Haikus: February 2018

HAIKUS: February 2018

By Peter Y. Chou
WisdomPortal.com

These haikus were written as exercises in mindfulness—
an attempt to catch the fleeting moment in my daily walks,
while reading, listening to music, and pondering about life.
(Underlined words are not for emphasis but to web links.)
This web page best viewed with Times font size 14.

Thursday, February 1, 2018, 2:00-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
KDFC Classical All-Stars Top 100: 2018 & 2017:
Zipoli: Elevazione (54/29); Albinoni: Adagio in g (43/41); Massenet: Thais-Meditation (12/22)

Didn't want to bias the ratings
and voted twice instead of
every day to boost rankings. Thursday, February 1, 2018, 2:00-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Images of "Shan, Bird-Mountain, Platonic Lambda"
for tomorrow's reading of poem ""Chinese Ideogram Shan for Mountain" at Waverley Writers

Found 26 "Mountain Paintings" yesterday
online at Los Altos Library (6:30-8:50 pm)
after viewing 1800 paintings (pages 1-50).

Thursday, February 1, 2018, 2:00-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
KDFC Classical All-Stars Top 100: 2018 & 2017:
Last year's top 3: Beethoven's Symphony #9; Dvorak's Symphony #9 "From the New World"; Schubert's Symphony #9 "Great"; 2018's top 3:

1) Beethoven: Symphony #9;
2) Dvorak: New World Symphony #9;
3) Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto #2. Thursday, February 1, 2018, 2:00-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Downloading "Mountain Paintings" from yesterday's bookmarks in Yahoo Drafts; Albert Bierstadt: Half Dome, Yosemite; Mont Blanc; Mountain Scene;
Monet: Valley of the Nervia; Kirchner: Alpleben

Renoir: Mount of Sainte-Victoire (1889)
Van Gogh: Ravine of the Peyroulets (1889);
Paul Gauguin: Tahitian Landscape (1891).

Friday, February 2, 2018, 4:50-5:50 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Downloading more "Mountain Paintings"
from 1/31's bookmarks: Joseph M. W. Turner:
Lake Geneva & Mont Blanc; John Mix Stanley:
Western Landscape; Thomas Moran: Index Peak, Yellowstone; Looked through Thomas Moran: Complete Works (36 pages, 427 paintings)
and found 12 mountain paintings

Courbet: Chateau de Chillon;
Edward Lear: Mount Athos;
Thomas Cole: Mount Etna. Friday, February 2, 2018, 7:30-8:40 pm
6 pm Bus #40 to El Camino Real; 6:25 pm Bus #35 to
Palo Alto: 957 Colorado Ave (Friends Meeting House)
for Waverley Writers Poetry Reading; Jeanne Watson honored Jackie Marderosian, a Waverley Writers poet who died 1-10-2018; Carol Hankemeyer read poem "The Poppy" on how she found a plucked poppy on
the sidewalk, placed it in water, and it folded at night; 16 poets came tonight; Joel Katz gave me ride home.

Read two poems tonight—
"Meditations on 66: Make a Joyful Song"
& "Chinese Ideogram Shan for Mountain".

Saturday, February 3, 2018, 9:30 am-4:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Google Doodle honors Elizabeth Blackwell's 197th birthday (By Jamie Ducharme, Time, 2-3-2018)

Elizabeth Blackwell, British-born physician,
notable as the first woman to receive
a medical degree in the United States. Saturday, February 3, 2018, 9:30 am-4:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Web page on "Mountain Paintings"; Meeting Paul Brunton in 1972 reminded me of Chillon Castle

Chatted half-hour with Martha on
Wei Wu Wei, but Wayback Machine
Archive has only text but not all the photos.

Sunday, February 4, 2018, 12:40-6:00 pm
Los Altos Library: John Muir's "Mountains of California"; (1894); (917.94Muir); No need
to type passages as book is online; page 5—

Range of Light, the most
divinely beautiful of all the
mountain-chains I have ever seen. Sunday, February 4, 2018, 12:40-6:00 pm
Checked out Robert Van Pelt's "Forest Giants" (2001); (585.0979VanPelt) and Peter Johnstone's "Giants
in the Earth" (2001); (634.9758Giants)

Checking out books on redwoods
whose tree-top resemble Λ shape for
second essay in Platonic Lambda book.

Monday, February 5, 2018, 8:54-9:02 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Georges Silfies plays clarinet;
Leonard Alatkin conducts St, Louis Symphony Orchestra in George Gershwin's 1937 "Promenade (Walking the Dog)"; CD; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

Musical number written by Gershwin
for the 1937 film Shall We Dance
with Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers. Monday, February 5, 2018, 9:30 am-7:15 pm
Mountain View: Found "Mataji Gayatri Devi, 88" obituary in 9-16-1995 NY Times (p. 11) clipping in Swami Paramananda's "Emerson and Vedanta" (1918);
Mataji met PB in Venice with seagulls in their hands

Bought above hardcover & his Plato
and Vedic Idealism (1924) for 75¢ each
at Cohasset's Vedanta Centre in 1971.

Monday, February 5, 2018, 9:30 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Scanned Vivekananda's "Vedanta Philosophy",
Youthful Mataji Photo, Poetry Muses Mural
Postcard from Boston Public Library (1970).

Abbey's The Holy Grail,
Title Page Holy Grail Book,
Holy Grail Postcard: Panel XV. Monday, February 5, 2018, 9:30 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Amazon: Abbey's "Quest of the Holy Grail" ($79.99 bought for $1); Vivekananda's "Vedanta Philosophy" PDF; (reprint $10.95; 1901 original bought for 25¢)

Wrote two poems on above books—
"This Book Was Meant for You",
"This Treasure Was Meant for You".

Tuesday, February 6, 2018, 10:18 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Scanned "Emerson & Vedanta" & 1918 Title Page; "Plato & Vedic Idealism" & 1924 Title Page

Looks like the tree Mataji Meditating
is the same one as her uncle Paramananda
sat under at Cohasset's Vedanta Centre. Tuesday, February 6, 2018, 10:18 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Download Photos: Larry Rosenberg; Vedanta Centre; Paul Brunton & Mataji in Venice with seagulls in hand

Reading on Larry Rosenberg
by his former Brandeis students
Mary Ostrow & Rick Blum (1969-71).

Wednesday, February 7, 2018, 9:55 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Notes to Poem:"This Treasure Was Meant for You"
Typed quotes from "Emerson and Vedanta" and
"Plato and Vedic Idealism" by Paramananda

Emerson and Plato are two
of my spiritual mentors,
both with cosmic vision. Wednesday, February 7, 2018, 9:55 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Notes to Poem:"This Treasure Was Meant for You"
Typed passages from Vivekananda's "The Vedanta Philosophy" on realizing God, our true Self (p. 34)

Vivekananda's 1893 opening words
"Sisters and Brothers of America"
received a two minutes standing ovation.

Thursday, February 8, 2018, 7:30-7:42 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Claudio Abbado conducts Chamber Orchestra of Europe in Gioachino Rossini's 1837 William Tell: Overture"; CD; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); Overture used in
"Lone Ranger" TV show (1949-1957)

After Rossini wrote his 39th
opera William Tell he stopped
composing operas at age 39. Thursday, February 8, 2018, 11:59 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Format Photos 7127-28 CornerMontecito (11/6); 7129-31 Pyramid3DPrint (11/9); 7133-35 Bluebird (12/11); 7136-42 Redwoods3Graces (12/20); 7143-58 Skylawn Park (12/27); 7159-61 ThreeGraces & 3 Poppies (2/8)

16 photos of Skylawn Park;
8 photos of Redwoods on Montebello
for poem "Bachelor & The Three Graces".

Friday, February 9, 2018, 1:00-3:04 pm
Mountain View Senior Center (266 Escuela Ave)
Robert Zemeckis directs "Allied" (2016) with
Brad Pitt, Marion Cotillard, Jared Harris, Matthew Goode, Lizzy Caplan, Anton Lesser, August Diehl, Camille Cottin, Charlotte Hope, Marion Bailey; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Brad Pitt plays pilot in WW II
and marries a French spy who turns out
to be a German double agent & must kill her. Friday, February 9, 2018, 5:26-6:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Photos 7143-58 Skylawn Park (12/27); need to be arranged as a web page for the final Hike 2017—
Little Shanghai Restaurant; Skylawn Sign; Skylawn
to Pacific; View Uphill; View to Left; View to Right;
From Car: Crystal Spring; Clouds, Hills, Lake.

Scott and I came here to pay respect
to my Dad & Mom and his Mom buried
here as we did last year on December 30.

Saturday, February 10, 2018, 7:38-7:55 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Yoav Talmi conducts
Quebec Symphony Orchestra in Claude
Debussy's Children's Corner Suite L. 113"
(1908); CD; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

Dedicated to Debussy's daughter,
Claude-Emma known as "Chou-Chou",
who was three-years-old at the time. Saturday, February 10, 2018, 9:40 am-2:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
19 photos for web page Skylawn (12-27-2017);
Photos from Scott's car at Half-Moon Bay, Crystal Spring Reservoir came out very misty and meditative.

October 18, 2017 Adventures
and Skylawn Park (12-27-2017)
added to Nature Walks 2017 (14 hikes).

Sunday, February 11, 2018, 2:00-6:30 am
Mountain View: Coming home from ballroom dancing (midnight) and finding 1992 poem "Entering the Primavera" wrote poem
"The Three Graces on Montebello Ave"

Three Graces depict Beauty, Love, Pleasure
painted in Botticelli's Primavera— daughters
of Venus, their dress sheerer than silk. Sunday, February 11, 2018, 3:09-5:00 pm
Los Altos Library: Slept for six hours, getting up
at 12:30 pm and caught 2:30 pm Bus #40 here
to type up 27-lines poem written last night, first
in Yahoo Drafts, copy & paste to Microsoft Word—

I'm the Bachelor on this Beautiful Mountain
overjoyed in finding another "Three Graces"
blessing me with beauty, love, and civility.

Sunday, February 11, 2018, 5:15-5:55 pm
Mountain View: Sprouts Farmers Market
(630 San Antonio Rd): Organic Romaine Hearts Lettuce (3 pack) @ $2.50; Pacific Free Range Chicken Broth 32 oz (1 quart) @ $2.26; & Safeway (645 San Antonio Rd); Got 6:21 pm Bus #40 home

Lucerne strawberry yogurt @ $1.66
Tai Pei dinners @ $2.00— Egg rolls,
Pork Pot-stickers, Combination Rice. Sunday, February 11, 2018, 7:00-8:30 pm
Mountain View: Cooked dinner with cup of Pacific Range Chicken Broth, Pineapple juice, Balsamic vinegar, seaweed, tofu, frozen veggies, water chestnuts, spinach wontons, 10 shrimps, crabmeat, 20 slender asparagus, 2 green onions, 2 scrambled eggs

Made enough soup for two servings;
bowl of Chow Mein noodles, pistachios,
two puff cookies, & almond-coconut milk.

Monday, February 12, 2018, 9:35 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Scanned U.S. 895 Three Graces at 200 dpi from
Pictorial Treasury of U.S. Stamps (1974), p. 88;
Format 7x11" US895-ThreeGraces(500x792).jpg;
Monaco1997-ThreeGraces(406x610).jpg download from stampboards.com; Photo: Feb. 11, 2:20 pm

Format 7163-Montebello3GracesT.jpg
for web page "The Three Graces on
Montebello Ave" for Hikes 2018. Monday, February 12, 2018, 9:35 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Typed "Three Graces Montebello Ave" in HTML
without photos (12:06 pm); Arrange Eucalyptus & Redwoods photos for web page "Eucalyptus and Redwoods on Montebello Ave" (3:10 pm); Poem with 7 photos "Three Graces on Montebello Ave" (3:57 pm)

Photos for poem: Bachelor & Three Graces,
Botticelli's Primavera, US 895 "Three Graces",
Eucalyptus, Three Redwoods, Redwood Top.

Tuesday, February 13, 2018, 9:55 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Notes to Poem: "Three Graces on Montebello Ave"
Recalling visiting Yosemite's Mariposa Grove with college friend Peter Seng (circa 1994) seeing—

The Grizzly Giant,
The Telescope Tree,
"The Bachelor and Three Graces". Tuesday, February 13, 2018, 9:55 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Notes to Poem: "Three Graces on Montebello Ave"
Sequoia sempervirens— everlasting giant whose rings are shown in Hitchcock's "Vertigo" at Big Basin

Kim Novak counting sequoia rings
dating beyond Magna Carta (1215)
and the Battle of Hastings (1066).

Wednesday, February 14, 2018, 11:44 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Interesting News: "HEALTH: MIND—
First Step Toward a Personal Memory Maker?"
(By Benedict Carey, NY Times, 2-12-2018)

Scientists had developed a brain implant
that boosts memory— an implantable
"cognitive prosthetic". Wednesday, February 14, 2018, 11:44 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Notes to Poem: "Three Graces on Montebello Ave"
Peter Johnstone's "Giants in the Earth" (2001),
pp. 88-98: John Muir: "Hunting Big Redwoods"

The root system forms a flat,
far-reaching spongy network
two hundred feet or more in width.

Wednesday, February 14, 2018, 11:44 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Finished Notes: "Three Graces on Montebello Ave"
Like the Three Graces, these Redwood are dancing:

Greek line-dance Syrtos,
Morris dancing with bells,
Native American drumming. Wednesday, February 14, 2018, 7:40-7:52 pm
Mountain View: Sprouts Farmers Market
(630 San Antonio Rd): Last Wednesday specials Sea
scallops sold out; Caught 8:08 pm Bus #40 homr

2 baskets Blackberries @ 98¢,
2.13 lbs Roma tomatoes @ 68¢/lb,
Raincheck: Jumbo sea scallops @ $9.99/lb.

Thursday, February 15, 2018, 9:32 am-1:51 pm
Mountain View: 9:32 am Bus #34 to Mtn View Senior Center; Can't print till Noon since class is going on; 10:40 am Bus #34 to 555 Castro St. Kaiser Permanente to get 10 ml vial Humulin

Zero-refill on Humulin;
Waited almost 3 hours for
Dr. Diego Chang's approval. Thursday, February 15, 2018, 2:20-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Caught 1:51 pm Bus #52 to Foothill (2:03 pm)
Mountain pages typed in Microsoft Word
need conversion to HTML web pages

Music on Mountains,
Books on Mountains,
Quotations on Mountains.

Friday, February 16, 2018, 9:59 am-4:45 pm
Mountain View Senior Center (266 Escuela Ave)
Tech Room; Email Steve Gould on WisdomPortal shutdown; Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo (1987); Chinese Dog New Year (2-12-2018)

Paul Gauguin's Yellow Christ (1889),
Balla: Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash (1912),
Room of Jewels & Mirrors: "Net of Indra". Friday, February 16, 2018, 5:30-5:49 pm
Mountain View: Walmart (600 Showers Drive)
6 tablets Ibuprofen 600 mg ran out to relief headache; Bought 2-pack 100 caplets Equate Ibuprofen 200 mg tablets for $4.36; Caught 6:19 pm Bus #40 home

No time to look for watches
at Walmart, as I need timepiece
to catch my daily buses to Foothill.

Saturday, February 17, 2018, 1:00-1:38 pm
Mountain View: Michaels (2415 Charleston Rd)
Friend drives me there to buy watch for $7.63

Lost Citizen watch at Los Altos Library
three weeks ago, nice to have a watch
again, so essential to catch my buses. Saturday, February 17, 2018, 3:20-5:00 pm
Los Altos Library: Galen Rowell's books "Yosemite & The Wild Sierras" (2004) & "Mountain Light" (1986).

Machapuchare at Dawn, Nepal, Himalaya,
Can't find "Climber at Pinnacle, Mt. Whitney, California; Need to scan this photo from book.

Sunday, February 18, 2018, 12:40-6:00 pm
Los Altos Library: Scanned "Climber at Pinnacle, Mt. Whitney" (675x1000 dpi) from Galen Rowell's "Mountain Light" (1986); Two mountain books—
551.432Tapponn and 917.94 MUIR to be added
to Books on Mountains

Paul Tapponnier's Mountains: Masterworks of the Living Earth (2006) & John Muir's
Mountains of California (1977) Sunday, February 18, 2018, 12:40-6:00 pm
Los Altos Library: U.S. postal rate 41¢ May 14, 2007-May 13, 2008; Disney #4192-4195: Mickey Mouse, Peter Pan & Tinker Bell, Dumbo & Timothy Mouse, Aladdin & Genie (8-16-2007); #4197 Jimmy Stewart (8-17-2007); #4203-4204 Aurora Borealis (10-1-2007)

#4224-4227 American Scientists: Terty Cori,
Linus Pauling, Edwin Hubble, John Bardeen
(3-6-2008); #4205: Yoda (10-25-2007).

Monday, February 19, 2018, 11:20-11:43 am
Mountain View: Sprouts Farmers Market
(630 San Antonio Rd); President's Day, all libraries closed; VTA Busses running on regular schedule; Caught 12:06 pm Bus #40 home

2 baskets Blackberries @ 98¢;
Bunch of Green onions @ 50¢;
2 Silk Almond-Coconut Milk for $3.29. Monday, February 19, 2018, 12:40-6:00 pm
Mountain View: Throwing away SJ Mercury News to clean apartment for inspection on Wed. 2/21 or Thurs, 2/22; Stanford Theatre open again after closing 5 months for renovation; Paramount Pictures (1930-35)

Last Bus #40 at 6:21 pm on Sunday;
Too cold & windy walking 30 minutes
on Rengstorff Ave after Stanford movies.

Tuesday, February 20, 2018, 3:30-4:00 pm
Mountain View: Kaiser Permanente appointment with Dr. Diego Chang on headache & sore throat; He ordered blood & urine tests; Prescribed Sinus Rinse & Flonase Nasal Spray

Fidelity check couldn't go through
automated check counter; need to come
back tomorrow with Wells Fargo check. Tuesday, February 20, 2018, 5:40-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothil College Krause Center
Richard Hanauer sent email of photograph "Lunch Atop A Skyscraper" which I shared with Jack & Rudy;
Writing haikus from Friday 2/16 to Tuesday 2/20

What audacity of these men eating lunch
so casually on a narrow steel beam
hundreds of feet above the ground.

Wednesday, February 21, 2018, 3:00-3:30 pm
Mountain View: Kaiser Permanente; Gave Dr. Diego Chang's nurse my last 3-months Blood Sugar test results December 2017 through February 2018

Wells Fargo check went through
at Kaiser Pharmacy $31.94 for
Sinus Rinse & Flonase Nasal Spray. Wednesday, February 21, 2018, 3:55-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothil College Krause Center
Caught up on Haikus: Fri. 2/16 to Tues. 2/20;
Forgot distance glasses for Stanford Movies

Have not seen these two movies—
The Night of June 13 (1932)
& Honor Among Lovers (1931).

Thursday, February 22, 2018, 11:00-11:10 am
Mountain View: Miguel from MidPen Housing came into apt with Ervin to spray inside kitchen cabinets for pest control; I have no dogs or cats

Regular Corporate Apartment Inspectors
sick and will reshedule for later
date to look at apartment. Thursday, February 22, 2018, 1:03-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothil College Krause Center
"80 Years Ago: The Story Behind the Famous Shot"
(By Megan Gambino, Smithsonian.com, 9-19-2012)

September 20, 1932— 850 feet above the streets,
at Manhattan's 41st Street, 11 ironworkers
ate their lunch on a narrow steel beam.

Thursday, February 22, 2018, 1:03-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothil College Krause Center
Charles Clyde Ebbets (1905-1978) credited for
photograph "Lunch Atop a Skyscraper" (1932)
taken on the 69th floor of RCA Building

Appeared in Sunday photo supplement
of the New York Herald Tribune
on October 2, 1932. Thursday, February 22, 2018, 1:03-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothil College Krause Center
"Number 41": Roger Bannister makes history
(By Gordon Rayner, The Telegraph, 2-23-2018)
Symphony #41 is Mozart's longest & last symphony

Roger Bannister wore #41
when he broke the 4-minute mile
on May 6, 1954, at Iffley Road Track.

Friday, February 23, 2018, 1:00-3:00 pm
Mountain View Senior Center (266 Escuela Ave)
Edward Zwick directs "Jack Reacher: Never Go Back" (2016) with Tom Cruise, Cobie Smulders, Aldis Hodge, Danika Yarosh, Patrick Heusinger, Holt McCallany, Robert Knepper, Jessica Stroup, Austin Hébert, Robert Catrini; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

When Major Susan Turner is arrested
for treason, Jack Reacher tries to prove
her innocence by arresting those involved. Friday, February 23, 2018, 4:30-6:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Printed @ 5¢: Mtn View Senior Center (266 Escuela):
"New York Construction Workers Lunching on a Crossbeam" (Sept. 29, 1932); "Ho'oponopono: To Change the World— First Change Yourself" (2014); "Poem: Memories of Li Huang (1895-1991)"
Notes-Three Graces On Montebello Ave".

Walked across Rengstorff Park
to catch 3:49 pm Bus #40 to
Foothill College; No time for Post

Friday, February 23, 2018, 7:00-7:21 pm
Mountain View: Safeway (645 San Antonio Rd);
Picked up "Daily Post" at Chase Parking; Tai Pei
Egg Rolls sold out; Caught 7:40 pm Bus #40 home

2 Tai Pei Potstickers @ $1.90;
Red Baron Deluxe Pizza $3; Creamer $2.49;
6 Nonni's Biscotti & Thin Additives @ $2.50. Friday, February 23, 2018, 8:00-11:00 pm
Mountain View: 1/4 Russian Rye sandwich; 2 eggs,
8 ham, 4 Swiss cheese, pickles, Romaine lettuce;
Tai Pei Meals seven potstickers; cup apple sauce

Nutella hazelnut spread on sandwich
raises blood sugar because of
high sugar content.

Saturday, February 24, 2018, 10:50 am-4:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Notice from Los Altos Library to pick up on hold
book "The Laws Guide to Drawing Birds" (2012); 743.68LAWS (5 copies of his book all checked out)

93% of 236 book reviewers
awarded 5-stars to this book
by artist & naturalist John Muir Laws. Saturday, February 24, 2018, 10:50 am-4:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
On Number 41: Arranging 41¢ U.S. postage stamps (2007-2008); #41 Road Signs; #41 Sports Events: Tennis, Golf, Horseracing; DiMaggio's 41st Streak

Regret won 41st Kentucky Derby;
Damrosch won 41st Preakness Stakes;
Peter Pan won 41st Belmont Stakes.

Sunday, February 25, 2018, 12:50-6:10 pm
Los Altos Library: Emailed Rudy 1:33 pm on meeting at Chase for Stanford Theatre movies— "Shanghai Express" (1932) & "Daughter of the Dragon" (1931) & Betty Boop's "Snow White";
Rudy didn't respond; too cold to walk home;
Links to #41 uniforms, road signs, playing cards

#41 Uniforms: Tom Seaver; Eddie Mathews; Jerry Reuss; Wes Unseld; Dirk Nowitzki; Tom Matte; Brian Piccolo; Glen Rice. Sunday, February 25, 2018, 12:50-6:10 pm
Los Altos Library: #41 Highway Road Signs: CA-41; Interstate I-41; Ontario Highway 41; Israel Highway 41: Florida U.S. Route 41; Japan National Route 41;
New Zealand State Highway 41; M41 Highway; European Route E41; Wings #41: R60 Constitution; Look-'N-See #41: Ike; Wheels #41: Stanley Steamer

Scoops #41: Ruth Hits 60 Homers;
Flags of the World #41: Philippines;
Antique Autos #41: Mercedes.

Monday, February 26, 2018, 11:00 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothil College Krause Center
Happy 41st Birthday page for Elisa; Hiroshige's Edo #41; 41-Petals Roses: Circus; Fabulous

U.S. #4205: Star Wars: Yoda;
U.S. #4203-4204: Aurora Borealis;
U.S. #4224-4227 American Scientists.
Monday, February 26, 2018, 11:00 am-7:15 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothil College Krause Center
"On Number 41"; 10 Sports Figures #41 uniforms;
Numerology: Words whose letters add up to 41—

PYRAMID = 7 + 7 + 9 + 1 + 4 + 9 + 4 = 41;
TRIANGLE = 2 + 9 + 9 + 1 + 5 + 7 + 3 + 5 = 41;
UNIVERSE = 3 + 5 + 9 + 4 + 5 + 9 + 1 + 5 = 41.

Tuesday, February 27, 2018, 11:03 am
Los Altos Library: Printed Happy 41st Birthday page for Elisa; @ 60% for 20¢; Folded in three parts so none of the stamps images are creased

Sent Thomas D. Mangelsen's Winter Ghost
card showing Snowy Owl for Elisa's birthday;
Took awhile to find this photo in his Gallery. Tuesday, February 27, 2018, 12:02 pm
Los Altos: U.S. Post Office (221 Main Street):
Vincente not in today; Another clerk postmarked
"Feb. 27, 2018 Los Altos" clearly on cover

No time to take photos of
shop windows on Main Street
with Easter themes of Peter Rabbit.

Wednesday, February 28, 2018, 9:40-9:53 am
Mountain View: Safeway (570 N. Shoreline Blvd);
9:32 am Bus #34 here & 10:05 am Bus #34 back.

Gallon Value Corner Nonfat milk $2.99;
2 Red Baron Deluxe Pizza @ $2.77;
Chobani Greek Mango Yogurt, Free. Wednesday, February 28, 2018, 9:40-9:53 am
Los Altos Hills: Foothil College Krause Center
"On Number 41"; #41 Highway Road Signs

Firefighters #41 1922 Triple Combination;
1841 India-British Queen Victoria & Lion;
U.S. 1841 Seated Liberty Silver Dollar.