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Aug. 29th, 2022 08:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rebeccmeisterMaybe just 1-2 photos each instead of full posts since I seem to have fallen behind and with the semester about to begin, I may never catch up.
1. Foster Island walk, especially the underside of the 520 bridge, maybe also the video of the Montlake Bridge going up (because I am 5 years old and love watching drawbridges, and maybe you are 5 years old, too).
2. Mom's amazing garden. Holy zucchini, Batman!
3. Photos of photos: Mt. Rainier hike back when L was an exchange student staying with us; a favorite set of print photos. There's a lot more that could be said about these. These are the only photos I found that had Kath in them. There are more on Flickr.
4. Rowing at the Lake Washington Rowing Club:
5. Amazing weekend kayak camping trip to Schodack Island withscrottie, including new Bridge Club bridges!
We found a weather balloon!
We also watched the train bridge open up for the Captain JP III....and then have issues closing again, with a train honking somewhat impatiently. I filmed that, too, but don't have time to post it yet.
Got to get things set up for teaching next week, and we need to wrap up this leafcutter experiment, too. Busy times, but hopefully a good collection of memories to carry me through the darker days of fall and winter.
1. Foster Island walk, especially the underside of the 520 bridge, maybe also the video of the Montlake Bridge going up (because I am 5 years old and love watching drawbridges, and maybe you are 5 years old, too).
2. Mom's amazing garden. Holy zucchini, Batman!
3. Photos of photos: Mt. Rainier hike back when L was an exchange student staying with us; a favorite set of print photos. There's a lot more that could be said about these. These are the only photos I found that had Kath in them. There are more on Flickr.
4. Rowing at the Lake Washington Rowing Club:
5. Amazing weekend kayak camping trip to Schodack Island with
scrottie, including new Bridge Club bridges!We found a weather balloon!
We also watched the train bridge open up for the Captain JP III....and then have issues closing again, with a train honking somewhat impatiently. I filmed that, too, but don't have time to post it yet.
Got to get things set up for teaching next week, and we need to wrap up this leafcutter experiment, too. Busy times, but hopefully a good collection of memories to carry me through the darker days of fall and winter.
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Date: 2022-08-29 02:18 pm (UTC)I've always loved bridges so perhaps I'm still five years old.
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Date: 2022-08-29 06:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-09-01 04:36 pm (UTC)That's so cool that you found the weather balloon! Did you mail it back? Is there any information there on what in particular it was studying?
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Date: 2022-09-01 06:42 pm (UTC)https://goo.gl/maps/KUdT1MMm1dvYtHKd8
When I was a kid, Duck Bay was a grassy area with a handful of trees and an eroded bank. We did, literally, used to feed the ducks right there. At this point it's so overgrown you hardly know there's water in there! That particular segment of trail isn't particularly amazing, but does lead back towards the Visitor's Center and Azalea Way. The region to the west of Duck Bay used to be a casual sex hookup destination. Maybe it still is? I don't know. We basically never went over there as kids, and I don't know if that's because adults discouraged us or because we concluded there wasn't much of interest in that part of the park, heh. One of the 520 Ramps to Nowhere also ended over there and adventurous people could jump off it into the water before it got torn down.
So much personal history in the area.
We did mail back the weather balloon - there wasn't much info about what data it was collecting, specifically. S says that they fill them with a gas mix to favor some specific height so they can track wind speed and direction, then the balloon explodes and the parachute is supposed to help salvage the instruments. In this case, however, the parachute didn't fully deploy properly because its string must have tangled in the balloon shreds. But it may not have mattered if the instruments landed directly in the river.