MercenaryD

A life of an amateur photographer

Computers from hell

MercenaryD | April 28, 2009

I’m too tired to post much….
I just got done working on my computers for the second day in a row. And I’m not done yet.
One because I f*c# up an up-grade to my Linux computer that then decided to blow its power supply. The other which is my WinXP gaming computer, after upgrading the cpu [...]

In the local paper

MercenaryD | April 23, 2009

People are going to start to think that I’m a pillar of the Community.
I’m shown here holding the flier for Sidney’s first Friday Night River Fest. The photo was taken after a talk I’d given to the Garden Club. I’d gone to the meeting right after working in the garden, so my hair was [...]

Got my garden tilled

MercenaryD | April 20, 2009

The day before yesterday, I spotted my neighbor out with his tiller. So I figured it couldn’t hurt to ask, “can I get you to till mine at some time?” He started to hem and haw, so I smiled and said “No is an acceptable answer, I just thought I’d ask.” He gave me a [...]

Cleaning up the yard and getting the garden started

MercenaryD | April 16, 2009

After my last post, I looked outside and said ‘what a beautiful day, I think I’ll go out and work on the garden.’ And thats exactly what I did. Bright and sunny, not to warm and not to cold, just right to work up a sweat.
Even with that big log cut-up and gone the [...]

Garden Club

MercenaryD | April 16, 2009

Last night I gave a talk to the local Gardening Club, about Sidney’s Friday Night River Fest — the new open-air-market, vegetables and kitchen gardening, and the accountability that goes along with them. And why we should have that accountability, and not just for the immediate health reasons ether, but for the long range effects [...]

Time

MercenaryD | April 5, 2009

Where does the time go?
It goes out the window on the back of a sparrow!
Thats where the time goes….

We have an official name

MercenaryD | April 1, 2009

I met with John and Todd today and things are going forward smoothly. We have a sign-up form, a list of required certificates that the vendors need to produce, fliers and pamphlets, what we all need to do for our parts, and best of all we have an official name to use and a web [...]