Author: John Poole
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The return of PRESTO
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">My 1969 TR-6, license plate “PRESTO”, has been sitting in the garage since September, 2021, after an unsuccesful attempted theft. The villains broke into the garage and had hot-wired the car, carefully extracting from the front console the key that activates the starter, but they could not get the car out of the garage…
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August Harvest 2024
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I planted <a href="https://raintreenursery.com/products/dolgo-crabapple-dwarf?_pos=2&_sid=61009c695&_ss=r">crabapple <em>Malus domestica </em>‘Dogo’ </a>in 2019 and this is the 2024 harvest:</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">The hops hanging from the candy dish Juli nurtured and arranged with the hydrangeas. They will be transformed into crabapple jelly which has a very delicate flavor, yet different from apple jelly.</p> I planted crabapple Malus domestica ‘Dogo’…
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Air Force One Buzzes Peck Cottage
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I have created a 3 dimensional model that depicts Air Force One (231′ long) buzzing Peck Cottage in a 1/2 mile radius going from an altitude of 100 to 500 and back to 100.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">To accomplish this, I am using a vector tile server I built using the MapLibre <a href="https://martin.maplibre.org/">martin project </a>and…
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It Has Risen
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">My sourdough starter died due to a malfunction of the <a href="https://brodandtaylor.com/products/sourdough-home">Brod & Taylor Sourdough Starter Home</a> which overheated. I have a replacement now, but still working through the loss of my sourdough starter. One correspondent who also experienced such a loss expressed her condolences and shared her hope which I duly acknowledged. (Acknowledgment…
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Pups
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Our two dogs, Winnie, the golden retriever, and Josie, the Bernese Mountain dog. Both are female, enjoy long walks, romping around, and pan fried leftover sourdough starter. Winnie is my music partner as she sings to the last movement of <a href="https://salemdata.us/videos/20231211_Winnie.mp4">Beethoven’s 6th Symphony “<em>Pastorale</em></a>” which I play a Franz Liszt arrangement of on…
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