A new chapter

My oldest daughter started college today. I'm very proud of her. Good luck, Meredith. Impress the hell out of them!

Essential Equipment

I finally acquired a vital piece of equipment for my workshop this morning at a local yard sale.

Father's Day

Recital

The girls are taking a mixture of voice/piano lessons, and there was an end-of-season recital yesterday. Emma sang "Homeward Bound" (not the Simon and Garfunkel one).

Unfortunately Meredith was not feeling well, or else we'd have her "Danny Boy" up here as well.

Dinner conversation

Tonight's dinner conversation included rules for different variations of dodgeball.

And now, an episode of Wild Kingdom...

I saw a hawk drop out of a tree and kill a mouse/mole on my way to work today. He then flew past me at the next set of lights and landed on the building where he and the wife are raising some chicks eyasses. (Yes, I'm assuming it's the male doing the hunting; yes, that's sexist).

The tree:
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The nest:
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The nest (not present in the above imagery) is on a small ledge just above and to the left of the 185. Every morning I see photographers out there taking pictures and I believe there is a webcam pointing at the nest from a few feet away. While not a live feed, this is a YouTube video about them, and contains footage from the camera:

Here's the Wikipedia article about them.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled Internet...

A day in Boston with friends

The day started out with dim sum at China Pearl, we escaped the cloudburst in Fanuiel Hall, and are now enjoy gelato at Gelateria in the North End. Life is good.