A Work in Progress...: September 2011

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Goodbye September!

It's hard to believe that September is drawing to a close! This marks the fifth September that I've lived in Florida. And Autumn in Florida is a LOT different than autumn in New York. Lots of outdoor events are coming alive, like the Saturday Morning Market which begins again this Saturday and runs thru the end of May.

Folks around here sure do decorate their houses up for fall and Halloween. We don't get the cool crisp (OK, freezing) evenings like up North, and don't witness the beautiful colors of the changing leaves. We just have to make do with the year round constancy of flowers in bloom. But, lucky for me, I will be heading up to New York in two weeks to spend a few days in Albany and more few days in NYC hanging out with Ruby!

I snapped this picture of the bridge to Snell Island on my walk along Coffee Pot Bayou and Tampa Bay tonight.

Monday, September 26, 2011

AWIP 5 - Oh!

My 5th anniversary of blogging came and went this past weekend, yesterday, to be exact. I never would have thought of it if Sean hadn't posted about his 5th yesterday on his blog. His post was somewhat bittersweet. It is his last post. He's decided to stop blogging.

Gavin introduced both of us to blogging. His posts have dwindled.

For me, sometimes I seem to post frequently, and at other times, hardly at all.

Maybe blogging runs it's course, whatever it may be. I learned from D@vid, another blogger, about a service that will print out your blogs and I've been thinking about doing that somehow, for a long time. So, I went ahead and ordered a volume for each (calendar) year of blogging. They are scheduled to arrive by the end of this week. When this year ends, I will order another volume.

I'm not sure how long I will keep this up either. Putting thoughts and feelings and images into electronic "print" has helped me in many ways. It has helped me feel connected when everything in my life seemed so scattered. Social sites have had an affect on the blogging world, I think. The keeping up with family and friends works well there. Despite that, for now anyway, this work is still in progress.

Photos were taken around the time I started blogging.

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

I Cut The Cord

I did it. As of tomorrow my cable TV is no more. My Apple TV and my AirPort Extreme arrived today and I couldn't wait to hook them up. I also opened a Netflix streaming account. Hopefully, that will satisfy my craving for a good movie. My favorite channel to watch on cable was TCM, so I don't think I will miss much. And commercial tv drives me nuts so I haven't been watching much of that at all.

So far, I'm liking how I have access to my iTunes library and iPhotos. All of the sideshows that I've created are stored as movies on iTunes so I can even screen them on the tv.

I'm off tomorrow so will have time to explore and play with it!

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Slideshow of Universal Visit with Adele

Slideshow of our visit.

Saturday, September 17, 2011

Doing Universal - Hogwarts With Adele

Today was a day of escape to Universal Studios and Islands of Adventures with Adele. First order of business: To Islands to visit "The Wizarding World of Harry Potter". Both Adele and I bought annual passes, so we decided that this visit would be relaxing and we would only do several attractions. Harry Potter was our primary goal!

Meeting up with some friends.

It was a bit warm in the sun, but a beautiful day at the parks.

Entering Hogsmeade. Our timing was great. The wait time on the "Forbidden Journey" ride was only 15 minutes! As we walked onto the ride, Adele pointed out the rows and rows and rows of waiting line queues that they had to walk through on their first visit. The ride was AMAZING!!!