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My Adoring Fans

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

Winter is here

by up10ad | Sun Nov 20, 2005 | All (Home), Weather, Work | 0 Comments

Well, winter arrived early as usual. We usually get snow on or around Halloween and this year was no exception. Everyone is healthy and things are going well. The company I work for filed Chapter 11 Bankruptcy in October and I've been handling the process with the...

We may be moving…

by up10ad | Sun Jun 10, 2007 | All (Home), Travel | 0 Comments

Although we have listed the house for sale in the past, the market momentum has increased here and delivered a buyer. We have a good, firm offer and the closing is set for July 2. Of course we immediately went looking ourselves and we found a nice place in...

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.

First Cold Spell

by up10ad | Mon Dec 15, 2008 | All (Home), Homestead, Weather | 0 Comments

From our weather station cam this morning:

Ran across an old photo of my Hummer H1. What a beast.

by Rick | Wed Oct 17, 2012 | All (Home), Fun Stuff, Lifestyle | 0 Comments

Spring in Colorado

by up10ad | Sat Apr 15, 2006 | All (Home), Food and Drink, Weather, Work | 0 Comments

Spring is trying... News on the work front. For the past few years the company I work for, NC Telecom, has been battling cashflow problems stemming from a massive $12MM loan from the feds for rural communications infrastructure improvements. Last year the stock...

Time-lapse Ride From Water Witch

by Rick | Mon Mar 29, 2021 | All (Home), Food and Drink, Lifestyle, Runkeeper | 0 Comments

Ride home from the Water Witch coffee shop in Highlands. Time-lapse of about 6.5 miles, 35 minutes or so. I slowed it down for the section on the beach.

More running in the field

by Rick | Thu Sep 27, 2012 | All (Home), Dogs | 0 Comments

Found another old pic…

by up10ad | Wed May 27, 2009 | All (Home), Me! | 1 Comment

Probably taken in 1996 after we moved to the house on the Kern River outside of Bakersfield. We had the black H1, the SL500 and Sandi's Miata.

Nests #egg #breakfast

by up10ad | Fri Mar 16, 2012 | All (Home), Photography | 0 Comments

Night shot iPhone 6 Plus, grainy but nailed the shot.

by Rick | Fri May 15, 2015 | All (Home), Lifestyle, Photography | 0 Comments

I really like ProCamera. It is easy to use but has depth, allowing lots of control including separate exposure and focus points, shutter or ISO priority and bracketing. I'll be trying some even darker night shpts soon. Adjustments in Lightroom 5 include crop,...

Rest In Peace Bauer

by up10ad | Tue Jan 19, 2010 | All (Home), Dogs | 0 Comments

Today after more than 13 years we had to say goodbye to the 3rd of the original 3blackdogs. Skansen's JA Bauer was a big, lovable brute that never seemed to grow up. He was always the low man on the totem pole but took it all in stride. A bit goofy, he often...

Cocoa Village BBQ & Blues

by Rick | Sun Jun 7, 2015 | All (Home), Food and Drink, Landscape, Music | 0 Comments

The 5th Annual festival was held in the Historic Cocoa Village downtown park. ⇓ I arrived a bit early and walked the Village Shops where I found the Ossario Cafe. Had a delightful sun-dried tomato and Asiago omelette, served with their own freshly baked french...

Ma Famiglia in Meeker

by up10ad | Tue Sep 9, 2008 | All (Home), Food and Drink | 0 Comments

Went to lunch with Brandy, Matt, Justin, Dakota, Jimmy, Eva and Sandi. We were there for Justin's opening game 'Cowboy Football!' Beer choices are sometimes hard, but Drop Top carried the day, and we found that mother Eva reallllly liked it!

We have a new baby!

by up10ad | Sun May 23, 2004 | All (Home), Horses | 0 Comments

After waiting 11 months we finally have our new baby pony. Even before leaving California we tried to get Zanna pregnant but had little success with artificial insemination. The original stud just didn't have good swimmers I guess. Well, last summer we...

We DID move!

by up10ad | Tue Jun 26, 2007 | All (Home), Travel | 0 Comments

We finally moved from the house in Meeker , we stayed there wishing we had something larger for almost 6 years. Although we put a lot into it by adding outbuildings and recently built a barn/shop, it has always not quite met our needs somehow. The land was hilly,...

Reached some goals…

by Rick | Mon Aug 10, 2015 | All (Home), Health, Lifestyle, Runkeeper | 0 Comments

I've been trying to lose some weight since I moved to Florida in April and I finally hit my first goal. I started at a whopping 277 and set a target on 230, which I reached today! 47 pounds shed! The trick for me was to exercise regularly. I began tracking activity...

Wild turkey with chick

by Rick | Sat Apr 25, 2015 | All (Home), Wildlife | 0 Comments

She was wandering around behind the old welcome center for the subdivision with her baby. Was able to get within 50 yards or so.

Rancher in Delta, CO

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

I Love Tomatoes

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

No horses were harmed in the making of this photo

by up10ad | Tue Jul 28, 2009 | All (Home), Photography | 0 Comments

This isn't a real pic, it is actually two pics taken with my iPhone while the horses were sleeping one morning recently. I stitched them together using the iPhone app Auto Stitch, cropped and framed them with the app Photogene, and added the lightning with the app...

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.