Parade at Birchwood. Party at Birchwood friday night. Trick or Treat at Crossgates mall saturday afternoon. Night trick or Treating was pretty much a rain out.

This is the start of my 2010 motorsport master schedule.



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Sebring 1970 from the State Library and Archives of Florida

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1 Pound Leeks, sliced
2 Tablespoons Butter
1 Quart Stock
1 Pound Potato, peeled, cubed
Some Milk

Sweat leeks in butter until soft(salt, of course), add stock, boil, add potato, cook. Blend. Add milk, pepper if you want.

Or do it differently.

Waiting for soup.

We went to the Return of the Salmon Festival on Saturday at the Coleman National Fish Hatchery. This is when fall-run chinook salmon return to Battle Creek (and other creeks) to spawn and then die after spending several years in the ocean. We were told that this year's salmon run seems to be both better than last year (which was horrible) and better than expected, but still not all that great. There were also some steelhead coming through, but these were just measured and released upstream.


Holding tank for Salmon before they are brought in to the "Spawning Building":


The white stuff on them is a fungus. At this point in their life they don't eat and don't use any energy for healing wounds (as they would when in the ocean), so any injuries develop a fungal growth.

Chinook working their way up the fish ladder to the holding tank:


Rachel in the incubation room. The trays hold the fertilized eggs and have water constantly flowing through them.

The Coleman National Fish Hatchery releases 2 million chinook salmon each year and 200,000 end up returning to the hatchery. I would say that these statistics show pretty good survivorship.

Where's the soup?

Happy Birthday Jen! You're still older!

Philip

Happy birthday to Philip and Elliot!

Spent most of the day doing stuff and playing in the yard. Went to Union vs. Maine hockey game. Union wins 6-3.

The Homestead Grand Am race just got a lot more tolerable, courtesy of the Daytona Beach Police Department.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DONNIE

Albany based Tug the Crow pushing two Navy barges west on sunday.

Oliver had his Scooby Doo themed birthday party saturday. Kate and I stayed up till 4:30am friday night constructing this cardboard Mystery Machine. He also had a Mystery machine cake by Kate.

Donnie and Friends, Sheep for sale

Future Farmers and Goats