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Morning haze and clouds

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

Long Overdue Update

by Rick | Mon Feb 12, 2018 | All (Home), Dogs, Food and Drink, Fun Stuff, Lifestyle, Me!, Weather | 0 Comments

Tons of photos! Lots has happened in the past couple years. Left Florida and moved north to New Jersey. I recently spent some time fixing a bunch of issues with this blog and figured I would post some photos.

Moon over Elms

by up10ad | Tue Mar 10, 2009 | All (Home), Homestead, Horses, Weather | 0 Comments

Great full moon last night We're expecting Zana to give us a baby pony this week followed by another from Punkin within 30 days or so.

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.

A Taste of Sanford

by Rick | Sat May 9, 2015 | All (Home), Wildlife | 0 Comments

Went to the food and music festival A Taste of Sanford 2015 and got some nice photos. Lots of local food, great band playing and fun stuff for the whole family. Even the local birds got a treat. Another view of the same bird was captured against the sky,...

Animated Drum Crushing

by up10ad | Sat Aug 16, 2008 | All (Home), Strange | 0 Comments

This is brutal. What you are seeing is a 55 gallon drum being devoured by a crusher. Imagine falling into that! Just a random animated .gif image I ran across.

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...

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...

Great Memorial Day Burgers

by up10ad | Sun May 24, 2009 | All (Home), Food and Drink | 0 Comments

But first, a thought and a prayer for all those that have given the ultimate sacrifice in defense of our great country, as well as those who have returned with physical and emotional scars. Thanks So, ain't that a swell lookin' burger?

Another back porch view #skyporn #flag #landscape

by up10ad | Mon Feb 20, 2012 | All (Home), Homestead, Seasonal, Weather | 0 Comments

SOA or SOB?

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

YASP – Yet another sunset pic

by up10ad | Fri Dec 5, 2008 | All (Home), Homestead, Seasonal | 0 Comments

Wood Stork

by Rick | Mon Jun 1, 2015 | All (Home), Wildlife | 0 Comments

Spent some time at the lake at the Orlando Fairgrounds watching wildlife. The Wood Storks were content to stand nearby and splash in the shallows, but eventually took off for parts unknown. Below: Splashing in the water Below: Finally got camera shy and...

Ricky Baby

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

Bette discovered TV

by up10ad | Sun Sep 26, 2010 | All (Home), Dogs | 0 Comments

After 6 years Bette has decided that she likes watching NatGeo and Animal Planet.

Edible from our garden

by up10ad | Thu Sep 24, 2009 | All (Home), Food and Drink, Homestead | 0 Comments

I didn't know that artichokes bloomed like this!

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...

I Love Tomatoes

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

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.

I Want One Of These (redux)

by up10ad | Tue Oct 20, 2009 | All (Home), Web/Tech | 0 Comments

Toddler, Baltimore, MD

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

Apple Watch – Shop Apple Watch

by Rick | Sun Apr 26, 2015 | All (Home), Lifestyle, Web/Tech | 0 Comments

Stainless steel and space black stainless steel cases. The display is protected by sapphire crystal. And a range of bands in three materials. Source: Apple Watch - Shop Apple Watch - Apple Store (U.S.) I'm waiting until things mature a bit, but I think the 42mm...

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.

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....

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