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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 […] Stuff I finished up this blog post on Monday late afternoon, still sitting in my car working off the inverter. My plan to keep the large fridge/freezer running failed — the inverter was not powerful enough — so we are trying plan B. I plugged in the small stand-alone freezer in the laundry room. If […] Stuff We lost power last night, Sunday September 11, 2017, at 8:11pm, courtesy of Hurricane IRMA. I was in bed by 8:30 with one bedroom window open. The wind was pretty much howling by then. I was asleep before 9pm. I woke at 1:45 am, fired up the computer (wearing the blue blocker goggles that […] Stuff I prepared this blog post on Sunday morning to ensure against a power outage later today or tomorrow messing up the streak. I finished it at 10am and am planning to swim at 11:30 if there is no lightning … As I type Jim, is assembling out new Weber barbecue in the living room […] Stuff It is Sunday morning and it is raining hard here at ILE. But it is strangely calm. Dead calm. The calm before the storm. My good wishes go out to my fellow Floridians and to all who wind up being affected by Irma. Right now there are 100mph gusts in the lower Keys and […] Stuff On Friday morning I just about finished the jigsaw puzzle that is my 2016 tax return. I am waiting for my accountant — now on vacation somewhere — to answer a single question. After that I can wrap everything up and have it to him on 20 SEPT when he gets home. I […] |
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