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Bonfire for Jeff’s birthday

by up10ad | Wed Oct 1, 2008 | All (Home), Photography | 0 Comments

Sandi and I invited Jeff and Leta for dinner for his birthday and lit up a huge pile of brush and other stuff we had gathered from around the property over the summer. It was quite a display! I snapped this great silhouette of Jeff while he was tending the fire....

Early Morning Run!

by Rick | Sun Jun 14, 2015 | All (Home), Food and Drink, Health, Lifestyle, Runkeeper | 0 Comments

Got up early and drove 30 minutes north to Blanchard Park for the Orlando Runners Club 5K. This was a spur of the moment idea when I ran across a blurb for the run online. I haven't done a full 5K for several years but felt I was in shape enough to do it in 2min/1min...

#curepetcancer

by Rick | Sat Nov 9, 2013 | All (Home), Fun Stuff | 0 Comments

This isn't to suggest that my pal Panzer was a victim of cancer, it was tagged as part of an online support photo shoot. Panzer was the victim of his own exuberance and was taken in a vehicle accident on the road near home. My consolation is that I was there and...

TSA #airplane #flying #travel

by up10ad | Tue Dec 20, 2011 | All (Home), Fun Stuff, Funny, Web/Tech | 0 Comments

Sizzle #bacon

by up10ad | Mon Dec 19, 2011 | All (Home), Photography | 0 Comments

YASP – Yet another sunset pic

by up10ad | Fri Dec 5, 2008 | All (Home), Homestead, Seasonal | 0 Comments

Pumpkin?

by Rick | Sat Sep 8, 2012 | All (Home), Lifestyle | 0 Comments

Not a fan of pumpkin ale. Don't like most 'flavors' added to my beer or cigars or pipe. [shrugs]

Epcot

by Rick | Sun Jul 26, 2015 | All (Home), Food and Drink, Fun Stuff | 0 Comments

Took a trip to Disney Epcot, haven't been there in 20 years or so. Had a great day just walking all around Bay Lake visiting all the countries. Lunch at Tutto Italia Ristorante in Italy and dinner at the Yachtsman Steakhouse in the Yacht Club Resort. Beautiful water...

St. John’s River Arts Festival (Sanford)

by Rick | Sat May 2, 2015 | All (Home), Fun Stuff, Lifestyle | 0 Comments

Lots of regional artists showing everything from photography to interactive art. Here is a example: There was also a human statue water fountain: http://youtu.be/eIgPoW6wcjI

Head Gates #water #irrigation

by up10ad | Tue Dec 20, 2011 | All (Home), Photography | 0 Comments

c.1971 White Plains, MD

by Rick | Wed Feb 1, 2012 | All (Home), Your Host | 0 Comments

Enjoying my new patio and fireplace

by up10ad | Wed May 19, 2010 | All (Home), Food and Drink, Homestead | 0 Comments

Family got together and built a new patio area complete with a fireplace. Great spot to relax. Wine and fire is good for the soul.

Honey. Dew. Original and three edits. #tangledFX #melon

by Rick | Wed Feb 27, 2013 | All (Home), Food and Drink, Fun Stuff, Photography | 0 Comments

Great New Email Client

by up10ad | Fri Feb 26, 2010 | All (Home), Web/Tech | 0 Comments

And then there was Postbox. I don't usually plug software on this blog but I have to make an exception for Postbox. I switched from Outlook several months ago and I love this alternative written by some of the key developers from Mozilla and Thunderbird who have now...

Round Bales This Time

by up10ad | Fri Oct 10, 2008 | All (Home), Homestead | 0 Comments

After we cut there were several days of light rain and the hay was a bit heavy, It dried well but our neighbor thought it would be better if he used his big round baler rather than the small baler.

First rose again #nofilter #rose #bloom #flower

by up10ad | Sat May 5, 2012 | All (Home), Homestead, Seasonal | 0 Comments

Almost July

by up10ad | Mon Jun 30, 2008 | All (Home), Health | 0 Comments

Surgery went well, stayed in Delta Memorial 6 days. The re-attachment of my large intestine failed the first few tries, but he finally got it together without a leak. Because it was tenuous he performed a temporary ileostomy on my small intestine on the...

Fall at the Park

by up10ad | Wed Oct 27, 2010 | All (Home), Dogs, Health, Travel | 0 Comments

Bette leads the way as we walk through the fallen leaves of autumn.

Just an update

by up10ad | Tue May 21, 2002 | All (Home), Weather | 0 Comments

Spent a bit of time updating the pics pages and moving the site as a sub-web of my weatherweather.net site. I've always been interested in weather phenomenon and after leaving Bakersfield it dawned on me that I'm finally living in an area that actually HAS...

Fly fishing

by up10ad | Sun Jul 20, 2008 | All (Home), Me! | 0 Comments

Went to a local spot outside of Hotchkiss with Sandi, Jimmy, Eva, Jeff, Leta, Justin & Dakota. We fished 4 of the 8 ponds and caught a variety of cutthroat, brown and rainbows.

Blast from the past (redux)

by up10ad | Sat May 2, 2009 | All (Home), Me! | 0 Comments

Taken sometime in fall of 1968 is my best guess. Joanne (first wife) and I met at UM College Park. The Zonker raced at Capitol Raceway and posted high twelves.

Sister Diane Visit Again

by Rick | Thu Apr 8, 2021 | All (Home), Food and Drink, Me!, Travel | 0 Comments

Another lunch date with Diane, and again at Black Forrest Taphouse. It's an easy 2.25 hour drive each way from Port Monmouth, NJ to Fallston, MD.

Nikon D5500 Review: Digital Photography Review

by Rick | Fri Apr 24, 2015 | All (Home), Photography | 0 Comments

Source: Nikon D5500 Review: Digital Photography Review Well, getting back into photography a bit, purchased an enthusiast level Nikon. Opted out of the kit lens and got a great deal on a decent zoom until I can afford a good lens. Hopefully photos will follow....

Geese on Lake

by Rick | Thu Sep 6, 2012 | All (Home), Photography | 0 Comments

Photos taken with iPhone 4 and post-processed on iPhone using PhotoStudio and sometimes Photogene2. Watermarks from iWatermark.

All the time deal with it up!

by Rick | Mon Sep 21, 2020 | All (Home), Fun Stuff, Funny, Lifestyle, Strange | 0 Comments

This isn't a busy site and there certainly isn't any reason for anyone, including bots, to spam my posts with comments. It still happens. Fortunately the Askimet plugin catches 99% of them and they never even make it to me for review. Some of them do slip in and they...

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