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10-3-06 SHORT HILLS: We spent the weekend with Jon and Siobhan and Eoin and Joe in San José. We went to the San José Mission and the Santa Clara Mission on Saturday and to Alum Rock Park on Sunday. In the park, a canyon between to mountains in a range to the east of San José, we climbed the South Rim Trail almost to the top and saw deer and feral, perhaps, cattle and some west coast jays. Back at the bottom we saw a Blue Heron working the creek. The boys loved the hike and the wildlige sightings, and so did I. Judy and Siobhan did a lot of “are we there yet” on the climb. The mountains are mostly sandstone with the beds folded E-W. It was a nice visit. The Sunday night red-eye left me exhausted, as usual. Their weather is the same as ours is now.
Today I pruned the bamboo, taking out all the dead, near dead and drooping stalks. It totaled three car loads of cuttings to the dump. Vermont tomorrow.
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