"In his domestic administration my father had this system . . . to keep a journal and insert in it all occurrences of any note . . . A record very pleasant to look at when time begins to efface the memory of events, and very well suited to get us out of perplexity: When was such and such a thing begun? When completed? What retinues came? How long did they stay? Our trips, our absences; marriages; deaths; the receipt of happy or unhappy news . . . An ancient custom, which I think it would be good to revive, each man in each man's home. And I think I am a fool to have neglected it." (Montaigne, Book I, Essay 35 (publ. 1580))

Saturday, August 30, 2008

One more storm photo . . .

. . . this shot (taken the morning after the storm discussed here, or Aug 29 (happy birthday to Charlie and to Michael Jackson)) is three blocks west of our house.

The view is south along 40th street (in the background you can see the trail we take straight south up into the mountains from the aptly named 40th street trail head). This row of felled power poles is maybe 200 feet from MB's front door?

I read they had power outages in this area. And that there were 100 mph gusts, very odd for this area.
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