June
8, 2000 A beautiful sunny day. Not a cloud in the sky. Lots of stuff to do today
starting with a dump run, then picking up sand at Goodales to make concrete
for leveling off the floor at the base of the new Greenhouse stairs, then lunch
with Allen before we bring the nine sheep up to Chilmark. The most important
sheep is the bottle fed lamb Little Susie who is Sophia's special little friend.
They met during Easter Week at the Whiting Farm.
Got
to get to work now. Ah the fun of going on a garbage run. It is a bit more interesting
today because I'm going to pick up some of the sculptures I have at the Red
Cat and move them to Stripers before picking up Marianne's trash. Then after
the dump I'll stop at Goodales to pick up sand for making the concrete for the
Greenhouse project. All before having lunch with Allen and bringing the sheep
up to Wild Island. There is plenty of fresh green grass for them to eat.
Later: So many things happen that I even have images of but will never get the
time to process and get in here. It would be a lot easier if I had an electronic
camera from which I could download the pictures directly into my computer. As
it now works I have to save the video footage that I have shot into the computer
and then go though that footage to pick out the stills that I want to save as
bitmaps. Then I save those bitmaps onto a rewritable CD which I then take over
to my "Internet" computer - as opposed to my "Video Workstation"
computer. After adjusting, resizing, and changing the imagess into .JPG files
I am ready to use them in Dreamweaver where I create these web pages. As you
can see, Marianne also uses the "Internet" computer to send e-mail:
One
of the things I love most about this time of the year is the early evening light.
The days last so long that I took these pictures around 8PM.
.The
iris are blooming everywhere:
