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Mike & Ann Gratis
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October 17, 2018 at 6:15 PM
Welcome to our home page, which we mainly use
to post pictures; but also post other interesting stuff
from time to time. Be sure to check out our Links page, too. Our
computer Operating System (OS) of choice here is LINUX,
avoiding Windoze whenever possible, and most of the
family's home computers are using openSUSE Linux Leap
15.0 right now. It's very powerful and versatile,
FREE, and we highly recommend it. Moving right
along....
With
so many means of Internet communications nowadays, in
2010 I suddenly realized that I hadn't been posting any
pictures here and had been using other sources to keep
in touch with family & friends. The main one
lately has been Facebook. I think I was the last
guy in the world to get a Facebook account. No,
that's not true, as daughter, Rachel, swears that she
will never have a Facebook account. My Mom
actually had a Facebook account months before I did -
That's pretty bad. At any rate, if you're on
Facebook and want to look me up, here's the link:
http://www.facebook.com/mike.gratis
Besides
Rachel, the rest of the family is all on there, too, and
you can see them listed on my account. In the
Summer of 2010 Rachel & I were headed out West on a
3 week trip and, since I hadn't become a Facebook
convert yet, I set up a blog to document the trip.
The nice thing about a blog, unlike Facebook, is that
anyone can view it without being a member. With a
blog, the newest posting in at the top of the home page
of the web site, so as you make posts the older postings
get pushed down and then eventually back onto older
pages and away from the front page. I say this
because the link below will take you to the original
start of my blog, and the start of our big trip out
West. Scroll down to the bottom of the page to see
the first post, then read up, working your way to the
top of the page, to read subsequent posts in
order. When you get to the top of the page, click
on the "Newer posts" link on the right to go to the next
page, at which point you scroll down the bottom and then
read your way to the top again. That way, you can
read the trip posts as I originally made them.
Enjoy....
http://ironmancc.wordpress.com/page/7/
The old pictures are still on
this site - Just go to the Previous
Photos page and you can click through them.
Eventually I may get back into posting some pictures
here from time to time; but for the time being, check
out the above two links for stuff I'm posting while on
the go. Plus, it's a heck of a lot easier to take
a picture with my cell phone and immediately post it to
the sites than it is to have to wait until I get home
& then eventually do a bunch of web site
editing. ;-)
A high altitude shot of my neck
of the woods. At the top center of the
photo is the east end of the Cape Cod Canal, and
in the far distance you can see Cape Cod hooking
around and ending at Provincetown (P-Town). To
the bottom right, you can see the boats in the channel
of the west end of the Cape Cod Canal, with
Mashnee Dike & Island to the right and Onset
Harbor to the left.
An aerial shot showing just a
bit more detail of the Buzzards Bay end of the Cape
Cod Canal. At the bottom right is Gray Gables
Cove, where President Grover Cleveland used to spend
his summers, while to the left is Taylor Point and the
Massachusetts Maritime Academy. Above that to
the left you can see the Taylor Point Marina and US-6
crossing the Cohasset Narrows, with Buttermilk Bay
being beyond that. The Buzzards Bay Railroad
Bridge is in the foreground and the Bourne Bridge is
right at the (E).
And if that wasn't enough,
here's a really great picture of Cape Cod, the
Islands, and the east coast of Massachusetts taken
from space! This was taken by Yarmouthport NASA
Astronaut Dan Burbank during
Mission STS-115 to the International Space
Station, September 9-21, 2006.
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