A sad day

It is with great sadness that I must announce the passing of Maggie. AKA Magga Dootz. She will be missed by all.

Walkway to lecture hall

It is a pretty nice walk to get to the conference room. It sure beats the VA parking Lot!

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wonderful day in Hawaii.

Today we went to what I think is our favorite beach in Hawaii, Mauna Kea. It has everything, sandy beach great snorkeling and easy access. Today when we snorkeled out to the reef area we were greeted by a huge MANTA RAY. It swam gracefully under us, for quite a long time. At one point it came so close to me I was afraid it was going to swim into me.

Of course I did not have my camera with me. Alway swim with your underwater camera!!!!!

Any one want a Pinapple Martina. Sky pinapple vodka and pinapple orange mango juice.

Rainbow over wiakiki

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Waiting for a part for our plane to be flown in from Minniapolis

Here's Hopin'

Hopefully we will get the chance to swim with the wild dolphins in Kona again. The last few time we have been there we were pretty lucky. I hope well all make it to Hawaii to begin with. There is some problem with my and dads reservation that will not allow us to check in on line, what ever the problem is can be fixed over the phone only at the Buffalo Airport????

More Jelly Fish.

I was worried that we were going to hit the influx this year but looks like we should be clear.

HONOLULU(oct 14) -- About 2,000 jellyfish washed up onto Oahu South Shore beaches on Tuesday morning, a city Ocean Safety and Lifeguard Services Division spokesman said.
The box jellyfish washed up on shores from Waikiki Beach to Ala Moana Beach Park, the city said.
Lifeguards posted warning signs at Waikiki Beach and Ala Moana Beach Park.
Lifeguards treated 174 people with stings, mostly in the Waikiki area. Only one man who was taken to the hospital after he was stung because he had trouble breathing, officials said. He was in stable condition.
"Ocean Safety personnel would like to remind beachgoers to heed all warning signs and to please check with them before entering the water today," spokesman Bryan Cheplic said.
Cheplic said that Tuesday should be the peak of the monthly invasion of jellyfish. The monthly event happen happens seven to 10 days after a full moon.
Beachgoers are advised to look for posted warnings signs or to check with a lifeguard, especially if they are allergic to jellyfish stings. Anyone who is stung by a jellyfish should flush out the sting with vinegar.
If the sting causes cramping or persistent pain, a person should seek medical attention.

When Autum Leaves start to Fall.

Sunset at the end of camping season.

Allie cant wait to go camping

On back of seat in car

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Long Columbus day weekend coming up

It has been a pretty quiet week, but long. Looking forward to getting away and camping this long weekend. Some margaritas by the fire. Looks like the weather is going to cooperate too. Cool and sunny. No rain.
I think that there is some snow in the forecast for next week.
Hope to take a ride Sunday to on of the near by parks, the leaves should be pretty good for peeping.

Savings

Playing around with car rental rates today, I was able to save over $100.00 alone just for the rental in Kona. Saved at least another 30.00 on the 2 retal periods on Oahu too!!!

First day back to work after 3 weeks.

I need my stormy night Martini.

Its always smooth sailing with a stormy night.

Getting back into the swing

Still coughing but pneumonia seems to have cleared.
Back to work Tuesday AM. Have to get back to doing some updates, and one with life.

Great day on south beach

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Having a great time on the cruise. The martini is now my friend. 2 4 1 every eve!

Miami waterfall

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Am on Miami beach

Nice

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good day in Miami today

Had some sun today. Nice relaxing time at beach.
Tried a Cuban sandwich this ever which was very good.
Board the cruise ship tomorrow afternoon!!! Yeah!!!

Miami day one

Pretty uneventful flight from Rochester to Miami. I went through Phili, Chris through Cinci.
Arrived to some nice thunder storms. Drove around Miami beach.
hotel Newport beachside resort. Very nice. Better than expected.
Dinner at the Gourmet Diner. Good food pricey.

Getting ready to go

Check in complete for flights tomorrow. Paying for first checked bag really pisses me off!!!
After work tonight the dogs are heading for their extended camping trip. I am sure Emma will not be happy. We still have not determined our transportation options in Miami yet? Rent a car? Just pay for the shuttle service and be trapped at the hotel? Yikes!!!!
Due to high Internet cost blogging may be delayed and far between on this cruise.

Happy b-day Lynn

If you see our travel buddy LYNN today, wish her a Happy birthday!

2 pictures from John's last trip to Miami

Heading out to Miami in a few days. Here are 2 pics from my last trip there.

Who's been sleeping inmy bed?

Allie was kind of confused to see Tequila in her private condo.

Weekend is here!

Girls are ready for the weekend

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FWD:

Pink caddy going down the road

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Emma's warts almost all gone.

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New web posts

New pictures from our trip to Maui in Feb 2004 are posted above. Aloha

Another bear killed by tranquiler

The "old man" lake bear along with her 2 cubs were "removed" from the glacier ecosystem. One death on purpose, one death for unkown reasons and one cub off to the Bronx zoo. Hmm I am confused are we not in thier eco system? Perhaps human should have been removed from the old man back country camp ground for a year or two.
See full story under glacier park news on www.travellogonline.net (left hand side of page)

Hardy Hibiscus

The hibiscus in a beautiful flower. However, in Western NY it is a signal that summer is almost over.

BULL!!!

FROG THAT IS
The Bull frog it croaking away this am in the pond.
We had 2 and I thought that they were both lost
to the crane. But Alais one is still here.
They must like the warm weather too.

Bear Looking for a fur coat

So a bear walks into a fur shop--- no it's not the start of a joke, but it really happened in Aspen, Colorado.A small black bear walked through the front door of Mark Richards Fine Outerwear store on Saturday night.The bear browsed through the aisles and then went into the store window and posed next to the furs on display.He then left without damaging anything in the store.The Division of Wildlife says there have been quite a few bear encounters this summer in Aspen.

New web posts

I have posted some more pictures to the website. You can see a mixture of pictures from TN 1995 and 1996 by clicking here or the link above. I have also edited some the pictures from the weekend Angelica. I was able to add some captions in place of the regular file names that were coming up over the pictures.

Nice weekend

Had a nice weekend at camp. It was good to have the travel buddies come down for the day. Even though we had a few sprinkles the real rain held off until late at night. Arlo sure enjoyed his first margarita. We will have to watch him. For A link to some of the pictures click here.

Camper in the woods.

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Aloha Kona

Finalized and paid for our flights from Honolulu to Kona in October. Less expensive flights that met our needs were hard to come by. Must be filling up because Iron man is in town that week as well. Now if only some of the car rental rates would come down for that week.

Pic: a crowded Kona beach, kuabay

Tn pictures

I have been working on putting together some pictures from the 1990's Tennessee trips. It is turning out to be more difficult that originally thought. Trying to piece together which negatives are from which trip is tuff. When I had the negatives scanned they were scanned by individual strip. So now a have a bunch of digital negative strips. I thought I had them better organized than they turned out to be. Even more frustrating is that I cant find all the photo albums to help me out. I hope to have some posted in the next few days.

Allie safe and odorless.

So this am, I was going to let Allie out before I took my shower. Usually she is in her condo but it bedding was cleaned and still wet, so she slept on a chair in the living room. I decided to wait. It was a good thing. When I opened the bathroom window there was a skunk traveling through the back yard. She would have run right into it.
After my shower, I did a perimeter check and all was clear. Allie was able to do her business safely.

Some trees have a soul, Others just a face

Tree whistling at the witches

Some pictures from 1994

I posted some pictures from out trip to Tn in 1994. The link is above. I tried some new slide shows to display the pictures rather than just pasting them onto the web page. I think that it turned out pretty well.
The last few flower pics under here actually were very nice pictures. They lost a lot in the resolution aspect when they were re sized to be uploaded. I hope to post some higher resolution copies of them on the regular web page in the next few days. It is also hard to believe that there is only one more day left in the month of July. What the hell time is really flying. I have only been in the pool 4 times!!!! What a waste of a summer so far. The Bahamas are looking better and better right about now. Bring on Sept 5th.

You looking at me?

Bee on cone flower

Future cruise decisions.....so hard to make when you are cheap like me.

tiger lily

tiger lily

Cone Flower close up

Cone Flower close up

day Lily

Prarie blue eyed day lily

Weekends Keep Getting Better!!!!!

Not only rain, but tornadoes...... 2 in the area this afternoon.

Some updates

As you can see from the links above I have made some updates in the pets and home, friends and family section. I also plan on having a new link go live tonight(Fri). It will be under the HFF link area. It is from a weekend trip to the family cabin in the summer of 199o

Gidget will be missed. Adios mi amiga

Taco Bell dog dead at 15
Gidget, the Chihuahua that helped coin the phrase "Yo Quiero Taco Bell" has died. She died of a stroke at the age of 15.
Her owner says she loved being the mascot for Taco Cell and when she wasn't shooting commercials, Gidget enjoyed lying in the sun.
She had a few other cameo roles including the film Legally Blonde 2.

Deer visits my dentist.

I have been lazy updating the site with pictures. So here is
another local animal story of interest.


Glad I went to the dentist last Friday.

(Greece, N.Y.) -- Greece Police said a deer crashed through a window at the Center for Cosmetic Dentistry at the Greece Ridge Mall around 6:30 a.m. Tuesday.
Mall security guards caught the incident on security cameras.
The large deer was badly injured and cornered into one office, where it caused significant damage. Police were unable to chase the deer out without tranquilizing it.
Greece Police say the deer was tranquilized, removed from the store, and then put down. They believe the deer may have been struck by a car before jumping through the window.

It was actually a nice summer day and I was off! Almost margarita and fire time.

Bee on cone flower

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What the hell is this BLUE SKY?

Just another rainy Saturday, and hey, it is a whopping 64 degrees out. But hey my teeth are clean.

Emma and Allie test album

View Full Album

This is a test to see how this feature works and if it will transfer to the main web page. These are all pictures taken over the last month.

Rainbow after the storm

This is a rainbow that appeared after on of the bad thunder storms last week

Black eyed stella in bloom

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chris is of to get cheap meds in Canada. Will he be singing Oh Canada or bitching when he gets home.

What the hell, now mobile blogging is not working?

Feed informer

It looks like the blog is not transferring on a regular basis. It is supposed to update at least a few times a day. Well the post I made Sunday night still has not posted(Tues am) to the web site. The problem is that I don't know any other way to do it, other than using Feed informer. Any suggestions appreciated.

Another wierd weekend

This whole summer has been really strange so far. Saturday am was beautiful sunny and warm. then in the early afternoon torrential rains. like 2 inches in the back yard. Then about 4 it cleared up enough to get a little pool time in.
I thought Sunday would be better pool weather but no such luck. Sunny until about 1 pm (that when the sun finally hits the pool) then the clouds moved in and it was pretty cool as well. No pool today. Now that it is 8pm the Sky is clear and the sun is shinning. Now it is time to relax, have a margarita and enjoy the fire.
The rain did afford me some indoor time to go though some negatives to send in for scanning. Now I need to get busy updating the web page.

At least we are having a nice Saturday am. No rain yet

Bear card

Test post to webage

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Test

This is a test to see if an update will take place.

New video post

As you can see up above, I have posted a video of allie taking a swim with Emma. This was Allie second trip in the pool, so I think she was getting cold and wanted out faster this time.

4th of what month?

Happy 4th ofJuly every one. Its a whopping 58 on the deck this am. Where is my snuggie? I guess it is going to warm up a bit later and the sun may shine. Right now it looks like an october sky/

Hail

Friday Afternoon hail storm. Some or the left overs on the ground and on the net covering the ponds.

Emma at camp

Ok Its cool and the grass is damp, Where the hell is my fire!!!!!!!!!

Another Crappy weekend.

Saturday was a complete wash out. It poured all day.
Sunday Started off on a little better note. We drown down to see my dad for fathers day. Of course once we got to the cabin it started to rain. We still were able to have strip steaks on the grill. Did not get a chance to get many pictures of the girls like I hoped. I have one or two I will try and post later. Once we got back home it was nice and sunny, just in time for the sun to set. At least we were able to have a margarita by the fire.
Today is the First FULL day of summer. So far not looking too good out there!!!!!!!!

Slow go

Looks like things are not transferring very fast from the blog site. Hmm been like 2 days. This happens every once in a while and I have no Idea why.

Exciting story turns sad

I was following this on the Internet all morning. It is very close to my house. About 1130 I was shocked by the sad news.

A black bear that took up refuge in a tree in a northwest Rochester neighborhood last night has died.
The Department of Environmental Conservation says it's not entirely sure of the cause of death.

Police were first called to the Bernice Street and Parkwood Road area around 12:30 a.m. Police were originally told by the DEC to monitor the bear until it came down, but after hours in the tree, it was decided to use tranquilizers. The bear was shot with two tranquilizer darts. After the second shot, the bear eventually fell into a net.
Neighbors reacted to seeing the bear on the street.
"I thought I was seeing things at first but then I came back to reality once I seen him in the tree. He's a pretty big boy must be six feet tall," said area resident Barry Wilt.

Stinkin' Crane

It is bad enough that I had to cover the ponds with nets, but now even my water enjoyment is ruined. I figured since it it kinda warm and there is not cold wind off lake Ontario I will try an float in the pool with a lemon aid for a while. I get changed, get the tube out of the basement, sun glasses out of the car and make some lemon aid and fill a large glass. Emma is even a bit excited to see me heading toward the pool. I start to take off the solar cover, and think hmmm the water on top of it has a slight odor. As I take the cover off the stench gets worse. I guess the crane picked up a fish that was too large for it to swallow or it dropped it into the pool. Roasting and rotting under the solar cover was a nine inch fancy tail gold fish. I got it out of the pool and out front but not bagged yet. The water smells like a fish kill on the lake. Time to super shock the water for a few days. Allie must like the fish smell because she must have rolled in the dripping. So much for a swim any time soon. I think I better add some grey goose vodka to my lemon aid!!!!!

Ellens New DO

nice

Pond Update

Looking at the pond this am, there appear to be more fish left than originally thought. There are about 10. They were a little more active today. Maybe even spawning. They are pretty good at hiding when you approach too close.
I hope to have the Hawaii 2004 pictures live tonight. They are all set to go just need to add a few links. When posting, I did notice that not all of them are there. I must have a batch of negatives hiding some where.

Not only the canadians invaded the back yard

Upon close inspection of the ponds yesterday we noticed the the Crane must have been paying visits. A large number of gold fish are missing and a few of the smaller Koi. I think the gold fish are almost wiped out, there are only about 3 or 4 left. The ponds are all coverd with nets again. I hate them....

New web Posts

As you can see above I have done some new updates.
There are new pictures of Emma and Allie in see the pets.
There are some pictures of the garden/Yard in home, friends and family section.
I am in the process of going though the 1349 negatives that I sent in to be scanned. I now have to pick the ones I want and they will put them on DVD for me.
I am no starting to work on some pictures from the Fall 2004 trip to Hawaii, hope to have them posted to the web page later in the week.

The Canadians are invading my back yard

Well at least the snowbirds

Should have listened

I should have listened to my back on Sunday when it got bad. Monday am it felt a little better so I did some more yard work. Planted some flowers. By Monday night I could not move again. I have been out of work for 2 days now. I am going in today. Will see how it goes. I think the worst part will be the drive in. I should have asked Chris to pull my car on the street last night so I don't have to back up out of the driveway.

Happy Memorial day

I hope everyone has a great memorial day!
More yard work to do here, even if my back is kinda sore.
The garden is really coming along nicely.
I posted some pictures from our spring 2003 Trip to Tn. This included the pictures of Tori's first experience with a bear out in the wild.

Friday

Will this week ever END!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Got and email today that my second batch of negatives are being scanned. They are in India. Can't wait to see how they turn out.

Long Week

Will the weekend ever get here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I booked my ticket to Hawaii in Oct. Got an incredible price. $440.oo including all taxes and fees. I almost wonder if it was a mistake, but my E-ticket is in hand. Aloha!!!!

There all done!!!!!

All the cruise pictures are posted including Barcelona yeah!!!!!

Cruise PIctures posted

The cruise pictures are now posted. Check them out.
Today Is Emma's 13th birthday.

Cruise Pictures progress

I am now just verifying the links and proofing the site. I hope to have it live by Sunday evening. I will finish up the Barcelona part at a later time

Still working on them

I am hard at work trying to get the pictures posted!!!! really. There are just so many of them to sort though this year. I like so many of them, that it is hard to eliminate any.

The weather is finally starting to cooperate too. Nice eve out. Sitting on the deck working on the pics and smelling the lilacs. Even the hardy geraniums have a few flowers on them now. The pool is open but need to get the filter going.

Cruise pictures

I am trying to work on the cruise pictures so that I can get them posted as soon as possible. There are quite a few pictures to go through. I am really hoping to have then done by the end of the week. I did add a video (above) to the web site. It takes a while to load. I may have to put it on you tube and see if it runs faster that way.
I am also trying to get yard work and laundry done in between everything else as well. All the animals are getting back into their regular routines. The cats really missed us this time. Even Josie has been overly affectionate.

Barcelona Spain May 3-4.

Barcelona Spain May 3-4.
Sunday we had a final breakfast on board with our new friends from California. We picked up our luggage and headed to the taxi line. It was quite long. We headed to our hotel right off the upper part of Les Rambles. The Silken Les Rambles.
It turned out to be a very nice hotel for the amount of money I paid for it. The entire bathroom was made of marble. There was a phone and sound system in the bath.
We headed out and started exploring the city. We bought tickets for the hope on and off bus. We got to see a great deal of the city. We only had time to do one of the three lines. We first did the entire circuit to see the city. We stopped at the sagrada familia took some outside pics. We then had very unimpressive paella for lunch.
We then traveled up to the parc Guell and explored that for a while. The park was totally designed by the architect Gaudi. From there we took the metro to the bottom of Les Rambles and walked back up to the hotel as we enjoyed the sights.
It was then time to clean up, and get ready for the Flamenco show. It was right on Les Rambles so we walked down to it.
The show itself was out of this world. The sangria was pretty good too. After the show we walked around the gothic quarter for a bit looking for a place for dinner. Finally about midnight we returned to the hotel.
We got up early Monday for our flight home. We were delayed about 3 hours in Newark but other than that the trip was uneventful.

Cannes France. May 2 2009

Cannes France. May 2 2009
Neither of us was particularly impressed with this port. There was not much of interest there. We walked among the Gucci and Prada stores, looked in a few of the souvenier shops and walked to the beaches. The beaches were not that impressive either. The water was a bit dirty compared to all the other med ports we had been in.
We took the tender back to the ship. WE spent time at the pool. For lunch we had bbq ribs. The ship had large grills going near the pools.
Speaking of French food!!! We spoke with some people from Canada who informed us that horse is a popular meat in southern France. So I guess I was correct and Chris did have a horse meat sandwich for lunch the other day.
Spent some time in the spa in the early eve. For diner we went to Le Bistro. We had the fish soup again. This time Durry the Matride made sure we had lots of extra seafood in it.
We stopped a few places and said goodbye to some of our friends and headed to the room to pack. We started having gale force winds and the ship was very rocky. So packing was kind of tough.

Cinque Terra Italy May 1 2009

Cinque Terra Italy.
I hate the fact that I have to write this after some time has passed. I am sure that I have already forgotten some or the things I wanted to write about this incredible place.
The tour left the ship at about 705am. The bus ride to La Spezia where we caught our first ferry, was interesting as well. We had an excellent tour guide. She was very concerned that being a national holiday that it would be very hard to keep everyone together. She gave us her cell phone number and the train we had to catch to get back to the La Spezia should we get separated. Everyone made it!!! The crowds were bad however because it, was a holiday, and the first day without rain in over 2 weeks. She had said since last November the weather has been terrible.
On the hour and a half bus ride she told us interesting stories about some local customs superstitions and how one towns people looked at another’s. We got to drive past Pisa and see the tower from a distance. We also drove past mountains made of marble. This is where all the ancient sculptors got there marble. Pieces would fall and they would be put on barges and shipped to Rome and Florence via specially built canals.
Once we arrived in La Spezia we bordered out boat. Which had way too many people, and started on our Journey to the Cinque Terra. Once we arrived in Riomaggiore we got off the boat and toured the town. We then walked on the street of love to the next town Manarola. Again we visited the town, and the boarded the next boat. We sailed past Corniglia, we stopped briefly in Vernazza and sailed on to Monterosso.

We left the tour and explored the town on our own. We found this little restaurant for lunch. We found a table and it started to fill up a bit. They must have thought enough people!!!! Because at that point they locked the doors.
We had an amazing lunch of pasta with pesto and fried calamari. We then walked around the town some more. We found some lemon chello and snuck it onto the ship. We later joined our group and hopped on the train to La Spezia to catch our bus back to the ship.
Once on board (about 630) we spent some time in the spa. We had a very late diner in La cucina to continue with the Italian theme.

Home safe

made it home safe and sound. will Post the last few days of vacation blog soon. Then I need to start working on the pictures

Last few days

Cinque terra italy was out of this world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cannes.... not so great. Villefranche was much nicer last year.
Have to get off the ship in a few min.
Day in Barcelona today
Home tomorrow. Will do full updates then.
Chow chow.

ROME

Rome Italy, April 30th
So we gave Rome another chance. I am glad we did. The visit was much more pleasant this time. I guess not being among the screaming crowds and protests of Labor Day helped.
We caught the 730 train and got to Rome in no time. Our first stop was the Vatican. We did a quick walk through because we had 10am tickets for the Vatican Museum and Sistine Chapel. We arrived at the museum entrance a little before 10. I am glad I pre bought the tickets because the ticket line was already 3 hours long. We say some of the highlights of the museum and then off to the Sistine Chapel. It truly is an amazing site to say the least. No photography is allowed so I had to buy the book.
It was perfect day weather wise. The first day it did not rain in Rome for weeks. I am not sure how much walking we actually did but it was a lot. (Slight blister). After leaving the Vatican we headed toward the Castle St. Angelo to get some outside photos. Then it was time for some awesome gelato. That was all I really had on my list to do after last year’s time there. We next walked to the Plaza Navona. Not wall to wall people like last year. The fountain of the 4 rivers is still under repair.
We then wound out way through the narrow streets, getting lost a few times to the campo di firore and explored the markets there. They really did have a little of everything. Chris then stopped at this bakery for a canoli for later on.
We had lunch at this café on the corner. It was very good and inexpensive compared to what we paid in the past. We started with a large plate of prosciutto. I had pasta carbonara and Chris had pasta with egg plant.
We then walked up to the Roman forum and coliseum. We once again subjected ourselves to the Roman subway system to the train terminal. We did have not have much of a wait and were back on board by about 545 pm.
Once back on board the ship we went to the spa and soaked our tired feet.
Dinner was at the Magenta dinning room. It was surf and more surf night, it was seafood served over pasta. I picked over that and had a lamb chop. Chris had a steak.