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October 9 to 21: Eating our way through Paris and the eastern Loire Valley.
October 5: PG&E sends out a crew to reconnect our power pole transformer to the high voltage line after the wind blew the connecting wire out of its tiepoint
August 6: Antique Radio Flea Market, put on by the CHRS at Foothill College
April 2: The Master Gardeners' Spring Garden Market
April 1: The Science Fiction Outreach Project tables, and the surroundings at Wondercon in San Francisco
March 4 through 6: Potlatch 20
February 26: Maxfield Parrish sunset
February 20: Atascadero, California, former utopian community of small farmers
February 18 & 19: Wine tour of Paso Robles
February 11 through 13: Corflu 28.

December 9: Pipes. Furnace pipes. Old 2.5 inch iron pipes that carry water and steam around our furnace, a steam boiler that heats our house through a 100-year old radiator system. Need work desperately, but nobody understands steam radiator technology any more.
August 28 to September 20: Our vacation trip to Australia, including the 2010 Worldcon in Melbourne, shown in short form in two sections: Melbourne to Alice Springs and Uluru to Sydney. Third album, number "C": Trains and boats and planes and machinery and travel vistas. Probably more albums later.
July 3: San Jose canceled its vastly popular fireworks show this year so that the populace would understand just how tight money was in the city's budget. Karen and I searched for replacements, and found one: the special Independence Day fireworks show at the San Jose Giants (minor league) baseball game on July 3.
February 8: Every year Brad Templeton hosts a party at which the Superbowl is recorded while we take a hike. On our return, we fast-forward through the game and examine carefully the commercials. The 2010 party was held at the new (still not quite fully open for business) headquarters of the Internet Archive.

November 3: Jon Singer's visit was the excuse for a trip to exotic grocers and a dinner featuring the results of the search. Gordon Garb came over to help eat.
November 1: We went to the World Fantasy Convention in San Jose, but I didn't take many pictures. Here are one image of the dealer's room and five of the fantastic cake made for Poe's 200th birthday.
September 26: We had bees, and arranged with a beekeeper [Mark Small at smallbees.com] to move them to an apiary at his location. The pictures show bees living in an architectural decoration; dead bees which had found their way into the house through the walls; and the man in the bee suit removing the tiles and vacuuming the bees up. There's a closeup of the very large combs, and the confused bees shown huddling together when they can't find the queen. The bees haunted the front of the house for a day and a half, and have now mostly gone away. Click for larger.
August 20: Mike's photos of our BBQ dinner party for visiting TAFF delegate Steve Green.
April/May: Karen's photos from Italy
January 31: A trip to the Farmers Market at Ferry Plaza, SF, and a Stairway Walk. Here.

November 8: Day of the Doon VI: A party for fans of Bonny Doon Vineyards. Food! Wine! Entertainment! Have I mentioned Wine? The Fire Dancers performed as night came and the Bonny Doon crew cleaned the place up.
July 4: The "Rose, White, and Blue" Rose Garden District Parade and Festival, celebrating July 4th in a modernized traditional way.
June 2: A memorial celebration of the life of Steve Cisler, held at Sanborn-Skyline County Park.
May 8: The introduction and preview presentation of the Babbage Difference Engine #2 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.

November 17: A Truffle Dinner (!)
October 26-28: Mike's photos from ArtCon (Art Widner's 90th Birthday party, and a Ditto). Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Also includes photos from Saturday Dinner at St. Orres, Art's House, a visit to Bowling Ball Beach, and Picturesque Scenes from Gualala, California, and The Breakers Inn (site of the party/Ditto).
July 21: A few pictures from our annual Summer Barbecue.

August 11: Mike's photos from the Survival Research Labs show at the end of the ZeroOne event.
August 8-11: Mike's photos from the art show, events and displays of the 2006 ZeroOne digital art conference and show in San Jose.
August 7-8: Mikes's photos from the Pacific Rim New Media Summit (PRNMS)
July 1-4: Mike's photos from Westercon 59 in San Diego, CA.
May 26-9: Mike's photos from Wiscon 30, Madison, WI.
February 19: Mike's photos from a walk through Wilder Ranch State Park, an unusually decorated building lot in Santa Cruz, and the Pacific Coast.

June: Mike's photos from the Master Gardener's tour of Napa and Sonoma counties, CA.
May 28-31: Mike's photos from Wiscon 28 in Madison, WI.

August 23-4: Mike's photos from Toronto Fan Fair II (de facto NASFiC before there were NASFIC's)

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