December 24, 2004 – 3:00 am
The whole visit to Felton was really a blast from the past for Judith and me. It was really great to see how well aunt Lenore is doing. She is a tough old bird. Judith and I went to our grandma and grandpa’s old house today, it was kind of strange, because new people are living there now. They changed the color of the house and put up a new fence in the yard.
We also took a little hike through the Henry Cowell Redwood State Park. The redwoods were breathtakingly majestic as always and impossible to photograph as always. You really have to see it for yourself. The medium sized trees are 60-100m high and have a diameter of 2-4m at eye level. And there’s zillions of medium sized trees…
As a little christmas treat I posted some of the photos I’ve taken. See below! I also posted the little happy birthday video a bit further below.
December 24, 2004 – 2:46 am
Finally I’m able to post photos again. I’ll try to get them in chronological order.
December 22, 2004 – 6:40 pm
My Dad is turning 60 today!
Happy Birthday from all of us here in California! I’ll try to post a little movie later on.
December 21, 2004 – 10:22 pm
Well hot-diggety-damn, my lucky bastard of a sister actually won $ 250 playing Bingo yesterday evening. Aunt Lenore’s 2-month bad luck spell wasn’t broken and I only won some very nice shots from inside the Bingo hall. That tripod the AKI lent me is really paying off.
I also found a place that sells professional recording equipment online and I ordered a shotgun mike.
Bingo is kind of boring by the way, but also quite exilharating. A strange mixture. On one hand you listen to endless rows of numbers being called out and your co-bingoer’s endless Bingo-banter (“Please fiver, let it be a five, c’mon five…” “I’ve been on for, like, 5 calls now. When’re they gonna call that 49?”), on the other hand it could always be you who wins the next 250 bucks.
Lenore goes to Bingo two times a week, she says it feels like visiting the family. Bingo is what it takes to get her out of her solitude at home. Well, Judith and I won’t join her tonight, we’ll toast Judith’s luck in downtown Santa Cruz.
Hi, my name is Florian Schroiff, I live and work in the beautiful city of Rotterdam, the Netherlands. This website is mostly a collection of the various flotsam and jetsam I encounter on my travels through the web.