Who want to Join us???

Who want to come with us on Dec 12th. Maybe dinner before....

From the creators of the groundbreaking BROADWAY HIT, CIRQUE DREAMS Jungle Fantasy, comes a new holiday musical of season’s dreamings hailed by the New York Daily News as…“charm, sparkle and talent by the sleighload” and “a jaw dropping winter wonderland” by the Atlantic City Press.

Created and directed by Neil Goldberg, CIRQUE DREAMS HOLIDAZE is an original new musical extravaganza filled with spectacle, imagination and whimsical dreams. Ornaments come to life as costumed characters who perform astonishing feats that celebrate the holiday season and showcase pageantry, ingenuity and breathtaking artistry. An international cast of acrobats, aerialists, singers, dancers and musicians fill this Cirque Dream on stage, in the air and while dangling from a 24 foot tall magical tree. Add to that the pomp, cirque-umstance and amazement of gingerbread men flipping through the air, toy soldiers skillfully marching on thin wires, snowmen daringly balancing, icemen sculpting powerfully, penguins spinning, puppets caroling and reindeer soaring high above a landscape of holiday wonderment and you will see why CIRQUE DREAMS HOLIDAZE makes the perfect gift of entertainment. With over 100 dazzling costumes, an original musical score and some holiday favorites, CIRQUE DREAMS HOLIDAZE will have audiences of all ages mesmerized with its memorable tribute to the holiday season.

Lots of cars on the road today

WITH SNOW ON THEM!!!!! Glad it stayed south of the city and we did not get any of it.

Kona airport

An airport with out walls. Very hot at close to 90 and no breeze.

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Place of refuge snorkel

Good day for snokeling at capt cook. Turtles, lots of fish and a snow flake moray eel. Followed him for a while.

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Change in plans

We have had a slight slight change in plans. The condo here in Waikoloa is so nice and the pool great, we have decided to stay here until Tuesday. I cancelled the hotel in Honolulu and extended our stay here. I will have to try and take some pictures of the place with my cell phone since as of right now my camera is still water logged.

Tonight we are heading to our favorite restaurant on the Hawaii, the big island grill.

THE CREATURE FROM THE KONA LAGOON

Good time snorkeling today at capt Cook. Lots of fish and a turtle. Underwater camera housing leaked. Unsure if camera will dry out and work.

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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This is a mobile post test to the webpage.

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.