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Trying something different

I have decided to try something different with this blog. Starting today I thought I'd try to post at least one local photo every week, try to keep it on Monday, and see if this 'job' will get me posting more or less regularly again. So here I go!
Above is looking North West on old Main street in town. A very nice Spring March 1st, even at 10:15 am it was already in the low 40's and going into the 50's again by this afternoon. Some activity already in town, you can see the "Dollar Depot", not a true dollar store as one might think, still they have quite a variety of stuff, mostly fairly inexpensive. To the right is the only movie theatre in town, the "Rex". Only open Friday to Monday nights, it was where Stacy and I tried to watch "Star Trek" last year. Once was enough! We really enjoyed seeing the movie it when it came out on DVD. I think the Rex is still for sale. Anybody what to buy a movie theatre for $250,000.00?
Above is the small in town park the "Georgia Mae Plaza". It is as you can see, a gazebo and benches with a couple of picnic tables and is used in the warmer weather of Spring and Summer. It was built on the site of another old brick building so it is kind of narrow, but still a pleasant place. From this place the first photo was taken on the side of the street the Radio Shack is and to the left.
This last photo was also taken this morning and shows the new cement wall for the ramp to the post office lobby. It set up all weekend and the wooden forms were taken down earlier this morning. They're going to be filling the inside part, this is only the wall, the center part is still hollow, later today. They took their little "Bobcat" and filled the center with the dirt piles in the photo. And now almost an hour later they're using the machine to tamp and pack down that dirt. So it's sounding like a Huey helicopter is hovering right outside the windows again.
We watched the last day of the Olympics yesterday. We'd started to watch the U.S. vs Canada hockey game while we were at Stacy's brothers place for a couple of hours yesterday. We'd gone out the almost half hour drive to have an early birthday get together for Stacy's father who will be 88 on Wednesday the 3rd. We saw the finish of the game on our return. Quite a game, the last goal in overtime happened so fast I didn't see it until the replay. I saw an interview and the Canadian player that hit it in didn't know he had made a goal until the horn sounded, he hadn't even seen the goal he'd made it all happened so fast. We started to watch the closing ceremonies on the eastern time NBC station at 5:00 and watched it until 6:00 pm then switched it our American satellite and watched the next to the last episode of the season of HBO's Big Love (really going crazy on that show this year!), then switched back to the closing ceremonies on NBC east. We'd watched the opening night on the Canadian TV and it was much better! CTV showed almost the entire opening with no commercials. NBC had so many commercials and breaks it was very annoying. I recorded the full event on another DVR of the Canadian TV version and we'll watch that Canadian version later, I'm hoping that like with the start, the finish will be in the phrase I now like best from HULU, "with limited commercial interruption".
Also talked to my father yesterday, still colder out in Missouri than it was here. They definitely had more winter than we've had this year. He's doing well but said mom isn't feeling to well. He'd seen the earlier post when I was talking about my cold (still can't shake that cough yet either!) and had called to talk about what's going on our way.
Our daughter Sandy, with her husband, is still working her way up to her "half marathon" run in May near Santa Barbara. While Stacy and I are really proud of all of her accomplishments, we've wondered about how she got into running. As a kid she was often breaking bones playing at school, so we're hoping she's well past the breaking bones part of her life to be running these contests.
I'm guessing everybody else is doing well since we haven't heard any differently.
That's it for this post, back to the loud helicopter outside the window!

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Sandy said…
your photos aren't loading for me. :(

We should start a photography competition between you and me.

We can alternate themes? :)
March 3, 2010 at 2:10 PM
Anonymous said…
I cant get the photos to load Tad
March 4, 2010 at 8:12 AM
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