Install Pad

general-lee-bootleg-turnThis past weekend was my mother’s birthday.  (Happy Birthday, Mom!)  I went to visit for the weekend and I left my computer at home.  Crazy, right?  No, crazy like a fox.  Or maybe crazy like a cowbird.  Cowbirds lay their eggs in the nests of other birds and leave the chick-rearing to somebody else.  Well, I took my little egg, er, flash drive, and laid it in the USB ports of various relatives.  I had all my software, bookmarks, etc. and didn’t need to change any of their settings.  (Who doesn’t hate it when they log on to Amazon and get called by someone else’s name?)

This flashy convenience can be yours, too.  And I’m going to make it easier than easy. Continue reading

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Return of the osprey

Last summer I enjoyed the fishing antics of a belted kingfisher as he swooped back and forth over the lake just off the end of our dock. This spring as I started walking from the road past our camper to the lake I saw what I thought was a bald eagle and then realized it was an osprey.

I had enjoyed watching the oprey’s nesting on channel markers when I was a coastal cruiser but not expect to see one on our little body of water at Lake Royale. There he was. Circling with his white head glistening in the bright sunshine. Suddenly the circling ended. He dove with his back toward me. Bulleting toward the water, his wings outstretched to either side, BAM!, into the drink. He appeared to come up empty.

Thinking that would be the last of him, I started to unload the car. Wait. He’s back. Where’s the camera? Run into the house and pull out the camera. It is beeping as I remove it. Dead battery. No picture for today’s blog. Sorry.

But, heh, at least my battery is charged now. I’m just hoping he comes back.

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Well, we said we wanted change . . .

general-lee-bootleg-turnThe new administration has taken the direction of government through a bootleg turn like hasn’t been seen since the Dukes of Hazzard went off the air. Some of those actions I have greeted with a sigh of relief. The most important one being that he reversed the “aggressive” or “enhanced” interrogation techniques of the Bush administration.

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Walk much?

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I stumbled upon an essay worth reading – just as soon as you get back from your walk.   Take a Walk by Bill Bunn gives what I hope is an only half-serious rationale for returning to our (assuming the reader is human) main mode of conveyance.  Since it is not unusual for me to share boring details about my latest walk around the same lake, I thought I would offer this link to Bill’s essay as an olive branch to my long-suffering readers. Continue reading

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Spring Breaks Out

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Spring takes on a different meaning when one lives in a cooler climate. New life is breaking out all around us in North Carolina. I hope you enjoy this little video of the flowers and birds I observed this weekend. Some were taken in our yard in Wake Forest, others at our camp on Lake Royale, and the birds were photographed from our boat on Lake Royale.


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