I just watch because of the Clydesdale ads, honest. To vote for your favorite, you can go to Best Super Bowl Commercials 2006. My favorite was the one with the Clydesdale youngster. I want one, but I keep reminding myself of when I met a young Clydesdale gelding at the Ft Collins stables. He was already as big as my 16, 2 hh Thorougbred Hap, and yet was obviously a baby. I do NOT need an 18 hh horse.
Sun Pillar
Small Rapids
Yesterday, I took Jack’s monopod with me on my walk along Cottonwood Creek, in hopes that I would get some good shots with the zoom. This was the first time I had walked with the monopod, and I found it less cumbersome than I feared. I was impressed by how well the above shot turned out, considering my distance from the falls when I took it. Click on the photo for a higher resolution version suitable for a desktop background.
Sunrise
A few photos from Santa Cruz
My niece has posted some new photos from Santa Cruz at her weblog.
Fountains of Paradise
Posted to flickr via grofract4d.
Broadband
That tremendous sigh of relief that you heard this morning occurred when I managed to convince our router to talk to the nameservers of our new wireless broadband provider. Although our installation as originally scheduled for yesterday, the installer got snowed in at his house and he didn’t get here until this morning. I was trying not to get too excited about the appointment to get installed this morning: when we got our first wireless installation it took several weeks to get it working properly.
During our enforced hiatus, I did discover that the local library system machines allow one to access files on a USB plugin, which was rather handy. I also discovered that I really, really prefer Firefox to Internet Explorer.
Out of Touch Updated
We have a sinking suspicion that our previous broadband provider has gone out of business, so another vendor is coming to the house to install on Monday.
Out of Touch
We lost our broadband connection on Saturday night, and have just managed to get them to open up a trouble ticket, so I don’t know when we will be connected again. I am writing this post from a friend’s house.
Hap Update
Hap seems to be doing fine. I make at least three trips out to the barn each meal: the first time to give him his sulfa in his equine senior, and the second time to pick up the tablets that have fallen to the side and give him yet more horse chow so he will eat those as well. Rinse and repeat until all the tablets are gone, so I can let the horses out of their stalls. I think Hap may be training me. I am just so grateful that I am getting the medication down him that I don’t really care. I consider trips to the barn my new exercise plan. Even with the repeat courses, Hap is getting just a fraction of what Smoke used to get every day, so I hope he won’t turn into a complete blimp.