Walking and Today's Little Project

Hi! I got 103 Podcasts downloaded on my Blackberry (average Podcast is 40 minutes long) I'm waiting for my Blackberry to explode. These Podcast downloads are a real battery killer, big time. My Blackberry battery (now, remember, I got this new Blackberry two months ago) use to last 5 hours......downloading Podcasts and the battery is low in 2 hours. But soooooo worth it. Do you know what a Podcast is? In my own words, a Podcast an audio file downloaded off the internet and updated from a feed. So, in my little world, the Podcasts I listen to are archived talk shows on my favorite topics. I listen to dog talk shows, poker talk shows, comedy talk shows......actually, here's the website I actually pull the Podcasts from to download on my Blackberry. The app on Blackberry is called PodTrapper. I'm on a 30 day free trial, then I have the option to buy the app......don't really remember how much it is to buy, less than 10 bucks I'm sure, but I'm getting alot of use out of the free trial and you know how some apps are cheesy and work half the time or not at all, I've got to say, this one works great so far.

This morning's walk was held at Stark Park and I got pictures. First let me tell you that this walk was mostly thru little neighborhoods and there wasn't much to take pictures of, but I got a few........

Stark Park in Manchester, New Hampshire

Everyone showed up to walk.....see my car, the black SUV, right there.....

Another picture of Stark Park

Stark park is located next to the Youth Detention Center (YDC)

Another picture of YDC

So that was fun. I like my walking group and we are half way thru the walking schedule.....13 more walks to go and that will get me to Nov 11th. We have a little get-together (they call it a banquet) on Nov 15th for lunch and then say good bye to each other until the walking group resumes in the spring. But let's not talk about that now, I still have 13 more walks to go and a whole lot of Podcasts to go thru! :)

So, I bought a little 2 year calendar at the store a few weeks ago and I got a plain, simple one because I wanted to decorate it myself. I'm sure you already know where I am going with this LOL! So, I put some pictures on one of those USB memory sticks and went to CVS to develop the pictures. 11 tiny pictures (double prints) cost me 89 cents!!! Not only do I love little projects, I love Cheap little projects! :)........Okay, that's it, I'm done talking, time to show you what I did, step by step........

First we get the tools together that we are going to use.....

Then we get the pictures out that we developed today....

Then we cut the pictures apart and take the plastic jacket off the calendar...

Then we assemble them in the order we like....

We work from the bottom up, sticking them to the cover of the calendar.....

All the pictures are stuck on the cover of the calendar....

Make sure we do both sides and put the plastic jacket back on......

And that's what it looks like! :) Uh-Oh, we got two pictures left over....

We won't let those go to waste.....

Nice huh!!! :) I love it! And so does Jake!

So, that's what we did today! And then I had class tonight. This blogging class was a 6 week course and it was free and something for me to do. I learned a few little things about blogging I didn't know before, like changing out the blog template to a customized one, but I'm not going to do that, because I like the template I'm using now. So, now we wait a few months for a new class to start. This was held at the Nackey S. Loeb School of Communication. The next class I want to take here is Sports Writing but it's not being offered yet, so I have to wait and I will take another interesting class in between now and then. Sooooo, that was my day today! How was yours? :)

Walk, more than you Talk OR Talk, more than you Walk

Hi! Getting a little creative with my Titles, huh? :) Anyways, I joined a walking group yesterday morning. They get together ("they" meaning about 12 to 15 people) and this group walks in different areas of this city on pre-designated dates (they got a schedule set up till November) on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 9am. I love the schedule and I love the time and locations, but we will see if I love to stick with it after a week LOL! I should, if I stay motivated about it all. And it only takes up an hour of my time three times a week, easy to commit too. Well, the walkers gather together when we first meet up there, but at the strike of 9am, feets are moving.......a couple of people brought their dogs that walked with other social butterflies, these are the "Talk, more than they Walk" batch of walkers, they hang back and consciously talk and unconsciously move their feet, and then up in front of me are the "Walk, more than they Talk", they hit the 4 mph speed and it's a constant cruising speed for them. I like walking between these two groups, this middle group is (what I call) the "Complaining and Gossip" group. This group is just right for me cause the less they complain, the slower they walk; and the more the complain, they faster they walk. I like that group because we've got the switching gears on speed going on and the bicking is right there pushing us along. I love it.... :) Ha!

Some talkers walk, some walkers talk, but we all get the 4 miles done somehow.

Some of the "cruisers" in front of me, I never caught up with them,
they were moving right along.....

Just some pictures I took along the walk.....

 I can't catch up with them.... :)

This bridge goes over one of the streets in the city.....

A better look at the bridge...

It goes over this street called "Second Street"....we are still walking.....

Going over another bridge that goes over the highway
and Merrimack River

Walking over the highway.....follow me :)

Here's the highway.....not much traffic at 9:30am....

Another picture of the highway, I'm trying to take the
picture between the fence links

Now, we are walking over the Merrimack River which runs
along the side of the highway....

There's my big city.....and the Merrimack River...

Need a rest??

Another picture of the Merrimack River....

This is where we turned around and head back to where the walk started...

On the walk back, just snapping some pictures...

I made it home, time to take Jake out, he sleeps late.....

Ready to go now....

"That's what I think about mornings....."

"Okay, I'm ready to go....."

Okay, that was yesterday (or what was suppose to be yesterday's blog posting), but I can clearly see I fell asleep in the middle of the posting because when I booted up my laptop now, two pages were open, editing my blog page and my Facebook page.......no Facebooking, until my blogging is done.....LOL!

Okay, today, Jake and I went to this dog event that was advertised in today's newspaper.......it sounded exciting in the article, but when we got there it was just an outdoor small town dog show......

There's my Jake with the sun in his eyes :)

We watch the dog show from here.....

Oh, a girlie Maltese.....her name (yeah I had to ask twice) is "P2",
maybe it's spelled different, but that's what I heard....P2

So, those were my two days......been eventful but routine.....glad I could share it with ya......got some plans for this week, so check back soon :)

Happy 50th Post And A Huge TV

Hello!! :) This is my 50th blog post - Yay! I'm really sticking with this......I might of skipped  a few days and went a posting or two without pictures, but I'm really in the swing of things with this blog.....as long I keep busy I'll have something to write about because you don't want to hear me talk about TV shows and every bathroom break I take LOL!

OH, so anyways, today I brought Jake to the park and we walked around for a little while. Then after that I helped my Dad with fixing up the apartment to rent. The walls has been painted yesterday and today and my job today was to put the outlet plates back in place. Pretty easy job, I mean, I couldn't screw it up. But, we have a TV down there that was left from the previous tenant. She never came back for her stuff and it's been the official 28 days after the eviction date (law says we have to secure her stuff for 28 days after eviction), so everything in the apartment is under our possession now. Everything left behind was throw away except for the TV.......ugh, we will most likely dismantle it and dispose of it. I'll have my camera ready for this one, but today I took a picture of the TV and here's what it looks like....

This is on the second floor, do we just push it off the porch?? LOL!

Jake! What are you doing up there??

So, that was my day today so far. So, I'm going to check my email and maybe I'll be back on later if anything else exciting happens today! :)

An Exciting Few Days......

Well, what an exciting day today was!! :) Today Jake and I had a amazing day meeting Pippi (@pippitweets) and her Mom and Dad. They rolled into town and gave us some of their time to say hello and get to talking. Pippi (a 5 year old Scottie) and Jake spent time in the park. And Jake was on one of his most behaved days. I think he's calming down with age. The first two minutes he was overly excited and on guard to our new visitors, but he settled right down in step with Pippi as they walked the park together. Pippi's Mom, Abigail, talked about her and her husband's job as marketing truck drivers, truck drivers who market products for their company's clients......yeah, can ya believe it, two great jobs merged into one. She talked about where she has been on tour and, it was funny, cause when I told her all the places in this country I've been to, I didn't have to use state names......I said Yuma, Mission, Orlando and she knew where they all were. She even brought Jake a gift! A t-shirt, and just in time for the cooler season to approach, and it fits him perfectly! Bad boy scull t-shirt!!!

My new t-shirt!

Thank you Pippi!! Hope you come back soon!

So that was today! So it's neat to see pictures after pictures of someone then finally meet them! Hope Pippi and her Mom and Dad comes to visit again soon! :) Be safe on the road......

The "hurricane" decreased to a tropical storm when it arrived in New Hampshire on Sunday. It wasn't that bad around here (south central New Hampshire), but as for northern New Hampshire, the after effects of a watery storm sure took it's toll on some of the bridges and roads up there. Just about an hour north, some road are washed out, campgrounds are suffering from washed out damages, and temporary bridges are going to be built around bridges that collapsed. The news channel talked about the storm before it got here and they are still talking about the damages from the storm after it is long gone. We didn't lose power here at all, not even a flicker, but my cousin in Massachusetts still has no power as of this morning.

OH, you are going to love this.....I called my auto finance company today just to let them know I'm making a payment in cash at a bank branch (this is normal for me to do since the bank I use only for my auto loan is disfunctional sometimes, and "disfunctional" is the right word for it.....so anyways....), and they told me over the phone that if I made a payment over the phone with them they will waive the $20 dollar processing fee if I was a victim of the "hurricane". Well, thinking to myself, it's really no big deal to me cause I'll just hop over to the bank and make the cash payment (I'm SO old fashioned that way), I told the lady that I was not a victim of the hurricane. She said "but you are in New Hampshire and the storm went thru New Hampshire didn't it?" I said "Yep, came thru New Hampshire, but we don't have property damage or flood damage at all on our land." She said to me, "But, you did have emotional sufferings and set backs, didn't you?" EMOTIONAL WHAT???? So, I said to her "Well, it does disturb me that the Merrimack River is five feet higher than what it should be." She said, "SEE, right there!!! It did effect you! I'll waive that $20 dollar processing fee and process your payment right away!" There was no way I was going to argue with this lady so I just deposited my payment into my check account.....sigh.......

Have a good night! :)

(PS: I can see this blogging platform "Blogger" is going thru some growth spurts so if there's mistakes in my posting, it means their spell check didn't work today)