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Spring has arrived in Delta

by up10ad | Sat Apr 25, 2009 | All (Home), Dogs, Homestead, Horses | 0 Comments

1875 Romeo y Julieta.

by Rick | Thu Oct 4, 2012 | All (Home), Me! | 0 Comments

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...

Christmas season has started

by up10ad | Thu Dec 3, 2009 | All (Home), Me! | 0 Comments

I thought I'd launch the season with a pic taken in 2004 or 2005. I dressed up as Santa at the NC Telecom offices and greeted kids and adults alike. Bad Santa.

Morning haze and clouds

by Rick | Sun Oct 14, 2012 | All (Home), Photography | 0 Comments

Hyperlapse Video

by Rick | Wed Mar 31, 2021 | All (Home), Lifestyle, Runkeeper, Work | 0 Comments

About 7 minutes of Hyperlapse video of my 40 minute ride home from work at the Matawan Aberdeen Library. It starts off on surface streets for about 1.5 miles but the balance of about 6 miles is on the Henry Hudson Trail which parallels the Ocean, sometimes only a...

Ice on the tree next to the Strata office in Meeker. iPhone filtering.

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

Love this burger

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

Love this show. I'm no Jax but…

by Rick | Tue Sep 25, 2012 | All (Home), Me! | 0 Comments

I took this pic yesterday morning.

by Rick | Mon Oct 22, 2012 | All (Home), Dogs | 1 Comment

About an hour later my best buddy Panzer ran out of the house while I was loading stuff into the U-Haul. He wasn't gone but a few minutes. I ran down the long driveway to the road but I was too late. A loaded gravel truck had just gone by; didn't even stop. He was the...

Summer ’05

by up10ad | Fri Sep 16, 2005 | All (Home), Health, Weather, Work | 0 Comments

Summer in Meeker is a short-lived thing, and this year it was very comfortable. Sandi and I took several trips to see Joe and Anita in Missouri, even spent a lot of time looking at property to purchase. In the end, nothing came of it as there isn't much in the way...

#cloudporn Roads End

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

He's such a sweet boy! #poodle #dog

by Rick | Thu Oct 4, 2012 | All (Home), Dogs | 0 Comments

New Baby Pics

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

I have been remiss in posting pics of our new baby girl. She is about 2 weeks old and we are expecting another around Mother's day.

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,...

The sky. Right now.

by up10ad | Thu Dec 29, 2011 | All (Home), Landscape | 0 Comments

Fringe Festival Retro Beach Party

by Rick | Mon May 25, 2015 | All (Home), Food and Drink, Lifestyle, Strange | 0 Comments

This boss little afternoon finds rockabilly and surf rockers colliding on the Green Lawn of the Lowndes Shakespeare Center, Featuring the Wildtones, Thee Wilt Chamberlain and Rocket 88, plus a retro bathing suit contest. I found myself at the Stonewall Bar tent...

Thanksgiving, a time for family

by up10ad | Sun Nov 30, 2008 | All (Home), Lifestyle | 0 Comments

This holiday season has started. The weather here in Delta is just about perfect for fall, crisp with a chill that reminds you of what is on the way. I'm going into this season with anticipation of Christmas without hospitals, in good health. I am so grateful to...

Fly fishing

by up10ad | Sun Jul 20, 2008 | All (Home), Me! | 0 Comments

Went to a local spot outside of Hotchkiss with Sandi, Jimmy, Eva, Jeff, Leta, Justin & Dakota. We fished 4 of the 8 ponds and caught a variety of cutthroat, brown and rainbows.

Burning trash in 55 gal. drum

by up10ad | Sun May 17, 2009 | All (Home), Photography | 0 Comments

We keep a old metal drum in the shed area to burn cardboard and other large paper trash items. It gets fired up about every two weeks and saves s space in the single trash container that we put out for collection. It always makes me feel like a sterno bum when I fire...

First rose #nofilter #rose #flower #bloom

by up10ad | Sat May 5, 2012 | All (Home), Homestead, Seasonal | 0 Comments

Nikon D5500 Review: Digital Photography Review

by Rick | Fri Apr 24, 2015 | All (Home), Photography | 0 Comments

Source: Nikon D5500 Review: Digital Photography Review Well, getting back into photography a bit, purchased an enthusiast level Nikon. Opted out of the kit lens and got a great deal on a decent zoom until I can afford a good lens. Hopefully photos will follow....