Doug's Stuff

1/16/13: In memoriam... my '07 Kona Jake 'cross bike came up lame (see below) after 37,320 commuting miles. It's being taken to the bike shop to be euthanized. Fortunately, Jake is an organ donor and all of his components are healthy and will be used to build a sweet commuter bike on a Surly Cross Check frame. Stay tuned for details!
	Here's Jake's fracture. Poor Jake. Still got me to school on a 19-degree morning, though. Ride was a bit wobbly:)
1/24/13: Update...the Surly has landed and we're back on the air. Yippee! Here's the new Surly, built with Jake's innards (and out-ards too.) Here it is in my kitchen when I got it home...
	And here it is, 16 miles later and about 12 pounds heavier after the first shakedown cruise. Sweet!
Here we have my two doggies, Reilly (the blue-eyed one) and Lulu (she's a little farm-bred Australian Shepherd and Reilly is some odd linear combination of Aussie and Australian Cattle Dog.) Here they are as they appeared in my rear-view mirror on a recent trip to the coast...
	Here's Lulu, actually standing still for a change.
Chillin' on a warm summer evening...
Oops - sorry dude, didn't mean to wake you.
	Just in case you didn't think Reilly really had blue eyes...
Queen Lulu giving us a profile...

How about a stroll through the garden?

	pathway to the garden gate
The garden entrance...looking north towards the 'forest'. Oh, hi Reilly.
	That's the gate we just entered...
Interesting Japanese maple in the courtyard...
	The 'forested' area of my Japanese garden...
At the bottom of the dry streambed in the previous picture is a tsukubai and lantern...
	Close-up of tsukubai and lantern...
From a little wider perspective...
	Yotsume-gaki bamboo fence and the never-ending walkway project..
	the never-ending walkway project...I'll have the stones leveled and set in sand by summer's end 2012.
August 2012: Never-ending walkway project is proceeding apace and is almost ending...
	Labor Day weekend 2012. Fin.
Terrace to the left of the 'forest', July 2012. Look below for what this turned into...
	Same terrace, August 2012. As these Japanese hollies grow they'll be pruned as karikomi...
Finally (9/12): where once there was an ugly (and rather large) stump...
	There is now boxwood, which will be pruned as karikomi