How to fill time in retirement

 No real theme to this post but I wanted to share a few things. Not one of them is how to Drive My Car . Champlain Bridge First, I like to use my Photography folders as the source of my backgrounds on my computer. Recently, I have been going through  the Nature-Parks folder which included the folder "NY - Crown Point - State Historic Site". There were photos of the Champlain Bridge both before and after the rebuilding. I found that interesting and wanted to document.  I took this photo of the old bridge in 1989 from my brother Tom's boat. In 2007 I flew to Vermont for a vacation and I took this photo of the bridge from my window seat. I am over New York looking East. The left of the bridge is at Chimney Point in Vermont and the right of the bridge is at Crown Pont in New York. Interesting is that I saw today on Facebook they have found the basement of the house whose chimney the point is named after. Hopefully this link will get you to the story... Chimney Point I had rea...

 I am continuing to read but getting behind in my Goodreads Goal of 36 books. I have reached 16 books for the year but should be at 19. I could catch up and read a bunch of short books but I am trying to get through my Bucket List and most Classic Novels are longer than 400 pages. I will be okay if I do not reach my goal, as long as I enjoy the books I am reading. Terminal Velocity (#11) Written by M.P. Woodward; published in 2025; 436 pages; BJ Score 2.5  (Good to Great) I saw the name Tom Clancy on a discount table at Barnes & Noble, so I purchased it. I guess there are a few writers that are continuing the Clancy genre (aka Ryanverse) since his death in 2013. This one follows the exploits of Jack Ryan Jr., the son of the famous lead in many early Clancy books, played on the big screen by Harrison Ford, Alec Baldwin, Ben Affleck, Chris Pine and John Krasinski. In this book, Jack Ryan is now President of the United States. The story is great but there is too much technic...

 I am reaching the end of the pictures I had set aside for the hoarding BLOG. There may be one or more "Digital Hoarding" posts and then I will start collecting new ones. BTW, I have tons of old photos but I don't know which ones I have already shared. The eighteenth installment begins here... Cool Photos Taken at a Cocoa Beach Airshow in April of 2021. A WW II era plane had to ditch into the ocean waves. Someone caught this great shot as the pilot landed. I was not there for the crash but I took photos of the plane stuck in the surf before being recovered. The pilot was okay and other than the water, not much damage to the plane. My photo from the next day... Brandon Vermont from a drone....that's a pretty little town! Middlebury College Campus. I found this photo at a NESCAC site. The photo includes the main campus including the two Chapels. Interestingly, the upper left corner has a yellow building which is where I went to school for 1st thru 6th grades; Saint Mary...