The Day After Trinity

It is hard to turn the herd when all the momentum to completing the immediate task has built up to a final push

Normally THB would include a film in his annual Book List in the Something Else category. Given the topicl intererst in all things Oppy, here is a tip that will enhance your viewing pleasure. 

For those followers that have seen the movie Oppenheimer or plan to see the movie, here's one you should consider streaming soon after viewing the new release:

The Day After Trinity, released in 1981 and directed by Jon Else, is a series of interviews with a number of those involved in the development of the atomic bomb.  You can find it streaming on several sites including Amazon Prime (for a small fee). 

THB has a small part in the film, see if you can catch his ass diving under an elementary school desk. Rewind if you missed it.

Synopsis below: not really accurate, since Oppenheimrer himself is barely in the 1981 film (he died in 1967) yet he is the primary focus of all the interviews. 

When theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer became director of the Manhattan Project, he brought with him a love of poetry, philosophy and Eastern religion. In the years following Trinity, the classified maiden test of a prototype atomic bomb, Oppenheimer revealed himself as a thoughtful man who felt both a duty to his country and a deep regret for the death and destruction caused by his leadership in the development of the weapon that heralded the arrival of the Atomic Age.

Sherwin-Williams Development and lots of Twin pics

First Day of Kindergarten

Cecily

Jasmine (yes, those are mismattched socks)

THB and DB have lost a lot of E-ville restaurants

Particularly pizza spots. Well, a new one, Psassione Emporio, had opened just before Covid, owned by the same folks that use to own Hot Italian in the Emeery Bay Market, and still make gelato. Highly reco'd

Pizza and a peach salad both excellent, easy parking on 5th near Dwight in Berkeley, and a pint to-go after dinner

Sherwin-Williams update

                                                                Public Art Front

Back: maybe it lights up at night?

yes, it does light up! Note these two pics are not the same, taken a few seconds apart

And now at twilight, art by Jim Campbell, he of the top of the Sales Force building

Cookie Cutter Art, apparently this is supposed to be a "thought bubble" by Hank Willis Thomas

Exercising along parkway

a week or two later: a large orange "love bench" by Jeppe Hein is installed

Hammocks for residents

Side-by-Side Dog Parks: first dog there gets to pick a side

this became the small dog park sidee - this dog is practically lost in the tall (real) grass

there are low spots in each dog park, landscaping or watering or both will need to be adjusted

you get a sense of how massive this car garage is and it is for the thousands of bio-tech workers expected, not for local residents

One short side of the garage is getting "scrimmed" and THB thinks eventually the entire buidling will be ensheathed

you can see the low spots turning muddy

And the apartment on the right (not open yet) is the largest of the S-W newbies

This lampost gets its own strip of grss!

The Emery city park is nearing completion!

More improvements:

Bob: An’ here I sit so patiently; Waiting to find out what price; 

You have to pay to get out of; Going through all these things twice

lots of rework happening!

 END EVA over time

the hole for the french fries sculpture

only half the dog park is closed, they other side is still open

And then, only a few days later: everything is back together

Sandy and twins: Sandy recovering from a foxtal in rght front paw

Sandy, off-leash, is somewhere in the mist of Carmel beach

Twins relaxing after a day at Roughing It camp

with the marine layer solidly in place during the summer this is an unusual experience: sunseet

The Twins and Auntie at th Discovery Museum in Sausalito

Scarf tge Anglerfish has requested the appropriate gender idententification? 

Post-game at Pizzahacker, J makes it all the way to bottom of her cone, C swaps her cone for a cup  doesn't finish her portion and Auntie and THB help her out while DB finishes the cone

The Twins testdriving the new exercise equipment next to S-W

twins left their strollers behind

Twins take a break from exercising to do some trainspotting

back to testing the equipment

                            The Twins and grandparents at Tera Farms near San Juan Batista; the ownerof the farm, Sheena V, has set up a non-profit to help local women organic farmers distribute their produce direct to consumers, DB and THB donate in support 

Sheena supplied the hats and baskets, the girls did their own picking

Spring onions yanked out

C picked a purple pepper

harvesting cherry tomatoes 

a bird's nest in one of the small apple trees

                        

                            The Twins at the Monterey Bay Aquarium

you can pay to dress up in scuba gear and float around for a few minutes

plans are afoot for DB, THB, and LB to return to Fiji in May 2024

3+ years ago

Twins August 8, 2023 (2 months shy of their 6th b'day)