Cherry Trees on Campus

The cherry trees on campus are in bloom. They look great. Looks like
another week or so until the dogwoods start opening.

New Flowers Coming Up

Forget what they are called, but here's the first of about a dozen I
planted last Fall.

New Restaurant

Kerry and I went to a new local restaurant with our friends, one of which writes the Jeffereson Park Hub blog.  He posted a review of our dining experience and you can read it here.

First Day of Spring!

Spring is finally here, hooray!  Below are the latest pics of my Daffodils and another from our Camelia bush.  I love Spring in Atlanta.  There is a different color every week.  I just posted a pic that I took on my phone on campus last week.  I don't know what those trees are but they are always first.  Below is a pic in a neighbors yard, from today, of the next ones that open.  I'm not sure what it is either.  Next week should be the Bradford Pears.  Atlanta has lots of them along the highways and the buds are starting to open.  Macon, Georgia (about 60 miles south of me) has a Cherry Blossom Festival this weekend through next weekend.  So, I suppose those are about to bloom as well.  We have a row of them surrounding the campus green at work, so I'll get some pictures of them soon.

 

What is this tree?

Every year these tress are the first to open on campus and around
Atlanta. But, I don't know what they are. If you know, please tell me.

The Flowers Are Here!

Could it really be Spring?!  I really hope so, because this has been a long cold winter by Atlanta's standards.  I came home today to find my first Daffodil open.  YAY!!!  Here's the pictures along with some of our Camelia bush flowers.  They get the strangest patterns on them, but they are pretty.

Wireless Routers

Just want to put in a plug for my new wireless router and an anti-plug for my old wireless router.  About three months ago I bought a new wireless router because I realized our internet service was faster than our router.  It was a Linksys/Cisco N Ultra Range Plus (model WRT160N).  I set it up and it worked OK for a while.  Then it started getting moody and wouldn't let us connect.  It would show up as an available wi-fi network, but we could not login.  So, after three months of this and Kerry getting more and more upset (he works from home twice a week), I tried to see if I could research and see if anyone else has the same problem.  Turns out lots of people have the same problem.  Found most of them on Linksys forum pages, but nothing from Linksys on how to resolve it.  So, I gave up and went shopping again. 

This time I was looking for a router from Netgear, since that is what Comcast will lease you if you go through them.  I didn't want to add anything to my cable bill or set up an appointment with Comcast, so I went out to buy one myself.  I bought the Netgear RangeMax Dual Ban Wireless-N Router.  It wasn't quite as easy as the 1-2-3 setup as they showed on the box, but I got it up and running.  It hasn't dropped us or blocked us once since Friday night and is faster than our old one or the Linksys router.  So, I am very happy with it so far. 

Home Early due to Snow, Again!

We were sent home early today for 1-2 inches of snow.  This is our third snow this year!  Of course, by the time I got home, there is no snow on the ground at my house, but there was snow in Kennesaw.  It snowed pretty good for about 5 hours.  I think they worry more about the wetness on the roads freezing before people can get home than the actual snow.  Maybe that means we'll get to go in later tomorrow, after the temp rises above freezing.  I hope so!  Sorry no pictures, but I think we've all seen snow anyway.