It’s now been days since the Bay Bridge broke and was closed on October 27. If you’re not from the area you might not know this: a repair that was done over Labor Day failed and sent 5000 pounds of metal onto the roadway. Miraculously, no one was killed.

The stuff that fell lies in front of the Ryder truck in the picture above.

I ran across an excellent article on what might be going on (via Gizmodo). Check it out, since our media outlets have been incomplete covering this part of the story.

http://www.sci-experiments.com/BrokenBridge/BrokenBridge.html

(By the way, there’s an odd near-coincidence here: The Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989, which closed the bridge and prompted all this work to replace the eastern span of the Bay Bridge occurred just before Game 2 of the World Series.  October 27 was the day before Game 1 of this year’s Series.)

Zack passed this morning.

His absence leaves a gaping hole in our lives. His life filled our hearts with his love.

Tonight is the evening of the harvest moon. Since it involves eating, I’m partial to the Chinese Moon Festival. So head outside, gaze and nosh.

(By the way, the photo was taken in our backyard tonight.)

Between going to work and caring for a very sick dog, there are still plenty of fall chores in the garden. In October, we start to get just a little bit tired of eating tomatoes so the surfeit of cherry tomatoes must be dealt with. A few days ago we harvested a lot of Black Cherry and Matt’s Wild Cherry tomatoes and laid them out in dehydrating trays.

I think drying in the sun dulls their color as well as invites infestation so we put a dehydrator in a far corner of the house away from traffic (they get pretty aromatic). An advantage to drying small cherry tomatoes versus, say, romas, is they’re ready to go into a dish or salad with no cutting required. After a couple of days, we wound up with these lovely jewels: