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Fri Jul 18, 2008 | All (Home), Web/Tech

iPhone 3G Jailbreak pending…

Link: blog.iphone-dev.org. I'm waiting impatiently for the dev team to release the jailbreak for iPhone 3G. Looks like it is still a few days away. While the new 3G has access to all the apps in the iTunes App Store, there are still a lot of...

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Skid Vicious has surgery

Thu Jul 17, 2008 | All (Home), Horses

Skid Vicious has surgery

Sandi took her baby colt to have minor surgery done on his leg. He had a tendon issue that needed a slight tweak. All seems well and he is up and around only hours after waking.

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I love my flags

Mon Jul 14, 2008 | All (Home), Homestead, Weather

I love my flags

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...

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Great dinner

Mon Jul 14, 2008 | All (Home), Food and Drink

Great dinner

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...

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4th of July Flag and Fireworks

Wed Jul 9, 2008 | All (Home), Homestead

4th of July Flag and Fireworks

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...

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Almost July

Mon Jun 30, 2008 | All (Home), Health

Almost July

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...

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Mid-June update

Wed Jun 18, 2008 | All (Home), Health, Horses

Mid-June update

As I mentioned, tomorrow I go in for my 2nd surgery. I'm looking forward to it and getting my intestines back to normal. The worst part is having to stay in the hospital bed for 7 days. We are in the middle of our first hay cutting this year, don't know if we...

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Just updating…

Sun May 25, 2008 | All (Home), Health, Homestead

Just updating…

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...

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Spring is here

Sun Apr 6, 2008 | All (Home), Horses, Weather

Spring is here

It came about mid-month and the days have been getting warmer ever since. We are well on our way to completing projects around the house, something we couldn't even thing about doing this time of year up in Meeker. Today I burned the irrigation ditches in the...

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Not quite spring yet…

Sat Feb 9, 2008 | All (Home), Health, Weather

Not quite spring yet…

It's been a cold and wet winter here in Delta compared to normal. For us it's still a lot milder than Meeker and we are enjoying it daily. We get a lot of light snow that melts off the same day. The temps are normally well into the 40's by now but...

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Happy New Year 2008

Wed Jan 2, 2008 | All (Home), Health, Work

Happy New Year 2008

It's official, 2008 is here and Sandi and I hope it brings the best to everyone. [taken with the online snapshot feature of my Canon Weather Cam] From a personal perspective, Christmas could have been a bit more relaxing. On Dec 16th after 3 days of abdominal...

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Getting settled in

Sat Dec 8, 2007 | All (Home), Weather

Getting settled in

Believe it or not, we are still unpacking stuff. I worked all day in the garage today and didn't make a dent. A few weeks ago I did get my weather station installed and it is operating with almost all features enabled. I still have to hang the lightning detector,...

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