Golfing in the Philippines

Temperature graphs

You all wanted to see this, didn't you??? Notice how wildly the weather swings in the winter. The dark grey is the normal temperature. The light grey being the extremes. Red is what it was. Global warming would be good for Alaska and for beautiful Cook Inlet beaches. By the way, why do they always talk about Captain Cook in Hawaii and not much about him coming to Alaska?

Big Bird

Skating with Ivy

We have had a few weeks of cold weather and the lakes have about 6" of ice. When i woke up today from still working nights, our dog Ivy took me skating. The ice made some scary sounds as the ice made some long cracks from shore to shore.




Ivy wishes she had her own set of dog skates. She also wishes she had a real hockey stick instead of this old tree branch.

In Manila

The e Round Robin

The e Round R
obin Hey guys, I don't know what I'm doing so this is kind of a test. I was looking at some of the photos this evening and they had dates from February of this year, for example. Mark, did you start this blog that long ago? I thought those Philipine pictures were added just recently as in the last few days. For you, Daniel, you said you were going to eliminate my names but they came up and there is still some confusion. We can talk about it later if this goes through.
Jean

Need a Ride?

Carpooling:

• Saves money
• May reduce insurance premiums
• Reduces stress
• Helps clean the air
• Provides usable time for riders - to read, sleep, work, and talk
• Saves time by using carpool lanes
  

Caught in the Act

Paul showed Chloe at Halloween. This is George at Christmas trying to act like he'd done nothing wrong chasing the cat under the tree.

Through Another Lens

... and this is the picture Dad was taking at that moment in time. 'Probably one of his favorites.

One of my favorite photos...

Here's another photo from the Philippines trip. This is one of my favorite photos!

The rice terraces were amazing--hundreds of years in the making/maintaining. The water comes from the top. Then they make little rivulets that allow the water to trickle down from terrace to terrace. No water pumps needed!

Jeepney Mania

Perhaps the most distinguishing feature of the Philippines - the Jeepney.

Administrative additions

We now have 4 administrators for this administration of the e round robin. The newly added ones are the bean, the dancer, and the south of far north. You may be able to get new posts and comments emailed to you.

Time zone

Since most of you are in the Central time zone, I changed the time zone settings for this blog to CST. Now when you create your posts, the time should be correct... I don't know if it automatically resets with daylight savings time or not... Now you guys won't have to publish all your posts with the wrong time. I'll check the time when I publish my posts.

Some other menu choices...

And here is a menu at another restaurant a few days later... Anyone in the mood for some skinless langgonisa? I guess I prefer it with the skin on.

KFC in Manila

I found my Philippines photo album!

Here is a KFC in Manila...

Dining in the Philippines

I believe this was Greg & Denise's 'Yellow Period'. Matching yellow T-shirts, yellow food, yellow environments. Also to be appreciated are the facial hair statements being expressed by the men... especially Greg's subtle statement of hipness with the moustache flowing gently into the generous sideburns.

Is anyone besides me wishing there was a way to determine easily if new comments have been added since one's last visit - or in the last 24 hours? There isn't a way to determine this is there?

Just in case...

Mark,

I wonder if we should set up a separate user for administrator that is not tied to you, doesn't have your moniker, and doesn't have your photo tied to it... just in case someone tries to pose as you in one of their posts or comments...

(By the way, I appreciate the nice things you said about me in the third comment of yesterday's post.)

A Challenge From the Sidelines

A seed of doubt has been planted in our minds as to whether or not that passenger in question is Dean (see comments from Monday's posting). I re-scanned the slide at a higher resolution and added a picture of Dean from a day or two later. You be the ref.

Who's Flying This Thing?!?

Three More on the Mountain

As I recall Bill quit early on. We thought a couple hours more and we'd be at the top, but that only got us about half way. We started to worry if we could make it to the top and back before dark and almost quit a few times. Here's three more I found, but I had to do some "cleanup".
None of us had climbed a mountain in awhile and we were continually being fooled by the sense that we were almost there when we weren't. By the way it was definitely my camera. I have the slides. In this shot I'm the one who is missing.
This is the spot where all thoughts of quitting vanished. About half-way between the middle of the picture and the left edge there is a mountain sheep watching our ascent. He's a lookout guard there to protect the herd. We started scrambling and within fifteen minutes we had more spectators.