We lost power Sunday at 6:15am

Camping in the motor home in the back of the house - could be worst - no clew when we'll get power back...

Friday sept 2nd: still no power :(. Thank God for the motor home!!

Sunday, Sept 4th - Power restored in the afternoon -- we're at Deer Haven CG for the week.

Well, Irene is on its way for better or worst!

We've lived in this area a long time but have never seen the windows at the local Wal-Mart boarded up...I'd say they are taking it seriously!

1. Outside stuff in or stored
2. Groceries, water, pet supplies all set
3. Electronics charged, motor home tanks filled, ice being made....

We'll see how it all works out...

A cartoon from Mark O'Neill

Thoughts on Steve Jobs resignation from Apple....

Way "back in the day" my first computer (one that I owned and was not work related) was an Apple IIe.  That was in the day of the IBM Personal Computer, and it was a conscious choice to go the Apple route.  I loved it, learned to tinker a bit with it....learned to do things with it that seemed like miracles at the time. From the IIe I purchased a IIc, and my final foray was for into the Applie IIGS (graphics-sound).  When Apple developed the Mac and discontinued the Apple II series my choice than was to go to the Mac or switch over the PC.  Because of work I went the PC route, as that was the route the Company was going.  At the office we went from 386's to 486's to the very powerful AS400 mini-computer from which (through an emulation card) I could run PC software without having an additional computer and monitor on my desk. Interesting days!!  I never got into I pods, but jumped back to Apple with the I-phone and the I-pads and have loved my rekindling of a relationship with Apple.  They make wonderful hardware-software machines that do what they're supposed to do....they DO just do it.
My old IIe was "signed" by Steve Jobs and Woz....I sure wish I still had it!  Steve will be missed by Apple fans for sure...he's kept personal computers a lot more interesting then they would have been without him.

Governor Malloy tours the former Norwich Hospital property in Preston CT...

http://youtu.be/Y78vyH1txq4  On August 15, 2011 Gov. Malloy toured the former Norwich Hospital site in Preston CT.  He is the first sitting Governor to have visited the property since the State abandoned the property twelve years ago.  I was invited by the Preston Redevelopment Agency to accompany them and shoot some snaps and video, and this is the clip I produced. Click the link at the beginning or the Title link to see the YouTube video....approx. 15 minutes in length.

A great day ending with bad news :(....

We spent the day with long-time old friends, mucking around on the Pawcatuck River in Westerly RI in their Whaler....had a great day re-connecting, having a nice picnic lunch.....enjoying the August perfect day.

On arriving home I called some of our camping friends to reconnect as she had a heart attack a month or so ago...and found out that in the interim she's home and doing well but that HE has been diagnosed with liver cancer.  Bummer does not BEGIN to describe this turn of events :(.

We just came back from the Seaport Sam's August Camp-out at the Brooklyn Fairgrounds

Click the title link to view some snaps and video (YouTube) from our weekend activities at the Brooklyn Fairgrounds where we camped with our camping group the Seaport Sams.  The highlight of the weekend was the Buffalo Tour....

Click this link Picasa Web Album, Brooklyn Campout August 2011 to visit an album that will enable you to view the photo's as a slideshow or print them out in high resolution.

Just got in,and we have the rig cooling off to go out again :).

LOVE these busy days of summer camping!  We just got back last Sunday from the Pemi Valley Bluegrass Festival in Campton, NH.  We cleaned up the rig, did some hatch gear re-arranging, and have her in the "launch" position for our weekend Seaport Sams camp-out at the Brooklyn Fairgrounds. September will be busy with a Bluegrass Festival in central Vermont, a Seaport Sams Lobster Cook-Out and God knows what else.  Of course if the market keeps sliding (or plummeting) I might just park the rig on the side of the road and weep!

Pemi Valley Bluegrass Festival, August 2011

Several members of the Quinnabaug Travelers and  Seaport Sams Good Sam camping clubs attended the 19th Annual Pemi Valley Bluegrass Festival in Campton NH from August 4th-7th.  Click the title link on this post to see some snaps and video clips from this event.