun collection:<\/p>\n

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The theory is we will have a hard time killing these cactus.  That theory doesn\u2019t apply to this 20 year old Bonsai tree \u2026 <\/p>\n

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Helen bravely and lovingly cares for it.   I\u2019m too scared to touch it.<\/p>\n

We have a variety of animals visit our back yard.   There is a small family of deer that live between our house and an unfenced stretch of house next to us:<\/p>\n

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And this guy shows up every few days, but is very elusive.  Helen thinks he is feral, I think he is a neighbor\u2019s cat who likes to watch birds around our bird feeders.   Helen is attempting to befriend it with goodies so she can ask him.<\/p>\n

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We went on a few bike rides, in search of a bike route to work without killer hills (no luck there):<\/p>\n

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Boris and Irena arrived last week to close on their house.   Their car and moving van came a few days later, along with their personal master plumber and carpenter from NH!   They are renovating the kitchen and bathrooms:<\/p>\n

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Boris and Helen try to keep them fed, a challenge after a long day of work:<\/p>\n

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This is Boris disapproving of Helen\u2019s \u2018flatten the meat\u2019 instrument.   Unlike Boris, who has a kitchen implement for every conceivable occasion, like a meat hammer, we are minimalists who like to improvise:<\/p>\n

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Nick, Scott, and George are having a good time running Skitter from Costa Rica.  Nick has some photos here:<\/p>\n

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And Scott has a fun blog of activities here:<\/p>\n

  http:\/\/scott-travel.blogspot.com<\/a><\/p>\n

I close this month with the standard \u2018Helicopter landing on heads\u2019 and \u2019sexually aroused skyscraper next to a fire\u2019 photos:<\/p>\n

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Bruce<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We got a new power pole installed near our back yard.  The old one was crooked and would spectacularly short wires in wind storms: I took a 1\/2 day vacation while the power was out and we walked up one of the trails that starts a few blocks from our house: Helen enjoyed her month…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/DSCN1592_thumb.jpg?fit=353%2C266&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2513,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions\/2513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}