Dinner

Goose necked squash. Lovely and sweet.

More street furniture

With a nice floral pattern.

Fish

No chips. ;)

Just chillin'

With the boys. ;)

Lovely day

In downtown San Francisco.

Nieman Marcus dome

Shoe

Almost looks like it is made of plasticine.

Just for a change

We're shopping.*

Mexican feast !!

She's made it

;D

:(

Her plane is delayed.

Statue at Millbrae

Millbrae is the station where you change from Caltrain to BART.

The statue is a representation of the '50's. Young baseballers, new
housing and big finned cars.

She's over there.

But heading this way. :)

It's cold out.

Uh huh

What's wrong with water ??

Big cheap crab

They look yum.

Cool old looking

Light bulb.

Ahh yep.

I'm sure there's something in that for all of us.

New work computer.

Obama in redwood City

On his way to a fundraiser at the local theatre.

Happy Birthday Mum.

Happy birthday, Mum!
I hope everyone can see,
What a great mom you’ve always been,
And how much you mean to me.


I always think about you,
In times both good and bad,
For the things you taught are with me,
In happy times and sad.


On your birthday I wish you joy,
Just like you pass around.
May all your good times multiply,
And happiness abound.

By Karl Fuchs

Eclipse photos

All photos taken with a Canon 40D and 100-400 lenses through a welding glass set to 14, hence the green tint.

Cock-eyed glass

At the Lobster shack.

Apparently they were all the rage 15 years ago.

Eclipse

Watching the eclipse through a welding glass. Very cool.

Visiting an icon

See the garage on the left ?!?

That's where HP started in 1939. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Garage

Pipe Rigate

They sort of look like crying baby monkeys. Maybe that's just me ...

Old lathe

Street furniture

Literally.

It's a terrible thing

To be lying in a hammock ...

There's your problem

Engineers + beer + popcorn machine = coffee roaster. ;)

New office

Evil clown

Really really evil.

Interesting book

New Toy

New Cooking Toy that is ...

Oooohhhh shiny ...

I tried Heston's vegetable stock, just a basic stock with leek, carrot, onion, mushrooms, fennel and celery. Herbs were just thyme and flat leaf parsley.

Butter was melted...

Vegetables were sliced and softened...

Water added, and the cooker brought up to pressure.

Here's the safety valve weight wobbling, which is what is it is meant to do.

(Click for movie)

After 20 minutes on simmer, the pot was taken off the heat and allowed to cool and release the pressure. The vegetables looked like this.

The flat leaf parsley was added and allowed to infuse for 20 minutes.

The result was a very flavourful stock.

I left a little of the stock in the vegetables and pureed them to make soup.

A very good haul from a couple of hours work. 2 kg of stock and 2 kg of vegetable soup.

Metal snowflake

Or weld splatter.

68 Brighton st

This is the house were I grew up.

Mum and Dad sold it and moved out 3 years ago.

It was going in March ....

And gone in April ...