…and the airport we dive into sorting, loading, packing; Wednesday for L. is catch-up and for me strange sightings over the straits…
Two V22 “Ospreys”; our tax dollars hard at work…multi-billions in overruns for silly unsafe warbirds. Yee-hah! Freedom isn’t Free…but it just might be Dumb.
Thursday, following a sorry saga at Home depot, L. and her studio assistant Scott returned with a 26′ Penske into which we managed to fit plywood and my paintings
…and I still made it to the jetty by cycle before four
…downstream,
upstream…
…and home.
Friday, windy morning;
Highway 37 to…
101 north to Paradise Ridge Winery north of Santa Rosa,
a Paradise where the Free Frame of Reference lives on; odds are nobody here’s heard of the Diggers or interested in their notions of freedom at this late date. Weird then, weirder now.
We were there to take down “Crackle”
…and “Planetesimal”
…with a chaotic crew whose views of their respective competencies vastly exceeded actuality.
Attau they weren’t, but the dog was sweet and despite many contradictory ideas gratuitously offered everything, miraculously without damage or injury, made it into the truck by lunch…
After which we, or mainly Scott, spend another hour + tying it off
before heading south to the ridiculous standstill traffic between Black Point and Vallejo, adding an hour to our return…
Home at last, and a last dinner down First…
Saturday loaded small trucks, last provisions, last bikeride [in rain!]
…and, all that done, time to head off into the sunset except, the West being to the east,
…it will be sunrise, or shortly thereafter.
for sure…
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Are the chairs part of Planetesimal? And, Hey!, at least the Osprey is flying. It is a perfectly good weapon as long as we keep it away from combat.
The chairs more or less went with Crackle, I think…but as soon as they got here Linda put wheels on them and now they’re for scooting around inside the Repository…
I’d read that several/numerous marines died in Ospreys; not in combat, just flying around in them…or failing to fly around in them
A saga at Home Depot…do tell!!
Sad to see Crackle collapse…loved the photos!
Home Depot seemed the closest access to Penske trucks, but the one computer terminal dedicated to that was also the only computer dedicated for customer service; this resulted [oh also the computer was malfunctioning much of the time] in long long lines for complaints, returns, truck rentals and truck rental returns.
It would have been way quicker to cross the bridge to Concord…