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A Day at Lake Eola and Fireworks!

by Rick | Mon Jul 6, 2015 | All (Home), Landscape, Photography, Seasonal, Wildlife | 0 Comments

A few weeks ago I was re-reading Tony Northrup's great DSLR guide, How to Create Stunning Digital Photography. In the section on night photography he discusses his technique for getting pictures of fireworks and I decided to try it this year. His method is simple;...

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...

Sunrise

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

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

Started a restaurant

by up10ad | Tue May 21, 2002 | All (Home), Food and Drink, Work | 0 Comments

It is now mid-may and we're still unpacking at home! We have started a business as owners of the Flag Creek Cafe, located at the Meeker Golf Course. The startup is taking an inordinate amount of our time and energy, but after two weeks we are beginning to get our...

Skid Vicious has surgery

by up10ad | Thu Jul 17, 2008 | All (Home), Horses | 0 Comments

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.

Panzer running

by Rick | Mon Sep 24, 2012 | All (Home), Dogs, Homestead, Landscape | 0 Comments

(if the video won't play on your mobile device, try switching the mobile theme OFF at the bottom of the page) Your browser does not support the video tagYour browser does not support the video tag Panzer loves running up and down the length of the hay field.

Alfalfa ready to be baled.

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

Bacon Topped Meatloaf

by up10ad | Sat Mar 27, 2010 | All (Home), Lifestyle | 0 Comments

I could lose weight if I had more will power. Well, maybe not. Dang, that iPhone take nice pics sometimes.

Christmas Greetings

by Rick | Fri Dec 18, 2020 | All (Home), Dogs, Lifestyle, Seasonal | 0 Comments

Merry Christmas from Willow Street, Port Monmouth, New Jersey Drago is actually a very friendly boy who is trained well. In the photo above he was just responding to the "speak" command. He is passing along best wishes to everyone for the...

Geese on Lake

by Rick | Thu Sep 6, 2012 | All (Home), Photography | 0 Comments

Photos taken with iPhone 4 and post-processed on iPhone using PhotoStudio and sometimes Photogene2. Watermarks from iWatermark.

Aardvark Topsites & PHP v7.2 Fix

by Rick | Fri Feb 8, 2019 | All (Home), Web/Tech | 0 Comments

Aardvark Topsites is a php script that was originally developed about 15 years ago, designed to present websites as a dynamic ordered list. A topsites list ranks a group of related sites by popularity. Webmasters join the topsites list and are given a button to put on...

Pumpkin?

by Rick | Sat Sep 8, 2012 | All (Home), Lifestyle | 0 Comments

Not a fan of pumpkin ale. Don't like most 'flavors' added to my beer or cigars or pipe. [shrugs]

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...

Myrtle Beach/Missouri Trip

by up10ad | Sun Sep 20, 2009 | All (Home), Travel | 0 Comments

Took a trip and visited my sister and some friends. The weather was beautiful all week, spent every day in the ocean, 82 degree water. After leaving Myrtle Beach I headed for MO to visit Joe, Anita and Christine. Although it rained most of the time, it was perfect...

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...

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.

YASP – Yet another sunset pic

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

Just a Sunday Ride

by Rick | Sun Mar 14, 2021 | All (Home), Food and Drink, Lifestyle, Music, Runkeeper | 0 Comments

Bike ride on the Henry Hudson Trail, first stop was Off The Hook Restaurant & Bar for a quick Yuengling. On the way back home stopped at Water Witch for a coffee. Great local jam, lots of blues and a great rendition of the Stones Dead FLowers.

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.

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?

Nature Is Beautiful

by up10ad | Sat Aug 1, 2009 | All (Home), Homestead | 0 Comments

Unless otherwise noted, all photos are taken with my iPhone and post-processed with iPhone applications. I seldom carry my Canon 20D anymore except in situations where I need to use the big 400mm telephoto lens.

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...