Camera Critters # 38

Buddy loves the snow. He loves to stick his head in the snow. When it was time to bring him inside he fought us and tried to get away so he didn't have to come in. With the help of Jeff and I we were able to get the 100 pound yellow lab in the house. If you click on the picture to enlarge it you can see better that Buddy is licking the snow off his nose. How funny!

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Sky Watch #24

Welcome to Skywatch, this is truly one of my favorite meme's. This photo was taken last weekend at the local boat launch. If you enlarge the photo you can see the seagull sitting on top of the light post.

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Happy Holidays!

ABC Wednesday - Letter w

I'm late posting this week due to the Christmas Holiday. We had a very nice Christmas and I hope you all had the same.

This week's ABC Wednesday is the letter W. W = Winter here in upstate New York. I was hoping for a white Christmas and we definitely had one. We had about 2 feet of snow dumped on us last Friday but with the rain and temps in the high 40's it's starting to melt, but there still is a decent amount out there. These pictures were taken the day of the storm (Friday Dec. 19).

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Camera Critters # 37/ Puppies 12 days of Xmas

It has been snowing here since Friday afternoon. I have been busy making Christmas Gifts and going to Disney on Ice Show (pictures can be seen in the below post) that we finally made time today to take Buddy out to play in the snow. He loves the snow and the silly dog loves to bury his head in the snow. This is one of my favorite shots from today. This is perfect, he is so handsome, no I'm not basis at all. LOL! I hope everyone is enjoying their weekend and Happy Holidays to all of you! Don't forget to check out the other cute Camera Critters

I found this poem on the internet and this is the perfect post to share it in

Puppy's Tweleve Days of Christmas

On the first day of Christmas my puppy gave to me The Santa topper from the Christmas tree.

On the second day of Christmas my puppy gave to me Two leaking bubble lights And the Santa topper from the Christmas tree.

On the third day of Christmas my puppy gave to me Three punctured ornaments Two leaking bubble lights And the Santa topper from the Christmas tree.

On the fourth day of Christmas my puppy gave to me Four broken window candles Three punctured ornaments Two leaking bubble lights And the Santa topper from the Christmas tree.

On the fifth day of Christmas my puppy gave to me Five chewed-up stockings Four broken window candles Three punctured ornaments Two leaking bubble lights And the Santa topper from the Christmas tree.

On the sixth day of Christmas my puppy gave to me Six yards of soggy ribbon Five chewed-up stockings Four broken window candles Three punctured ornaments Two leaking bubble lights And the Santa topper from the Christmas tree.

On the seventh day of Christmas my puppy gave to me Seven scraps of wrapping paper Six yards of soggy ribbon Five chewed-up stockings Four broken window candles Three punctured ornaments Two leaking bubble lights And the Santa topper from the Christmas tree.

On the eighth day of Christmas my puppy gave to me Eight tiny reindeer fragments Seven scraps of wrapping paper Six yards of soggy ribbon Five chewed-up stockings Four broken window candles Three punctured ornaments Two leaking bubble lights And the Santa topper from the Christmas tree.

On the ninth day of Christmas my puppy gave to me My wreath in nine pieces Eight tiny reindeer fragments Seven scraps of wrapping paper Six yards of soggy ribbon Five chewed-up stockings Four broken window candles Three punctured ornaments Two leaking bubble lights And the Santa topper from the Christmas tree.

On the tenth day of Christmas my puppy gave to me Ten Christmas cards I shoulda mailed My wreath in nine pieces Eight tiny reindeer fragments Seven scraps of wrapping paper Six yards of soggy ribbon Five chewed-up stockings Four broken window candles Three punctured ornaments Two leaking bubble lights And the Santa topper from the Christmas tree.

On the eleventh day of Christmas my puppy gave to me Eleven unwrapped presents Ten Christmas cards I shoulda mailed My wreath in nine pieces Eight tiny reindeer fragments Seven scraps of wrapping paper Six yards of soggy ribbon Five chewed-up stockings Four broken window candles Three punctured ornaments Two leaking bubble lights And the Santa topper from the Christmas tree.

On the twelfth day of Christmas my puppy gave to me A dozen puppy kisses And I forgot about the other eleven days.

(found at http://www.i-pets.com/hdogx7.html)

100 Years of Magic Disney on Ice

Jeff and I went to Disney On Ice Celebrates 100 years of Magic. If you ever get a chance to attend a Disney Ice show I strongly recommend going, they are fantastic! We had terrific seats and got a lot of awesome photos. There were 18 different stories, the show lasted 2 hours (minus a small 15 minute break if that long). The photos below are a few of my favorites (I'm thrilled with the way a majority of the photos turned out). Remember you can click on the photos to enlarge them for better viewing, I strongly recommend it for the last photo. I have plenty more photos to share if you would like to see some more leave me a comment, better yet tell me who your favorite Disney character is and maybe they were at the show and I'll post a photo for you. Happy Holidays!

ABC Wednesday - Letter V

This week's ABC Wednesday is the letter V. As we get to the end of the alphabet I struggle with photo's that correspond with that week's letter, but this week came real easy to me.

Letter V = Vanessa (aka Cutie as I call her). Vanessa is six years old she is Jay (my friends) cousin and she lives in New York City. I haven't had to the chance to meet her in person yet but I have talked on the computer through instant messenger. She is the cutest thing and she is so smart for her. There isn't a beat that gets by this girl. The things that come out of her mouth are funny, for example she didn't do her homework and the teacher asked why and she said "because talking to Chrissy was more important" so needless to say all homework must be done before talking to me. I hope to that Vanessa's other cousin will be a sweetie and bring her up this weekend for me to met her (something her mean cousin Jay won't do). I have Christmas gifts for this little cutie.

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Beginning to look a lot like Christmas

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas in my part of the world. This past weekend Jeff and I drove around looking at the various Christmas Displays. Our first stop was at Frosty Fest in Ulster Park, NY. It is a drive through light display. It was our first time visiting this particular display it was okay but not what we expected (we have been to something similar in Albany and we prefer that one over Frosty Fest. Frosty Fest was nice but expensive $10 a person and it was very small it took about 10 minutes to drive through and that was taken our time vs. the one in Albany takes an hour if not more to go through and is $15 a car regardless the # of people in the car). Remember to click on the photo's to see all the detail.

The first 3 photos are from Frosty Fest

These next 2 photos were taken on our way back home from Frosty Fest. I'm not sure if this is some one's home but what an amazing setup they have. Even the barn was decked out in lights!! If you click on the first photo in this group you will see Santa stuck in the chimney. This is awesome!! We enjoyed this display more then we did Frosty Fest.

The last 2 photos were taken in Saugerties NY. This light display is Courtesy of the Saugerties Kiwans. This is another spectacular display, this display we visit every year. I love the skaters on the little pond.

Hope you enjoyed the tour of my world. Hop over to That's My World to visit towns from all of the global.

Scenic Sunday 22

On Friday we got hit with a heavy ice storm. Most of the surrounding areas were/still are without power. On Saturday we were out Christmas Shopping and took a ride through the boat launch thinking the river would be frozen but it wasn't.

This is the Dutchman's boat launch and the bridge in the background is the Rip Van Winkle Bridge (it connects Greene and Columbia Counties).

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ABC Wednesday - Letter T

This week's ABC Wednesday is the letter T - for Thanksgiving! Last Thursday we celebrated Thanksgiving. We had a low key Thanksgiving. This is the second year in a row that we had Thanksgiving at our house. Last year was just Jeff, Buddy, and I. This year Jeff's mother came over for dinner. We had a nice relaxing day (everyone stayed in their Pajamas nothing fancy).




Yummy! Turkey!!

I love this photo. Jeff and Joanie (Jeff's Mom) are looking through the sales flyer's for Black Friday deals and Buddy is looking at me to say "It smells so good in here, feed me".

Later on that evening I went over to my sisters for a few hours. Yes, I went there in my pajamas too. I usually go to my sister's in my pajamas. See I have to dress up all week for work and when it's a day off I look forward to being comfy. But to answer your question no I do not go shopping in my pajamas. I hate my picture taken but being it was a holiday I decided to cooperate and have my picture taken, Kayla (my sister loves her to be in front of the camera, I prefer to be behind the camera).

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Today's Flower #17

Winter is starting to settle in here in upstate NY. It was hailing and snowing earlier today. This is an older photo from my Lilly garden. It just got done raining when I went outside to take this photo. This is my favorite color Lilly in my garden (so far) I have yellow, peach color, pink, orange and red. Click on the photo to enlarge it to see the rain drops.
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Scenic Sunday 20

These photos were taken last weekend. There was a small dusting of snow on the ground. On the way to my parents house there is a road (it's called the flats the road is flat and it's all open fields) I pulled over to take several pictures. Please click on the photos to enlarge to view it better. When you're done go check out the other gorgeous scenic photos at Scenic Sunday.

Camera Critters # 34

These photo's of Buddy are a little on the blurry side but I love them (Over the next several days I am going to research online various photo editing software programs). On Thanksgiving Day Buddy stayed parked in the chair because he had the best seat in the house to watch Jeff cook dinner (no I don't cook). He sat in the chair and only got up and went into the kitchen if Jeff was doing a taste test, Buddy thought he should test the food too. If Jeff was at the stove Buddy didn't take his eyes off from him, Buddy would either be in the chair watching or sitting so good by Jeff's side hoping to get a taste of something yummy. Check out the other cute critters at Camera Critters, if you have a critter photo we would love to have you join u.

More WWE Smackdown Photos

These photos are from this past Tuesday night we went to WWE Smackdown. Overall I am pleased with the photos but wish our camera had more of a zoom on it. After the holidays we are going to start saying to invest in a better camera with more zoom (I already have my eye on one). Please click on the photo's to enlarge them for better viewing.

We had awesome seats! I was able to get box seats from my employer. We had a great view of the ring. The arena was packed. There were only a small handful of empty seats. We got to see 2 Smackdown Shows (they will be aired tonight Fri. 11/28 and Fri 12/5)

I am drawing a blank I can not for the life of me think of the name of this big screen monitor. Under the monitor is where the wrestlers walk out. This is Carlito the wrestler.

This is Edge the wrestler walking out. Hard to see but if you click on the photo to enlarge it you can see Edge walking down the ramp to the ring.

Being that we got to see 2 shows we got to see a whole lot of Triple HHH (and I'm not complaining about that one bit). I got a lot of great photo's of him.

It was a great night and I can't complain the whole evening cost us about $20 (dinner at McDonalds and bag of popcorn and hotdog at the arena - tickets and unlimited drinks were provided by my employer). Next time I would love to go see WWE Raw (I prefer Raw over Smackdown but still it was fun).

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Sky Watch #20

This photo was taken this past May while we were visiting family in Connecticut. If you click on the photo to enlarge it you will see that there are 3 helicopters going overhead, they were flying pretty low.

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ABC Wednesday - Letter S

I am really excited about this week's ABC Wednesday Letter S. The letter S couldn't have came at a better week. On Tuesday night Jeff and I went to WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) Smackdown event. The event was taped for TV (it will be on this Friday and next Friday). It was so cool we got to see not 1 but 2 Smackdown events. It was the price of one show but we got to see 2. It was fantastic. I received the tickets through my employer (box seat) the seats were fantastic, had an awesome view. The only thing I wish is that our camera had more of a zoom on it (currently own a FujiFilm E900 9.0 Mega Pixel). I would love to hear suggestions on a camera that has more of a zoom. Enough bragging lets get on to the pictures.

The first picture is the Smackdown Ring. The rest of the photos are from the Steel Cage Match between The Big Show and The Undertaker (this part of the show will be aired on TV Next Friday 12/5). If you are a wrestling fan be sure to check out my blog over the next several days
check back for more of my favorite photos from the event.

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Camera Critters # 33

I love this photo of Buddy (okay I love all the pictures of Buddy) but this is one of my many favorites. He is such a stud, so handsome!! Look at that pose!! I just want to kiss and cudde him!

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