I Love New York Travel

I was sifting through some of my archived photos and associated blog pages…. spring seems like it was so long ago! Moreover, on my travel blog, some of our travel posts are from 2008! That seems like an eternity! We have hardly done anything since then. We went on a few day trips in 2009, nothing on 2010 because we renovated the house over the summer…

Part of the problem is transportation. Ah yes, late 2008 was the year my husband’s vehicle died, the vehicle he used for postal delivery. (Rural mail carriers have had to use their own vehicles until just a few months ago). My husband took MY van to deliver mail in, so I was without a vehicle. :( And now the poor thing is almost dead. Delivering mail for hours on end is horrible for a car. I’m glad the USPS finally got LLVs for us, but it was too late to save my beloved van.

Well, I’m looking into getting a car now. The van limps along. It has bad leaks (transmission, power steering, brake), needs a muffler, is rusting out, and had a hole right above the shock housing. I’m too afraid to drive it, really. We’re waiting for financial stuff to go through so we can get the $ to get a new car. It just can’t come too soon for me. I’d really like a Japanese car, maybe a Honda or Hyundai. Hondas are wonderful– a little pricey, though. I wish the Honda vehicles were as reasonable as the honda generators. Now those I can afford. :D

Anyway…. Lord willing, we get a new car I’m gonna be back on the road, baby! Can’t wait!

I love love love my iPhone. It has everything! Cell phone, calendar, calculator, email, browser, Twitter… I adore the apps. You an find apps for anything, for searching accounting finance jobs online to scanning barcodes for comparison shopping, etc. I even downloaded a Guitar app that has a fret board that you can strum like a real guitar! LOL

The iPhone also has a camera and webcam. The webcam is OK. The camera is poor. Oh, it’s very convenient, just like everything else is on the iPhone. But the images are meh. Here are two photos I took. The first photo has the HDR high-definition setting off, with no flash.

The second one is on the HDR, the high-def setting. No flash.

The color is deeper, but the clarity is not much of an improvement. The HDR setting also has a longer processing time, taking a few seconds to process and store.

Anyway, I like my iPhone. But for taking nice pictures, I see that I should reach for my camera.

Vegetables WERE supposed to grow in here this year. :-p So much for my healthier eating and natural best weight loss supplements. The weeds swallowed up everything. I can’t believe how pervasive weeds are! They grow even though you beat them back! Whereas vegetables and flowers are wimpy and require coddling! Thanks a lot, Adam! Grrr.

I think we got out here twice to weed this past summer. The crops were pretty bad. LOL Gotta laugh. Just too busy to do anything in the gardens this year. We’ll see if next year I can redeem the time. But WOW that garden looks pretty bad, huh? LOL