5 AM in the Morning!

I started coughing at 5am and didn't want to wake up Melissa so, I just got up. Fortunately nature rewarded me with a beautiful sun rise. This is the view from the back of the house. Absolutely beautiful and inspiring.

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My 1st visit to Walden Pond

Workin hard on the Evans website and the phone rings. Keith is asking if I want to go to Walden Pond with him. I've never been and could use the break and fresh air so SURE!

It was cold but, you could smell spring in the air, raining on and off. The pond was deserted except for a couple people jogging and us.






I didn't realize you could come here for the beach, looking forward to coming again when the weather is warm with Melissa.

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The LaRose Brothers to the Rescue

My 2 big, little bros got there full Fire Fighter Academy uniforms, aren't they cute!


Mom and I can remember when we would take them to friends fire stations and they would put on the hat and boots. All you could see was there cute little faces smiling through because the boots and hat were as big as them.
Now look at them! Ready for a Fire Fighter calendar. Seriously mom and I are very proud of them. They are almost through their first year of Fire Science School, both are getting good grades and signed up to fight fires out west this summer as needed.
And there you have it, Greg and Andy are all growd up. Well, sort of, at least the uniforms fit them now. ;)

Keep up the good work LaRose brothers! Mom and I know you will both shine as bright as Stars!

2007 Boston Flower Show

Mom and I went to the Boston Flower show yesterday and it was so beautiful. I was nice to see all the beautiful flowers and plants and remember that even though it snowed, Spring is on its way!

Lush green plants and colorful flowers danced in my head, till POP! My frickin cats will eat them. So instead of a house full of plants I have 1 room full of plants, because that rooms door can be shut.

A well, such as life, things will work out someday.
I did bring home a huge, lovely bouquet of tulips. Spring! Damn it! Spring! Such a tease those 50-60 degree days last week. You remember they happened right before the NorEaster. New England, got a love it!

This guy was so cool! Totally made from seashells. He was part of a huge ship wreck exhibit. The last time mom and I went to the flower show was 2 years ago with Kirsten. I was surprised then and again this time at how amazing some of the exhibits are and what you can do with all kinds of plant life.

I forget what this entry was about, but it's pretty different, interesting use of a vaccum hose.

And this one, not sure what it is, but it was cool, the upper set of leaves moved back and forth.

Some of these entries, really are pieces of art.

Don't Believe the Hype! (migration continues...)

As of yesterday we have moved our website to another host; GlowHost.com. This time we get:

• 2500 MB / 2.5 GB DISK SPACE
• 50000 MB / 50 GB TRANSFER
• HOST 5 DOMAINS
• UNLIMITED POP EMAIL
• FREE DOMAIN - YES
• UNLIMITED MySQL DATABASES

and we were getting:

• 200 GB of Hosting Space
• Host 6 Domains on 1 Account!
• 2000 GB of Transfer
• 5000 POP Email Accounts
• SSL, FTP, Stats
• CGI, Ruby, Perl, PHP, MySQL
• Front Page Extensions
• Free Domain Forever

Yeah very nice but if you log on to our site, it took forever to load the page. I kept calling and telling them about the problem. Bunch of times they said they will send a tech guy to look at their server. Did not make any difference!

First of all when I made these calls, it transfers me to some guy in India. The phone connection was horrible, I could not even hear what he was saying. Second, they were not able to make my site go any faster. Third, the FTP sites that I was suppose to be able to use was not usable or accessible online. Before all this; (thinking I can set up FTP sites) I made changes on our front page about BMK_FTP site. Well, it did not work. Jim got me to thinking about my own FTP server so I will follow up on that and soon I will get our own FTP site up for our clients.

Anyways, don't believe everything you read on the internet, the reviews for Dot5 Hosting were exellent. They are number 3 or 4 on top 10 hosting sites. Well, I am here to tell you, it's BS. You might get huge space but you lack on through put and that's NOT acceptable. Jim had us going in the right direction before but we got side tracked because of the reviews and bang for my buck. Wrong!

One day it took Mel about 45 sec. to load our front page from M.I.T. I made the phone call right away and tech. guy told me there is NO problem from their end and told me everything is FINE! I said: FINE? You call 45 sec. to load my front page fine? mmmm...

Well, we gave them the benefit of the doubt, we waited for them to fix the problems we were having but went no where. So, yesterday with Jim's guidance we have decided to move to GlowHost and so far so good. Yeah, I get a fraction of the space I was getting with Dot5 but my through put is lightning fast (the way it should be). I will take that any day! ;)

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Belize and Guatemala are Ready to View!

Ok Peeps! I did it, I finished Belize and Guatelmala so we are now allllll up to date with foreign travels! How exciting!

Now we will begin the enormous effort of going through and posting our numerious visits to USA destinations. This will be a long project so check back periodically for new postings.

Baha has begun a new process of notifying you by email with links enbedded when we have new stuff to check out, so that will keep you up to date too.

I hope all the awesome folks we met in Belize find out website and take a look at the photos. Many people asked to see them and we were able to give our business card to most of them. Fortunately I did say for them to give us a few months to get them up so we are pretty much on schedule.

Once USA is up we will begin work on Family photos within the Archive.

Always something to do!!

Excited that the weather is getting warmer and the days are longer so we should be getting out more and shooting again.

Cheers,
mel

Sofia's 1st visit to the Aquarium!

Boston Aquarium, smaller than I remembered, but still great to see someone experience it for the 1st time, especially a little kiddlet. We went with Sofia, Nik and Anna, Sofia is Nik and Anna's little girl, so cute at 20 months.

Note the Penguins at the top were giving a bit more of an education than we bargained for, get a room this isn't Animal Planet! ;)




The Penguins were definitely a hit. But some were looking kind of sad with no hair. The animal caretaker assured us it was normal, something about shedding and then getting them back, but it was like looking at a plucked chicken.



And then there is the piece de resistance. The giant fish bowl in the center. Swimming round and round, wooo look at that!


There goes a shark, a stingray, and a turtle! So cool. The world through a child’s eyes always looks so much more wonderful.


After the Aquarium we went for a bit to eat, Quincy Market a la cart. Aaaah the memories.

Changing Web Hosts

We have been using Register.com for both our web hosting and domain name for over 3 yrs. The more and more I researched information on web hosting, the more my deal sounded horrible. Jim suggested taking a look at his web host, which is Glow Host. Mel and I went over the pros and cons for switching over to this company.

Then we decided to do more searching to find a better deal, a quick google search and bam, we found 10 best hosts and went with what we thought was best for our needs and here they are:

• Be able to host more then one domain name
• Be able to have bmkceative e-mail accounts
• Be able to have password protected ftp sites
• Be able to check most search engines for keyword search with one click
• Be able to have big space for storage and great bandwidth
And so on and so on...

So finally we came to a decision and went with Dot5 Hosting and singed up for 2-year agreement for $4.99 a month, Register.com was $14.99 a month and did not even come close to what Dot5 is offering. We made the switch, and less then 24 hrs. later we are completely migrated over to Dot5. Jim opened my eyes to better web hosting services, and now we are saving pretty good amount of money on this move, thanks Jim! I would not be able to make this change without Mel; she played a big roll on this migration, so thank you too babe. ;) Chia!

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