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Delta, CO 2012

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

Alfalfa ready to be baled.

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

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...

Circa 1971 Fast VW #volkswagen#glorydays

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

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...

Just updating…

by up10ad | Sun May 25, 2008 | All (Home), Health, Homestead | 0 Comments

We have been working on the rental and things are going well. We have a couple all lined up with 3 horses and a teenage daughter, and we hope to have them moved in by the 2nd week of June. The house is on 1.5 ac and is a 3 BR 1 BA with a really nice bunkhouse behind...

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....

Yearly Update

by Rick | Fri Sep 18, 2020 | All (Home), Dogs, Homestead, Work | 0 Comments

Just a bunch of pics to keep things updated.

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.

Just me relaxing. #self #selfportrait

by Rick | Fri Dec 28, 2012 | All (Home), Music | 0 Comments

I’m finally back here again

by up10ad | Sat Jun 7, 2003 | All (Home), Work | 0 Comments

Looks like I'm getting an entry in here about once every year, whether it needs it or not. I never was good at journals. Well, the Flag Creek Cafe lasted until about July 15, at which time we completely understood why the restaurant business is so different from the...

#cloudporn Roads End

by Rick | Sun Mar 17, 2013 | All (Home), Landscape, Weather | 0 Comments

Sunset and update

by up10ad | Fri Nov 21, 2008 | All (Home), Photography | 0 Comments

I have been remiss in my posting here so I thought I'd offer up an iPhone photo for your enjoyment. It was taken using the iPhone app called Panorama that automatically stitches together two adjacent photos. The frame was added wit the app Photogene. On the...

New iPhone coming with 3MP camera

by up10ad | Tue Jun 9, 2009 | All (Home), Photography | 0 Comments

But the existing 2MP takes pretty good shots already. This is a pot on the back porch.

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...

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.

3 degrees this morning

by Rick | Fri Dec 28, 2012 | All (Home), Homestead, Landscape, Weather | 0 Comments

Got a new camera

by up10ad | Fri Oct 22, 2004 | All (Home), Web/Tech | 0 Comments

After 10 years or so without a good 35mm SLR I finally bought a Canon EOS 20D Digital SLR. I'm having a lot of fun taking more photos, especially with the Canon 100-400L USM IS telephoto lens.

Breakfast!

by Rick | Mon Oct 15, 2012 | All (Home), Lifestyle | 0 Comments

Christmas and New Years

by up10ad | Sat Jan 8, 2011 | All (Home), Food and Drink, Seasonal | 0 Comments

Despite the inactivity here on the site, we did indeed celebrate both Christmas and New Years. Matt, Brandy and the boys arrived on Christmas afternoon, followed shortly thereafter by Jeff and Leta. We enjoyed a fantastic Prime Rib dinner and were joined by Jim and...

Hooked up again

by up10ad | Sat Aug 30, 2008 | All (Home), Health | 0 Comments

I had my final surgery on Thursday to reverse my ileostomy and I'm being released from the hospital in a few hours. Woo-hoo! All systems seem to be working fine and I'm digesting scrambled eggs & pancakes as I write this. I still have a month or so of healing of...

Foal from March 2009

by up10ad | Sun Nov 27, 2011 | All (Home), Photography | 0 Comments

4th of July Flag and Fireworks

by up10ad | Wed Jul 9, 2008 | All (Home), Homestead | 0 Comments

I took the following photo from our back deck using my lowly iPhone 2MP camera. It shows the fireworks from the lake about a mile away with my backyard flagpole in the foreground. Just a bit of shadow/highlight adjustment in Photoshop CS3 and it looks OK.

I love my flags

by up10ad | Mon Jul 14, 2008 | All (Home), Homestead, Weather | 0 Comments

Sandi got me the flagpole several years ago for Christmas but I didn't I install it until last month. I especially like the Gadsden flag. It is in our back yard.

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