Author: Eric

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West Broad Map Header

UPDATE update: Ooops! I got mixed up and thought it was NORTH Harris, sorry. I have readjusted the view and am now pointing to the SOUTH Harris home with the empty lot beside it…how’s that look?

1st UPDATE: New map is now adjusted south to show West Broad itself, and green arrow shows approximate site of the homestead. I slightly darkened the images behind the title, and I think that helped a lot.

Tommy wanted me to zoom in, but when I do that, I lose West Broad completely. You can check it out by clicking the thumbnail below.

Zoom on Harris Ave.

What do you think about the new header for the Rector Web Site?? It’s a satallite image of the old Hilltop neighborhood around West Broad, with an approximate pointer to the family house? Has any one else made the pilgrimage recently? Click on this thumbnail of the picture Marcus took when we visited there last October to see a larger version.

I’m open to other ideas of header images, expecially if you want to send contributions for header images (make sure they’re 760 pixels wide, and 200 pixels tall — JPG or PNG or GIF will work)

–E

Unknown White Male

Unknown White Male

Unknown White Male (2005 )
Directed by Rupert Murray
Genre: Documentary
Tagline: If you lost your past, would you want it back?
Plot Outline: The true story of Doug Bruce who woke up on Coney Island with total amnesia. This documentary follows him as he rediscovers himself and the world around him.
Credited cast: Doug Bruce …. Himself

IMDB Page — iFilm Page

An unknown white male, mid-thirties in age, wakes up on a New York subway train passing through the environs near Coney Island, the last stop on the line. He is in wholly unfamiliar surroundings, industry and apartment blocks, gritty. At the end of the line, he has the facility to find his way off the subway to the street, he has no idea where he is, who he is or what to do about it.
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Formaggio Rustica Romano

Cottage Cheese
Ingredients:

milk
hot pepper seeds
salt
olive oil

Process:

1. Ten months ahead of time, plant two seeds in a small pot. Any cayenne type of hot pepper will do — Super Chile 100, or Matchbox are good varieties, especially for northern climates. Make sure it stays warm and moist with plenty of sun. If both seeds germinate, thin the smallest seedling before it gets its second set of leaves. Transplant remaining plant outside after threat of frost once the seedling is over four inches tall.

[It might be a good idea to call Brian and Valerie this far ahead of time to arrange access to Rougette de Pignan olive oil, and Sel de Guerande aux algues “Les Ouessantines” salt, just to make sure its on hand when you will need them…they make this dish extra special.]
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corridor of caps

I’ve amassed some caps over the years.

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Go Sox! Purchased at the souvenir shop across from Fenway Park. MLB model with no adjustment strap.

Go Giants! Purchased at Candlestick Park. The pins are for special games and such (like first interleague game vs. A’s, viewed in Tom’s corporate Tri Valley box [see future cap]).

SAAB A Christmas gift from Tom.

Fenway Park 75th Anniversary… passed out at the annual Patriots Day Game.
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Heat With Wood

Maine Masonry Heater

We heat primarily with wood in Maine, and for those of you who haven’t visited (yet!), we burn most of that in a gigantic brick box (called a “masonry heater” or a “Finnish Fireplace”) parked in the middle of our kitchen/living room, which makes up most of our house’s ground floor. The theory is that instead of using the intense, but intermittent (only hot when a fire is burning), heat of a steel wood stove to heat the house, we heat a big thermal mass (most of the brick box is a labyrinth of flues to best capture the heat of the fire) that radiates a low-level, but constant, amount of heat. We fire it twice a day, but it is warm/hot 24 hours a day, which the cats have definitely noticed.
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Go Dogs!

“Is that a Portland Sea Dogs cap?”

I”m standing in line at the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market bank machine. Forgot to bring money this Saturday.

Winter is a strange time at the market. We”re looking at winter vegetables and stuff that stores well – beets, carrots, cabbage and the like — not the most exciting selection. Of course there is always meat and cheese and eggs and citrus. Way fewer farmers show up, there are no tourists and only the most die-hard shoppers, like me, bother to show up.

“It is,” I said.
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Unique Art in San Francisco

Recently, I went to see three new pieces of art in San Francisco that couldn”t be more different from each other; four, if you count the de Young Museum, itself.

de Young entrance

The new de Young museum opened in San Francisco in October and I took my first trip to check it out last week. The architects are Herzog & de Meuron, a Swiss firm well known for its museums, but this their first in the United States. John King’s review is especially interesting.

Two pieces of art were commissioned for the opening: An installation by Andy Goldsworthy in the entry court, and a huge mural by Gerhard Richter at one end of the lobby. Continue reading “Unique Art in San Francisco” →

Snow In Maine

Snow in Maine

After several rainstorms that had washed all of our existing snow away, today it finally snowed again in Maine, and all looks right with the world again. It was big slow fluffy soap-flake snow, exceedingly squeeky with every step.

–E