 |
|
07-06-2011, 10:27 AM
|
#221
|
|
Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Jun 2010
Posts: 456
|
This is my fishhook cactus. It blooms once a year and the flowers are only there for two days.
__________________
...open up your mind and see like me...
|
|
|
 |
Join the #1 Early Retirement and Financial Independence Forum Today - It's Totally Free!
Are you planning to be financially independent as early as possible so you can live life on your own terms? Discuss successful investing strategies, asset allocation models, tax strategies and other related topics in our online forum community. Our members range from young folks just starting their journey to financial independence, military retirees and even multimillionaires. No matter where you fit in you'll find that Early-Retirement.org is a great community to join. Best of all it's totally FREE!
You are currently viewing our boards as a guest so you have limited access to our community. Please take the time to register and you will gain a lot of great new features including; the ability to participate in discussions, network with our members, see fewer ads, upload photographs, create a retirement blog, send private messages and so much, much more!
|
|
07-06-2011, 10:45 AM
|
#222
|
|
Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Collin County, TX
Posts: 9,296
|
Ahhh....the blooms are lovely Avalon... 
__________________
There's no need to complicate, our time is short..
|
|
|
|
|
07-06-2011, 12:00 PM
|
#223
|
|
Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Oahu
Posts: 26,860
|
 Quote:
Originally Posted by ls99
You forgot Minot ND.
|
Ohno I didn't. "Why not Minot" indeed.
The other towns I mentioned were part of our daughter's college search. She started with the best of intentions, but after a few weather-related dorm stories (and photos) she decided that being raised in Hawaii had crippled her ability to attend any school where the daily weather report had to include the words "below" or "freezing".
One of my shipmates was born & raised in Minot, and he joined the Navy just to get out of there. When we were making 90-day patrols in the North Atlantic (occasionally chipping ice out of the bilges) people would complain how cold they were. He'd just smile...
__________________
*
Co-author (with my daughter) of “Raising Your Money-Savvy Family For Next Generation Financial Independence.”
Author of the book written on E-R.org: "The Military Guide to Financial Independence and Retirement."
I don't spend much time here— please send a PM.
|
|
|
|
|
07-06-2011, 12:09 PM
|
#224
|
|
Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Portland
Posts: 4,946
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Nords
"Why not Minot" indeed.
|
Got relatives there. It's sort of dull right now, but the pace picks up in September with the opening of ice fishing season.
Minot, where feeling your face is overrated...
|
|
|
|
|
07-06-2011, 02:10 PM
|
#225
|
|
Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Pacific latitude 20/49
Posts: 7,677
|
Minot where swimming and canoing can be done anywhere in town!
__________________
For the fun of it...Keith
|
|
|
|
|
07-28-2011, 02:49 PM
|
#226
|
|
Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 12,880
|
__________________
Al
|
|
|
|
|
07-28-2011, 11:28 PM
|
#227
|
|
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: irradiated - too close to the nuclear furnace
Posts: 1,294
|
Nice photos. I can see that woman falling (due to her own stupidity) and suing the town or state because they failed to:
1. warn her it is dangerous
2. install a railing
3. install steps
4. the sign wasn't printed in every language known to mankind
5. failed to fence off access
6. any other dopey reason her ambulance chaser can dream up
|
|
|
|
|
07-29-2011, 06:55 AM
|
#228
|
|
Moderator
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Eastern WV Panhandle
Posts: 25,340
|
On the way back from dinner the other day celebrating 23 years of wedded bliss I saw this in the late afternoon light. It's a pond around the corner.
__________________
When I was a kid I wanted to be older. This is not what I expected.
|
|
|
|
|
07-29-2011, 09:53 AM
|
#229
|
|
Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Oahu
Posts: 26,860
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Walt34
On the way back from dinner the other day celebrating 23 years of wedded bliss I saw this in the late afternoon light. It's a pond around the corner.
|
After that shot I'd be tempted to throw a rock and keep on clicking...
__________________
*
Co-author (with my daughter) of “Raising Your Money-Savvy Family For Next Generation Financial Independence.”
Author of the book written on E-R.org: "The Military Guide to Financial Independence and Retirement."
I don't spend much time here— please send a PM.
|
|
|
|
|
07-30-2011, 10:27 AM
|
#230
|
|
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Feb 2007
Posts: 2,613
|
Road trip to Mt. St. Helens, lots of wildflowers, more than usual for this time of year because of slower melting of the snowpack. Lupine, Penstemon, and Paintbrush. The last picture is of Spirit Lake.
Rita
__________________
Only got A dimple, would have preferred 2!
|
|
|
|
07-30-2011, 11:03 AM
|
#231
|
|
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: SF East Bay
Posts: 4,342
|
Very pretty Gotadimple.
__________________
Contentedly ER, with 3 furry friends (now, sadly, 1).
Planning my escape to the wide open spaces in my campervan (with my remaining kitty, of course!)
On a mission to become the world's second most boring man.
|
|
|
|
|
07-30-2011, 01:51 PM
|
#232
|
|
Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Oahu
Posts: 26,860
|
A year ago my daughter and I were washing off our boards after surfing. It was one of our last trips before she headed off to college.
A man came over, asked some surfing questions & chatted for a bit, and asked if he could take a picture. I said if it turned out OK that we'd like a copy and gave him my e-mail address.
My daughter thought we'd be standing together smiling at the camera from behind our surfboards. However I was still holding the hose... and I had other plans. She never saw it coming.
We never heard from the photographer, and as she settled in at college I moved on to other things. But lo & behold I got an e-mail from the photographer yesterday afternoon that they'd "lost" their camera after their Hawaii trip and just rediscovered it in their luggage while packing for a new vacation.
So here it is... a year later and the day before our daughter comes home from college to get caught up on her surfing.
__________________
*
Co-author (with my daughter) of “Raising Your Money-Savvy Family For Next Generation Financial Independence.”
Author of the book written on E-R.org: "The Military Guide to Financial Independence and Retirement."
I don't spend much time here— please send a PM.
|
|
|
|
|
07-30-2011, 05:48 PM
|
#233
|
|
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Bossier City
Posts: 2,183
|
Practicing for ER... 
0730111318a.jpg
__________________
“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.”
-John F. Kennedy
“Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?” - Edgar Bergen
|
|
|
|
|
11-29-2011, 04:47 PM
|
#234
|
|
Administrator
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Chicagoland
Posts: 40,722
|
A moment with the grandchildren
|
|
|
|
|
11-29-2011, 05:26 PM
|
#235
|
|
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 3,532
|
How sweet!
|
|
|
|
|
11-29-2011, 10:09 PM
|
#236
|
|
Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hooverville
Posts: 22,983
|
Happy Grandpa and happy kids! Congratulations.
Ha
__________________
"As a general rule, the more dangerous or inappropriate a conversation, the more interesting it is."-Scott Adams
|
|
|
|
|
11-30-2011, 10:30 AM
|
#237
|
|
Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 12,483
|
__________________
Consult with your own advisor or representative. My thoughts should not be construed as investment advice. Past performance is no guarantee of future results (love that one).......:)
This Thread is USELESS without pics.........:)
|
|
|
|
|
12-17-2011, 10:29 AM
|
#238
|
|
Moderator
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Eastern WV Panhandle
Posts: 25,340
|
I was sooo tempted to break out the 12-gauge and save the the family the expense of a Christmas turkey. Shot these (with a Nikon only) in the back yard this morning.
__________________
When I was a kid I wanted to be older. This is not what I expected.
|
|
|
|
|
12-17-2011, 01:23 PM
|
#239
|
|
Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Oahu
Posts: 26,860
|
Here's how you know it's Christmas in Hawaii:
__________________
*
Co-author (with my daughter) of “Raising Your Money-Savvy Family For Next Generation Financial Independence.”
Author of the book written on E-R.org: "The Military Guide to Financial Independence and Retirement."
I don't spend much time here— please send a PM.
|
|
|
|
|
12-17-2011, 01:40 PM
|
#240
|
|
Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 35,712
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by MichaelB
A moment with the grandchildren
|
Darn! All these early retirees look young for their age.
Is it my imagination, or the lack of stress is the elixir of youth? We need a scientific study!
__________________
"Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man" -- Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)
"Those Who Can Make You Believe Absurdities Can Make You Commit Atrocities" - Voltaire (1694-1778)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
|
|
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
|
» Recent Threads
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
» Quick Links
|
|
|
Linear Mode
