Yesterday I had the great honor to join my colleague in attending the graduation of the son of a friend. My colleague had himself graduated from Parris Island boot camp 22 years ago. It was a wonderful event and amazing to see these young men transformed. (One young Marine told […]
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This evening we are in Hilton Head Island and had a wonderful dinner at Hudson’s On the Docks. As we arrived the sun was setting and was gorgeous. Unfortunately I only had my BlackBerry for the photos, but that will give you a sense of how beautiful it was that […]
On my way to work I took a few more snaps including one of the JoePa statue outside of Beaver Stadium. His glasses were stolen last week.
The arctic blast has hit Happy Valley. We had another 2″ of gentle, very fine snow fall last night and school is delayed 2 hours. The snow plow has left a nice berm at the end of my driveway I have to clear and the temperature is 14º. I am […]
Jim West’s hell is my delight. I love snow, in its proper place and time, and Saturday we got a nice 6″ of snow in Central PA. The fact that it was on the weekend was even better, it meant that I could play with the kids and they did […]
I have linked to the flickr feed of the National Media Museum before. Today they uploaded a collection of “spirit photographs” by William Hope. These photographs of ‘spirits’ are taken from an album of photographs unearthed in a Lancashire second-hand and antiquarian bookshop by one of the Museum’s curators. They […]
Winter is here and I like to have my desktop/wallpaper on my computer reflect the seasons. I thought I would share with you all one of my photos. You can download a larger size at my flickr account. Feel free to use any of the others as well!
In the same center where the poultry competition is going on there is also the National Livestock Exposition. There is the “Country Store” (one of the arenas with sale booths set up) with saddles and trailers for sale and today the sheep competition was going on. (This is not a […]
Left work a bit early to join the family picking pumpkins (out of a bin, not off the ground, sadly). Now I am back in the office avoiding work. *sigh*
…is 19 hours worth of construction on an über swing set. Roughly 1/2 the cost of a Rainbow set, every bit as strong (better, with tongue-groove roof instead of fabric), and fairly straightforward to put together. Just takes time… Gorilla Playsets