Category: blog
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I-Way!
Iway is a project in Providence where they’re redoing the I-195 and I-95 interchange. They’re about to open the first stage (95N to 195E) next week. Before they did that, they were nice enough to open the bridge for walkers. Nikki, my Mom and I decided to go check it out (Dad was home with…
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Hartford Marathon
We went to the Hartford to watch on of our friends run in the race. Danielle’s goal was to qualify for Boston. To do that she had to run in under 3:40:59. She got 3:3x:xx. Not sure of the time, but she made it! We had a great time watching the race. It was fun…
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Corn Maize.
Nikki has always wanted to go to the corn maize at Escobar’s farm in Portsmouth. This year we finally made the trip, and it’s actually a lot of fun. They’ve been doing this for 7 years, and each year it’s a different maize. This years maize is in the shape of a barn, silo and…
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Trains!
I love trains. Ever since I was a kid I’ve loved them. I even dressed up for Halloween as a engineer wearing a train made of cardboard… My Mom and I used to drive to NYC to visit her sister (ANBF!). I love everything about them. Not sure what it is, but it’s always been…
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End of September
We had another fun weekend. Saturday was Debbie’s (my mother in law) 60th birthday. We woke up early, walked on the beach, then went off to the store to get supplies for cheesecake. Nikki got called into work (emergency treatment for 2 dogs) so I stayed home and whipped up 2 of my famous cheesecakes…
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DIY hardwood floors.
Well our animals have done a good job on our carpets… They love to tear up little pieces of the rug, and we’ve been doing an OK job of hiding that with throw rugs… Friday was the end though. We came home from work and found the reminents of a bird all over the floor…
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16 week baby update!
We had our 16 week checkup today… Awesome visit as we spent nearly 15 minutes checking out the baby on the ultrasound. 10 fingers, 10 toes, 2 kidneys, 2 lungs 4 heart chambers, the head of an 18 week old (just like Dad?!) bones, everything but the sex… Even if we’d wanted to know the…
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Old Images.
I’ve been going through all my old digital images in an attempt to get everything organized. I’m also working on setting up my better images over on www.benjacobsenphoto.com to sell them. In the process I found an old fun shot of Nikki, one of me and Nikki on our first anniversary, a few of Moseley,…
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Sunday morning beach walk.
Nikki and I went for another beautiful walk on the beach Sunday morning with Moseley. There was a nice brisk breeze from the north which made it feel a little more like fall. Everyone has been asking how Nikki is and or looks so I figured I’d bring the camera along and snap a few…
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Newport Boat Show
Today’s the boat show. It’s pouring right now so we have our foul weather gear on, but were still going. We’re specifically headed to the Melges booth to interrogate them about the 20′. I’ll post pictures and any info I have when I get home. Update: OK, I’m home. We went to the show Saturday.…
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Sunset at Narragansett beach
Tried to go surfing last night. My local Magic Sea Weed report said I should have 5~6′ waves. I got down to the beach and they were barely 2′! I always bring my camera with me anyway, and I was hoping to get some shots in post surfing, so I just went and shot right…
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Gross!!!!!!!
OK, file this under the nasty things department… When we were down on my parents boat over the Christmas/New Year holiday this winter I bumped my forearm on something while diving. I got a small cut on my arm and never thought anything of it. Well in the last month or so it felt a…
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Viper 640 sailing.
We’re working on selling our Viper 830. We want to get into something a bit smaller to facilitate rigging and sailing with less people. The 830 requires at least 2 people to rig and or sail and a truck to move due to it’s 2,200lb weight. The Viper 640 is one of the top options…
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Welcome to the blog portion of benjacobsenphoto.com
Well I’ve finally managed to integrate my gallery2 site with a wordpress blog. I was trying to use the plugin that would handle everything for me, but I couldn’t get it working. What I ended up doing is editing the themes I’m using for both the blog and gallery2 so they match. It’s not perfect,…
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Labor Day weekend fun
Well we had a wonderful 3 day weekend. It’s the “end of the summer” weekend, so there was a lot of work to be done, but we also had some fun too. Friday night was a fun get together in MA with one of Nikki’s great friends. I was a bit of the “odd man…