A Few Favorite Pics from Maine

Sally and I went to Maine last week on vacation. Now that I've finally had a chance to comb through all the pictures we took, here are some of my favorites.

Thoughts on Turning 50

Well friends, I’m now fifty years old. 

I’m trying not to let it get to me. Lots of my friends are already fifty, after all, and my wife is actually fifty-five. None of it means much on balance. 

I shouldn’t let it bug me.

Blog Shots: Pics from Vail & Breckenridge

Some pics from last week's trip out to Breckenridge to see and ski with some of my favorite classmates. This was an amazing trip.

I'm writing this on Sunday morning with the intent to talk a little about this trip on this week's As For Football Army Football Show. However, we're recording tomorrow night, so who knows? Maybe you'll see this before we get the show up and running.

Blog Shots: St. Thomas & Water Island (2022)

Sally and I took the kids to St. Thomas for a quick family vacation last week. Needless to say, we took a LOT of pictures. This first set is from the area in and around Water Island.

Blog Shots: Meeker Trail & Hopkins Vineyard

As discussed on AsForFootball.Com over the weekend, Saturday's game against now #13 Wake Forest was one of the wildest, most emotional roller coaster rides I've ever experienced at Michie Stadium. The Black Knights put up nearly 600 yards of total offense and well over 400 yards rushing, and they maintained time-of-possession for almost 45 full minutes, but they still lost by 14 points -- on basically two plays. It took me a good, long while to come down. Even after sleeping on it, writing on it, and getting in a workout in the pool, I still felt like I was ready to spit fire and punish the guilty.

Sally came to my rescue, as she often does in these situations. It's her birthday later this week. As part of a multi-week celebration, we went hiking along the Meeker Trail near Lake Waramaug in the Western Connecticut Highlands, followed by a wine tasting expedition to Hopkins Vineyard.

It took some doing, but this finally get me back on something like an even keel emotionally.

Pics from the day after the jump.

Blog Shots: Pics from Block Island

Sally and I took a trip to Block Island earlier this month, located just off the coast of Narragansett, Rhode Island.  The weather wasn't great for much of the trip, so I wound up spending a goodly amount of my time practicing photography.  

Some of those pics are presented below.

Blog Shots: 4th of July Hike with Sally

 Sally and I went on a little hike yesterday.  

Well.  It was supposed to be little, at any rate.  We wound up walking four and a half miles.  That took us from the Short Beach parking lot in Stratford, around the lighthouse, back down to Wayne's Walk, and then all the way up to Russian Beach and back.

Speaking personally, I thought that was a good, long walk.

Anyway, I took my camera yesterday.  Pics are past the jump.

Orchard Glen Trail (Director's Cut)

 Got to the pool this morning, only to discover the road closed for several blocks in each direction with utility crews working on what I presume was a hit pole overnight.  Needless to say, I wound up with a little more time on my hands than I expected to have this morning.

I probably should have worked on stuff for As For Football.  A company reached out to us last week about our ads rates, asking very reasonably for our current deck.  So I've got to build an ad deck this week.

But not today.

I sat down instead and edited the pics from yesterday's photo essay.  Those are after the jump.  I personally think the edits help quite a bit, though in a few cases, they also bring out the inherent flaws in the original photographs. 

Eh.  What can you do?

Blog Shots: Trying to Reach People

 

Blog Shots: Skiing Mt.Snow with Sally

 It’s not unusual that we’d ski Mt. Snow. I just happen to like how a few of these pictures came out. I’ve been taking a photography course online, and I feel like I’m actually learning something.

Blog Shots: Remembering St. Thomas

Poor Sally woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning.  Her alarm didn't go off, meaning she scrambled out the door in a whirl of frustrated anxiety.  No coffee, but thankfully, she also wasn't overly late, either.

My new project is to give all the little on this blog one of these little header images. 
The one I used yesterday helped drive traffic from Twitter quite effectively. 

I sent her this little photo series by way of cheering her up.  These pics are culled from our trip to St. Thomas two years ago.  Alas, the pandemic has kept us from going back, and now we're stuck in dreary Connecticut in the middle of March.  Not only was Sally late, but it's ugly and raining outside.

Let's remember St. Thomas, yeah?

As For Dynamite: Predictions of AEW Revolution

I've seen a million of these prediction posts out there.  Here's mine.

Pics from Jacksonville, Florida, & AEW Dynamite

I took Emma to Jacksonville, Florida, yesterday to see AEW Dynamite in person.  It's her 16th birthday, and she's been asking to go forever, so we finally went.  We had a lot of fun.  I finally got a chance to got through and edit some of the pics from the trip on the plane this afternoon, and here we are.

It's a Barcelona Soccer Stadium, If You Can Believe That.

We've had some staff turnover at As For Football in recent months, and that's fine.  Rob has been stepping away for a while now.  He'll be taking command fairly soon, so we've been working to transition to a place where we can continue to operate the business without him for a good long time now.  It's tough because Rob built a good amount of our infrastructure personally.  But we're -- slowly -- getting there.  I'm finally starting to feel like I understand how all the behind-the-scenes stuff works, to the point where I've lately been putting some of my own touches on a few of our fundamental operations.

Pics from Dinner Last Night (#NoFilter)

Sally and I went to the new Oyster Bar in Bridgeport for dinner last night. It was quite a place.

I'm in love with this guy's monster-boat.

More pics from dinner last night after the jump...

Pics from St. Sauveur & Acadia Mountain

 Sally and I hiked St. Sauveur and the Acadia Mountain Trail while we were up in Maine last week.  As the title of this post suggests, these are our pictures.

The hike wasn't too bad save for the climb up Acadia Mountain itself. The mountain is not quite seven hundred feet high, but the way is extremely steep.  We also got turned around a bit at one of the trail junctions.  I blame myself, but we were trying to follow the signs instead of looking at our map, which was an obvious error in retrospect.

I should note, too, that we took our dog but left our kids at the campsite.  This would've been a little much for them.  For better or worse, this just isn't their thing.

Our route, via AllTrails.com. 
As you can see, it's steep towards Acadia's peak.

More pics after the jump. 

Sunrise at Cadillac Mountain

We went to Maine last week.  I don't think that's a secret.  While we were there, Sally and I trekked to the top of Cadillac Mountain to watch the sun rise.  Given that this was at 4:00 am on Wednesday, we decided to drive. 

We weren't the only ones.

These are my pics.  Enjoy!

Frenchman's Bay and the Porcupine Islands at first light

Pics from TS Isiasis

I took these down at the Boat Club yesterday during the storm.  We lost power at the house, and I needed both power and Internet access for work.  Despite these pics and the ongoing damage from the storm, I was actually able to get some stuff done while all of this was going on.

Two foot swells in the river yesterday.  I'd never seen that before.

Sally's Fit-Chick Pics

Sally has sent me a bunch of fitness photos over the past couple of days. She's only just started her own personal training practice, so a lot of the Internet marketing stuff is still new to her, but these have been a cut above what she's done before.

Pics are below. They come with a reminder that she just started an 8-week detox yoga program taught via a private group on Facebook. You can still sign up if that's something you might be into.

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Sally's website is here.

Pics are after the jump.  I really liked this set.

At the Half: New Year's Goals Revisited

I had this conversation with Sally just yesterday. Results were a little more interesting than I expected.

Let's review.