Since I’m running late this fine Monday morning, I must apologize in advance for not posting my usual, mesmerizing, fascinating high-quality literary content and instead I’m just slappin’ a few pictures up. Cheap and tawdry, I know. Your impeccable tastes demand more, and for that, again, I apologize for the incomprehensible disappointment you must be feeling..

This baby curleytail was unafraid of me. He jumped on my arm a couple of times, and he was very close.

Curleytail close-up

Sunset from Boggy Sand Road

Last nights sunset zoom in

Have a great week, and I apologize again for my berevity!

I know what my blog is, kinda. It’s pretty similar to your blog. But if I look on the internet for ways to improve my blog, there’s very little pertinent results. It seems more about marketing and profit and increasing sales and the number of hits. A lot are political. like the writer just wants to be a news source. When I look for ways to improve my blog, I’m just talking about being a better writer and posting posts that are more enjoyable for my readers.

The way I see it, you and I are part of a team, you read my blog, I read yours, we comment on each others posts, we’re just regular people, and our blogs of a kind of (for lack of a better word, forgive me,) hobby. But are we the minority? When I search for more blogs to follow, all I get are professional blogs, like corporate blogs. Not just somebody blogging like you and me. The ONLY good way I’ve found to find fellow bloggers like us is by what I call bloghopping.

If you go back to my blog archives, and look at comments from say, 10 years ago, you’ll find that almost none of them are still blogging. Unfortunately, bloggers seem to come and go. Periodically I have to replenish my ‘follow’ list on my reader, find new blogs. Finding blogs like ours is difficult.

Try it! If you use the WordPress App, go to the reader, and select anything exept “Followed Sites”. When I do that, looking for new blogs, I don’t find any I want to follow, to me they’re they’re all corporate, professional industrial blogs, even the good sounding ones, once I go look at them. Try the same thing on Feedly, or any reader you may be using. It’s even worse if you search using the web browser.

So what is blogging? I can’t imagine being able to use this blog to make money, or having a thousand followers. I’d like to, if I didn’t have to change everything, turn it into a sterile personality-less blog.

I like my blog, I don’t want to change a thing, except keep it going and make it better. If I get a good idea, I might act on it, but pretty much, I think I lack imagination and creativity. which is possibly why I’m happy with things now.

What do you think? I get the feeling that this is a somewhat incoherent post, too rambly. I hope not.

Have a great day!

The Pirate ship took on some water during the rough seas we had with the Pre-Hurricane Michael storm. I saw a picture of it on Facebook, but didn’t think I’d actuallly see the ship, I was sure they’d have her righted by now. But I drove by town yesterday and there she was, leaning way over. They were pumping the water out when I took these pics though, I’m sure everything is fine as I type this.

Random pictures, No thought, no theme no-thing

Vines taking over the vacant lot next door. There’s trees under there!

Guarding the eating cats, chickens steal their catfood otherwise.

Guarding the eating cats, chickens steal their catfood otherwise.

The Cat In The Plant. A famous childrens book title, isn’t it?

Have a great day!

Good luck to you in Michaels Path. Dang storm looks like it’s even gonna whack the UK. And it maintains strength pretty well while it travels over land.

This is typical for the end of hurricane season. Loosely speaking, in the beginning of the season, the storms start near Africa, and head mostly north or north-westish, Then the storms start forming further and further west, moving more parallel to the equator. Then, near the end, they’re forming around here, with a week or so of rain, storm gets organized, and moves away, to get named and develop more. Hurricane Michael is a strong one though.

Stay safe!

I was looking for a missing photo, and realized I don’t have any backup for my pictures from 2005 and 2006. I used to back up my photos on DVD every year, and I have from 1998 till about 2011 on DVD. I don’t think I was missing ’05 and ’06 before, whenever “before” was. I DID know that I was missing 1997, the year I moved here, and the year I bought my first digital camera. After the annual DVDs, about 2011, I started keeping my backup on external hard drives. But they fail, as I have found out. Gold colored DVDs are the best, waterproof. Hurricane Michelle got all my discs wet, and all the silver ones were ruined. They looked ok immediately after, but over time, the got “holes” in the “foil”.

What’s your backup system? Do you have one?

This morning I had a good walk with Sheba the dawg. It was raining and I took the umbrella, but as soon as I walked away from the house, it quit raining, and when I got back, it started raining again. It must’ve been raining only at my house… The sea was strange, glassy but with a big crashing wave about every 5 or 10 seconds. I didn’t swim. And it’s cloudy but should be clearing up soon. Our rain moved away and became Michael.

Have a great day!

I have a sprout for a clump of Lemon Grass that I’m trying to grow. I discovered her eating it, several times. I don’t try to stop her, because she likes it. But I hope she doesn’t kill it. Lemon grass smells fantastic, and I’ve heard that you can make tea out of it.

It was a good weekend, albeit rainy. I picked up the wife Saturday afternoon and it’s good to have her home. And I got a passing grade in my taking care of her plants while she was gone!

Sunday I watched American football.

It was a quiet, stay at home lazy weekend. A good one.

Now to have a great week, rain predicted till Wednesday.

Ciao!

It is c-c-cold here! Cool breeze from the south, probably more than a breeze, steady wind. Solid high clouds with the lower rainclouds underneath. I’m wearing a hoodie jacket.

Live view.

The wife’s in Fort Lauderdale, headed back home today from her two weeks in Costa Rica. I’m going to pick her up around noon.

And that’s about it! Have a great weekend!

Welcome to the Dead Zone, where bloggers can’t blog. They somtimes skip a day, hoping that will cure their bloggers blogging block. But it won’t. They’re in the Dead Zone.

I had no idea what to post yesterday, and the feeling remains today.

But it’s Friday, that’s good! And the wife returns from Costa Rica tomorrow. Coffee’s good today, compared to weak, like day before yesterday. That’s good! The weather was good yesterday, That’s good! Weatherman said rain and it was sunny! Better than vice versa! When I was a working in radio, I always said “boring is good.”

Life can still be good, even in the dead zone.

Have a great day, and a great weekend!

Most of you know I work at the airport. And most of you know the airport is getting a major upgrade. And maybe, like a lot of workplaces, you know that I’m not supposed to post about the goings-on at work.

BUT! Most of you know that I work down the road a piece from the actual airport, near where the ATC Tower is, and yesterday I had to go to the airport terminal for some training. Walking there, and I saw these guys working on the new roof.

Below is a zoomed-in shot.

I would like to go up there, just to see the view, and walk on that curved roof… Not going to happen, but I think the pics are pretty neat!

Several weeks ago, the stalk of a banana plant broke, and the bananas quit growing. I cut the plant down and left the bananas on the porch. They ripened. They’re almost as big around as your thumb, but longer. I ate one, and it was good, but most of them, you can’t peel. So I threw them back in the banana patch as fertilizer. I mourn the loss of my bananas. Woe is me!

And most of you know that it’s cloudy here and supposed to rain. And my coffee is weak. Life is rough.

Have a great day!!!