Finished the pond!!!!

Yesterday the electrician came and installed an outdoor underground power feed.  Today I added another 10 bags of pea gravel and that is “it” for now.  There are minor adjustments that are needed but they will follow as time allows.  See pics in the “ponding” sidebar. 

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Whew!!!! Most of the “hard” work is done.

Well the major portion of pond construction seems to be done.  Today I added the lilies from the above ground container, placed the filter and hooked up a “happy fish”.  There is more pond work to do – a waterfall would be nice and maybe a small bridge constructed from “tile”, more aquatic plants and surrounding landscaping, etc.  This can be done gradually.  The oppressive heat of this summer really made this work more difficult than it needed to be. 

 

I really like the “orange” in the perimeter stone.  I believe it will tie in well with the pea gravel. 

 

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A ponding I will go

 

Well I dug up the raised boxes of flowers and vegetables to make room for a pergola and a pond. See “ponding” in right side bar. DSCN0514
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Into social networking? Maybe this will…

change your mind. 

firesheep

http://codebutler.com/firesheep

I have done “this” to myself so I know it works.  Very scary. 

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Hardware upgrade

I moved to new server hardware which required an install of a 64 bit OS and a resinstall/configuration/compile of most of the software I run.  I am still finding “missed” requirements and address them as they occur.  You too might find issues like broken links.  Not all the webpages have been restored but I am working it.

I have also upgraded the blog software and added a new look (theme) as well as reworked the way pages display in this blog.  Before, all posts were logged to the default page (the page you are currently looking at).  Now only the last post with a “previous entry” link for others in this default category will be displayed.  All others posts now display only under their assigned categories listed in the right sidebar.

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Last Call

Last flight of Atlantis as seen from the backyard.

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Pics from the porch – the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle.

offthepad Just off the pad. 
downrange Downrange.
pressure_wave Pressure wave.
boosters_away Boosters away.
moon The perfect navel.
rocket_moon Oh (trailing).  They are not going to be happy. 
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UR Busted

Check out this link .  See what your neighbors have been up to.

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Happy Birthday!!!, America

iwo

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Tiananmen Square – 6/4/1989

A government that fears its people is a government to be feared. – rab

tiananmen_tank_man

Two heroes stand out for me.  First is the the guy that stopped a column of tanks with a sack of groceries and second is the driver of the lead tank that refused to run over one of his own countrymen.  I wonder what happened to both of them?

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Satellite Beach, Fl – Discovery 3/15/09

This series of pictures was taken from my backyard. 
You will note some distortion later in the series due
to high zoom rate and “camera wobble”.
 
throught_the_trees Through the trees.
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IMG_0052 SRB separation
sequence
start.
boosters_away_5 A closer look.
boosters_away_1 Boosters away.
boosters_away_3 A closer look.
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 boosters_away_4 A closer look.
downrange Way down range. 
contrail The contrail.
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LiMP – Linux management port

 

image See sidebar under Linux Tools
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