Precinct Hartwood 101

Just 45 minutes left till the polls close — Tuesday, November 8th, 2011. For the officials, the day started here before 5am and we didn’t get out until 10pm. The two electronic pollbooks maintain a single data base through that “network bridge” but also operate a single ticket printer on the ballot table out of sight. Of 3,900 registered voters, just over 1,000 came to us to vote.
Last afternoon of daylight savings time
A table for two
Caught on camera
Front lawn by day
Automated slideshow of about a dozen shots, Oct 22 and 24, about 5pm both days. Scroll down a bit to see the whole frame. Rapidly left-click the picture to speed things up.
Front lawn after hours
Automated slideshow of several dozen shots, Oct 15-20. Scroll down a bit to see the whole picture. Rapidly left-click on the picture to speed things up.
Sandy’s woodland garden
Tomato Cage
Famous last words
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This is the creature which fell out of my shoe this morning after I got back to the house with the paper, aware of a growing pain on the top of my right foot. Its body is only two or three millimeters wide, but the sore spot on my foot is about an inch wide, where the skin is red and feels clammy. The soreness reminds me of severe sunburn I had on the tops of my feet at the beach once, years ago, but the entire foot has an ache also. Initially I thought it was a spider, but now I think maybe not. Perhaps it got into my shoe from the compost heap, where I had been to dump lawn clippings Thursday evening. [Update, Sunday morning: I added the third photo, since I was still alive, and the insect is still dead. My foot seems to be recovering — less red, less achy, less itchy, and the very minor swelling has now gone.]








