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First Cold Spell

by up10ad | Mon Dec 15, 2008 | All (Home), Homestead, Weather | 0 Comments

From our weather station cam this morning:

1875 Romeo y Julieta.

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

Love this show. I'm no Jax but…

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

Happy Birthday USA!

by up10ad | Sat Jul 10, 2010 | All (Home), Homestead, Seasonal | 0 Comments

Independence Day video from my deck in 720p HD taken with and edited on my iPhone with the iMovie app. After it starts, change to 720p mode (lower right). httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5smQ7JYvjv4

I am the chimney sweep

by up10ad | Mon Oct 26, 2009 | All (Home), Me! | 0 Comments

It's a dirty job and Mike Rowe wasn't around.

Long Fall Shadows

by up10ad | Fri Oct 17, 2008 | All (Home), Homestead | 0 Comments

I just thought that the evening shadows were delightful. Fall is here.

Just me relaxing. #self #selfportrait

by Rick | Fri Dec 28, 2012 | All (Home), Music | 0 Comments

Obtuse Bronze Sculpture

by Rick | Mon Dec 24, 2012 | All (Home), Food and Drink, Funny, Strange | 0 Comments

I can't tell what this statue is all about. Is she being arrested and going to get frisked? Or is she preparing for position 78 in the Kama Sutra?

#Deer outside my window eating an orange I left on the lawn. Post processed.

by Rick | Thu Feb 14, 2013 | All (Home), Fun Stuff, Strange | 0 Comments

HTML Work

by Rick | Thu Feb 4, 2021 | All (Home), Dogs, Web/Tech | 0 Comments

For the last few years I've been doing pro bono web development work on and off for several German Shepherd rescue organizations, in addition to my job at the Matawan Aberdeen Public Library. There's also been a paying gig along the way that I stumbled upon. German...

First heavy snow

by up10ad | Fri Nov 20, 2009 | All (Home), Photography | 0 Comments

Foggy Snow Dusting

by up10ad | Sat Jan 23, 2010 | All (Home), Photography | 0 Comments

What a beautiful morning it was!

Repticon – Sharing Reptiles with the World

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

OK, not really my kind of show but it was there at the fairgrounds and it called my name. Strange froup of folks attend this event.

The bridge at Confluence Park

by up10ad | Thu Oct 14, 2010 | All (Home), Travel | 0 Comments

My daily walk/run takes me through Confluence Park just a few miles from home. This swaying bridge is in the wooded section and crosses over the Uncompahgre River, just about where it joins the Gunnison River. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbQJt3-M0E0 [mappress...

New Carrollton, MD c.1970

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

Our iPhone 3G S Warranty

by up10ad | Sat Jul 4, 2009 | All (Home), Horses, Web/Tech | 0 Comments

On release day Sandi and I both got the new iPhone 3G S models and they are great. Last week, after having the 3G S only 10 days or so, we were playing Scrabble together over WiFi in bed when all of a sudden the entire left one-third of her screen inexplicably went...

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...

Fireside at the Veitch’s

by up10ad | Wed Sep 24, 2008 | All (Home), Lifestyle | 0 Comments

We all had a great meal the other night. Appetizers of shrimp and scallops followed by ribs. Sitting by the fire is a tradition that never fails to bring out good conversation and warm feelings.

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

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

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...

From ASII our favorite Thai place

by up10ad | Sun Jul 11, 2010 | All (Home), Food and Drink | 0 Comments

We’re famous! Look at us!

by up10ad | Sun Aug 23, 2009 | All (Home), Strange | 0 Comments

^^ Sandi was featured in a gallery exhibition in Denver. ^^ They put me on a gate fence just at the entrance, I drew quite the crowd. Hehehe, actually it is just a new free iPhone app called PhotoFunia that embeds your photos in a number of different and fun...

Happy New Year 2009

by up10ad | Thu Jan 1, 2009 | All (Home), Photography | 1 Comment

[taken with the online snapshot feature of my Canon Weather Cam and modified in Photoshop CS3] From a personal perspective, Christmas was wonderful, especially when compared to last year. Since I'm updating more often these days I won't add any details but Sandi and...

Mowing

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

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...

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Surgery for Carpal Tunnel

Tue Apr 10, 2018 | All (Home), Health, Me!

Surgery for Carpal Tunnel

Over the past year I have noticed a steadily increasing numbness in my right hand, primarily affecting my thumb and middle finger. A trip to an orthopedist confirmed a carpal tunnel constriction diagnosis. In addition to the numbness the doctor pointed out a...