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Lyndy Brannen

Sunny Days February 8 2011

Sure nice to see the sun today.

My wife's gardening equipment arrived today, a sure sign of spring's approach. This year Katie will be trying square foot gardening. The stuff to make the grids arrived in two four foot long boxes. I won't be opening them, I moved them over to where the garden will be, that is all I am allowed to do. My previous gardening efforts have been less then productive. Pictures to follow.

Pictures taken with a new camera. I have purchased a Canon T2i. Great still camera, and, I believe, cheap tool for filming full HD TV. My Panasonic DV100A was top notch in its day, a few years ago that is, SD TV just won't cut it anymore, not even for web clips. Canon has a prosumer HD camcorder coming soon for less than 2000.00 dollars. The T2i is less than half that. Worth a try and a great little camera no matter how the video experiment turns out. Video to follow.

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Wake up and breathe deep

It's been months, sorry if you were looking, I've been decompressing,

Six months since leaving morning television and wow is life different. I wake up with my wife, that used to be a vacation only event. Truth is I was a bit worried about this change. Katie and I have been together for nearly 20 years and all of that time I have been getting up around 2:00 in the morning and leaving home long before Katie was awake, afternoons I was ready for bed about the time she got home from work.

We each had lots of independent time at home.

The new schedule seemed to offer plenty of potential for conflict.

I'm not at my best waking up.

Never mattered before, who even knew?

Well things have worked out much better than they could have, we still need to work on the TV situation. I don't watch at all and Katie likes MSNBC in the morning, but we have settled into a pattern that gives us hours more time together and it has been good. We are much more relaxed with each other and able to enjoy how good life is for us.

Katie says I am more relaxed all the time.

I expected to miss morning television more than I have. I have lived and breathed wake-up TV for 22 years and let me tell you it is addictive stuff.

The lights, the cameras, the intense caffeine fueled focus and all of the attention.

Still get a lot of the attention, people don't forget, and many never figured out where I worked anyway. Still the most common comment is "Hey Lyndy Brannen, WTOC right????

I used to correct them, not anymore, now I just talk about how much I enjoy working with Jodi and Sonny.

Life is good.

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Lyndy Week Three NoTV 8/30/2010

Today marks the third Monday since I left morning television.

I really noticed the difference Sunday afternoon, even Sunday morning. For years my Sunday has ended as early as I could arrange it. Every day ended as early as I could arrange it. I have spent 21 years focused primarily of making sure I got to bed early enough. Only "early enough" never had a solid definition. It just kept getting earlier.

Now the alarm is set for 5:10am. It hasn't gone off yet, I wake up naturally about 4:45.

I have used coffee as a time and energy compressor since the 80's

Ten to twelve cups each day.

Just buzzing throught the morning.

Now I drink one cup a morning.

There have been some adjustment issues, a few headaches, changes in body patterns.

Easier than I thought it would be.

No big crash at midday.

Feeling pretty good so far.

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Lyndy 6/15/10

What a shock to hear that Ron Higgins is dead. I first met Ron during the filming of "Glory".
The civil war story was being filmed in Savannah and Ron was an extra, he offered to provide personal reports from the set.

So for a few weeks Ron appeared on television each Tuesday morning and described his experiences as a movie extra.

What I recall best about those reports was the enthusiasm Ron projected. He was convinced, way back then, that there was a way to make a living working around the movies made in and around Savannah. That was almost 21 years ago.

Ron's vision of the future wasn't clear enough to predict the tour empire that he would eventually put together, but it was clear Ron wasn't going to be stopped in his efforts to be a success in his hometown.

For most folks who appear as an extra in a movie the experience is memorable, and mostly enjoyable. Ron Higgins saw his small role as an open door to a new world of opportunity.

Rest in Peace old friend.

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Lyndy's Blog 2/24/10

We are growing vegetables at my house this year.

This week I am starting a bunch of different types of peppers indoors and gathering the containers for the part of the garden that will be grown that way.

It's still early for most of the vegetables we will be trying to grow.

Not too early for potatoes and I bought a couple of pounds of seeds potatoes last week.

There is a difference between baking potatoes and seed potatoes, the baking potatoes have been sprayed with chemicals to slow or stop the formation of "eyes" on the potato.

That's why we don't see eyes on store bought potatoes anymore.

Avoiding such chemicals is one good reason to grow your own.

The economy is another.

A pound of seed potatoes cut up and planted could produce a hundred one pound potatoes.

At a dollar a pound that's 400 dollars from a 50 cent cash investment.

There are other factors that could limit that return.

Just like investing in anything else.

I'll keep you posted on the progress.