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Christmas and New Years

by up10ad | Sat Jan 8, 2011 | All (Home), Food and Drink, Seasonal | 0 Comments

Despite the inactivity here on the site, we did indeed celebrate both Christmas and New Years. Matt, Brandy and the boys arrived on Christmas afternoon, followed shortly thereafter by Jeff and Leta. We enjoyed a fantastic Prime Rib dinner and were joined by Jim and...

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.

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,...

Watermelon 5K – Independence Day

by Rick | Sat Jul 4, 2015 | All (Home), Fun Stuff, Runkeeper | 0 Comments

Got up early and drove north of downtown to the City of Winter Park for the Hunter Vision Watermelon 5K. There were over 3,300 runners and we all got free watermelon! I increased my run/walk interval to 3min/1min and it felt great. Beat my previous 5K time...

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.

Spring is here

by up10ad | Sun Apr 6, 2008 | All (Home), Horses, Weather | 0 Comments

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 front...

Photos From The Past 2

by up10ad | Sat Feb 5, 2011 | All (Home), Me! | 0 Comments

This set has more recent photos, youngest at age 11 in the Drum Corps.

SOA or SOB?

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

More Sandhill Cranes

by Rick | Wed Jun 3, 2015 | All (Home), Wildlife | 0 Comments

Took a walk around the neighborhood and found these two near the recharge basin.

Fence mending 6Kv

by up10ad | Sat Feb 18, 2012 | All (Home), Me! | 0 Comments

I’m done with snow in spring

by Rick | Wed Apr 17, 2013 | All (Home), Homestead, Seasonal, Weather | 0 Comments

Green Mist

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

Took a pic of our outhouse with my iPhone and used the x-ray filter in the Vihgo app. Makes you wonder what I had for breakfast eh?

Mowing

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

#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

Airplane or crop sprayer?

by up10ad | Mon Jul 30, 2012 | All (Home), Strange | 0 Comments

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...

Abandoned house in Meeker, CO. Post processed on iPhone.

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

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...

Recent Pics

by Rick | Sun Apr 25, 2021 | All (Home), Dogs, Me!, Web/Tech | 0 Comments

Here's a few recent pics to keep things updated. Replaced my old DeBot brand robot vacuum with a new Wyze Robot Vacuum. It's faster and uses Lidar to map each room for very efficient cleaning. Next up is Drago sitting so handsome in the back yard. Lastly is a DNA...

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.

Great New Email Client

by up10ad | Fri Feb 26, 2010 | All (Home), Web/Tech | 0 Comments

And then there was Postbox. I don't usually plug software on this blog but I have to make an exception for Postbox. I switched from Outlook several months ago and I love this alternative written by some of the key developers from Mozilla and Thunderbird who have now...

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.

Walking Confluence Park

by up10ad | Sun Sep 5, 2010 | All (Home), Health | 0 Comments

I've been walking almost daily for the past couple months and my latest location is a 5 mile loop around the lake and next to the river.You can check my progress at RunKeeper.com

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.

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