How to fill time in retirement

 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...

 Four more weeks have passed in 2026 and my dining quest continues. First, the simple Stats... Statistics Current Weeks: 24-27   # NEW Restaurants:         Current:2   Total:7   Goal:6 # Different Restaurants:    Current:7   Total:38  Goal:27 Now I am ahead on New restaurant by one and ahead on Different restaurants by 11. Here are the restaurants added since the last dining synopsis post... 6/16/2026 - Few(2-5) - 3.5 - Dolphin's Waterfront Bar & Grill Location : Brevard County's largest Tiki Bar located just North of 528 on the Canaveral Barge Canal in Merritt Island. Need to make a weird U-turn to get to entrance. History :  Established on March 12, 2022, it sits at the Cape Crossing Resort & Marina with a 65-foot open-air venue carries on the area's tradition of serving food in an old Florida setting. The Polynesian-style venue seats 200 people under a massive thatched roof and features liv...

 It is hard to believe that half of 2026 is completed. Time is just flying by and I just keep working in my yard trying to build an Octopus's Garden . And maybe take a few photographs too. In an earlier post I shared many of the different animals that I see around the home I own in Florida. I have gathered a few more photos of things I like to photograph including wildlife and fauna. This a Cassius Blue Butterfly. It is about the size of my thumbnail. I almost did not see it but I am glad I got this shot. Elbow creek has birds and manatees, and I often see a school of mullet. They like to swirl around by my yard. I think there is a leader, I just don't think they know who it is... My neighbor Rachel's pretty flower with a wasp, I think. My dad Harold gave me this cat a long time ago. Lately, I have been putting this star-shaped succulent as the tail, but it seems to be getting too long. I went to Jetty Park to take some photographs and this group of young teenagers ran by. ...