A couple months ago, before we left 8002, I took pictures of the garden, including the Silk Floss tree that we grew from seed (see last years post). On our return, the Silk Floss tree has grown a lot; here’s my attempt to frame the picture the same:
Stepping back enough to see the whole tree, and close-up of the spikes on the trunk:
If it grows this much in two months, what’s it going to be like next summer?!
Now just a couple of weeks from our move to Florida, Greasy’s Garage today was a perfect place for a last get together with MINI friends, including Pete, Theo, John, Thom, Reed, Ivan, … I also got to watch Ivan get various changes to his nicely colored MINI Coupe, including fog light reprogramming by Theo, and removal of a resonator by Pete, to increase exhaust growl:
A bit sad to be leaving my friends, but with luck I’ll meet them again, and meanwhile meet new MINI friends in Florida.
Margaret has done more and more packing this past week while I work, and we’re getting close now to having packed everything except the kitchen and clothing, ie: things still in use!
There’s a few clusters of packed boxes in the house, down in the basement, and upstairs in the guest bedroom which is now without a bed so a good place to stack boxes!
The big black frame on the right is a second bench test rig cart, for use in Florida; it works much better than the simple shelves I have at 8002 right now (allowing easy access to connections behind), and Matt, Michel and Tim assembled it over the last few weeks ready for the move.
Meanwhile in the living room, we unplugged the amplifiers and speakers today, leaving just the television connected to Apple TV, which anyway is pretty much our only source of TV entertainment! Leaves the room a bit bare, and sounds much worse …
M&I / GBMINI 