{"id":43,"date":"2016-05-16T00:32:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T00:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5265.temp.domains\/~brucewi2\/photos\/2016\/05\/16\/it-rained-tulips\/"},"modified":"2019-09-03T01:12:19","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T01:12:19","slug":"it-rained-tulips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/it-rained-tulips\/","title":{"rendered":"It rained Tulips!"},"content":{"rendered":"
For a few weeks last month, these tulip flowers rained down on everthing in our backyard, including on this guy:<\/span><\/div>\n
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Turns out we have a bunch of tulip trees! They only flower at the top of the tree, and only when the tree is mature and tall, so you never see them until they rain.<\/div>\n
Care to guess where this stuff came from?<\/div>\n
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Those leather work gloves were new last month (I went through 4 pairs!). Those screws came out of this part of the deck:<\/div>\n
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And then it magically changed to this:<\/div>\n
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I\u2019ve spent much of the month doing more trail work. I\u2019m up to 500′ of trail and 64 steps \u2026 those steps are the hardest part. Rocks are heavy.<\/div>\n
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For the last few weeks I have been taking more showers than usual for some reason. Here I was so dirty, our camera wasn\u2019t sure it wanted to take my picture:<\/div>\n
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Here is another before\/after shot of another section:<\/div>\n
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In between moving rocks, I moved a piano and couch. They were easier than rocks. Our living room before and after:<\/div>\n
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Last project was to snaked 150′ of garden hose up the creek to gather some free water presure to make a fountain using a garden nozzle, then added yet more landscape lighting to light it up at night:<\/div>\n
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I hope the night creatures are not too mad at us for lighting up the forest for a few hours each night:<\/div>\n
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One of the new lighting tricks I discovered was using those adjustable focus flashlights to highlight things, like Helen\u2019s crystals:<\/div>\n
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I did a video about how to do that, along with all kinds of other LED lighting:<\/div>\n
MisterHouse Home Automation: LED lighting tips<\/span>
misterhouse.com<\/span>misterhouse.blogspot.com<\/a><\/a><\/div>\n
Max turned 1 year old this week!<\/div>\n
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Turns out he likes birthday cake:<\/div>\n
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He also likes pine cones. And his parents:<\/div>\n
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And he likes to fly:<\/div>\n
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In addition to Max coming out of Beta this month, Nick\u2019s company, Code Combat, also was officially released. Here are a couple of press links:<\/div>\n
Announcing CodeCombat Classroom Curriculum, Seed Round from 3KVC, a16z, and Allen & Co<\/span>
I remember when I wrote my first lines of code. I was a freshman in college, and I had signed up for the introductory\u2026<\/span>blog.codecombat.com<\/a><\/a><\/div>\n
CodeCombat Scores $2 Million Seed Round to Bring Programming Adventure to Schools (EdSurge News)<\/span>
When it comes to learning to code, Nick Winters believes it’s not enough to drag, drop and snap blocks together, which\u2026<\/span>www.edsurge.com<\/a><\/a><\/div>\n
Last photo. I found this guy enjoying a shower on the new fountain nozzle:<\/div>\n
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For a few weeks last month, these tulip flowers rained down on everthing in our backyard, including on this guy: Turns out we have a bunch of tulip trees! They only flower at the top of the tree, and only when the tree is mature and tall, so you never see them until they rain….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2078,"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-43","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\/1YYXbeen0_fiB_h49dtRAeQ.jpg?fit=800%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","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=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2097,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/2097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}