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Yesterday I went out in the morning to water the plants in the hope it would then rain. My hopes were cruelty crushed. Today I went out during the morning to water the plants in the hopes of rain. Good gracious – it is raining!

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It is snowing -- on the 14th of MAY??? -- Oh, no, it is the cottonwood letting its seeds float on the wind. How lovely to see, but how many seedlings will we have in the future?

When I sit at the computer our male dog comes by and lays down to keep me company. It is such a nice feeling seeing him laying there besides me even if it looks like as if he is asleep. But then just let me get up and go someplace and up and about he is. It is so lovely having a kind and gentile companion around.

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Went to the local plant nursery. To my absolute delight discovered a plant I remember from my early childhood. Mother and I were in East Prussia in the general area of what is now called Kaliningrad. At that time the plant reached to my chest however it is only about 2 or 3 feet high.(I was less than 6 years old.) Seeing this plant in flower reminded me of that time – by the way the name is Campanula medium or “Cup and Saucer”

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Our car suddenly would not start last night on the way home from the Healys. We had stopped at Albertson for milk and when we got into the car it refused us. After about 45 minutes waiting we tryed it again and this time it would start and away we went back home. Stuart helped us but he was equally baffled by the incident.

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Put some new photos on my blog partly because of my involvement with the King City, OR, subcommittee on trees. This will be an interesting experience and I now can go onto the golf course.

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Update on the SETI program: The constant action in the computer might case the system to heat up. Is there a problem with over using the system so that it will not last that long. Even in electrical systems when you don’t use them, they last longer than a heavily used ones. So as an alternative I have decided and implemented the following: In the evening I put the BOINC program into a snooze mode and then turn the computer off, but during the day hours it is free to run because there is no problem of using the computer at any time I want to and it needs to be on because of Velda’s printing needs. I hope that this 50 / 50 solution will at one hand help the calculations and at the other hand give the computer a rest.

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Installed two new programs on my computer. The first one is called “Stellarium” and it is supposedly giving the local sky at the present time. Well, it took me a while to get it to be the local sky since the program insisted I was living in Paris, France. After this little misconception had been cleared up the program now presents the local picture of the sky. It even identifies the planets and some of the brighter stars by name. The problem as I see it is: the program picks up the local date and time from the computer and during daylight hours shows you that the sun is up. Well, I can see that when I look out of the window clearly. Its not what I am interested in at the moment.

The second program is called “BOINC” and connects to a computer someplace (Berkeley?) and analyses the information gathered by a radio telescope. This is part of the “SETI” program (Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence). First thing BOINC does is to disconnect the screen saver and then it puts up the data being processed. In a sense one can see what is going on – as if it was of any particular interest or significance. The data just roles by and it is interesting to watch, but exactly what are you watching? So I turn off the power to the screen or monitor and let the computer do its work. I am glad to help.

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