28 Hyatt Rd - 2008
How to make a GPS movie
April 25, 2008
new highspeed camcorder (casio ex-f1) - titmouse - cardinal
1 - cardinal 2 - blue jay
cardinal 1 - 2
April 26, 2008
squirrel leap 1 - 2
black bird (grackle?)
May 19, 2008
Carolina wrens again! eggs
May 21, 2008
mother bird in nest - fly
out of nest - eggs
May 29, 2008
Hatched! 1 -- 2 -- 3
Movies 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 - 11
May 30, 2008
Bird pictures - mother in nest - babies 1 - 2 -
3 - 4 - 5
May 31, 2008
baby
birds 1 - 2 - 3 - ma & pa
on a wire
song (probably the male)
Squirrel leaps 1 - 2 - 3
June 1, 2008
feather development - eyes open
bird on a wire with song (probably male) - two
birds on wire (2nd is probably
female)
feeding
300 frames per second - take off from wire, singing, hopping
June 2, 2008
chin feathers - body feathers
feeding meal worms and waste removal
June 3, 2008
more wing feathers - head feathers
finding a meal worm and feeding it
June 4, 2008
more feathers
on top for a while
We took one out (using a spoon and chopsticks!) - picture - movie
tail feathers - wing feathers
wouldn't go back in nest - another one came out and
they slept outside the nest
June 5
outside the nest (6 am)
feeding out of nest
scratching
inside the nest (8 am) - somehow they got back in!
June 6
oh no! one of them fell out the window. but we couldn't find it so it must have
been ok
four birds left
close-ups 1 - 2 - 3. Underneath 1 - 2
June 7
last nest picture
morning - they're all flying around, trying to get out
so close
haven't mastered the concept of windows - 2 - 3
close-ups 1 - 2 - 3 - 4
flying around, getting captured etc 1 - 2 - 3 - 4
last feather picture - underneath the wing
set free on deck 1 - 2
fly away
empty nest
Rindy, Linda Runft, Dave Carroll, Rachael Norris - teaching FIR course
June 8
Movie club - "Casino Royale"
June 13
The refrigerator: it hasn't been working. A repair guy from RD Crane found
that the fan which blows cold air from the coils into the refrigerator had
broken off: freezer unit - fan
motor without fan - broken fan. He ordered
the fan on June 11, but it hadn't arrived by today, so we tried to fix it
ourselves! We glue gunned the fan back on, but the refrigerator still wasn't
getting cold enough. We ended up taking apart most of the insides and clearing
out ice and drying off water - 1 - 2.
And by next morning, the refrigerator was cold again. Success!
New project - what is in this box??? 1 - 2 - 3 - 4. Trying to figure out how to use it. -- info
June 14
moth at screen door
bird hopping and take offs 1 - 2 - 3 - 4
Squirrel Fight!
Squirrel landings 1 - 2
bird landings and take offs 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5
June 15
Squirrel take off
June 16
The dinghy / "9 foot whaler" as it has looked
for the past few years - originally Jorge's boat, Joe has been keeping it outside
the fly lab
Bob and Blair helping to move it
In the U-Haul
In the water! Needs a little cleaning
The movers: David, Bob, Blair, Mark
June 18
Motor goes on the "Vesicle" - 1 - 2 -
with a lot of shelp from Sid
First voyage -- the
movie! -- with John Henson
(forgot to take pictures during) - returned
safely - John tieing up boat - (the
new engine has to be broken in, so we didn't push it)
June 19
Sid makes a seat for the boat!
June 21
Movie Club - "Little Miss Sunshine"
June 22
Rindy swims with GPS! The "little swim" at Gansett.
We squirt a squirrel - first time. He got hit several times after that and finally
bailed out
Another session - doesn't seem to mind that much!
At the feeder: cardinal - pigeon
June 23
Peter is here! Rindy makes smoked bluefish
June 29
Blue jay
We capture a big insect
Dinner: Jorge isn't here, and Peter wants to see if he can cook some of the Jorge
classics!
We went to store to get "cheep beef", but which one would Jorge pick??
1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5
Peter's chimmichurri (with some advice from Joe)
Peter in action - meat on the
grill
Pasta (Lucia), takoyaki (Mark,
Teresa, Katie), sausages / cheep beef, grilled
eggplant (Peter), garlic bread (Katie)
At the table 1 - 2 - 3
"The Hyatt"
Going home
Movie: Planet Earth - shallow seas, great plains
July 1
special dinner: pesto pasta (Lucia) - grilled
fish (Peter) - salad (Peter)
Lucia/Peter - Marina/Lucia
- Peter/Teresa
July 3
Another voyage of the "Vesicle", Marina,
Peter, MT. Still too windy to go out of Eel Pond. Marina drives boat the second
half.
Boat improvements - oar, rope, toolbox.
Sushi at Peking Palace 1 - 2 (a
farewell dinner for Lucia)
July 4
Peter does the BBQ! - Victor - steaks
and sausages - chicken
Wii - Flute performance by Teresa
Followed by fireworks viewing on golf course
July 9
Sid installs the new bird feeder he made -- 1 - 2
July 10
gutter repair has started
July 12
Chaitanya cooks up a storm (with some help from Peter) - 1 -
2 - 3 - 4 -
5 - 6
Russian delicacies
Wii
at the table - vodka! 1 - 2 - 3
July 13
The big swim gps (Rindy and Rachael)
Dinner - Guests of honor: Marina's parents. Tamara, Chaitanya, Rachael, Rindy;
Mark Bathe for dessert.
Peter BBQ - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4
Chaitanya indian items 1 - 2
On the deck - 1 - 2 - 3
Dessert (kiev cake, mousse pie) 1 - 2 - 3
Drawing of tree from deck by Marina's father Felix
July 16
gutter preparation 1 - 2
July 17
Dinner at Kats' cottage
kara-age, vegetable tempura, squid
salad, homemade tofu, fish
in foil, chocolate tofu
pie!
Oshinagaki (menu, written by Emi)
Sid and Kats, Harish, Emi, Misaki and Minato, Susu
July 18
Mark makes sushi - Tomo makes niku-jagu
Group (peter took picture) - Tomo and Peter
July 23
weekly shopping cart for the europeans (notice sign
of americanization!)
Chaitanya farewell dinner, cooked by Chaitanya!
Teresa, Tamara -- Chaitanya
checks the biriyani -- cucumber salad -- chicken
"parts" -- Peter, Tamara, Tina -- Peter,
Mark B -- Tomo, Peter
And, to celebrate his Science paper, Chaitanya opens the champagne
July 26
Gutters are done! 1 - 2 - 3
Bird feeder back in action - another squirrel leap
July 27
Ellenbergs, Galbraiths, Commonses plus Reese lab students dinner
Meat for the BBQ - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4
It looks like rain, so we put up a tarp on the deck! - 1 - 2 - 3
It does rain, and Jim gets into the act - 1 - 2 -
3
The tarp works!
Dinner - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4
Popeye
Liquid N2 sorbet - 1 - 2 - 3
August 3
A squirrel is trapped in the house! - 1 - 2
August 5
Boxing!
Dessert! (made by Lara and Hannah) - closeup
August 6
Gail and Rindy make a fish soup 1 - 2 - rouille -
roasted peppers go in
August 8: Ellenbergs dinner - takoyaki - cod with potatoes
August 9: A grackle is trapped in the house! - trying
to escape - still - caught
in a tablecloth - closeup
Squirrel on windowsill
August 10: High-speed movie of popcorn
August 13: Removal of old dishwasher - gone - new dishwasher
August 17: Squirrel gymnastics - 1 - 2 - 3 (best)
August 21: Big package delivered - assembly of contents
August 24: Bbq lamb + new dish: grilled greens with shallot/wine vinegar/oil and pistachio sauce.
August 28: What's in those bags? (back of Tom's car). Close up.
August 31: A green bug in the house - 1 - high mag - 2 - high mag
September 1: MT takes a walk
September 2: Joe at 7:30 am - on his way to his first lecture as Assistant Professor at Providence College! "I haven't woken up this early in years!"
September 6: Hurricane season - time lapse from August 7 to September 5 (from NOAA), see date at bottom of picture. Notice "Ike" coming in from the right on the last couple of days
September 8: Rindy makes a gazpacho - sushi - Rachael - champagne to celebrate Rachael / Rindy's paper
September 19: The street lamp has been burned out all summer and it has been difficult to negotiate the steps between the street and house. This LED lamp goes on for 10 seconds then automatically shuts itself off. Circuit 1 -- 2. Not quite ready for prime time, but a good project for next summer (also for path to flylab).
September 20: A hen in the front yard! 1 - 2 - Cleaned (more or less) - veal - bbq vegetables - tomato salad - cookies (by MT; actually, the non-burned ones tasted good!)
September 21: Smoked bluefish, baby bok choy, mushrooms, basmati. - Rachael and Tom - Rindy and Joe.
September 22: Another dinner - miso soup with hen of woods - mushrooms with tofu umeboshi sauce - sashimi - fried eggplant with edamame sauce
October 5 - how to make Borscht, by Slava Nikolaev (as recalled, hopefully correctly, by MT a week later). Heat some water with some meat in it (in this case pieces of pork we found in freezer). chop onions. saute onions. saute carrots. grate beets. saute beets. chop cabbage, add to water. after 10 min, chop potatoes, add to water. after 10 min, add sauteed onions, carrots, beets. cook 5 min, then it's ready
October 6 - leftovers for lunch before driving off - cutting mushrooms - borscht - ratatouille - blini - Slava and Rindy
October 7 - the Sunfish - I guess we're leaving it on the yacht club beach once more - it's close to the yacht club - view towards yacht club - view away from yacht club - drain underneath (for identification) - forgot to take picture of deck, it is bright blue so it should be easily identifiable. sail in basement
