It's a very bright sunny Saturday for the first day of December but it's also nippy at -12 below, so I'm gonna stay in to-day and work on the net more. Everything out my window is totally covered in at least 6 inches of pretty official looking winter's here to stay, snow, and so far I'm not into making tracks in it. That could all change later of course. :-) That's the beauty of being a free spirit!

I have SO many projects on the go now that it has almost become a full time job, being the web guy. With over 25 websites, 3 Blogs, and the 8 or 10 forums that I frequent, I'm kept quite busy to say the least. As you know, if you know me, I love to communicate with folks about stuff I love. This Internet thingy has opened up the doors to the world to this ol' trapper. I am SO glad I've lived long enough to be able to see the web develop and then get into it, full bore, like there was no tomorrow. This is all pretty powerful stuff that is now available to anyone and everyone in the free world. Probably the word ignorance will soon be removed from the dictionary, if this keeps up. ;-) I kinda mean that there is NO MORE excuse for being stupid, ignorant or simple minded, if you have access to Google which of course since it's inception, has been my faithfull top dog intel supplier! :-)

I'm trying to dig a pile of pics out of one of my crashed computers and get them on a CD so I can upload them to this blog eventually. THAT, is proving harder and more time consuming than I had hoped for. Oh well, it'll happen in the next day or two if it's going to happen at all. If not the time will go back into the care & feedin' of all my web stuff...

Here's a picture from this past summer, of some little cuties, captured here for you, in all their splendor. Hope ya dig 'em...



This is a shot taken with my kool ol' Sony disk camera, a marvelous unit and ahead of it's time. This amazing camera was a very generous gift from Big Bruce, my best friend in the world and has since added many, many, a smile to this good ol' Sudbury boy's face! :-) This shot shows, like the camera, my usual preference for a little older equipment. The old rule of "If it ain't broke, don't fix it", seems to apply almost always in my life. If I get the results I strive for, then there is NO need to upgrade. Ever since I can remember, I certainly do NOT try to be like or keep up with, the Jones' as they used to say, back in the day. Hey hey, keep this stuff up, and I'm gunna havta start writing some of it down and callin' it poetry. :-)

So anywho folks, this little rig here is my good ol' "Amigo", a faithful, trusted, dependable and VERY serviceable, vintage metal detector. It's somewhere around a quarter of a century old now and if it could speak it would probably want to write three or four detecting books or E-books nowadays, eh? ;-) Many a park has been haunted and explored in depth by this simply super-neat machine and many a reward has surfaced because of him and my familiarity with him. By the way, that's how I refer to some of my older eqpt. as buddy or him or my, man machine or stuff like that. My vintage MTB gets referred to as Cooly, pretty often. :-) One of my favorite vehicles was a 1975 Toyota Corolla and while CB'ing back then, my handle was "the little yellow Toy", easily spotted by oncoming truckers and acknowledged with horn honkin' with each other on passin' one another heading in opposite directions on the blacktop...

Never too old, as the sayin' goes...



later...