Monthly Archives: October 2008

The words to Lucy’s song

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In the below video where Lucy is singing in a yellow dress, here are the words of her song (for those of you who don’t understand Klingon 🙂 –

“Let no one look down on your youthfulness, but rather in speech, conduct, love, faith and purity; show yourself an example to those who believe.” 

I’m sorry that I can’t remember the exact reference – but it was the Apostle Paul’s words to Timothy, to give him encouragement as he was a very young missionary.

I (Toby) learned that song when I was 11, at Forest Home.  Neat how some things stick, isn’t it? 

Google Street View

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Google Street View is a feature of Google Maps and Google Earth that provides 360° panoramic street-level views and allows users to view parts of selected cities and their surrounding metropolitan areas at ground level.  (from Wikipedia)

Someone went by and took pictures of the neighborhood most of Carpinteria, but when I key in my address, Google shows the alley (Cedar Place) in back.  If you follow the arrows around the block you can get to the front of the house.  It looks like these pictures were taken at the end of last year, as the scaffolding on the East side came down around January 2008.

Here is a link to 4922 8th Street, which seems to be the closest one can get to the actual address.

http://tinyurl.com/3zaptg

Something Wonderful

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Can you see something wonderful in the picture below?  I can.

If you look closely, you will see that the shop vac is plugged directly into the wall. That’s right. We have power upstairs. Edison was onsite on Friday, 10 Oct 2008, to switch the electrical service from overhead to underground. When they did this the new meter box was energized and power was on!. The Edison planner was sooo happy to close out this project. He made his first site visit in September of 2006. I wonder if having the project open for so long affected his ‘stats’. I took great pleasure in rolling up the extension cords that have served so faithfully. Good riddance!

We have begun to do the furnishings of the new areas. Max and I assembled two bookshelves for the loft and hung a shelf in the powder room. Also, I cleaned the glass doors upstairs. It took almost 2 hours to clean the six glass doors, inside and out. I was doing the work in the late afternoon when the sun was streaming through those windows, so I was aware of every little streak. This cleaning was mostly to get all the grime off. I’ll shine the windows later.

Lucy-ism

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Our friend Kevin Callaway has a fun hobby in the Autumn.  He has an apple press that he uses to make his own apple cider.  He throws in the apples, grinds them up and presses out the juice.  We are grateful to have received the fruit of his labors in the years past.  This year, he brought over some fresh cider in a 2-liter bottle. 

This morning, Lucy asked me for some juice to drink with her breakfast.  I got out the cider from Kevin, and she commented on the bottle and how it was different from the normal bottle (TreeTop Apple Juice from Costco).  When she took her first sip, her eyes opened wide and a big grin spread across her face.  She said, “Dad, this tastes just like real apple juice!”