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Stuff Billy Joel at Madison Square Garden on Saturday night was beyond amazing. At 68 he still has his voice and more energy than you could possibly imagine. And he really knows how to connect with a New York audience. He was funny and humble and ever-appreciative of the skilled musicians in his band. What […] Stuff Saturday was a fun day on Long Island. In the morning I went with younger daughter Alissa to her younger son Idris’s little league game. It was thunder-stormed out when a huge black cloud came in from the north. Next I visited my sister Arna. Then Lissy and I headed into the city on […] Stuff Aside from the one-hour delay, my flight to Islip went smoothly. Younger daughter Alissa picked me up right on the button. I never cease to marvel at how Lissy deals with the daily challenges of raising two autistic sons (and those feelings are of course punched up whenever I visit). I see Dr. Dan […] Stuff I woke at 4:30am on Thursday morning and started packing for my flight to Long Island. By 9:30 I was in good shape so I took a nice 48-length swim. Jim and I left the house right on time at 11:30am. He dropped me off for my dental cleaning and had the oil changed […] Stuff I miss DeSoto already 🙂 If you are interested in an early winter DeSoto IPT sometime between mid-November and mid-December, shoot me an e-mail with your date preferences. I will check the tide tables and do my best to accomomdate folks’ preferences. I fly to Long Island tomorrow to visit younger daughter Alissa […] Stuff There were five of us altogether at the Tuesday morning In-the-Field Instructional Meet-up Session: local meet-up repeater Ray Jusseaume, long time friends an many multiple IPT veterans, the fancy free Stokes and Pat Fishburne, and IPT left-over and great new friend Lee Sommie. After lots of sunrise fun and lessons my main goal was […] Stuff We had another great morning at DeSoto on Monday. We enjoyed making lots of tight head portraits of various herons and egrets and enjoyed some great flight photography as well. I am looking forward to finishing up teaching and getting back home on Tuesday afternoon. I fly to Long Island on Thursday to visit […] Stuff We had a great morning at DeSoto on Sunday with flying and diving Brown Pelicans. In addition, our friendly oystercatcher was chowing down in the same spot on the same stuff. After a few hours we were headed back to the hotel when I spotted two handsome Wood Storks. We got really close, talked […] Stuff With a tame oystercatcher feeding in an atypical food-rich setting, we had a great morning on the DeSoto Fall IPT; we followed that with a long — 2 1/2 hours — and great image review/Photoshop working lunch session, Instructor Nap Time, and a lousy afternoon. The latter was caused by very strong southeast winds […] Stuff I got to DeSoto early on Friday morning for my second pre-IPT scouting session. I found a nice flock of spoonbills and wound up getting so close that I ditched the 500 II and went with the 100-400 II hand held. On the way out of the park I found a nice low Osprey […] Stuff I spent a good two hours on the phone (with help from Jim) setting up an account with our new phone and internet provider; HughesNet satellite. We should have internet by this after, Friday, SEPT 22, but will not have regular phone service for about ten days as I want to keep the current […] Stuff Early on Wednesday I put the finishing touches on my 2016 taxes and sent them off to my accountant. I got so much work done in the morning that I took an earlier than usual swim. I was feeling so good and the pool was so sparkling and clean and it was so gorgeous […] Stuff We got lots done yesterday as I started packing for the DeSoto Fall IPT. Midday on Thursday I will drive over a day early for an afternoon and morning scouting session. I did have time for a relaxing 48-length swim on Tuesday afternoon. Great IPT News An amazing seven folks have already committed […] Stuff We are re-adjusting to life with electricity and lights. Yesterday we cleaned our main fridge/freezer — it really needed the Clorox spray! — and defrosted the stand alone freezer. We hope to get Jim into the BAA Online Store this morning though we will likely not have phone or DSL service until at least […] Please Don’t Forget … Why start today’s blog post with this feature that is included in most every post? Because most folks do not realize that if they use my B&H links for stuff like Wimberley Heads and plates that they are costing me a pretty penny (while at the same time thinking that they […] Stuff With our clean-up work done, Saturday was a relaxing day of enjoying our new living room air conditioning. Next in line is waiting for the insurance claims folks to call and visit. We still have not seen a Peace River Coop utility truck in the backyard so we will be without power for at […] Stuff Friday was stiflingly hot and still. Jim and I pretty much finished up our yard clean-up work in an early morning and a late afternoon session. Again, I swam twice totaling one mile. Jim got in the pool twice, something that he rarely does even once. In addition, he has taken up one of […] Stuff Oh, I forgot to mention, Rat Snake not rat 🙂 Thursday was a very hot day with no breeze. Despite that, Jim and I worked on our tree removal project for about 1 1/2 hours in the morning. I followed that by doing lots of dishes in the sink with a bucket or two […] Stuff A Day to Remember … Wednesday was a day to remember. After creating the photograph that is today’s featured image, Jim and I headed to town to try to get some gas so that we could keep running the inverter off of my Sequoia to keep the food cool. I was using about 1/3 […] Stuff I finished this blog post at 1pm on Tuesday. Things are kind of quiet. The best news is that there has been a breeze that has kept the house cooler than expected. I did some more manual labor this morning dismantling the tree that fell with just a small but rugged hand saw and […] |
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