Okay, here’s a quickie guide to our initially scant content: If you’re new to either Rich or me, then the About Rich or About Humuhumu pages may be of interest. (I was lobbying for, but Trottomatic grew on me.) Also: we get to bastardize one of our favorite Sid Luscious & the Pants songs as we sing around the house: “It’s Trottomatic! It’s Trottomatically true! It’s Trottomatic! It’s Trottomatic with you!” So, you know, that’s kinda neat. hits the trifecta: easy to remember, easy to spell, and available. Naturally, as every moderne family must have these days, we’ve got our very own Trott Family Domain Name. Lotsa stuff happening in our life together, the biggest of course that it’s now an “our” kind of a deal (which is pretty super-sweet). “Did you have a good time?” It was amazing! Thanks, Humu + Schmama! It was about macadamia nuts and the display prominently featured a recipe. The only picture I took was of a display in one of the airports. “Where are the pictures?” Alas, I’m not much of a shutterbug.
Be sure, though, to get out of your car, look at the map they’ve posted, and walk along the path behind the houses among the ponds (stocked with fish), tiny amphitheater (maybe a sock puppet show would be at home there), “secret” doors, and a few other treasures. But if you’re in central Oregon already, you could do worse than to kill 20 minutes on a sunny day stopping by South Shire Lane and Ring Bearer Court to see this sadly half-finished but gloriously half-baked vision. I wouldn’t make a road trip to Bend just to see Forest Creek (aka The Housing Development Previously Known As “The Shire”). I’ll just add that eventually a company purchased the whole development and building is starting again, although without the same wacky awesome commitment to theming. It’s a sad story, so we’ll gloss over it and get to our experience today. ˆ “Calendar in year 1910 (Russia)” (Julian on Friday), webpage: Julian 1910 (Russia used the Julian calendar until 1919).External links January-10:January 20 In the United States, the 1910 Los Angeles International Air Meet at Dominguez Field is held near Los Angeles, California (the first aviation meet to be held in the USA).The Shire was never completed because it went bankrupt when Bend’s housing market collapsed. November 23 The last execution in Sweden (by guillotine) is carried out against murderer Johan Alfred Ander.December Impressionism in the arts Physics Johannes Diderik van der WaalsNotes 1. Johnstone becomes the first American pilot to die in the crash of an airplane in the United States.
1910 1910 1910 1910 1910 1910 November 17 Ralph Johnstone, a pilot for the Wright Exhibition Team, dies at Denver, Colorado after his machine breaks apart in mid air in full view of about 5,000 spectators.