September 24, 2006

Yesterday was the Fall equinox.

After the storms, we must have gotten about 2 inches or more of rain. We really needed it.

Vince was worried if I mowed the lawn that I would mash the new baby grass that is starting to grow since we did all that stuff to the yard. But it desparately needed it. So I did.

Here are some photos from just a few minutes ago. You can see some of the pics from earlier this year here. The rose bushes are bigger and there is more grass. Other than that, not much has changed.

The arbor on the right side of the house.

Here is one of the Pin Oaks in the front yard. I don't think I took a photo of them earlier this year, but I should have.

We cut down those aweful marigolds. They got about 5 feet tall and obscurred the impatients.

Here is the arbor on the left side of the house. The boxwood hedge is doing alright. I didn't see an explosion of growth I wanted, but they did grow some this year.

September 17, 2006

"Never trust a computer you cannot lift." -- the "insanely great" talking MAC, with scrolling text!

September 17, 2006

September 09, 2006

I met an amazing person today. His name is Michael Rosenblum. He says if television wants to make it through the challenges the medium faces in a personal media revolution, it needs to embrace the forces that are destroying it.

More and more I'm seeing my bosses at WKRN are taking this challenge seriously. WKRN has embraced Rosenblum's VJ model, which you can read more about here. There isn't a single show I produce that doesn't have at least one 2 minute package from our growing pool of VJs.

Before I came aboard, WKRN's general manager, Mike Sechrist, hired two full time bloggers who are in the newsroom Monday through Friday from 9am to 5 or 6pm and contributing to the news process. Just last week, Brittney, who runs WKRN's Nashville Is Talking, was able to share vital information in our coverage of the Tennessee Walking Horse story. It is happening more and more.

The forces that are changing media are in the newsroom now at WKRN. The powers that be aren't waiting to bleed to death before figuring out what is happening. The media we increasingly share with our audience break all the rules as most TV execs know them. You might not see the changes as they continue to unfold. You may see the changes all of a sudden. Either way, it's happening.

September 09, 2006

Vince has been busy over the past two days aerating, reseeding and spreading composted cow manure on the lawn. We originally planned to do it in the Fall, but one of our neighbors is getting sod brought in and wanted to know if we would mind aerating their lawn before that happened. So, we did it all at once.

I just finished putting lime down. Hopefully the weather will give us a good period of growth before it starts to get cold. I'll take some good photos this week.