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Repticon – Sharing Reptiles with the World

by Rick | Mon Jun 1, 2015 | All (Home), Strange, Wildlife | 0 Comments

OK, not really my kind of show but it was there at the fairgrounds and it called my name. Strange froup of folks attend this event.

Home to the Peacock in the previous post

by Rick | Fri May 8, 2015 | All (Home), Landscape | 0 Comments

Beautiful water feature at Magnolia Park. I went to a bluegrass festival there last weekend and the views were nice, but the music wasn't to my taste. Not your typical Bluegrass, more like toothless swamp folk singing colloquial lyrics about life.

Edible from our garden

by up10ad | Thu Sep 24, 2009 | All (Home), Food and Drink, Homestead | 0 Comments

I didn't know that artichokes bloomed like this!

I Love Tomatoes

by Rick | Wed Sep 5, 2012 | All (Home), Lifestyle | 0 Comments

Sunrise

by Rick | Wed Dec 26, 2012 | All (Home), Landscape, Seasonal, Weather | 0 Comments

Original, with telephone wires removed, and filtered. All iPhone edits.

Removed…

by Rick | Fri Mar 5, 2021 | All (Home), Funny | 0 Comments

Everyone seems to get butt-hurt so easily these days. At least the Irish don't get offended easily. I don't see them demanding that Lucky Charms change their name or stop using the diminutive supernatural being in Irish folklore, the beloved leprechaun.

Update

by up10ad | Sat Jan 22, 2005 | All (Home), Health | 0 Comments

Not much news recently. As if you wanted to know, I had hernia surgery, all went well. We have had a very mild winter so far, we're in the middle of the second warm spell which is melting all previous snow causing a 2nd mid-winter 'mud season'. The...

WOW, just WOW

by up10ad | Tue Jun 1, 2010 | All (Home), Strange | 0 Comments

This image is not Photoshopped. Large sinkholes devour Guatemala City. A giant sinkhole larger than a street intersection has swallowed a three-story building and a house in Guatemala, as residents reel from a storm that has killed at least 146 people across Central...

mmmm, asparagus

by up10ad | Thu May 14, 2009 | All (Home), Lifestyle | 0 Comments

All along the irrigation ditch that runs adjacent to our property we have the best volunteer asparagus. On any given day we can just take a walk and pick as much as we need for a great snack or dinner compliment. It is so yummy.

Bacon Topped Meatloaf

by up10ad | Sat Mar 27, 2010 | All (Home), Lifestyle | 0 Comments

I could lose weight if I had more will power. Well, maybe not. Dang, that iPhone take nice pics sometimes.

View from my room in Myrtle Beach last month.

by Rick | Wed Apr 29, 2015 | All (Home), Lifestyle, Travel | 0 Comments

Stayed at the Jamaican, a part of the Caribbean Resorts property. Great view and newly remodeled rooms. Very inexpensive at only $78/night. Good food right next door at the Sea Captain's House where I hit the breakfast buffet several days.

I’m done with snow in spring

by Rick | Wed Apr 17, 2013 | All (Home), Homestead, Seasonal, Weather | 0 Comments

E-Bikes Need Batteries

by Rick | Wed May 19, 2021 | All (Home), Health, Lifestyle, Runkeeper | 0 Comments

I've been having battery issues with my bike for the last month or so. When I hit a hard bump it just shuts down, no display or power. I discovered that I can get it active again by banging on the side of the battery, suggesting that something is disconnecting inside....

Animated Drum Crushing

by up10ad | Sat Aug 16, 2008 | All (Home), Strange | 0 Comments

This is brutal. What you are seeing is a 55 gallon drum being devoured by a crusher. Imagine falling into that! Just a random animated .gif image I ran across.

Spring has arrived in Delta

by up10ad | Sat Apr 25, 2009 | All (Home), Dogs, Homestead, Horses | 0 Comments

Panzer and Dad. Ride in the pickup.

by up10ad | Sat Jul 21, 2012 | All (Home), Me! | 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...

IT Management Sometimes Sux

by up10ad | Thu Feb 12, 2009 | All (Home), Web/Tech, Work | 0 Comments

At work we have been working on a replacement DS3 45MB feed since December and it just seems that something goes wrong at every turn. Now that we finally have the feed and have the new /22 net IP addresses routing properly, suddenly we find issues within our own...

Preparing for big yard/moving sale. Yes, those are pigs on MC on my head.

by Rick | Thu Oct 18, 2012 | All (Home), Fun Stuff | 0 Comments

Panzer running

by Rick | Mon Sep 24, 2012 | All (Home), Dogs, Homestead, Landscape | 0 Comments

(if the video won't play on your mobile device, try switching the mobile theme OFF at the bottom of the page) Your browser does not support the video tagYour browser does not support the video tag Panzer loves running up and down the length of the hay field.

Circa 1971 Fast VW #volkswagen#glorydays

by up10ad | Tue Nov 29, 2011 | All (Home), Me! | 0 Comments

Sunset over the Cimarrons

by up10ad | Sun Aug 24, 2008 | All (Home), Photography | 0 Comments

Sandi and I went to Montrose to help Jeff and Leta paint their house and do some grading with the Bobcat. It was a fun day that culminated with dutch-oven ribs server outside under a beautiful sunset. The image below was taken looking almost straight up as the sun...

Big Snow

by Rick | Wed Feb 3, 2021 | All (Home), Dogs, Weather | 0 Comments

It snowed on and off for almost 48 hours and we got about a foot of the white stuff, Drägo looks good in it.

We have arrived in Colorado!

by up10ad | Sun Oct 28, 2001 | All (Home), Horses, Travel | 0 Comments

Well, we completed our move from Bakersfield to Meeker on November 1, 2001. Everyone arrived safely and the people, dogs and horses are all fine. We live about 3 miles outside of town on County Road 4, on the mesa overlooking Meeker and the White River...