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My classmate Terry Nelson played the trumpet, majored in music at the U of M. He played well enough that he served his country playing in the Navy Band. When we lived at the corner of Valley and Giles, Terry lived two doors down to the north. On summer evenings he would sit by a fire in his backyard, drink a beer (or two?) and softly play his </span></span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">trumpet, always finishing with taps. </span></div><span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Olive, the elderly woman who lived between us complained. She complained about soft, professional quality trumpet music. She also complained about our stainless steel chimney stack being too shiny. Olive complained. It is what she did. It validated her existence</div></span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
Terry's wife Deanna died far too early and it seemed to take the wind from his sails. He died about 15 years ago at 64.</div></span>
</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: Homemade Apple; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Gunnar </span></p>Gunnar Berghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451985764040900726noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2695748260936745505.post-21810923246543557692024-01-24T06:15:00.000-08:002024-01-25T07:38:12.560-08:00Estero<p> Taken with a Nikon D7500 DSLR and NIKKOR 300mm f/4 prime. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBRW0gKhT2-5Es7BHgEcCiZPVzMg4rRKwnZQCcX-XBZffDzTpy0m6YpIZ9gd5frxTTF_C-M-adYBL6aVj1uNA3ElnvUgrrhCMHD9urAH9pIpd37nZ46_49ao_eoK1t0voy-uUfVqfYVe3JrQp-WUke6myxDdIl1Emb_hkjiZgapzkTKEWZ0cXeMKvamJY/s1472/_DSC4277.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="981" data-original-width="1472" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBRW0gKhT2-5Es7BHgEcCiZPVzMg4rRKwnZQCcX-XBZffDzTpy0m6YpIZ9gd5frxTTF_C-M-adYBL6aVj1uNA3ElnvUgrrhCMHD9urAH9pIpd37nZ46_49ao_eoK1t0voy-uUfVqfYVe3JrQp-WUke6myxDdIl1Emb_hkjiZgapzkTKEWZ0cXeMKvamJY/w400-h266/_DSC4277.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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A blind amateur photographer? Oh, what the hell. </p><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;">Facebook is fine, but posting there is ephemeral, here today, gone tomorrow. This posting is for that handful of pre-Facebook folks who periodically monitor this blog, but probably more for myself as a milestone marker.</div><br />When taking photos of small flitty birds there are really two options:<p></p><p>1. Be very, very good.<br /> or<br />2. Be very, very close.<br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnGuTSushnaeaXQNfHosuGkf2jmskSTJKRZK6NsLM4BsKCYBgxETiusOeTiGgP3eYrc27mFX17hXGa9pYNuY5Ytvu0Q9GlwTtATmm1EexSfANP5bsSGBDKgtf6KrgJgsJKKT3iC7eUzzFxgWoCNrivfcso_jRrP0r6963KmevqWQmAwMnT0RH2qXf2U2M/s8160/20230822_112135.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="8160" data-original-width="6120" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnGuTSushnaeaXQNfHosuGkf2jmskSTJKRZK6NsLM4BsKCYBgxETiusOeTiGgP3eYrc27mFX17hXGa9pYNuY5Ytvu0Q9GlwTtATmm1EexSfANP5bsSGBDKgtf6KrgJgsJKKT3iC7eUzzFxgWoCNrivfcso_jRrP0r6963KmevqWQmAwMnT0RH2qXf2U2M/s320/20230822_112135.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I am old, half-blind, with failing memory. No. 2 is really my only option. I would add a No. 3 - hang the best optics you can afford on front of your camera body.<br /><br />At one time I carried a long variable-zoom lens. Every year it got heavier. I still own that lens for tripod situations, and also a close-up lens for bugs and butterflies, but for everyday shooting I use an old tech Nikon D7500 DSLR body with a NIKKOR 300mm f/4 prime lens. <br />I suppose eventually I could replace that with a modern, gee-whiz mirrorless camera, but I love it. Does a man put down his loyal dog simply because it is old? </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">These are all fall plumage birds shot from my garden bench in the past few days.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGnVWnWWpR5tG2_DqabN3xqD_jQGifYSGdcp27ruc3qMPJldqsWkK0P0QYEr4bdZLb9XQce6J8xK7Ehf-kzraIwFs-Jhv_9keO23mJePLO-sCG7m7h4_Xljbc17SDPXtu0x54HAhyjm43Agr_7NdB6Ha7j2vtyOhMITH4SkLj_z7qVWlihoupFvf0zUc4/s1600/53201257653_23829cf0df_h.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGnVWnWWpR5tG2_DqabN3xqD_jQGifYSGdcp27ruc3qMPJldqsWkK0P0QYEr4bdZLb9XQce6J8xK7Ehf-kzraIwFs-Jhv_9keO23mJePLO-sCG7m7h4_Xljbc17SDPXtu0x54HAhyjm43Agr_7NdB6Ha7j2vtyOhMITH4SkLj_z7qVWlihoupFvf0zUc4/s320/53201257653_23829cf0df_h.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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I am posting this to remind myself of the joy of shooting photos with an obsolete, heavy Nikon D7500 camera and equally obsolete and even heavier Nikon 200-500mm lens, the combination of which weigh a boat anchor. Previously I had a Nikon D5600 camera which ... which I dropped :-(. The lens survived quite well; the camera body seemed okay, then acquired a mind of its own, randomly changing settings before commenting suicide. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Nikon has embraced mirrorless camera technology to the point where the D7500 is the last Nikon DSLR in current production. It shares the sensor and processor as the previous Nikon "flagship" D500. It has the basic internal guts only in a crop format.</div><br /><div>Lorna has a marvelous new Canon mirrorless camera and I was having a quite a bad case of camera envy. Yesterday I got my settings tuned in and got my photo groove back. I have come to the realization that I too am old and obsolete. When I die they may have to pry my rigor mortis stiffened fingers from this howitzer of a camera.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihx_MhaGIq7RpPv9TJxKQ4PoD4LyOfo6wkqXvjiC6XojEPlc9TCdU7NHSSLYQV5PgXnwwTBNKpRYLuqzvpfV6vJciw5vVDlhkVZrd2LAiJkPG5QaMyKPHH95Z8msNNbDzrHJ3doovmTUwJ0t9YKXbqUCVwkihuKCPS_fpjZl6nMUYrhAFXcDErAm5y/s1926/TEX_0687.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1284" data-original-width="1926" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihx_MhaGIq7RpPv9TJxKQ4PoD4LyOfo6wkqXvjiC6XojEPlc9TCdU7NHSSLYQV5PgXnwwTBNKpRYLuqzvpfV6vJciw5vVDlhkVZrd2LAiJkPG5QaMyKPHH95Z8msNNbDzrHJ3doovmTUwJ0t9YKXbqUCVwkihuKCPS_fpjZl6nMUYrhAFXcDErAm5y/s320/TEX_0687.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG6aDQsM6eqrmUc57j-4_1mg3Fn1MuKh9peflaxEfsNAzGqh7N-MuivUec4x41ZxYW9HjkOpdq7ejKW1YAT_KXJLdipK3fFSJ4T8lDnyuaHNAL70H7-GHMvgONpTMWS2xW6F4j5NdsJHqwz27Qv9MCJb1mycQhTuLoGVkpJB5hnUFcgrlN9i5cKbP2/s2376/TEX_0748.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Obsoletely yours,<br /><i><span style="font-family: Homemade Apple;">Gunnar Berg<br /><br /></span></i><div><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Addendum:</b> Although I still </span>possess<span style="font-family: inherit;"> the </span><span style="text-align: justify;">200-500mm zoom, day-to-day it has been replaced with a</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Nikkor 300mm f/2.8 prime lens and 1.4<span style="font-family: inherit;">x</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> teleconverter.</span></span></div>Gunnar Berghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451985764040900726noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2695748260936745505.post-62700271384309796972022-10-13T09:54:00.013-07:002022-10-14T08:37:52.338-07:00Heimdall the Watcher<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: inherit;"><span><span>I</span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 22.5px;">n </span>Norse mythology <span>Heimdall, </span></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 22.5px;">watchman of the gods, </span>dwelt<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 22.5px;"> at the entry to</span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"> </span><span>Asgard<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span><span style="font-size: medium;">.</span> </span><span style="font-size: 22.5px;">He required less sleep than a bird, could see 100 leagues and hear grass growing in the meadows. Heimdall kept the ringing </span></span>horn<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 22.5px;"> </span><span id="ref130458" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 22.5px;"></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 22.5px;">Gjallarhorn </span></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 22.5px;">which could be heard throughout heaven, earth, and the lower world </span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 22.5px;">to summon the gods when their enemies approached. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 22.5px;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: inherit;">Over the ages, one by one, the old gods eventually retired to the south of France. Heimdall fell on hard times, eventually </span></span><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 22.5px;">retiring beside the spring which is the source of the mighty Oakwood Rivulet, where he </span><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: inherit; font-size: 22.5px;">landed a job as a watchman protecting 1410 from all evil. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIRroAtbhILctw9eSvb73XW1DoevzHTQmbPEnoMgYj4H2IFuXBetw8_RGLsJaX5BqpUZgWKMTU7F1kcmDZO_LhyRy9jyKCuHk9ThcOW8AU5oJLD0TEhKUSI7qZj5NZ50W3QC7hkACmuEI-JdA4T9dhenUBdxPIljJcRBWrwZnuYbMSJBf8_RrZ5ea3/s4491/DSC_0002.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4491" data-original-width="3982" height="641" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIRroAtbhILctw9eSvb73XW1DoevzHTQmbPEnoMgYj4H2IFuXBetw8_RGLsJaX5BqpUZgWKMTU7F1kcmDZO_LhyRy9jyKCuHk9ThcOW8AU5oJLD0TEhKUSI7qZj5NZ50W3QC7hkACmuEI-JdA4T9dhenUBdxPIljJcRBWrwZnuYbMSJBf8_RrZ5ea3/w569-h641/DSC_0002.JPG" width="569" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">(Heimdall's face is a bit distorted. His boulder had a natural "face" which only I seemed to see, so I just liberated him a little. In most sunlight he is not visible.)</div><span style="font-family: Homemade Apple;"><div>- Gunnar</div></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: inherit; font-size: 22.5px;"><br /></span><p></p>Gunnar Berghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451985764040900726noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2695748260936745505.post-77793730781705794232022-07-04T10:18:00.011-07:002022-08-23T05:58:04.273-07:00Dust in a Baggie - Billy Strings<div style="text-align: justify;">I am really not a huge fan of Bluegrass music, but even I can recognize genius level talent. We will see where the young man goes with it.
Bluegrass music used to be about moonshine and corn liquor. He took that tradition to the world he grew up in.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Cellphone concert at a party before anyone other than friends had heard of him:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div>
<iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/VFEZOjtrwls" width="480"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><div 12px="" 14px="" arial="" class="ujudUb" color:="" font-family:="" font-size:="" jsname="U8S5sf" margin-bottom:="" roboto="" sans-serif=""><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">I ain't slept in seven days, haven't ate in three</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Methamphetamine has got a damn good hold of me</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">My tweaker friends have got me to the point of no return</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">I just took the lighter to the bulb and watched it burn</span></span></div><div 12px="" 14px="" arial="" class="ujudUb" color:="" font-family:="" font-size:="" jsname="U8S5sf" margin-bottom:="" roboto="" sans-serif=""><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span jsname="YS01Ge"><br /></span></span></div><div 12px="" 14px="" arial="" class="ujudUb" color:="" font-family:="" font-size:="" jsname="U8S5sf" margin-bottom:="" roboto="" sans-serif=""><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">This life of sin has got me in</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Well, it's got me back in prison once again</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">I used my only phone call to contact my daddy</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">I got 20 long years for some dust in a baggie</span></span></div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="color: #202124; margin-bottom: 12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span jsname="YS01Ge"><br /></span></span></div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="color: #202124; margin-bottom: 12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">Well, if I would have listened to what mom and papa said</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">I wouldn't be locked up in prison, troubled in the head</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">I took that little pop and suck until my mind was spun</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">I got 20 years to sit and think of what I've done</span></span></div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="color: #202124; margin-bottom: 12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">This life of sin has got me in</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Well, it's got me back in prison once again</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">I used my only phone call to contact my daddy</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">I got 20 long years for some dust in a baggie</span></span></div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="background-color: color: #202124; margin-bottom: 12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">Sometimes, I sit and wonder where my little life went wrong</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">These old jailhouse blues have got me singing this old song</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">My life is a disaster, Lord and I feel so ashamed</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">In here where they call me by a number, not a name</span></span></div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="color: #202124; margin-bottom: 12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">This life of sin has got me in</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Well, it's got me back in prison once again</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">I used my only phone call to contact my daddy</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">I got 20 long years for some dust in a baggie</span></span></div><div class="ujudUb WRZytc" jsname="U8S5sf" style="color: #202124; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">I used my only phone call to contact my daddy</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">I got 20 long years for some dust in a baggie</span></span></div></div><div class="ujudUb WRZytc" jsname="U8S5sf" style="color: #202124; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span jsname="YS01Ge"><br /></span></span></div><div class="ujudUb WRZytc" jsname="U8S5sf" style="color: #202124; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span jsname="YS01Ge"><br /></span></span></div>
A few years later, Billy Strings and Marcus King. <span font-family:="" inherit="">Strings<span style="color: #030303; white-space: pre-wrap;"> with a '1936 000-28 and Marcus a '1954 Telecaster. Over time, guitars simply haven't gotten any better. </span></span></div><div><br /><div>
<iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/1RNNQYpnukA" width="480"></iframe> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Still not 30 years old, selling out 10,000 ticket venues with a Grammy, nominated for two more, and older musicians - county, blues, jazz want to play with the kid.
It will be interesting to see if he can stand the heat.</div><div><br /></div><div>We'll see, </div><div><span style="font-family: Homemade Apple;">- Gunnar</span></div></div>Gunnar Berghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451985764040900726noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2695748260936745505.post-30154460759685485372022-06-01T21:10:00.007-07:002022-06-02T19:19:07.328-07:00And on the third day God created...<p style="text-align: justify;">I do not necessarily believe in a God Creator, but if I did I would imagine he is mucking around tweaking and changing things (evolution?) ... like moving Victoria Falls 102 feet to the left so it looked right to him .... or her (heaven only knows). </p><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;">I have an arriving order of sheet moss in transit. Once I lay that natural carpet the rocks become mountains and except for erosion and continental drift, the mountains, rivers and streams, are pretty much fixed in place.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">So today I shifted the upper waterfall 5" to the right. Seems easy and straightforward, but everything is connected so I had to move a cliff of rock and dirt. </div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjhSaP3s6_NXU6jQ5u7Hwxvdi2yJ_l8_S5xkMcZTUFW7rwgZVDnRwDacKnD1xgXS1k_53e3CUxXaRlErOmn5jTehFVATFWGhzPmdQpXsW2y81WaMTTAlRzcIVo6jUJ69AjfbOnnYRSLiTgoKc1W1CB-3Ubm_1_JWZCJqCkbZKhm_v2QWNNiE0h2P_H/s2308/20220601_170925.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2308" data-original-width="1633" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjhSaP3s6_NXU6jQ5u7Hwxvdi2yJ_l8_S5xkMcZTUFW7rwgZVDnRwDacKnD1xgXS1k_53e3CUxXaRlErOmn5jTehFVATFWGhzPmdQpXsW2y81WaMTTAlRzcIVo6jUJ69AjfbOnnYRSLiTgoKc1W1CB-3Ubm_1_JWZCJqCkbZKhm_v2QWNNiE0h2P_H/w453-h640/20220601_170925.jpg" width="453" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>And on the morrow I shall move mountains.</div><div><br />(The mountain range and gulch on the horizon should shift a corresponding amount.)</div><div><br /></div><div>- <span style="font-family: Homemade Apple;">Gunnar</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">P.S. I Googled to see what day God created the earth.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: inherit;"><span>"On </span><span style="color: #202124;">the first day - light was created. the second day - the sky was created. the third day - dry land, seas, plants and trees were created. the fourth day - the Sun, Moon and stars were created".</span><span style="color: #202124; font-size: 16px;"> </span></span></div>Gunnar Berghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451985764040900726noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2695748260936745505.post-45864098140109171872022-05-30T12:04:00.003-07:002023-11-27T14:04:09.759-08:00WAY pedals for a 1950 M.Bonvicini<p></p><div style="text-align: justify;">I have a vintage bicycle that has become difficult to ride. First, I can no longer shift it while mounted. This is not a major deal, people ride single-speed bicycles every day. Dismount, select gear, shift, remount. But I am 78 with an inoperable broken scapula and riding drop bars for any distance is "uncomfortable". But damn, I love this bicycle.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn_dUQ-El1wwF8CjgN20zz-ysV7eL69f6IwtqDm6QkMqdqmj9YX8ZURPCNqds48t2-DfYAV2T77DudQQIxQJdGUpSUOeDccCQEaVKov-Y7jyZudBG2lKJ5N8ztExvKzLsJB4I53TpQV8Q-EISbTK0yh7f-XzHMRqGFDft38thQ6cU_eVPedIWvVgwX/s5120/51724502838_298dfa1f6b_5k.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3413" data-original-width="5120" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn_dUQ-El1wwF8CjgN20zz-ysV7eL69f6IwtqDm6QkMqdqmj9YX8ZURPCNqds48t2-DfYAV2T77DudQQIxQJdGUpSUOeDccCQEaVKov-Y7jyZudBG2lKJ5N8ztExvKzLsJB4I53TpQV8Q-EISbTK0yh7f-XzHMRqGFDft38thQ6cU_eVPedIWvVgwX/w640-h426/51724502838_298dfa1f6b_5k.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieKTo9BPjTbDbCHgXirrTBLHkG354GbAsnuXiZcQo7-rPXyd5a7mpdY0OW6MFi8xHFQr9Oofsek2uPf_HtcezqsjnbbI68FFzQxzMWjE3R5-LVbmXoVW5MIgrjEcZ2P_cM3-6Km9ErLAI1zV4Tk9wNbVHyWBq4G2oJhzn3OwXOyt3PBfP9zYWLHyqkbz8/s2048/53326072057_4ea0172c26_k.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1341" data-original-width="2048" height="420" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieKTo9BPjTbDbCHgXirrTBLHkG354GbAsnuXiZcQo7-rPXyd5a7mpdY0OW6MFi8xHFQr9Oofsek2uPf_HtcezqsjnbbI68FFzQxzMWjE3R5-LVbmXoVW5MIgrjEcZ2P_cM3-6Km9ErLAI1zV4Tk9wNbVHyWBq4G2oJhzn3OwXOyt3PBfP9zYWLHyqkbz8/w640-h420/53326072057_4ea0172c26_k.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">So I bought a set of vintage "condorino" style Italian upright bars. I did not want to totally bastardize the bike for the next owner, so I have two sets of cables and housings attached to the bars. I cut three 3/4" long pieces of thin aluminum tubing and rewrapped them under the top tube tape. If I want to switch, I can just remove the cables at the brakes and pull them through, and switch out the stem, bar, brake lever assemblies.</span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8_TXIy56rlq5mrFJ0gAHLpJa_QyEnzNPx1FEFUNOS8ZoXMK-lTJ9uYSXQUYE9396YJ8nE4PxtvQXGEj6zcwlean2HmaZhNZdckLQIW9NqL9eJ6kqLt2pgtHdYsOgSNmrz69Ea9Vr6QjT4r4KLrfeGBM4iaO0UtTxnrGwK5kXnteVHSvPa22cP-NMZ/s3024/20220530_105432.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="2268" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8_TXIy56rlq5mrFJ0gAHLpJa_QyEnzNPx1FEFUNOS8ZoXMK-lTJ9uYSXQUYE9396YJ8nE4PxtvQXGEj6zcwlean2HmaZhNZdckLQIW9NqL9eJ6kqLt2pgtHdYsOgSNmrz69Ea9Vr6QjT4r4KLrfeGBM4iaO0UtTxnrGwK5kXnteVHSvPa22cP-NMZ/w300-h400/20220530_105432.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG5bl4P3StylgUxRa89Y8t5QljIVCLuMrtfBc0vng9chhCf2N2M8IcKSRAENxFWFJ6FMiGyWKyZJy81tgZ9EmXy7hzDri4Hll_q_ntIh7rFhp4vxYLI7oxT9cWxLFYt9WKBd_6wam0aDRIrOu_wsYtzDR0dyepvMUeuXu3-dq0aMB88CqnxQTMKUaI/s2704/20220530_105503.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2028" data-original-width="2704" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG5bl4P3StylgUxRa89Y8t5QljIVCLuMrtfBc0vng9chhCf2N2M8IcKSRAENxFWFJ6FMiGyWKyZJy81tgZ9EmXy7hzDri4Hll_q_ntIh7rFhp4vxYLI7oxT9cWxLFYt9WKBd_6wam0aDRIrOu_wsYtzDR0dyepvMUeuXu3-dq0aMB88CqnxQTMKUaI/w400-h300/20220530_105503.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Then I was left with road peddles on a bike that would likely be ridden with street shoes. (The fenders are contemporary, but the frame has wear marks and threaded fittings so it may have been a street bike anyway.</div><p>Johnny Pergolizzi showed up with set of really clean Way-Assauto pedals. The original pedals (and stem) are the only original things that a little rough on the bike, so I bit.<br /> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh9F_pDKkYvuntFCmq4D9w5dCZulBPDYDzYYfUgqYnvI7-6egOQ_lORG-hvZAhakGRQtaWkRDgiGb8xkZ7yFn6_HYeEtjEIySYKW1T8VOIsTkQpDaJgRLxwKKvjXMN_weJecfoYahYMeqYuPJ47GKIvF5t9GHodGA4bZ5wIyOZoi3TMk5dHQh8Y13Z/s640/WAY%20road%20pedals.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh9F_pDKkYvuntFCmq4D9w5dCZulBPDYDzYYfUgqYnvI7-6egOQ_lORG-hvZAhakGRQtaWkRDgiGb8xkZ7yFn6_HYeEtjEIySYKW1T8VOIsTkQpDaJgRLxwKKvjXMN_weJecfoYahYMeqYuPJ47GKIvF5t9GHodGA4bZ5wIyOZoi3TMk5dHQh8Y13Z/w300-h400/WAY%20road%20pedals.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;">While I was Googling Way-Assauto history, another set of vintage WAY pedals showed up on eBay, which are basic platform pedals. Man, I had no idea the animal even existed! They are currently on the Bonnie.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaIxH95vI4G3mIkUF0m_pD_wvD_oeBkFQUvw_vW0EvEzkVzgCk3uWRrFS-d5K25TZNbFEZ3mcVrVhCq81h2VVTZlfcLrJm5xUaJ5_ouuR0Ve1XoHASjJ4P_K8heci3zFYrN94lS7-rK00D8NQBueMp0m06k89ZLsvDqWuMERYLjfArOgCrlQryeoZQ/s300/WAY%20street.jpg" style="clear: left; display: inline; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="114" data-original-width="300" height="114" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaIxH95vI4G3mIkUF0m_pD_wvD_oeBkFQUvw_vW0EvEzkVzgCk3uWRrFS-d5K25TZNbFEZ3mcVrVhCq81h2VVTZlfcLrJm5xUaJ5_ouuR0Ve1XoHASjJ4P_K8heci3zFYrN94lS7-rK00D8NQBueMp0m06k89ZLsvDqWuMERYLjfArOgCrlQryeoZQ/s1600/WAY%20street.jpg" width="300" /></span></a><p></p><span style="text-align: justify;">So I have two iterations of a 1950 Italian daily rider.<br /><br /><span style="font-family: Homemade Apple;">- Gunnar </span></span>Gunnar Berghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451985764040900726noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2695748260936745505.post-45436846073589003312022-05-12T06:44:00.009-07:002022-05-22T02:23:31.607-07:001410 Migrating Warblers: 05-10-2022 & 05-11-2022<p><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #e1d7b4; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.75px; white-space: pre-wrap;">All taken from the same location on our garden bench with "The Beast", my heavy, obsolete old camera. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #050505;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #050505;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDJbP5MMLuz-GEAKdO1oYe8TAbtMCtopKnI4yRr2wzIi7TJiV_3MtUKyM_leFOkdokRVRIuWKTXjV8y7-4LKwiomUEePoB2hqkpyBE5G7U_PUS5I_cfEzuzJ67cWfuOPG4PzpsZNDdwnZX7_sdNKcxv4-S1Cg1Bq-5FanaUkTM3AX05mJAAZ5jpMQX/s6000/xDSC_2509.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDJbP5MMLuz-GEAKdO1oYe8TAbtMCtopKnI4yRr2wzIi7TJiV_3MtUKyM_leFOkdokRVRIuWKTXjV8y7-4LKwiomUEePoB2hqkpyBE5G7U_PUS5I_cfEzuzJ67cWfuOPG4PzpsZNDdwnZX7_sdNKcxv4-S1Cg1Bq-5FanaUkTM3AX05mJAAZ5jpMQX/w640-h426/xDSC_2509.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="color: #050505;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Initially I fell for this short phrase "... <i>Irish poets, raconteurs and libertines</i>". I found the writing style interesting, capturing a vague feeling of a past time. </span><span class="__web-inspector-hide-shortcut__" style="font-family: times new roman, serif; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">I then went to Google to learn about "card squeezers" and "blistering the Bees". It seems before cards had number/suit designation in the upper left-hand corner, players had to spread their hand to see the pips or faces and an opponent could somewhat judge the strength of the hand by how wide is was spread. A squeezer would never spread his hand, merely remember the card on top then shift it to the bottom. "Bee" was the primary brand of fine playing cards and of course "blistering" was </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">card marking. I knew </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">"the gambler's fallacy" from flipping quarters. The probability of an event happening does not depend on what has happened in the past - each flip is still 50-50%. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">I also checked out the .32-20, which was a </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">Colt</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"> .312 diameter round with 20 grains of powder. It was a heavy, slow velocity bullet; poor distance kill, but deadly at close </span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">ran</span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">ge. </span></p><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">The New Amsterdam Theatre was built in 1903 and is the oldest theatre still on Broadway.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><div><i>There was a time I was wild, young, and handsome<br />I was smokin' cigarettes at age thirteen<br />At seventeen I was drinking in the taverns<br />With Irish poets, raconteurs and libertines<br />At twenty-one I was a full-time gambler<br />A card squeezer who blistered the Bees<br />I carried a .32-20 in my pocket<br />And I heeded not The Gambler's Fallacy<br /><br />Thereupon I was asked to be a procurer<br />By a young woman of desire named Olivia Mae<br />So for mutual financial benefits<br />We opened the House of the White Rose Bouquet<br />Olivia was a beauty and quite flirtatious<br />She enjoyed the company of rakish men<br />And we fell deeply in love with each other<br />And prospered in our house of ill-repute and sin<br /><br />And even though I was in love with Olivia<br />There were other girls and indiscretion<br />A patron of the house was a physician<br />And he gave me a cure for my transgression<br />One night Olivia found my hidden blue bottle<br />With tablets shaped like coffins inside</i></div><div><i>She mistook them for opiate narcotics</i></div><div><i>And swallowed the mercury chloride<br /><br />How my heart died when I found her<br />In her green beaded dress, dead on the floor<br />At her service, I cocked my .32-20<br />For I could not stand the sorrow anymore<br /><br />The House of the White Rose Bouquet<br />Fell into disarray and was torn down<br />The place is now a beacon of decency<br />For it's a theatre known as The New Amsterdam<br /><br />At night after the audience has departed<br />Never knowing where they were was once a brothel<br />A figure walks across the darkened stage<br />In a green beaded dress, carryin' a blue bottle</i><br /><br /><a href="https://youtu.be/draMuAxlp5s">https://youtu.be/draMuAxlp5s</a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><span face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><i>Gunnar</i></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Gunnar Berghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451985764040900726noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2695748260936745505.post-36341633523112096152021-12-27T11:38:00.012-08:002021-12-29T10:00:10.505-08:00Christmas With the Old Norwegian<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lorna and I </span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" style="font-family: inherit;">w</span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588235294118)" style="font-family: inherit;">ere spending Christmas with my daughter Adena and her wife Nicole in the Cooper neighborhood of Longfellow in Minneapolis. It is a pleasant neighborhood on the buffs above the </span><span style="color: #a00029;">Mississippi</span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588235294118)" style="font-family: inherit;"> gorge - a good </span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588235294118)">neighborhood</span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588235294118)" style="font-family: inherit;"> for walking with or without a dog for an excuse. </span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" style="font-family: inherit;">A fifteen minute walk south of their 1925 bungalow is the Seven Oaks Oval, a two acre 35 foot deep wooded sinkhole in the middle of a ring of classic craftsman homes.</span></p><div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;"><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">While we were in the neighborhood I knocked on the door of an old friend to wish him a Merry Christmas. Chris Kvale answered the door and invited me in. We caught up on backyard birds, music, politics, and the status of his bicycle frame shop, which was severely damaged by fire-fighting water during the rioting following the George Floyd killing. </span></div></span><div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Chris stepped out of the house to greet my family who were across the street trying to locate two hooting Barred Owls in The Oval. I followed Chris and pulled the door closed behind me. It latched with an audible *clack*. Locked. We tried the back door. I had locked a man out of his own home and the neighbor with the spare key was out of town. Marcia was going to be gone for hours. Chris used my phone a number of times, but </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">she did not answer.</span></div><div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" /></span></div><div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; text-align: justify;"><span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588235294118)" style="font-family: inherit;">Given our </span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588235294118)">dilemma</span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588235294118)" style="font-family: inherit;"> and limited options, I gave Chris my jacket and we walked back to Add and Nick's home ... where we ate cookies, drank wine and visited. I learned that Chris's friend had originally manufactured his sheet metal paint spray booth </span><span style="color: #a00029;">several</span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588235294118)" style="font-family: inherit;"> decades earlier. It was first assembled for use in a basement shop, later in two other shop locations. That same friend will be reassembling it one more (last?) time in Chris's shop in the Vine Arts Building. On Monday, after 19 months of forced early retirement (at age 76) Chris Kvale will be begin reassembling his shop, to again build fine bicycle frames to classical music and greet friends for conversation and a </span></span>day's end <span style="font-family: inherit;">drink.</span></div><div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;" /></span></div><div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">After a couple of hours of "wisiting", Marcia eventually called. She was home, wondering where he was. So Addy took the Old Norwegian back home to a waiting Christmas dinner. <br /><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Old Dane,</span></div><div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Homemade Apple;">Gunnar</span></div></div>Gunnar Berghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451985764040900726noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2695748260936745505.post-34355116816304071032021-12-22T07:13:00.001-08:002021-12-22T07:13:22.468-08:00Soltice<p> I suspect the solstice is a bigger deal in Minnesota than it is in, for instance, California.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgHkF7lWhprlw2_DvabQx6fARg_RCxFnzDQD1V4-oVHfy484yyPk7TEnITFW6igj6DjAgYnlNlAJTSR8A1nt9vVTSLlq81L4tvXLQdN7FbIid_IKZU1mCNP2U0gv4i9TRp3INJyWLEhUepyUYYZKnH8EIR1pBJ7WfIkiu5eVgTQKbghreME7R9-Y3hw=s867" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="867" data-original-width="736" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgHkF7lWhprlw2_DvabQx6fARg_RCxFnzDQD1V4-oVHfy484yyPk7TEnITFW6igj6DjAgYnlNlAJTSR8A1nt9vVTSLlq81L4tvXLQdN7FbIid_IKZU1mCNP2U0gv4i9TRp3INJyWLEhUepyUYYZKnH8EIR1pBJ7WfIkiu5eVgTQKbghreME7R9-Y3hw=w544-h640" width="544" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Gunnar Berghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451985764040900726noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2695748260936745505.post-14078373300796962592021-12-22T07:08:00.001-08:002021-12-23T11:56:14.113-08:00<p> </p><p><br /></p>Gunnar Berghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451985764040900726noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2695748260936745505.post-3911038656938829482021-12-18T09:32:00.009-08:002021-12-18T13:24:29.553-08:00Wind<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEheFHSFm3J9uxqF0zlQ3MPE7i7VvRgdAmtRQBpy32GEG6zI1iygniJfjKtrZgcF3oGxL1UuA29wqOBCdNVqTzUHXCOv8VyQXjAs7LsfPplea5j3_fKHQ7_793PQv2zYGIxJ5o8L7UN_SSPdqIOKeBJX7098u69KXw6W14_2aA17kTHmp_J45rxSk3oB=s800" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEheFHSFm3J9uxqF0zlQ3MPE7i7VvRgdAmtRQBpy32GEG6zI1iygniJfjKtrZgcF3oGxL1UuA29wqOBCdNVqTzUHXCOv8VyQXjAs7LsfPplea5j3_fKHQ7_793PQv2zYGIxJ5o8L7UN_SSPdqIOKeBJX7098u69KXw6W14_2aA17kTHmp_J45rxSk3oB=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: large; text-align: justify;">This is the bank in Hartland, 12 miles up the road. Of course some houses are in similar condition, but no one was killed or seriously injured. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: large; text-align: justify;">It was one hell of a storm. 60 degrees on a December afternoon in Minnesota should have been a warning that all was not right with the world. The barometric pressure dropped like a ... like a ... like a metaphor. Then it broke loose, unleashing the winds of hell, gusts to 80 mph and straight steady winds, 60 mph+ all night. Not gusts, just steady blowing, blowing until something breaks, wind. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: large; text-align: justify;">I am proud of the old house. The 100 year-old lady creaked, moaned, begged for mercy, but stayed upright. Because of wind noise we slept, or tried to sleep, tucked into the corner room behind Steve Hamburg's new basement walls. I had watched the walls going up (and down), thinking it was overbuilt to fill concrete blocks with more concrete and steel re-rod down to footings four feet in the ground. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;">Then it was reassuring. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Homemade Apple;">- Gunnar </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Addendum:</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><p style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;">As I lay in bed, wind tired and worn, drifting through the hallway between half-asleep and half-awake, a song drifted in, "When death comes a knocking will God open the door?" </p><p style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;">And for some reason, the Four Horsemen came riding through the dream mist: "Death? Pestilence? Famine? Death? ... or was it Margadant, Grinley, Hurst, Westrum, Berg? No, that's five."</p><p style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;">"Oh yeah, that's right, Dock became a Republican"... as I drifted off. </p></span></div>Gunnar Berghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451985764040900726noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2695748260936745505.post-83459770008218484462021-12-10T16:20:00.000-08:002021-12-10T16:20:15.209-08:00Ray Wylie Hubbard - "Stone Blind Horses"<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/dTz68xgocjA" frameborder="0"></iframe>Gunnar Berghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451985764040900726noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2695748260936745505.post-36502310549065339612021-12-09T07:48:00.004-08:002021-12-10T16:35:51.030-08:00Stone Blind Horses<p><img border="0" data-original-height="307" data-original-width="960" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjGzRTc3dHYjyD91Mxqb2s7UzzcJ9-8-Hb22TLGbIafRQORsETNXWoADAwtFCY0WKZeZWK_VwDAFEHDb9btFvgiBJYP4X2ttttXwx9WtYNP7Jc4OtjM_yuroA5w_Pb-0lfJ4sOPlwwWZ7KievJWZcmhDUsuglu8h1X8nhKI2qKj5HTjXvcVuaY3_zNK=w640-h203" width="640" /></p>There are some saints that have been forgotten <div>Like most of my drunken prayers </div><div>They say there’s a heaven somewhere above the yonder </div><div>Where there’s no more crosses to bear </div><div><br /></div><div>Now there’s ghosts along the highways </div><div>And there’s storms out on the seas </div><div>My only hope is somewhere in that heaven </div><div>Someone says a prayer for me </div><div><br /></div><div>I been riding stone blind horses </div><div>Never seen a reason to believe </div><div>Hey sweet Genevieve say a prayer for me </div><div>For wild young cowboys, old drunks, paramours and thieves </div><div><br /></div><div>The high slurred whistle of a redwing blackbird </div><div>Sounds like he’s singing 'oh that I might die' </div><div>It’s a song for those who have fallen </div><div>Unrepentant with no more alibis</div><div><br /></div><div>By Ray Wylie Hubbard, </div><div>From the album The Ruffian's Misfortune. </div>Gunnar Berghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451985764040900726noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2695748260936745505.post-60173362778200216812021-12-07T18:51:00.003-08:002021-12-07T19:11:59.302-08:00<p>I must have posted a dozen entries regarding this damned old bicycle. I have moved on. If you need more, here are <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/gunnarberg/albums/72157715422471358">more photos</a> that I took within the past week. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh7K5fK2brywT_ReXZZNf1m1fCNQnETGXJ8o3K4DvQOnaVhw5m7QhgpNZcaYKfQOO4MWzn8l0Cz38U36b6e65baql1Gfkf8I42h-nYmM6dQ4ZOLRdLnMmL5JJuo1NTQpBOa7oFUUssqgB9EJPM1Kl81Jy53_UVMA4PrGIU5JPNsKkU20wP0OaTviAzJ=s2048" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh7K5fK2brywT_ReXZZNf1m1fCNQnETGXJ8o3K4DvQOnaVhw5m7QhgpNZcaYKfQOO4MWzn8l0Cz38U36b6e65baql1Gfkf8I42h-nYmM6dQ4ZOLRdLnMmL5JJuo1NTQpBOa7oFUUssqgB9EJPM1Kl81Jy53_UVMA4PrGIU5JPNsKkU20wP0OaTviAzJ=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>
Thank you for your patience.<div>- Gunnar</div>Gunnar Berghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451985764040900726noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2695748260936745505.post-1044154411490736132021-11-22T08:23:00.010-08:002022-03-04T09:06:08.416-08:00The Old House at 1410 Oakwood<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #ddd2b7;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-size: 18.75px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our home began life in 1907 as a 12' x 16' hunting shack. The town grew out and eventually ate Oakwood Park. Duck hunting and pan fishing were replaced by water </span></span><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-size: 18.75px; white-space: pre-wrap;">skiing, wave runners</span></span><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-size: 18.75px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and other cursed petroleum powered water sports.</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #ddd2b7;">Over time at least five one room additions were made to the old shack at 1410 - and it is still a small roomed modest home. Even the stairs down to the lower walkout level are in their third location. 1410 is drafty, wobbly and wonky, but we love it and continuing the tradition, we continue to pour money into remodeling and keeping it dry and upright.</span></span></span></p><div data-block="true" data-editor="85ho9" data-offset-key="9vks8-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9vks8-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span style="background-color: #ddd2b7;"><span style="color: #050505;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.75px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg9ev_ANx0uelTE7hOtN6ySKzRsC-FlNs9mCAlnu0zrEZNv7J3q9B-rn9P9Iy_IJGu2N2rQPQxqw3tR6mw3abIpubj2_4uqVqc3BLh7TKHS9oCaiWW_eSiOiESDECr5FfF1pP5zVPhGb8LCUVesrtMde_YFAbvqO_Q3vHtV8LQH38Sr0VPvdWvpqFEW=s1960" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1403" data-original-width="1960" height="458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg9ev_ANx0uelTE7hOtN6ySKzRsC-FlNs9mCAlnu0zrEZNv7J3q9B-rn9P9Iy_IJGu2N2rQPQxqw3tR6mw3abIpubj2_4uqVqc3BLh7TKHS9oCaiWW_eSiOiESDECr5FfF1pP5zVPhGb8LCUVesrtMde_YFAbvqO_Q3vHtV8LQH38Sr0VPvdWvpqFEW=w640-h458" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18.75px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.75px; white-space: pre-wrap;">By chance, my close friend Chesterman grew up at 1410 and he sent me this photograph of his childhood home. It is barely </span></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 18.75px; white-space: pre-wrap;">recognizable</span></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 18.75px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span><span>. Even the terrain has changed with stone retaining walls and such (and a growlery and water feature).
</span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit;">Over the years the house has had walls moved and removed, a new kitchen and bathrooms, new mechanicals - been re-sided with cedar tongue-in-groove and shakes, all the windows replaced, a couple with doors accessing a lattice covered 16' x 42' deck. I</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">n hindsight, moneywise, little of this made sense, but it has been our home for 35 years and it is where our heart is. </span></span></div></span></span></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9vks8-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.75px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9vks8-0-0" style="background-color: white; direction: ltr; position: relative;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj0y42RUzVbm79Jamqh4W3tj5CaguVR0GafrI-l3NSzudPlDwklucyE656JCTr3b0jumXshNokMyW5W1nhEqXyiUFb9QUzsCyBpBZHKJ43Wl5ToX3kvYwpOBLJcRVoIbrz1Rbk-5oTarElWIlcAS1bHiRZML82TsqkcuREjAXq59-RXDKgCFtT9KeSw=s1600" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1600" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj0y42RUzVbm79Jamqh4W3tj5CaguVR0GafrI-l3NSzudPlDwklucyE656JCTr3b0jumXshNokMyW5W1nhEqXyiUFb9QUzsCyBpBZHKJ43Wl5ToX3kvYwpOBLJcRVoIbrz1Rbk-5oTarElWIlcAS1bHiRZML82TsqkcuREjAXq59-RXDKgCFtT9KeSw=w640-h360" width="640" /></a></div><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjxknDH1ySTLXJlMrF0LTajQ0W01BQypI7yv7t2HiNLI2kE4LNwar9A0ItcOB6JKshM2QrqDTjzmIPXeA7XWnvGq23wA1AxZeIwXIOjDWUmFEbnKBcA4puIjYURMvQZfAqwA53W-P5ec_ge_jWV6WqYLAUzaEDle08nTTph1NGYPxevknkpMYX0besr=s1600" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1600" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjxknDH1ySTLXJlMrF0LTajQ0W01BQypI7yv7t2HiNLI2kE4LNwar9A0ItcOB6JKshM2QrqDTjzmIPXeA7XWnvGq23wA1AxZeIwXIOjDWUmFEbnKBcA4puIjYURMvQZfAqwA53W-P5ec_ge_jWV6WqYLAUzaEDle08nTTph1NGYPxevknkpMYX0besr=w640-h360" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Circles and cycles - far end, John Chesterman heading the table at his childhood home. </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.75px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></div>Gunnar Berghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451985764040900726noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2695748260936745505.post-37331679444608845632021-11-10T10:14:00.013-08:002022-03-10T14:57:16.719-08:00Rocks and Water<p style="text-align: justify;">Likely last warm day of the year ... so like most sane people, I moved rocks. <br /><br />As I said in my previous posting, wild rocks can be hard to herd - difficult to make them behave. I placed, replaced, adjusted, readjusted the rocks ... then stepped back to look and did it all over again maybe 47 times.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEge3V6C2d0XpGdBdcs4xvoUO0aeAh2mSxzByM5HW1l9Gy_4ESSgAhSQVoTKxrHBfkZHV37Zg3LBcxNejXObTaJsn9IMZ-bv3VwxYLkqeVh4G2Lf-MXdxdZshSAKSBTl-dUlfjL0Ks0gPL7fPmswcqlDbh_PuWsh23zlZNxJmhCLxWg-fJb74Mhw5ZdW=s1487" style="clear: right; display: inline; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1487" data-original-width="1115" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEge3V6C2d0XpGdBdcs4xvoUO0aeAh2mSxzByM5HW1l9Gy_4ESSgAhSQVoTKxrHBfkZHV37Zg3LBcxNejXObTaJsn9IMZ-bv3VwxYLkqeVh4G2Lf-MXdxdZshSAKSBTl-dUlfjL0Ks0gPL7fPmswcqlDbh_PuWsh23zlZNxJmhCLxWg-fJb74Mhw5ZdW=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">This is what I finally ended up with - sketched in the potential waterfall. I have the water shut off and the reservoir tank drained for the season so we will have to wait for Spring to see what it actually looks like functioning.</p><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Is it a river flowing out of the northern boreal forest dropping off the Precambrian bedrock<span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17.5px;"> </span></span>escarpment into a deep eroded runnel stream, falling off a spectacular shoreline cliff into the cold waters of Gitchigumi over centuries to seep deep into a subterranean aquifer?</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Or is it a rinky-dink rock garden rivulet draining into a concealed 40 gallon galvanized cow tank with a plastic lift pump? </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Either way - circles and cycles. </p><span><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Next, black landscape foam adhesive to anchor the smaller rocks, hard pack a mix of wet dirt and moss into the cracks. Then plant a low growing grassy carex, Pennsylvania Sedge, </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">and maybe some Blue-eyed Grass on the "headlands." </span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Give me a lever long enough, a place to stand, and I will move the world." </span><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"> - </span><span style="font-family: Homemade Apple; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;">Archie Medes</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #181818;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Moving rocks so you don't have to,"</span><span style="font-family: Homemade Apple;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Homemade Apple";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">- Gunnar Berg</span></span></div></span>Gunnar Berghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451985764040900726noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2695748260936745505.post-34660064579024397122021-11-02T08:30:00.004-07:002021-11-03T07:29:27.279-07:00Waterfall - After Spring Migration?<p style="text-align: justify;">I have been looking for low, flat weathered rocks of the correct color while at our other home in Lanesboro. Not much luck. I then realized I have enough rocks although they are 6" thick. I was imagining a 6" waterfall as it is now. Hell, why not a 12" waterfall - more of a statement instead of a trickle. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Here is a sketch of my planned upper falls. Of course it will only vaguely resemble this. It is tough herding wild rocks because they tend to have a mind of their own. </p><p><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhEsqNmZ0R8ORGmwaUlrOcQ-cR69oiUpmqYOuFkC4rUTsUKvg-0l22VB-Uo5WVug4WF3rUJxkRHSZglHqg9219u5eYCbCtzbzdjlA0mOBnIAoMJW5AtULd5dbi_n7aJfhFa15A96NpBtVZ8R7o4FTwLDs6mCmsM4U1CxSfhA3zJlOioDjc9oeSQt85q=s2048" style="clear: left; display: inline; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1152" height="656" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhEsqNmZ0R8ORGmwaUlrOcQ-cR69oiUpmqYOuFkC4rUTsUKvg-0l22VB-Uo5WVug4WF3rUJxkRHSZglHqg9219u5eYCbCtzbzdjlA0mOBnIAoMJW5AtULd5dbi_n7aJfhFa15A96NpBtVZ8R7o4FTwLDs6mCmsM4U1CxSfhA3zJlOioDjc9oeSQt85q=w369-h656" width="369" /></a></p><br />Gunnar Berghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451985764040900726noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2695748260936745505.post-33738466927619815572021-10-24T18:35:00.002-07:002021-10-24T18:39:14.952-07:00A Mountain Stream<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">Welcome, you are probably the few who would understand this, comprehend the insanity. This is a top view of the top portion of our water feature stream. The water use to squirt illogically from between and under a rock pile in the water course. Now it originates </span><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">from snow melt high in the mountains - on the upper left under the yew bush. It flows down a narrow canyon to the cliff edge and drops </span><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; color: #222222;">in a picturesque tourist favorite 5" </span><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">waterfall. <br /></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">Actually the water recycles in from the reserve tank in a flexible pipe right before it falls into the existing water course - which is currently filled with oak leaves. Also I need to spread the fake stream width just a little - jack the rocks apart a bit before the stream falls over the edge, and next Spring plant some giant d</span><span style="color: #222222;">oug</span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> firs on the </span>mountain<span style="font-family: inherit;"> slopes. Or a few stonecrop sedums.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhAgzvMCWtHkHqBbOQUmryXWta_lrYDxslU-A-g36X67lLIuBRhVbuIUK96ggFH9iUlAQNFNieD59gzDLiV0HQohyzFDSDlh8ySviHuXwEN10Wu5XExJLapEbkDxGpWYMFqusSDIU5UauVIGiBH3vmJCRLyKmTcms2lmd5FDeBOg0eBqKvQnINjF2r2=s2048" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1152" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhAgzvMCWtHkHqBbOQUmryXWta_lrYDxslU-A-g36X67lLIuBRhVbuIUK96ggFH9iUlAQNFNieD59gzDLiV0HQohyzFDSDlh8ySviHuXwEN10Wu5XExJLapEbkDxGpWYMFqusSDIU5UauVIGiBH3vmJCRLyKmTcms2lmd5FDeBOg0eBqKvQnINjF2r2=w360-h640" width="360" /></a></p><div><br /></div><div>Obsessively yours, </div><div><span style="font-family: Homemade Apple;">Gunnar</span></div>Gunnar Berghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451985764040900726noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2695748260936745505.post-91296580020681346112021-10-08T10:06:00.006-07:002021-10-13T07:45:35.733-07:00"Birder 2, this is Birder 1, over."<p></p><div style="text-align: justify;">When we are birding and separated, communication is often an issue. Silence being golden, hollering, whistling and pointing has proven to be less than satisfactory. I shopped around for electronic attention getters - buzzers, whistles, etc. I finally settled on these little walkie-talkies for $32 a pair. Really little more than toys, the reviewers complained about lack of range, which shouldn't be an issue for us. <br /><br />Now we have to review our radio protocol. "Breaker, breaker, good buddie? ", or the more formal military radio protocol, "Birder 1, this is Birder 2"? <br /><br />The only downside so far is that white and blue really ain't birder colors, but they missed the market niche and olive drab isn't an option. <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhwlSQaEJ4-JW2zWHz42zyGkP5ngvJxkT04MJPP4Kir7GTEfbxNBvpY_ve4X6OKqVhHlMYtFaSPIYqoXtxxmmBSdZvgyWtitJoGJSjRYNua-wh4Fd49TnloTCBgO1O3Lkq_4yE9jdYoGD-PYJS8SG_DeIWghiJ90ZCa1UUgIkTnNdTINtZUatM8uFc3=s2048" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1152" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhwlSQaEJ4-JW2zWHz42zyGkP5ngvJxkT04MJPP4Kir7GTEfbxNBvpY_ve4X6OKqVhHlMYtFaSPIYqoXtxxmmBSdZvgyWtitJoGJSjRYNua-wh4Fd49TnloTCBgO1O3Lkq_4yE9jdYoGD-PYJS8SG_DeIWghiJ90ZCa1UUgIkTnNdTINtZUatM8uFc3=w225-h400" width="225" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Birder 1: over, and out. </div><p></p>Gunnar Berghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451985764040900726noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2695748260936745505.post-48277211863576939222021-10-05T17:59:00.002-07:002021-10-05T18:44:39.163-07:00Spotted Towhee<p></p><div style="text-align: justify;">I have seen an Eastern Towhee in our yard once thirty years ago. Towhees are about as dressed up as a sparrow can get, so when a pair showed up today I was excited, snapping photos with one hand, calling Lorna on the cell with the other. Fixated on the male😖, I got some nice shots, as did Lorna.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">(Addendum: This has proven to be an out of range Spotted Towhee.)</div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCknL-WWOcEuVekEjGzcGIwW0uYZtwS8SCLOGNzr_FO7Xsu-EbyrTRrU6Dq07EZeraGWodHRUZntjV-Gbz1iDSNjjNOmlBpKeSaUxGnjTPfHCMboRbIDZt99VLednc5KHoXZpX1aGXSUs/s2048/DSC_1433.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCknL-WWOcEuVekEjGzcGIwW0uYZtwS8SCLOGNzr_FO7Xsu-EbyrTRrU6Dq07EZeraGWodHRUZntjV-Gbz1iDSNjjNOmlBpKeSaUxGnjTPfHCMboRbIDZt99VLednc5KHoXZpX1aGXSUs/w640-h480/DSC_1433.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLanYfau0FIJORCEC625TOfuts3GaPhXdqZg2_A3QGIxz5A33qJ83nEVpjh6jvxtleyFtOeg8_nKNL-oCpY1_BDNpmkprauH_IkiJoBtwlw5ziKGs2wq5FQaWTeJ8VFF29REw6pzNrq1A/s2048/DSC_1426.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLanYfau0FIJORCEC625TOfuts3GaPhXdqZg2_A3QGIxz5A33qJ83nEVpjh6jvxtleyFtOeg8_nKNL-oCpY1_BDNpmkprauH_IkiJoBtwlw5ziKGs2wq5FQaWTeJ8VFF29REw6pzNrq1A/w640-h480/DSC_1426.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoHp79ZuS1KqL06-JGHtTbpVEQS97C1H6ejs3NMaKqoUnCeb_rCRJpVKCACtlI1un_Vq-_o1CGnEHguOj7TkEmVgx657wHdhMWFF6XnhxM5ZFeHpInrfiA0LJd-FY2eiTqtqEwnWdvcJY/s2048/DSC_1423.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoHp79ZuS1KqL06-JGHtTbpVEQS97C1H6ejs3NMaKqoUnCeb_rCRJpVKCACtlI1un_Vq-_o1CGnEHguOj7TkEmVgx657wHdhMWFF6XnhxM5ZFeHpInrfiA0LJd-FY2eiTqtqEwnWdvcJY/w400-h300/DSC_1423.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI6nQ-YqE2_mI_k1NSoB5zGIjvtFxncouLbIDR9WcbWFNkRVbTXzahDNT7ryUfBRTE0oEz3JG44xrFc7NBzO2Xb2BPuJPz2LXUsaPzxHlzkP9B6Y2TuxFd3N_8PwudpXYW7lFjNzEWQ7M/s2048/DSC_1419.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI6nQ-YqE2_mI_k1NSoB5zGIjvtFxncouLbIDR9WcbWFNkRVbTXzahDNT7ryUfBRTE0oEz3JG44xrFc7NBzO2Xb2BPuJPz2LXUsaPzxHlzkP9B6Y2TuxFd3N_8PwudpXYW7lFjNzEWQ7M/w400-h300/DSC_1419.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><br /><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Lucky boy, </div><div><span style="font-family: Homemade Apple;">Gunnar
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