@ShiroKuro - Something like this? It's what @Mary-Anna is talking about, I think. [image: aea1dc2735f2ff3e0fc3bc8a89421e7f.jpg]

It was quite spectacular. Several pianos, some Steinways, were out in the pouring rain. I thought the bridge runway was particularly good design.

Cool!

JFK Jr.? Children’s health? End the chronic disease epidemic? Isn’t he the anti-vax guy?

Every now and then I put my silver (the stuff I put in the dishwasher) into an aluminum foil lined sink, dump some salt and baking soda on it, and then pour a kettle of boiling water on it. It removes most of the tarnish.

That's nothing compared to what has happened in the (geologically recent) past there. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_Caldera) Big Al

Yes, and I was building a vacation house for myself I’d like it even more. Scott’s good. But vacation houses are investments. They can be art projects but that’s not the part that makes money. I’ve seen far too many influencers try to convince people that the key to a great vacation rental investment is Venetian tile.

Wrestle with pigs…

Good article but the comments are making me crazy. Best I stop reading them.

I probably couldn’t bring myself to say that! But we’ve always gotten a discount when I said we just bought a house.

Fun!

I just got home to PDX from Chicago!

Too many Joes in this post. I think we should start referring to Joe B. and Joe M. like in primary school. Or we could also use Joe B. and Quisling. That also works.

Beautiful pictures. Would like to see that myself. Will check for lily allergy rating.

The books that made the biggest impact for me is a tough call. I suppose I'd have to say Ulrich Neisser's 1967 book Cognitive Psychology, whose focus and methods inspired my PhD and most of my career. But the most memorable books for me are novels, and they do vary. On the shortest list I would have to place Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda for its sheer imaginative force, and Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon for its spectacularly beautiful writing.