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golo member since: July 2, 2008

about javajoe

Need to contact me? Just send an email to javajoesPictureoftheDay@gmail.com!

 

Smile a lot -- it makes people wonder what you're up to! I grew up in the middle of nowhere, and that will always be my home. Now I'm into computer technologies -- it drives me crazy sometimes, but I love it. 

Since joining GOLO, I've decided to start a Picture of the Day blog. Each day, I'll try my best to post a photo from my personal collection. While I'm at it, I'll ask a few questions or make a few comments to get your brains working and the conversation started. Everybody has a story to share -- feel free to share yours!

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favorite music: anything that is easily understandable. songs with gaps after every word after being censored? no thanks...

favorite movies: oldies but goodies, classics - in other words, maybe 1-2 movies that come out each year nowadays

favorite hobbies: photography, computers, googling, keeping up with the news

favorite tv shows: the news, almost any comedy, lost

favorite restaurants: my kitchen - there's always something available and ready to eat, no gas mileage involved

favorite web sites: www.wral.com of course

favorite vacation spots: anywhere with a load of stuff to photograph





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javajoe.....I'd love to join the Golo bird watchers club. I feed the birds year round. Will be happy to take a pic or two. I'll need some help figuring out how to post them.

Javajoe, I would like to post photos and blog entries on the birdwatchers blog. I also have some video close ups of hummingbirds i made. Can golo handle videos? If not I guess I can put them up on another site and link 'em.

Hey, Javajoe... sorry it took me a couple of days to get back to you! We had a tragic accident and last Thursday's Live@ didn't record. It will forever go down as our great lost episode.

But you can always find our entire complement of Live@ episodes here:

http://www.wral.com/entertainment/page/5024673

The big "B" has a wonderful story.

Anita (a co-hostess last week) and I were out for our daily walk, and some workers were popping the letters off the First Citizens Bank branch next door. We asked if we could take some of the letters -- you just don't run across giant, metal letters every day. I got two "B"'s and she got an "A" and an "N" for her initials.

My other "B" is at home.

Yeah, and my "B" is metal. I think the PJ's sign is largely plastic.

Your pictures are so great! Especially the ones that deal with animals and nature. Do you subscrice to Wildlife in NC Magazine? You'd be a shoo in from the photo contest they do every year.

You sure do know how to deal with negative people, JJ. :)

Great points, JJ.

Happy Friday to you, too!

It worked - you are the *bomb*!

Hi Java...the grapes will get bigger and will not be ready until Fall...was always a sign we were going back to school while growing up. I have pear trees out front as well as others. My peaches do GREAT and so sweet. I got a BIG bowl full last year of the Yellow and white peaches...think the white are my favorite. The man up the street got me started eating them...think he has past away since I saw his stand is now gone and I knew he was ill the last year. I did find out I was told right...Marigolds keep squirrels and such away...they do not like the smell...or at least they stopped digging up and eating my bulbs and daisies out front.

How has your week been going??? I am enjoying looking at your pictures daily!!!

Better get behind in gear...we are heading to the Durham Bulls game today!!! WooHoo!!! Well if rain stays away during the game.

Hey! Do you ever sell your photos?

I ask because I really loved the turtle photo and that mockingbird picture and I would love to frame them. :)

I had to leave and run some errands after I posted the snake blog, but I've read thru the comments. LMBO!! Yes, I have had quite a few people threaten my life after having a black snake laid on their shoulder or lap!! Hahaha!! We found a hole in the floor under the hot water heater a few years later. I guess this is where they got in. And from time to time, we would have the ocasional house mouse. Everybody knows, that if a mouse can get in, then so can a snake. I do always find that where there is one black snake, another is very close by. So I do believe that they stay in pairs. I have much respect for black snakes...But frogs *shudder* oooh, I almost faint at the sight of those things!!! I HATE FROGS! Good thing black snakes eat 'em!

TY on the flowers compliment. I think those "orange" ones are called "Fire tips", or something similar.

Hi Java!!! Hope you are having a wonderful week!!! Love the pictures out at the Strawberry Farm. *LOL* We eat so much of it...only plant what we will eat...though I do give away to others I know will eat it and not waste...freeze some. I would love to learn to can as I do not know how to do that. I know I need to do some research and eas to find *smiles* My Banana Tree is getting it's first new leaf of the year YEAH!!! I manage to keep it alive throughout the Winter *LOL*

Hi there! :) Thanks for checking out the gallery. Do you know about redbubble.com? Good Vibrations (I haven't seen her on golo for a while, but I met her last summer thru golo) turned me on to it. It is this site for artists of all kinds, and you can sell your photos online. Granted, it's not WADS of $$, but you set the mark up, they give you a free web site, etc., etc.

Go check it out at www.redbubble.com. If you want to see my stuff, do a search for wall2wallphotos. I probably need to share this with Willow, too, as she shoots some pretty awesome stuff, too. :)

Talk to you soon!

Have you even noticed that I NEVER start this garbage. They literally keep an eye on my posting history and then come crawling out of the woodwork where ever I happen to be. There are three of them that work in tag teams.

Absolutely pathetic.

I've spoken with Angela regarding that. We've had some issues on the weather group that I have to deal with on a post by post basis. It would be very nice to have the block ability within group blogs.

Sorry Java, but there is something seriously wrong with that dude. Sort of intelligent,mostly a sissy and a troublemaker. Im here for a nice, good, drama free experience. Have a good evening.

That's because none of what those idiots say bothers me at all...at least personally. I do, however, get disgusted at what they end up doing to GOLO as a whole with their trash. I lost count of the number of good people who have left because of three or four individual people who have dozens of profiles each and who use them to badger, torment, deride, and just be plain evil with anyone they target.

Thank You!!! BUT actually I was joking with Angela one day...think when she said 94 pictures from the Ball Game...I joked saying I may not get kicked off for my mouth BUT for all the pictures *LOL* I was joking!!! Guess Hubby over heard me telling someone that because he repeated it when I did the "Around The Yard" a couple days later *LOL* I think I ended up uploading over 200 pictures that weekend *LOL*

Thank You for sticking up for me *smiles* You and I seem to like to do lots of pictures Huh???

J- The recipe for Baby Limas/Cornbread is so cool. The chicken broth just gets soaked up and the bread is so good! My hubby is a baby lima bean nut...and it's always good as leftovers!

Hi Java...I was just heading to bed when I caught your BLOG asking about Rabbits and keeping them out of your garden...plant marigolds around the garden...keeps squirrels and rabbits out...they do not like the smell of them. I have not had a problem with them in my veggie gardens...I think because the dogs are just on the other side of the fence and scare them...BUT they were eating my front flower bulbs and Daisies...put some Marigolds in and it stopped right away.

Okay really off to bed...long day of running tomorrow

Hi, Joe...

Re: Redbubble? I am not sure how many site visits I've had, but I can tell you I have had the account since February and I've not made a sale. Then again, I don't have a ton of things up there, either. Someone was telling me that calendars and cards are big sellers. Then again, my pics may not be most people's cup of tea, or the economy just stinks all over. :)

I actually know two people that have used smugmug and have actually really had good experiences with them. I used to use betterphoto, and got the domain and whatnot through them, but they were sort of limiting in site choices, but their free gallery is worth checking out. In fact, there is some REALLY good information on that site, too. (www.betterphoto.com) Lots of forums, discussions, articles, examples, etc.

You said your images are more simple...They are really fantastic, and folks all over golo love 'em. :) I don't see where you would have any problems selling your images. :)

Thank You Java!!! I have never tried the Topsy Turvy BUT neighbor was given one for his Birthday and he is growing one just to try...my Daughter Ariel was saying how it against nature to do that because leaves are always wanting to point upwards...she was in FFA and Horticulture...she told him this and sure enough the leaves are wanting to grow up...we are assuming the weight of the veggie will bring leaves down. I have heard people doing it in 5 gallon buckets as well. I am curious how it will work out so Please share some pictures.

I do not use Miracle Grow except with Pumpkins because trying something we read...they say this is how you get the GIANT Pumpkins...there will be an extra root that will come when the pumkin forms....take a water bottle filled with Miracle Grow and place that root system in the bottle so extra water and such going to the pumpkin. I have been spraying them BUT have not noticed any rapid growth in them...not as much as my veggies in my Horse Poo...

...I may add extra Horse Poo around half the pumpkins and Miracle Grow around the other half and see if there is a growth difference and which. Fun experiment *LOL*

Hope you have a GREAT evening!!!

Good Morning Java!!! Sounds like you and I both have our experiments going on...I am going to take weekly pictures...Horse poo vs Miracle Grow when it comes to the Pumpkins *LOL* My Hubby is getting me another trailer load this weekend at my Friends where we always get it...I am going in this weekend and building around the beans...I also have a couple of flowers to put in pots and need it.

BTW is that your Garden from the Blog yesterday??? Love the curvy Country Road...coming around the bend to open Farm Land.

Hope you enjoy your weekend!!! 3 day YEAH!!!

Aww how sad!!! Looks like he just enjoyed his time outside. I am sure when he was younger those fields would be full. I miss the man up the street who had the fresh fruit stand on the side of his home...he had the best white peaches OMG!!! You could drive your car pass and the smell would fill the air. They were the best I had ever eaten and would buy...could not keep a bowl filled long around here.

Gosh is there such a way to have such a weed free garden *LOL* It seems I can go out and weed one day and the next full again...not as much as weeds but ever so soft grass which I wish would grow in my yard. We keep saying we are going to bring in the horse poo from my Friends and lay a layer throughout the yard BUT Winter passes and we start spending more and more time outside and never gets done. I would do better if I bring his horses over for a few weeks *LOL*

Whether you're planning a trip, or staying close to home this weekend....BE SAFE and have a Happy Memorial Day!!!!!!

"Albuquerque"

lol

ohh thats what it was huh?

ROFL

Ha ha ha ha! I'm trying to get my husband to join the group so we have two chances at tickets!

:)

Have a great weekend and stay safe yourself!

Java,good morning.I couldn't get over how close you were to the birds when you took their pictures or were you using a zoom lens?I was amazed at the variety of birds too.Where abouts do you live that has such a broad spectrum of birds?Would you rather be contacted by your Email address or is it for just personal contacts?

Thanks! I have to admit though there were way too many people there this weekend to. It was ok for going through the gardens, but the house was terrible. A very difficult place to get out of once you realize halfway through that your knee can't take anymore steps, lol.

Those pics were compressed, I will see if I can post some larger ones later.

Hi Java...Ohhh Gold Finches...I wrote Golden...UGH better get back there and fix Huh??? They have been fun today...playing around. They seem to have been in forces today. The tree was filled and watching, eating, taking turns at eating, etc.

I have tried and tried to get them in Flight and was so excited today when I finally captured and had to share. I knew you would enjoy *smiles*

Happy Memorial My Friend!!! Be Safe!!!

Oh sure now you say so after I go fix it all *LOL* JOKING!!! One of these days I will learn all the names Huh??? See what you started...Oh wait or was it me *LOL* We just have to much fun with all these pictures. People must think you and I walk around with cameras 24/7

GM Java!!! The tomatoes are BeefSteak, Yellow, Cherry/Sweet 100, Yellow Cherry Tomatoes...all have tomatoes on it. I just planted something called a Mr Stripey yesterday...they looked neat so want to see how they turn out. Who needs Miracle Grow *LOL* BTW the experiment has begun and Miracle Grow is loosing. I have been taking pictures and in just a couple days BIG difference. Both pumpkins were started in same trays...they were put in the garden in same area...one being sprayed as directed by Miracle Grow and the other just growing with Horse Poo around it.

I got to run...Daughter has PT in Durham in a bit. I will be back later!!!

Hey !! Glad you got a hoot out of em :)

Actually that white one I have had my eye on for a few weeks now, finally contacted the owner yesterday and she was JUST adopted.

Oh I didnt like to hear it.

Anywho, I always enjoy your pictures! Hope your having a GREAT day!!!!!!!!!!

"Thanks, gator! Squash + cheese... is there any better combination??"

Only if you add a little sugar and butter! I hope you try the squash gratin recipe. It is one of my favorites. I eat the leftovers for breakfast.

"By the way, I just invited you to the goLOL joke group I started several months ago. I post something from time to time, but I think you'd make a good editor for that group!"

AHA!!!!! GOT CHAAAAAA!!!!!!!!

Yeah only invite funny people!! lol

yeah CC is not considered funny material!!! lol

okay I see how it is

/*SNIFF, SNIFF*/

Thank you for the group invite! I decided to do that in the afternoon since I do my weather history in the am. I'm trying to stay sans-politics/religion.

The Mr Stripey Tomatoe is red with orange stripes...almost like a tiger striping. BUT I have never grown them before so I am not sure how they will turn out...be sure I will take pictures *LOL*

See if this works for you...

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&rlz=1I7GGLD&um=1&q=+site:ecx.images-amazon.com+Mr+Stripey+Tomatoes

You can still do pumpkins as they will not be ready for picking until October??? Which I am not sure about...have tried BUT never much luck with them...get so big then the peter out. Hence why I did some research on them to find out best ways. These are called Giant Pumpkins. Matthew picked the seeds so we planted yet again...I was going to stay away from them but hard to tell a Child no when he takes such an interest in gardening.

Hi Java!!! GREAT pictures as usual!!! Got some to add to the Birds later as the Hummingbirds were out and about early this morning...I was trying to catch a couple of BlueJays chasing a Crow from a piece of pizza I threw outside BUT found myself going back toward the HummingBird...they amuse me so much!!!

Sorry,Joe.What I am asking about is: the "image galleries" under my profile do not appear under the galleries tab on the right side of the screen beside blogs,galleries,profiles,etc.Is there something I am not doing right or haven't done yet???Thanks for your time.

Most of the sqirrels stay out of the yard but I have this one stubborn one that believes he can out smart the dogs and a daily chase goes back and forth for hours all day...he sneaks down the tree as the dogs are watching...over the wood pile which Hubby needs to get cleaned up...Okay another sorry there *LOL* dogs are getting ready and squirrel pauses and watches for a bit...step by step...a little closer to the feeders it gets...and then the race is on *LOL* My Daughter's dog the Black Lab thinks it can climb the tree after the squirrel and even jumps several times to try.

It figures...when you are looking for something if you did not buy it when it was there it would be gone because you have kicked yourself in the behind saying Dang I wish I would have bought that, why didn't I, UGH could have really done that *LOL* I am soooo bad about that...I get why didn't you.

Hi, Joe!

Hey, I just wanted to drop you a quick note; in the Welcome Wagon blog I posted this morning, a request for a wagon filled with candy was made. I figured I'd ask the source of the killer pictures to see if that's a possibility. :)

Hope you're having a great day! (And happy Friday!)

Java,You did a great job of explaining.I wondered where they went.LOL.Thanks.Hava great weekend!Don't let any great shots get by you!!!

Good morning. Thanks for looking at my pictures and coming by and leaving a message. (Gotta show off the new baby) And I take them with an old camera that has been dropped so many times I am suprised it still works.

Yeah, mister! I've meant to tell you about your photos of snakes. Why you HAVE to point these things out to me is a mystery given my lack of affinity for the creatures! LOL. Keep taking those great photos. Your backyard is too wild for me. -Angela

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