Tuesday, August 31, 2010

More installation! Doing the shelves in the office, should make it much, much more roomy and efficient to work in. It is a small room, for two desks and work areas, but these shelves will help tremendously.

Location: 46.724386,-117.164313

Monday, August 30, 2010

Shopping for some shelves for our Palouse/WSU abode at my favorite store, down in Lewiston, Idaho.

Location: 46.398422,-116.996085
Out looking for Raptors, between Moscow-Pullman Airport Road & Palouse Ridge Golf Course. Found a Golden Eagle, yippeeee

Location: 46.733109,-117.134875

Saturday, August 28, 2010

Ahh, finished with the desk assembly, Diane has arranged the office a bit, and we've got the printers up and running, so now we have our own place to study.

Location: 46.724351,-117.164438

Friday, August 27, 2010

Finished! Two desks assembled and ready for study. Sorry about the huge light problem, probably would have been much, much better had I used fill lighting. I'm just not used to my iPhone having a flash.

Location: 46.724348,-117.164260

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Today I'm at home, assembling the first of two desks we purchased off Amazon.com. Quite a process, but I'm about done, so won't be long and we'll be able to study at home, in our very own office

Location: 46.724432,-117.164412

Wednesday, August 25, 2010


Today I'm home waiting for the UPS and FedEx deliveries, and assembling furniture in the meantime. This our dining room table, then 4 chairs to assemble, then two desks, then a coffee table, and 2 end tables. So... until then!

Location: 46.724411,-117.164428

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Today I am "personing" the fort. FedEx is scheduled to deliver our office desks today, so this is where I'm holed-up, the "dining" room of our on-campus abode. My MacBook Pro, and my Nikon D90... a tape measure, what more could I possibly need!

Location: 46.724409,-117.164391
The "mall" on the campus of Washington State University on the first day of classes for the fall semester of 2010. Heading down to Diane's office, to walk with her back to our townhouse for lunch. A beautiful day!

Location: 46.730015,-117.162088

Sunday, August 22, 2010


On the first leg of a tour of SE Washington, driving from Pullman to Walla Walla. This is the first leg, Colfax, Washinton. The county seat of Whitman County, where we also live. A great trip, today.

Location: 46.883901,-117.364597
Helping new students move into Stephensen Dorms (three towers worth) as WSU Volunteers. This is the leader of this day's volunteers, "Matt", a grad student in School Administration.

Location: 46.726062,-117.165842

(apologies for the very poor iPhone photography!)
Today finds me "" personing" the American Red Cross booth with Ana and Gary. This is the second day of "the Lentil Festival" in Pullman. We are located in Reaney Park in downtown Pullman. I'm a Disaster Action Team member, as well as a Disaster Shelter Volunteer & Manager, with the American Red Cross

Location: 46.731305,-117.173193
The "back-side" of our Yakama Village townhouse on the campus of WSU. I'm on my way over to meet Diane for lunch, at the All WSU Picnic out on the MooBerry Track. I'd stuck around the townhouse for both FedEx and UPS to make their deliveries.

Location: 46.724482,-117.164067

Thursday, August 19, 2010

This morning I went looking for Grizzly bears. WSU has a conservation project which involves the study of Grizzlies, misplaced Grizzlies from Yellowstone. Once I finished at their pens, I drove out past the Pullman - Moscow airport, and came upon three of these beasts devouring wheat, here in the Palouse

Location: 47.744397,-117.05280
This morning I went on a quest to find combiners working in the Palouse. This scene, with four of the huge harvesters working in this field was in the vicinity of the Palouse River road, between Pullman & Moscow, Id.

Location: 46.671835,-117.134436

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Today finds me heading over to have lunch with Diane at the CUB, she invited Tara to join us. Nice time, can't say I think very much of the food served there, thus far.

I'm crossing "Stadium Way" in a walking fly-bridge. That's the Smith Center for Undergraduate Education (CUE) on the left.

Location: 46.728716,-117.161825

Monday, August 16, 2010

Today, I'm at home. Just arrived home, went over to Todd Hall, met Diane, then to the CUB (Compton Union Building) for a latte. Took some WSU campus shots on the way home. This is our Yakama Village townhouse, on the campus of Washington State University, which we will be calling "home" for the tenure of Diane's PhD program.

Location: 46.724245,-117.164472

Saturday, August 14, 2010

So what is life without Hummingbirds! I'm in Henry's Ace Hardware, Pullman, Washington searching for just the right feeder, one that attaches to a window. They'll be close, and the feeder will be discrete; I'm not sure Hummingbird feeders are allowed. Found a very nice one. Perhaps some day in the not too distant future, I may be able to add some photos of the hummers, so enticed.

Location: 46.724201,-117.164617
Today, it is unpacking boxes at our new abode on the campus of Washington State University. One of us is headed back to school, come Monday. This is the view from our front steps, the Palouse

Location: 46.724201,-117.164617
The most beautiful of drives, Boise to Lewiston, Idaho. We stopped here, Ridley's Market to take a bit of a break, and have some refreshments. It was a wonderful day to travel through this part of Idaho. Also, just prior to our stop here, took some great photos of some Osprey, one in-flight.

Location: 411 Deinhard Lane, McCall, ID 83638

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Fetched the trailer from South Park Shell in Fairplay. It is home, preparing to be loaded from our relocation to the Palouse.

Location: 39.146045,-106.035642
The view of Ogden, Utah. We've made it through our night in Price, Utah, and today we have cleared the traffic from Logan, Utah through Salt Lake and are headed to Boise, Idaho for the evening

Location: 41.210321,-111.982061
The trailer is loaded to the gills... just enough room remaining... "for a cancelled check!". Noon finds us in the throes of the very final touches of leaving our cabin. It was a beautiful day in South Park to be sure.

Location: 39.146045,-106.035642

Sunday, August 08, 2010

Winding down on the "packing" phase of our relocation. I've moved the boxes from the cabin to the garage. It just might work! Our tracking the aggregate cubic feet of what we've packed. Tomorrow morning I bring the U-Haul trailer home, and load it. I guess we'll see how well we've done!

Location: 39.146210,-106.035841
In the throes of packing the belongings we are taking with us to Pullman, Washington. This is the staging area in the ground level (basement) of our cabin. We are keeping track of the cubic foot of the containers as we are packing to assure they will all fit in the trailer we are renting and in our truck. Diane can't lift, Doctor's orders! A labor intensive task, to be sure!

Location: 39.146196,-106.036020
Heading north on Peoria St near I-70 in Denver. We have just received a very favorable prognosis from Diane's Retina Specialist, her detached retina has re-attached, and we are cleared to head out to Pullman, Washington. At the moment we are headed over to Bass Pro Shop to pick-up some ammo canisters, I have some ammunition to transport, so need some additional canisters.

Location: 39.781645,-104.894262

(Which is standing in front of Denver's Bass Pro Shop)

Thursday, August 05, 2010

Today finds us preparing to move from the mountains, to the Palouse. With Diane in this photo is Chris, who came up to our cabin to prepare an estimate for his moving company to pack and store all our personal items. The sun is very intense, and they are standing inside the garage looking into the sunshine.

Location: 39.146174,-106.035512

Wednesday, August 04, 2010

In 2003 we attended the Colorado State Fair in Pueblo. My first time at the Colorado State Fair. The "fair" was pretty much a bust. Not the animals and farm machinery, nor the quantity of vendor exhibits I'd become accustomed to, after many visits to the South Dakota State Fair in Huron, South Dakota. In spite of that "bust" of a fair, we came away having purchased a Jacuzzi for our cabin. This is that Jacuzzi J-350. We use it almost every day we are here at the cabin. Today however its time, well our time with it has come to an end. I'm draining it for the very last time. Kind'a sad, kind'a not... we are both pretty excited about our upcoming adventure/sojourn to the Palouse.

Location: 39.146225,-106.036026
Noon today found me in front of the grill, at our cabin. Those are my "special blend" Blueberry Pancakes. Their smell, with the added aroma of cooking bacon, permeate the cabin... and make it a cabin!

Location: 39.146051,-106.035370
This all started at 2 Eagles, our mountain cabin, and home since June 2002. We are very actively packing what we'll need for our 4 year sojourn to the Palouse.

Location: 39.146051,-106.035370