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New TV

I made enough from my side jobs to replace the dead TV - no more watching the 17" TV! We picked out a Samsung 46" wall-mounted (flat screen) TV. The wall mounting allows options when it comes to the furniture placement by freeing up our second longest wall. However, the best part is the crystal clear picture - as shown by this shot of watching the Belmont Stakes:

  

The two stereo cabinets fit underneath the TV, located on the shortest wall, so WS could get his chair away from the woodstove.

  

Ignore the shoes, boots and work stuff, Just imagine that this wall was completely taken up by the TV stand and two stereo cabinets - now it holds a whole lot of other stuff and the area that WS chair came from looks like this:

 

Oh, and the bookcase behind the chair in the WS Chair pic is new, to hold all the stuff tat used to be on top of the stereo cabinets.

I like the wall mount that gives us more flexibility, I love the picture on the TV, I'll just have to get a real guest chair now that we have room.
 
 

Blooming June 6

This post is dedicated to the tour of bloom I took in the yard on June 4, 2010:

    Amable Rouge Rose

   Armide Rose
  Blush Hip Rose
 Clematis

   Clematis close-up
  Gas Plant

Memorial Day Ride

I took Memorial Day off and we went on a ride with BIL, SIL: and Jimmy. The morning started with the strong smell of smoke from forest fires up in Quebec. The smoke was not only evident from its smell, but by the haze it created. The following pictures feature the smoke (not conventional haze or humidity):

   A mountain view from Goshen
  View of Windmills on a Lempster ridge line
 More Lempster windmills (there are 12 windmills on the Lempster wind farm).

Later on in our ride, we passed a small town that had a parade (just ending) and a Helicopter on display by the National Guard:

   Yes, that is WS in his Ride to the Wall shirt and Stars-n-Stripes skull cap. Jimmy is a bit to the right, and ahead of WS, in the black shirt.

We left fairly early in the morning, stopped for lunch (and obviously, to look at the chopper, along with various pit stops), and got back home in the late afternoon. Good scenery (despite the smoke, which dissipated some thru the afternoon), good lunch, good company and good riding.

A great day off.

Rarity

I turned on the TV to watch the Belmont Stakes (I missed the Kentucky Derby), and at 5:30 up popped a tornado warning. Not that NH doesn't get a tornado now and then, it does, However, it is an oddity that the WHOLE STATE is under a tornado warning.

Don't see that very often!