Wednesday - Physics
The last physics seminar of the semester was presented by my friend, Professor Nick Solomey (here, here, & here): Dark Matter Search Experiment Inside an Asteroid. I gave some consideration to actually driving up to Wichita State U for the presentation, but with COVID-19, the seasonal influenza, and some other bug on the increase decided against it and logged into the session via Zoom. That turned out to be a good decision as Nick had a horrid cold (two tests for COVID-19 had been negative, Nick said) and made his presentation from his home.
Professor Solomey is shown at the right end of the third graphic - in the green shirt.
Friday - AT&T Fiber Optics Cable Installation
Bright and early Friday morning, a crew of workers showed up on our street to begin installation of AT&T's fiber optic cable. Notably present were about eight men, each of whom was assigned to manually dig holes. They were hard workers and quickly completed the digging of four holes at the curb edge of our front lawn - each about four feet deep.
They worked until nearly sundown but had filled all but one of the holes in our lawn and removed the equipment at the end of the day and took off for the weekend.
Saturday - Finally, a good mowing
Our front lawn had not been free of the little flags that were installed to mark the paths of various utility lines across our lots, so the grass had not had a good mowing since the 8th of October. In addition, the leaves from neighbors' trees had accumulated within the areas that could not be mowed. Following the workers' having removed the little flags, I mowed - Saturday afternoon. I previously noted that our lawns needed major work. The first photo shows a bare spot that, presumably, resulted from our drought of late summer and fall. Nearly every year of the past dozen or so we've had to reseed large portions of our lawns. I decided not to have that done this year due to the dry conditions. I've not settled on what I want to do - and am not quite sure on what I can obtain concurrence from Hunky Husband. Later.
The orange "fencing" is warning people away from the hole that is still open in our front lawn.
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