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Walking Confluence Park

by up10ad | Sun Sep 5, 2010 | All (Home), Health | 0 Comments

I've been walking almost daily for the past couple months and my latest location is a 5 mile loop around the lake and next to the river.You can check my progress at RunKeeper.com

Circa 1971 Fast VW #volkswagen#glorydays

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

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...

Great dinner

by up10ad | Mon Jul 14, 2008 | All (Home), Food and Drink | 0 Comments

Scallops on a bed of rice and romaine. This is part of the reason why I have dropped form a high weight of 282 in December of 2007 to 229 this week, My goal is to get to about 190 lbs.

Just a Sunday Ride

by Rick | Sun Mar 14, 2021 | All (Home), Food and Drink, Lifestyle, Music, Runkeeper | 0 Comments

Bike ride on the Henry Hudson Trail, first stop was Off The Hook Restaurant & Bar for a quick Yuengling. On the way back home stopped at Water Witch for a coffee. Great local jam, lots of blues and a great rendition of the Stones Dead FLowers.

Stringing fence

by up10ad | Mon Aug 11, 2008 | All (Home), Homestead | 0 Comments

Today I added some cross fencing to the horse pasture. It's easy. Just push in t-posts with the Bobcat , cover with the HorseGuard plastic sleeves, pop in the tape guides and string the electric tape.

More snow

by Rick | Thu Feb 18, 2021 | All (Home), Homestead, Weather | 0 Comments

Another snowstorm today, 10″ plus. Took a slow-motion video out the back window. Click the square in the lower right corner to adjust to screen size.

I Love Tomatoes

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

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.

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.

Fence mending 6Kv

by up10ad | Sat Feb 18, 2012 | All (Home), Me! | 0 Comments

Jalapeño bagel. Mmm mmm good with cream cheese! #bagel #yum

by Rick | Mon Oct 8, 2012 | All (Home), Photography | 0 Comments

WOOT! Celebrate! Today is National Weatherperson’s Day

by up10ad | Fri Feb 5, 2010 | All (Home), Weather | 0 Comments

Thursday, February 5, 2009 is National Weatherperson Day, commemorating the birth of John Jeffries in 1744. Jeffries, one of America's first weather observers, began taking daily weather observations in Boston in 1774 and he took the first (hot air) balloon...

The bridge at Confluence Park

by up10ad | Thu Oct 14, 2010 | All (Home), Travel | 0 Comments

My daily walk/run takes me through Confluence Park just a few miles from home. This swaying bridge is in the wooded section and crosses over the Uncompahgre River, just about where it joins the Gunnison River. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbQJt3-M0E0 [mappress...

Hank, Willow, Piper, Todd and Sarah

by up10ad | Tue Oct 21, 2008 | All (Home), Travel | 2 Comments

Went to a McCain/Palin rally in Grand Junction yesterday. Sarah was there and it opened with Hank Williams, Jr. I'm voting for Piper in 2030. I didn't have my 400mm lens so the pics are blurry when enlarged and cropped.

Happy Easter!

by up10ad | Sun Apr 12, 2009 | All (Home), Seasonal | 0 Comments

Just a quick note to say Happy Easter to everyone.

Love this burger

by Rick | Tue Oct 16, 2012 | All (Home), Lifestyle | 0 Comments

Cedaredge Apple Festival

by up10ad | Tue Oct 6, 2009 | All (Home), Lifestyle | 0 Comments

One of the carnies showing off the Euro Bungee. It rained.

The Orlando Eye

by Rick | Wed Jul 29, 2015 | All (Home), Fun Stuff | 0 Comments

The Wheel at Icon Park opened on May 4, 2015 and I finally went to check it out! My flight time was scheduled for 4:45 (tickets online in advance), but I received an email about an hour ahead saying it was 'not in operation' and that I could make use of my...

Obtuse Bronze Sculpture

by Rick | Mon Dec 24, 2012 | All (Home), Food and Drink, Funny, Strange | 0 Comments

I can't tell what this statue is all about. Is she being arrested and going to get frisked? Or is she preparing for position 78 in the Kama Sutra?

Christmas Feast

by up10ad | Sat Dec 26, 2009 | All (Home), Lifestyle | 0 Comments

We celebrated Christmas in Meeker with the Giaos. Drove up Christmas Eve and back late on Christmas day. Had to come home to tend to the animals. We did eat well.

Sizzle #bacon

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

Aardvark Topsites & PHP v7.2 Fix

by Rick | Fri Feb 8, 2019 | All (Home), Web/Tech | 0 Comments

Aardvark Topsites is a php script that was originally developed about 15 years ago, designed to present websites as a dynamic ordered list. A topsites list ranks a group of related sites by popularity. Webmasters join the topsites list and are given a button to put on...

An Early Birthday Present

by up10ad | Thu Apr 1, 2010 | All (Home), Dogs | 0 Comments

Just a quick post to put up a picture of our newest family additions. Please meet Sherman and Panzer, our new 9 week old puppies! They are just adorable! Soft and cuddly and they get along with Bette just fine. Oh, and they're standard Poodles. [snicker]