HOT HOLIDAY WEEKEND AND HOTTER POST HOLIDAY WORK WEEK!!!
June 29, 2010
YARBZ POOL UP AND RUNNING JUST IN TIME FOR THE FOURTH OF JULY HOLIDAY WEEKEND!
We worked hard to get the area cleaned up yesterday. I took a vacation day as did Mariann and we spent the hours from 0700 to 1730 putting in back in order. The flower boxes at the back side of the pool will be filled this evening and the bushes still need some trimming but we’re ready for swimming. The weather has been so good for the pool this year I hope it continues. When we pour the concrete, the decking will come out. We may not get to the concrete untill 2011. We’ve got to pay off the liner first… Cheers and stop by if you’re in the area.
March 23, 2010
TESTING THIS BLURB APPLICATION FOR BOOK PREVIEWS. THIS ONE IS MY TRAVELS TO SPAIN IN OCTOBER 2007
This book was made shortly after we arrived home in late October 2007 and is chronologically organized covering all aspects of our trip beginning at our home with the stuff we packed. It goes through the airport and travel phases and finally into Spain. We arrived in Madrid in the morning dog tired from too many hours of travel and had to navigate using Spanish language signs through Madrid’s Barajas Airport to the rail line to the subway and then to the high-speed train from Madrid to Toledo where we have booked our first night.
The photos will show how tired we were. All through the rail portion of the first day, we were totally beat and on edge. Once we arrived in Toledo and checked in, we had been up close to 24 hours. We decided to stay up until 9 PM so we could sync up with the local time. We ended up wondering around the streets of the old city for hours, climbing and descending the steep stone streets before finally ending up at a restaurant & bar across the street from our hotel. We ate jamon and drank Spanish beer and wine until we collapsed into our room at 9 pm. There was an open air ‘rock’ concert in the Plaza de Toros which reverberated around the city that night and actually helped us fall asleep with the cool breeze falling into the bedroom from the ancient open window of our room above the stone courtyard of the hotel and apartments. Enjoy if this www.blurb.com widget works well enough.
This book was preliminary and I am looking to re-publish with tighter editing. Cheers, Yarbz
March 21, 2010
JUGGFEST: WAR ON BEER COMBAT PHOTOGRAPHY!!!
March 5, 2010
TWO VIDEOS I RECENTLY EDITED DOWN TO WATCHABLE QUALITY FROM SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY DAYS IN 1986/7… SO MANY MORE TO COME… SO MANY…
February 10, 2010
POOTER SATCHMO DIAGNOSED WITH MALIGNANT TUMOR ON HIS TONGUE :-(
We just got back from the vet and Satchmo has cancer. We will probably have to send him off on a kitty journey in three or so weeks… Sad news… He is a good pooter. We figure he is about 15 to 16 years old…
Here is a pic of pooter Satchmo from 2001:
November 18, 2009
MY NEW ENVIRONMENT AT SMALL CUBICLE INSURANCE COMPANY:
We moved from the home office to the field office in Hartford Friday and Monday. It was a downgrade in environment but I made the best of it. I printed and framed some images for my beige walls and hung prints rather than use push pins… It make the palce look much nicer… Below are some before and afters of my area…
The view right before move in.
The view right after initial move in.
The view left after initial move in.
I printed and framed a picture of a Northampton Pale Ale taken on the outdoor rooftop bar during the summer. This makes me thirsty!
Another view of the middle of the cubicle..
This is the way out from where our area starts. The carpet is colorful only in the isle, the rest is blue/gray carpet squares.
Jason in the field office before the move in…
October 18, 2009
Some pics from visiting fb and saluki
Here are a few from our time with FB and Saluki… There are more coming…
A mouse suddenly appeared on our windshield which we beleive fell from a highway bridge. At 70 mph is became airborn and likley found another windshield… We didn’t notice this thing until we were on I-55…
The other dog with a golf ball in his mouth that he had just pulled from the stream behind FB’s house…
September 22, 2009
YARBZ PHOTO DIARY OF STUFF TAKEN OVER THE LAST COUPLE DAYS:
These were all taken with my new Canon EF 50/f1.4 standard lens… On my 50D body this lens becomes the equivanent of an 80mm lens… Very shallow depth of field give an interesting effect…
Frank at the bar at J. Timothy’s in Plainville, CT
I was watching Hogan’s Heroes last night on some HD channel… Klink and Shultz, classic characters acted perfectly.
A Smoking Reading Executive type outside Small Cubicle Insurance Company home office at about 0800 yesterday morning.
Some graffiti at the bus stop enclosure in the AM light…
More graffiti at the bus stop enclosure in the AM light…
Good ol’ Rye toast at Miss Washington Diner, downtown New Britain…
Some of my ten or so remotes in my basement sitting on the bar…
My standard weekend breakfast at Miss Washington Diner in New Britain, CT
The old lights of the Miss Washington Diner
German Sausages in the Bavaria Room at Eastside Restaurant, New Britain, CT… They are having the Grand Opening of the four season outdoor rooftop Beer Garden today… I am going to call some people as see if I can get in to shoot it…
Mariann in the Bavaria Room a couple nights ago with the iron work behind her looking like a religious icon of some sort… that is all…












































