Did I say Spring???

Yesterday it was in the air...

Blue Sky, even the grass was beginning to look green in places




Walking on the shoreline in T-Shirts...

Even Love was in the air.......


Then I woke this morning and looked out the back door....




More snow !!

Spring coming !!

Breeds Pond - Lynn, Massachusetts

The lakes and ponds are melting. Spring arrives here on March 20th !!

The temperatures around here are rising and before you know it trees will be budding, the birds and the bees will be back!!

Screens will come down and windows will be opened...Fresh Air and Sunshine !!

I cannot wait.

My oldest son lives in San Diego where the sunshine and mild temps are pretty much year round and aside from an occasional wild fire, earthquake or mudslide it's a paradise!!

Here in New England we would not be surprised to see mild temps all through March and then be buried in a snowstorm in April.....It has happened !! (No Fooling on April 1st, 1997 a record 25 1/2' inches fell at Logan Airport in Boston)

Yeah, if you don't like the weather here, wait a minute, it will probably change.

I like the 4 seasons we get here.

I think there are times when every season throws it's worst at you.

Winter it's the frigid temps that are worse than the snow.

Spring we have had some flooding.

Summer it's not the heat, but the humidity that can really suck.

Autumn, well raking leaves can really get old fast.

But I love a good snowstorm and then right after we get buried, how the neighborhood kinda comes together, everyone helping each other dig out.

Spring, it's amazing, one day you notice buds coming out and the next it seems you are surrounded by a sea of green. Life everywhere.

Summer, the beach, a perfect blue sky, the smell of the Barbecue Grill and the taste of an Ice Cold Beer on a hot summer day...Awesome.

Autumn in New England, it's the colors, I mean people set there vacation plans around coming here to view the foliage, sorry guys I LIVE here..and I love it.

Sometimes life gets humdrum and boring, at least we in New England can count on the crazy weather here to change things up from time to time !

Where I'm blogging from..

This is Kathlock, author of Blurb from the Burbs , the Burbs being down-under in Melbourne, Australia.

Kath in the sink, it's been very hot in Australia lately!!

Despite the fact that she fits in a sink and looks a bit young to have her own blog, she is quite prolific and has a great sense of humor.

In her last post , Blogging Beauty, she tells us a bit about where she Blogs from and she's asked me to do the same.


So here I go....

The Red Rocket, or what some readers may confuse with a well used but dependable old Toyota, is often the vehicle that gets me here and there and has also inspired my series of pictures called The Red Rocket Reflections, like the one taken for a previous Posting "Commonwealth Road", one of "The Rocket's " favorite destinations.

The Rocket has proved to be both a vehicle in the standard sense , getting me around, and a vehicle for my imagination.

Did I mention that it's turning radius is probably it's best feature. You can bang a U turn just about anywhere.

I've labeled these next photos to point out the Hot Spots and or important things to notice...

I write the majority of my posts just behind the window labeled Tom's Hideaway, just down a level and to the right is "Minnie" the house dog's favorite perch...., more on Minnie later......One of Tom's Team members is about to board the rocket, most of my Team Members have contributed pictures in the past.

Minnie

The Spy Spot

Minnie has an entire love seat to herself, she also models for Tom's Hideaway and is the current Profile Model, she took over that position after Tom Bunny and Steve the Chicken.

Tom Bunny did go to California last year but doesn't really contribute much anymore.

Steve who is in the next picture may be headed to Washington D.C. later this month for a photo shoot. He's a little worried as there are a lot of Chicken Processing companies close to D.C. and he doesn't want to end up as somebodies lunch !!

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The Control Room


This is the nerve center and as you can see Steve is at the desk and working hard. Pinocchio is coming up with story ideas, The Tommy Fund is still awaiting a Bailout, and I need to buy more Beer!!



Well I don't know if you have learned anything other than the fact that I communicate with stuffed animals and fictional characters, really I do !! It all started a long tine ago...

Oh, and Kath...



Tubs are so much more fun than Sinks!!

Tom's thoughts on taxes....

"We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.

We must make our election between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude.

If we run into such debt, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessities and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds... (We will) have no time to think, no means of calling our miss-managers (our government) to account but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow sufferers...

And this is the tendency of all human governments.

A departure from principle in one incident becomes a precedent for (another)...till the bulk of society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery.

And the fore horse of this frightful team is public debt (Bailouts !!)

Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression"

Thomas Jefferson, July 12th 1816

We were warned but I think it might be too late...!!

Tom, February 27th, 2009

73 Bands I remember seeing live

73 of the Bands I have been lucky enough to see over the past years, I have put a link with each one so you can get a little video of them if you aren't familiar with their music..

I am still thinking...

One of my absolute favorite performances was a single song, by Johnny Winter in a small club in Boston, Ma and he performed Redhouse, a Jimi Hendrix song

Led Zeppelin was fun, the all time best line up though was in Oakland California where I saw Eddie Money, Peter Tosh, Carlos Santana and the Rolling Stones in 1978

10 Years After
3rd Eye Blind
AC/DC (with Bon Scott)
Aerosmith in the 70's, 80's and 90's
Alanis Morissette
Alice Cooper 3rd row seats, Great Show!
Allman Brothers
Arlo Guthrie
B-52's
Barenaked Ladies
Beck
Bob Welch
Buffalo Tom
Dave Mason
Eddie Money
Elton John 1976
Emerson,Lake & Palmer
Foreigner
Frank Marino & Mahogony Rush
Frank Zappa
G-Love & Special Sauce
Gary Wright Most Boring Show EVAH
Genesis
Gin Blossoms
Heart At the California Jam 2
J Geils
Jefferson Starship
Jethro Tull
Joe Perry Project
Joe Walsh
Johnny Winter (Playing Red House was Awesome)
Journey
Judas Priest
KiKi Dee
Kings of Leon
Led Zeppelin (Final show in US with John Bonham)
Lynyrd Skynyrd (Before the Plane Crash)
Marshall Tucker (1st Band I ever saw)
Meatloaf
Moby
Molly Hatchett
Neil Young
Peter Gabriel
Peter Tosh (He was on Tour with Rolling Stones)
Pink Floyd (1975) this recording is from the show
Porno For Pyros
Presidents Of USA
Radiohead
Rick Derringer
Rolling Stones (best show 1978) 2 other x's
RUSH All about the drums baby
Sammy Hagar
Santana
Styx (in the 70's) Good Live Video from CHICAGO
Ted Nugent
The Cars
The Cranberries
The Eagles
The Foo Fighters
The Guess Who
The Killers
The Silver Beats (Japanese Beatles Cover Band)
The Who (Year drummer,Keith Moon, died)
Thin Lizzy
Till Tuesday
Tiny Tim
Todd Rundgren
Traffic
U-2
UFO
Van Halen (with Sammy Hagar)
Yes

The Answers and another Challenge!

Mystery Close-Up Pictured above Before being used..

THE ANSWER

Thanks to those who tried to guess what the close up photos were in my last post, and hey it's OK....Like the song goes "2 Out of three ain't bad"

The Correct Answers were...

1. Red Pepper Flakes
2. Chocolate Milk Shake
3. Denim Jeans

Dawtch was the closest in her second attempt and I love that she came back to try again. She went with hot cocoa rather than a cold Chocolate Shake (-:

MOMZY Cannot guess the current mystery close-up because she helped me with the lighting, but I always welcome her comments...NO HINTS MOMZY!!

Go Ahead, take a guess....all I will say is it's a utilitarian item...I may throw another image at you all if no one gets it right away.

Now I am off to ponder the next thing the Governor of Massachusetts may decide he wants to tax...currently he has proposed hiking the state's gas tax by 19 cents per gallon to a nation-leading 42.5 cents per gallon

He doesn't have a problem with this because his car is filled with gas paid for by Massachusetts Taxpayers !!

Close Ups

I've been experimenting with a setting on my camera that allows me to take extreme close-up pictures using the Super Macro setting.

As I haven't been able to come up with a decent post I thought about challenging any readers that may stumble upon my lonely page to guess what they are looking at in the next three pics.

#1

#2

#3

Good Luck

Whole Lotta Rosie !!

If you are tired of your current dasktop wallpaper, this Rose makes a pretty good one.