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Still snow mid-May

by up10ad | Fri Jun 17, 2011 | All (Home), Homestead | 0 Comments

[pe2-gallery class="aligncenter" ] [/pe2-gallery]Catching up with some photos. May 22 has significant snow on the West Elks.

Oakridge Gun Range

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

Haven't been out shooting in a few years. Picked up a box of shells and went with a few friends to see how much edge I have lost. To my surprise I seem to be at least as accurate as I was when I was going regularly. I'm not really great, but I can still hit the...

My backyard #flag #sky #colorburst

by up10ad | Sun Jan 1, 2012 | All (Home), Photography | 0 Comments

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.

Zoo Lights

by up10ad | Sat Dec 13, 2008 | All (Home), Travel, Work | 0 Comments

Sandi and I spent the weekend in Denver finalizing the NCT auction. We had great food. One night at Mizuna and one at McCormicks. The Oxford Hotel got us complimentary tickets to Zoo Lights and provided Town Car transportation. Not only were the light displays...

Alfalfa ready to be baled.

by up10ad | Sat Jul 21, 2012 | All (Home), Homestead | 0 Comments

Back porch snow dusting looking towards the Grand Mesa. #skyporn #snow

by up10ad | Mon Feb 20, 2012 | All (Home), Photography | 0 Comments

Beer n smoke break #cigar #beer

by up10ad | Sun Apr 15, 2012 | All (Home), Me! | 0 Comments

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

Mowing

by up10ad | Tue May 15, 2012 | All (Home), Homestead, Seasonal | 0 Comments

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

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

Maryland Blue Crabs

by up10ad | Thu Aug 5, 2010 | All (Home), Lifestyle | 0 Comments

Before: After:

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.

Bike Rides

by Rick | Tue Dec 22, 2020 | All (Home), Health, Runkeeper | 0 Comments

So here is another ride. This is just too much fun.

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...

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.

Sunrise

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

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

Almost May; snow in Meeker

by up10ad | Sun May 1, 2011 | All (Home), Weather | 0 Comments

I'm really happy we don't live there any longer. Delta is much more temperate.

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...

I’m done with snow in spring

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

Christmas Carols For Psychiatric Patients

by Rick | Thu Dec 20, 2012 | All (Home), Fun Stuff, Funny, Seasonal | 0 Comments

SCHIZOPHRENIA: Do you Hear What I Hear? DEMENTIA: I Think I'll Be Home for Christmas. NARCISSISM: Hark the Herald Angels Sing About Me. PARANOIA: Santa Claus is Coming to Get Me. PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE PERSONALITY: On the First Day of Christmas My True Love Gave to Me...

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.

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...